What was your first pirated game?

TVL · May 25, 2016

I don't know the first, since on the C64 you usually just copied the entire tape of someone else's pirated games, so it was probably 20-30 games the first time.

supermario18 · May 25, 2016

I'm not sure which one it was, but it was either Mario 64 or Donkey Kong 64 on Project 64. That was an amazing moment.

Thomas83Lin · May 25, 2016

not sure, either Street Rod (Dos) or Doom

spoonm · May 27, 2016

First piracy in video games experience I had was with the PS2. My aunt got it mod-chipped and bought a bunch of games on CDs.
Two titles I remember are Summer Heat: Beach Volleyball, and GTA 3. Minority Report was also one of them. I don't remember the rest.

After that, the next time I actually pirated stuff was on the DS. I had original games until someone in school showed up with a bunch of games without having to exchange cartridges.
"What the hell? How do you do that?" was my initial reaction, and then my grandfather got me a R4. Soon after I'd switch to an Acekard 2i. Good times.

pastaconsumer · May 27, 2016

Ah, damn, it's been so long; about 9-12 years ago?
My first was Super Mario World.

My first large release was Portal 2. (The crackers made a spelling mistake and the installer said Postal 2 instead of Portal 2. It took me 4 years to find out Postal 2 was a thing. I am proud to own it AND Portal 2 legally.)
Some recent ones (which were used to test the quality of my PC, I later acquired it via Steam Family Sharing, bought it on another console, or have not bought it yet) include:
Fallout 4 (No computer I own can run it.), Grand Theft Auto V (used pirated copy and performance mods for low end PCs. later got it via Steam Family Sharing and a good friend.), and Metal Gear Solid V - The Phantom Pain (Bought the XBOX 360 version.).

mjw · May 27, 2016

It was back in the mid 80s with the Sinclair Spectrum, there was a market in my home city where you could get copied tapes for a quid each when the retail games were about the £8/9 mark, also there was a program I bought from an ad in the back of one of the mags called 007spy that would slowdown the difficult to copy hyperload games and make them easy to tape. Still recall me and my pal tossing a coin in the software shop to see who would get the original tape or the case from 'Bored of the Rings'. I agree what others have said about emulators, the early days of mame were great fun seeing which games had been added with each release, also the time when ultrahle came out and I got into nintendo games, I bought the wii/3ds/wiiu and many games just on the back of seeing Mario64 and Zeldaoot.

GalladeGuy · May 27, 2016

My first was when I pirated Pokemon Emerald on my iPod when I was 9. In my defense, I didn't know it was wrong until around a week or 2 after when I showed my dad and he told me it was illegal. So a couple months later I decided to try Pokemon again when I saw a commercial for Pokemon B2&W2. So I bought Pokemon Black 2 for my 3DS (Pokemon X and Y had not been announced at the time) and I've been playing Pokemon ever since. I ended up buying a GBA and Pokemon Emerald a year later anyways, but if not for this whole experience, I never would have gotten into Pokemon.

CosmoCortney · May 27, 2016

The first Sims and a game called Holiday Island

Minox · May 27, 2016

Microsoft Entertainment Pack

Depravo · May 27, 2016

I can't remember what the specific game was but it was definitely for the Commodore 16. Copied by myself using a twin cassette stereo system.

lampdemon · May 27, 2016

One of the mario games for the NES or SNES, I only really remember playing Super Mario World a lot.

sarkwalvein · May 27, 2016

Some C64 game. Perhaps Nebulus? No it might have been an older one, I think Gridder.
Nervous? Why?
Did they even sell original C64 games in Argentina back in the early 80s?

ertaboy356b · May 27, 2016

Tales of Destiny (PSX). My cousin lend me his "VirtualGameStation", a famous non-free PSX emulator at the time. The I bought a disc of Tales Of Destiny from the pirate shop and played it on my PC (I don't have a playstation).

luigismentor · May 27, 2016

Oh my, how long has it been? Let's see...........My cousin pirated Pokemon Ruby, and let me play it one day. I got all the way to Slateport City before getting stuck. Ironically, I like Sapphire better.

IWantAHug · May 27, 2016

My mom sent to me a hacked wii with 500+ games

mbcrazed · May 27, 2016

I think my first game I ever downloaded without purchasing was Portal.. Then I installed it and couldn't play it because my computer was crap back then!

Wanderman_Trigge · May 27, 2016

I have to say it was diablo2 that me and a friend would play in local lan-party for months, then it was tales of destiny after someone stole my disc D=> i still have the case with booklet to this day ( i miss u)

PF2M · May 28, 2016

Super Mario World. I saw all the playthroughs of ROM hacks on YouTube and wanted to play them for myself, so I downloaded the game and all the cool IPS patches I could find.

Second would be Earthbound, which I would have bought legitimately if they put it on the Wii's Virtual Console.

RevPokemon · May 28, 2016

Mother 3.
I learned about emulators just to play it on my tablet

Blood Fetish · May 28, 2016

Ultima 6: The False Prophet

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