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Bizarre Bootlegs: The Lighter Side of Video Game Piracy

britishgaming.co.uk — The 21st century of videogame piracy is a grim and lifeless scene; hackers outsmarting new waves of copy-protection in a matter of hours, thousands of games streaming to your personal computer via BitTorrent. But in the days of Gameboy, Famicom and Super NES piracy, bizarre was king.

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  • agentb111, on 05/29/2008, -0/+5Great read. The unintentional hilarity of bad Engrish fake game titles will never cease being funny to me.
  • SHiZZAM, on 05/30/2008, -0/+2That 8-bit hack of Donkey Kong Country was pretty impressive!
  • derfunkenstein, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1I LOVE stuff like this. I'm going to have to check out Dick Tales.
  • inactive, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1You mean video game piracy has a dark side to begin with?

    Lol tell that to my 2x1TB hard drives. LOL.
  • caddyalan, on 05/29/2008, -0/+1A Famicom "version" of Final Fantasy 7 exists in Chinese, and I've heard that someone hacked together an 8-bit version of Chrono Trigger.
  • nixpix66, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1I only clicked on this article because it had a Monkey Island picture. But it had nothing on it... Now i feel cheated.. :(

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