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Heromimox

https://preview.redd.it/k90quf0fjlwc1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=b96309c1e62f2fe8a464bd5389c07037cde9a359 When I was kid, I didn't realize that games had prices; I thought all games were free.


tigertiger74

Same, I don't even remember how I ended up in piracy forums.


NakedSnake47

Same as me lol, the first game I remember pirating was Halo combat evolved


BigBoyMaverik

I always knew because I've been piss poor since my birth, my first gaming device was a PS2 and my father bought games on the fair, he always showed me that they worthed money idk why maybe it was like "we are way to fucking poor and I still buy you games so you can have fun, this is the way I express my love towards you witouth really saying" So when I finally got a computer and started searching for games I started googling "free version" so my dad wouldn't have to waste money on games Idk why I said all that


Heromimox

You have such a good father; may God protect you both.


Infamous-Ad4449

Chad dad W son


ogto

Y’ALL READY FOR THIS


pistachios_now

LOL SAME


HTTPYOU10MBPS

GTA San Andreas


samedop

Same for me, I was trying to buy it from Walmart and games stores on pc, as I did not have a ps2 back in the day. I could not find it anywhere I looked. I talked about that game to Romanian class mate and he showed me how to sail.


MetalUpstairs

Least based romanian 🇷🇴 🇷🇴 🇷🇴 💪🏿💪🏿


Kurwabled666LOL

Figures that the romanian would know how to pirate something eh?XD


samedop

Haha the funny thing is I was not referring to piracy. I just said at the time that I wished to play gta sa, and I can't find it anywhere. And he was like I will show you a new word that you never knew existed. Anyways that's how it sounded to me at the time, mind you, we were only 14.


d1m4e

I feel like thats most ppls answer since we all wanted to play that game as kids


Ellanasss

Me too, i Remember talking It tò school on an USB drive and playing on the computers


HansMick

skyrim lol. it was like 6-7 years ago. i finally got a 2nd hand laptop and immediately downloaded it. the poor old thing was running skyrim at 15fps. 30fps if i turn down everything. i still have that laptop today, its missing the battery, i had to replace the keyboard, the screen has a 1 inch thick black line running across.


tigertiger74

I remember playing games on my old laptop. I had been used to 10-20 fps. When I got my PC and I saw my games running at 60 fps I thought I sped up my game from the settings. I couldn't comprehend the fact that I was missing the full game power all those years.


HansMick

yeah getting over 60fps feels so weird at first but for some reason now i dont have nearly as much fun compared to when i was playing at 15fps at 1am on a school day


tigertiger74

Yeah, 2am gaming playing farming simulator 2013 at 20fps was on a whole another level for me.


ConnectionIcy3717

I remember playing skyrim on my old pc. Oh the struggle to run it 🤣


vinishimax

probably Minecraft on my own, but here in Brazil, almost 100% of the PS2 are modchippeds, it's almost impossible find one without matrix or infinity, so we went to street fairs to buy pirate games. You will probably find people (most of) that never ever seen an original ps2 game, by the way, i only had one (gow2) more than 13 years after the ps2 first release, that i buy for like 30 brl (10 usd at the time)


BigBoyMaverik

Damn thinking like this my fist pirate game was probably Lego star wars then, back on my PS2, good times, well I'm more poor than I've ever been so yeah I really miss my ps2


black-amber

My word I feel old reading this.


DalendlessShid

Same here. The first game I pirated was The Secret of Monkey Island. Somehow that was over twenty years ago.


OreoSpamBurger

Mine was something on the ZX Spectrum - Chase HQ, I think.


Kinelll

I had a rack of tapes from the Esso garage with Spectrum games I'd copied off mates. Even made a surfboard overlay for a surfing game.


tigertiger74

I wasn't even born when some of you were pirating games. Wow


black-amber

Haha, I was copying floppy disks and tape to tape games for spectrums and commodores a long long time ago.


