TIL When Tim Schafer, co-designer of Secret of Monkey Island was being interviewed for LucasArts, he said he was a big fan of LucasArts’ game “Ballblaster”. The interviewer told him the game was named “Ballblazer” and only the pirated copies were named “Ballblaster”

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satanicpuppy: Pirate software was way different back in the day. People showed up with that shit on floppies with labels written in blurry magic marker.

Zazool: Also back then anti-piracy measures were more effective in someway because some games required information from the manual.

If you ever played Master of Orion after the first year, it gives you a screen of ships and you have a pick out a specific one that changes each time or you just lose.

guitmusic12: And that’s when they knew… they had to have him design a pirate game.

robotzor: “Congratulations, you’re a normal human being that unabashedly pirates software without making an attempt to hide it. That shows mental stability. You’ve got the job”

Nugatorysurplusage: Ballblaster > Ballblazer

Lamontyy: I just came here to plug Psychonauts.

Retardedclownface: What a great Atari game.

KittyPitty: Aaaaaand I have [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-9my0tsutw) in my head. 🙂

FollyBeachSC: Oops!

ElonComedy: I read it as Ballbuster.

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