This is beautiful. The copy protection schemes on Stealth, Monkey Island, Another World, Alone in the Dark, and Indiana Jones are practically the appeal of the games themselves.<p>I didn't have video games growing up for economic reasons, so I missed out on these, but at the time, breaking copy protections was an unoffical national sport. Imagine solving these ciphers as a kid to upload keys to a warez bbs. It's unbelievable.
I thought this was going to be about the sex toy shop in SF...<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=good+vibrations+san+francisco" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.google.com/search?q=good+vibrations+san+francisc...</a>
Dupe with [1], posted 6 hours before this post, although 0 comments.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36371656">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36371656</a>