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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Fortunately for me, I'm too old to know how to pirate even if I wanted to do so.

However, I'm sure the fine people at Broderbund would like to have a long conversation with me from way, way back in the day.

Choplifter and Karateka took up hours and hours and hours of my elementary/middle school years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you were playing Choplifter in elementary school, you're really not THAT old. Or you are and that makes me old too, but I'm -hypothetically- completely capable of figuring out piracy. Don't short yourself, there's always room on the high seas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you were playing Choplifter in elementary school, you’re really not THAT old.

If you had to load Choplifter into your Apple II to play it with a cassette tape recorder, then yes, you are old, you are a first gen computer game player.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think I was in fifth grade when Choplifter came out. I got that sweet sweet apple ii joystick so I could play it better than with the keyboard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Of course, knowing how to do something has nothing to do with age; there are people over the new who could teach you just fine 😅

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, if you download software like qBittorrent be sure to not accidentally download and torrents to copyrighted content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Or use a VPN while you do it.