What was your first pirated game?

[TVL]

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]

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]

not sure, either Street Rod (Dos) or Doom

 

[spoonm]

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]

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]

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]

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]

The first Sims and a game called Holiday Island

 

[Minox]

Microsoft Entertainment Pack

 

[Depravo]

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]

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

 

[sarkwalvein]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[mbcrazed]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Blood Fetish]

Ultima 6: The False Prophet