do you love pirated games??????
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But good original games you have the whole manual and all the other stuff to facilitate your game playing experience,but that's only for original games,that's why i buy original only if the game is worth the $$ like Diablo 2,now in the immortal words of Hugo " You Go And Die"haahahahaahahahOriginally posted by Hugo:??? Don't get you..you mean pirated games Cannot play over and over again ??
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Moose...U dun anyhow suka suka use my line..ok..got copyright wan u know (tet teach me wan).. and I use it if and only if necessary...and...be original ..for that You Go and Die...hahahah
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Same to you,lah,havn't you heard?"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" this saying?So Go And Die now,ahahaahah
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I do that all the time too. In fact, I am now a proud owner of the Police Quest and Space Quest Collection series. ORIGINAL..Originally posted by moose:Yup,but i am just remininscing about the past and about those games,hehehe -
For me,i that time have pirated as that time in secondary school,how to pay for original games and i think games of that era cost about $30 for an original as once i finished O levels and started working,i got myself a few original games,mostly of the AD&D nature eg Spelljammer,Dark Sun etc etc,eheheh
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Do you remember the good old days when games were pirated in bags of diskettes slipped between a pirated-but-look-original game manual?Originally posted by moose:For me,i that time have pirated as that time in secondary school,how to pay for original games and i think games of that era cost about $30 for an original as once i finished O levels and started working,i got myself a few original games,mostly of the AD&D nature eg Spelljammer,Dark Sun etc etc,eheheh
All too often, one of the 20 disk will be faulty and you have to bring it back to be re-copied..
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Yup,the manual covers look very original with the correct type of cardboard used for it,but the pages are often blurred or darkened which indicated a fake,hahaah,but the cover looks very original,also i very tulan if i last time buy pirated game and the game got 1 diskette faulty,must go back to Katong Shopping Center to get it copied again,heheeh and i remember games started out with 3 to 4 diskettes and progressed to 8 to 10 to even 20 diskettes,then CD roms came along and people say the days of multiple diskettes are over,but how wrong they were when games now often demand 2 to 3 CDs eg Diablo 2 which has 3 CDs.Those were the good old days,ehehe
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The glorious days of Hardware House.. at its peak it had 3 shops on top, 1 shop below.
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Yup,Hardware house at Katong Shopping Center right?I that time preferred Basic Computing which was at 1 corner of Katong Shopping Center and also rented out PCs by the hour to play games,that time was 386s,hahaa
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Ah.. yes. And the hardware house.. cramped with kids playing Romance Of 3 Kingdom, Bandit Kings, and some arcade titles on the amiga.... that was the 286 era isn't it?
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For my era,it was 386s and 286s PC and Romance of 3 Kingdoms and Bandit Kings and those old RPGs were the hot games in that era and Hardware House was the more popular shop as maybe it was facing the entrance and you can see it if you entering from the main entrance with the security guard post,i used to frequent Katong Shopping Center during my sec skool years as my skool was nearby and as the games there were cheap and i used to buy the games,then go home to play it,heeheh
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Somehow I believe we live in the same era. And I have probably seen you during my misspent childhood..
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Saw a shop selling pirated Dreamcast and PS2 games. Are they reliable?
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Maybe,which secondary school were you in?Think only students and youngsters from the Katong area will know about Hardware House,heheehOriginally posted by Illegal Operation:Somehow I believe we live in the same era. And I have probably seen you during my misspent childhood..
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i remembered i bought romance of three kingdom 1 at katong sc during those days, and it comes with three 5.x inch disks. the big big type. and it was my prized possesion. wow, dejavu.
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I remeber that also,the photostated manual was quite thick also right?haaha
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Moosy..
How else will I think of my laksa story if I am not from that area.. heeee -
Chey,no wonder lah,Katong Laksa famous in Singapore and JB,some say Batam,ahahah,the 1 sold by the corner stall auntie is the best,~~~~~~~~~
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It's take a second to look at my makan,a minute to finish my burger and a lifetime to enjoy all the food i want~~~
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pirated games....that's an interesting topic. i suppose the good thing about them is that they're cheap, which emphasizes the fact that producers are really exploiting consumers in slapping a price tag that is 10X the manufacturing cost...it doesn't cost much to produce the CDs and the case, and it takes little money to print the manuals and boxes. at most, we're looking at $5 per game. in other words, if the game companies didn't charge an astronomical price on the games they release, piracy will not thrive. but on the bad side, by buying pirated games, we're not really giving the game developers much credit for their hard work. i mean, a game takes around 2-3 years in development before it is even given life. meaning, even after 2 years of prelim development, it can still be killed off. these game designers work hard, day and night, and perhaps, the price tag justifies the amount of work put into the software.
me, i used to buy pirates, so i hope i don't sound like a hypocrite. these days, i'm "forced" to buy original Dreamcast games simply because pirated GDs are hard to find where i live, and besides, the pirated DC games are mostly available on the internet for you to download, but you need to burn it onto a normal CD-R. i don't know about PS 2, i heard there's heaps of pirated games for it flying around because it still uses CDs as the media in which they store the games. only a few titles utilizes the DVD.
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Do not forget advertising costs,the costs it takes to pay the guys to create the games etc etc and soon you will see why original games cost so much,it is not only manufacturing cost,heheOriginally posted by ezza:pirated games....that's an interesting topic. i suppose the good thing about them is that they're cheap, which emphasizes the fact that producers are really exploiting consumers in slapping a price tag that is 10X the manufacturing cost
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