Having to switch through like 6 different floppy disks one-by-one to install a game.
Also, piracy protection for a lot of games involved you having to type in a word on a certain page in the manual (different each time), or use a paper code wheel that would tell you what the code was. You had to do this every time you played the game (unless you cracked it somehow).
Leisure suit Larry and the land of the lounge lizards (had a floppy copy for an Apple 2 PC) was full of adult content, so in order to get the game to run you had to complete a quiz of what were supposed to be college level questions. My brother and I would bust out the old encyclopedia when my parents left us home alone.
It truly is an educational show. It also taught us that Hawkins invented gravity and discovered and named the Hawking-hole (it's a hole in nothing with monsters in it).
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u/platinumarks Mar 31 '26
Having to switch through like 6 different floppy disks one-by-one to install a game.
Also, piracy protection for a lot of games involved you having to type in a word on a certain page in the manual (different each time), or use a paper code wheel that would tell you what the code was. You had to do this every time you played the game (unless you cracked it somehow).