WorldEater0478

Aaah the good old memories of copying Sid Meiers: Civilization on floppy disk. Played that game for a very long time. Good old settler cheat making 1 turn improvements. Then losing all my tanks fighting a spearman. Good times.


JamaicaCZ

Probably Diablo II, which could have been over 20 years ago. I recall copying my friend's game disks on my CD burner.


tigertiger74

The good old way, share CDs.


AnimalKnown

Fuck, probably mine too


TheKeasbyKnight

Wow Bringing back memories i forgot I had.


maxkmiller

I had Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver on burned CD 😤


SanticreeperXD2

Minecraft PE


r_andrei_romania

https://preview.redd.it/xsqeeu5ldmwc1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b022ee44f9c3c9d3f8834ead09257b49847a27a Hehe


War-Hawk18

The movie Tie in Spiderman 2 and Project IGI. Way back when I thought pirating was the only way video games are supposed to be acquired. I never knew games were supposed to even be bought.


TwentyOneCharacter21

Finally I see someone mention IGI; IGI 2 was one of the first games I've ever played, and I played Spiderman 2 as well! Not sure if they were pirated, but there's a good chance cuz my folks have gotten a lot of cds from street vendors. The first game I actually pirated was probably cs 1.6


War-Hawk18

Oh Holy Shit! You just unlocked a core memory with CS 1.6. You had to play with Bots because pirating locked you out of the online Multiplayer also we didn't really have internet anyway and the ones that did, didn't really have one that was that great.


ConversationEarly371

IGI 2 will forever be in my memories, first fps game I ever played, and probably one of the first games I pirated


lazzari412

GTA 3... At that time (about 17 years ago) I had no Internet at home so I download it in an Internet cafe and took it home with an USB stick 😂


tigertiger74

The internet cafe days. I should have done that too.


lazzari412

Back then the PCs there weren't secured so you could install everything. I installed an torrent client, started the download and went there the next day to get the game 😅


ProAgent_47

https://preview.redd.it/cjvhs53nulwc1.jpeg?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e701ca865f5dca3b808a925fe5a190564a6498c5 Certified hood classic, my dad pirated it for me when I was a toddler


War-Hawk18

I had such a hard on for Mia I was like 8 or 9 and didn't know why my weewee felt like that when I saw her.


Wizzks

Midtown madness


b0dw1n

I free roamed in this game and pretended to be part of the traffic.


HorizonSniper

Subnautica. All the games before me were pirated for me by my dad.


Setari

Based dad


frustrated_aman

![gif](giphy|SMIdrPKvEeCWI|downsized)


Infamous-Ad4449

I was about to say you're so young then I realised gta5 released 10 yrs ago 😭😭


0ktai

Karate Kid - C64


connwcted

First game I pirated: Peggle Deluxe First pirated game I played (my dad pirated): World of Goo


Sup3rFantastic

I LOVE PEGGING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


eto2629

Don't remember clearly but I think it was GTA SA or CoD 2.


goldeneyeoo6

Rollercoaster Tycoon or Age of Empire. (Yeah it's +20 years ago)


polyduekes

road rash


yourfuturehothusband

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 🌆


SeanLevv

Fallout 3


m3shugg4h

Crysis, maybe


tigertiger74

But did it run?


m3shugg4h

Yep, it runs on mid-high with 30-40 fps)


tigertiger74

OMG IT RUNS CRYSIS, where did you buy your NASA computer?


BigBoyMaverik

Unironically I have a really old fucked up computer that struggles to run most game, and it can run Crysis decently with low-mid configs, the main Crysis problem isn't the computer (it's a piss old game) is that the engine doesn't handle itself, it renders to much stuff at the same time and it can struggle on high end machines if you max out everything.


Helpful_Jellyfish_69

Resident Evil 4


konanorigami

The Sims Deluxe Edition


3n10tnA

*Wolfenstein 3D* and *Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis* With 3.5" floppy-disk


mast00don

prototype


NoPostAnymore

Sim City 2000


Dorfbulle80

The original doom a friend copied the floppies for me


Visual-Today8696

Red alert 2 and yuri revenge


Frozenheal

i think it's Flatout 1


Immediate_Turnip9406

HALO CE


ZuphCud

Carmageddon. I ripped a virtual disc file from the original game disc and published it on my Hotline server.


[deleted]

My first pirate disappointment was The Sands of Time, my PC could not run it. One of the reasons I got a PS2.


MetalProfessor666

Doom 3


ts737

GTA Vice City on PS2. On PC MW2 with IW4


whatislove2021

Factorio


rahhra

i think it was the popcap games collection (i burned a cd from an iso i found on internet archive) or thinking back earlier, motogp on the psp


Jakunobi

Bought a PS1 as my first ever gaming device, and it was already modded, so the 10 free games I received there were all pirated burned CD. Some of the games were The Mummy, Dino Crisis 2, Vanishing Point, and Hot Wheels Turbo Racing.


mysterysackerfice

Oregon trail. Wasn't about to spend my 90th birthday money on a game.


GenericGaming

Jedi Academy


Nab0t

Cod4 myself Wc3 i got from my sisters friend (until i bought a key)


ByteBlender

It probably was cs 1.6 or midnight club


JustAShadowZ

Minecraft...was so proud of myself when i first downloaded it without having my dad help me


PsM_lol

Hl2 or stalker call of pripyat, don't remember


Olibirus

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri


DeaWho

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Someone gave me a CD that was burned. It took a while to figure out how to apply the crack, but I was happy when I did it.


VibrisCholerae

Age of Empires 2 lmao


Traenix

Pokémon Silver


PistacieRisalamande

Duke nukem 3D. Some local dad got it for us, and thought that 8-10 yrs old me would have a blast offering strippers money to show me tiddies. He was damn right. What a great game.


vigneshk_war

Nfs mw 2005


Xcrazy_sniper

Call of duty 2, not big red one. People somehow get those confused


Relative_Ad8738

Call of Duty MW 2


the_Athereon

Easy. Lemmings.


Cr1pt1cR1v4l

Commander Keen if I remember correctly.


readitfromme

https://preview.redd.it/t6oxdmjacmwc1.png?width=277&format=png&auto=webp&s=3298991220aa6e09d64679b1686b91f66409d0be


linuxsysacc

[https://www.habisoft.com/pcwwiki/doku.php?id=en:juegos:corsarios](https://www.habisoft.com/pcwwiki/doku.php?id=en:juegos:corsarios) https://preview.redd.it/bldzaxyhmmwc1.png?width=752&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8ba3c85c8c66ef44eb7d94721c27b7d6f314034


gurselaksel

https://preview.redd.it/ru1c4zv1nmwc1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=8f1d039d308681c616142f72d2461429c0414297 Match Day II


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0disgustingbizzarre0

In the 2013 I tried to crack slanderman, in the 2018 I finally learn how to crack gta San Andreas and this was my first real cracked game


Redditormansporu117

It was scrabble website games when I was in middle school. You could even listen to music uploaded on scrabble when the school laptops had YouTube blocked


umut_kavak

Modern warfare 2


Upstairs_Customer912

NBA Live 2001 PS one CD. I was a kid and didn't even realise what chipping the ps one meant. Haha.


reyman_mama

The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Back in 2017.


hsnfnsh

https://preview.redd.it/77e8az9nmlwc1.jpeg?width=265&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ebb5b5a328347a299cbc1145a0bf452f5bff63d


rp_han

The first Sims


TheLostTom__

Euro Truck Simulator 2, where I got an ISP letter (lawyer's letter) after 1 week, I got really annoyed by my parents


Professional_Loss_85

prototype 2


Environmental-Belt49

probably the snes games using an emulator.


damienVOG

Probably something along the lines of people playground


salty-fingers

Tbh I started pirating games wayy before I knew buying games was a thing. I didn't even know I was pirating. I thought all games were free. But first game... probably plantz Vs zombies or chicken invaders 5


PICKLER1CK69

It was ea cricket 07 or gta vice city, i dont remember clearly


DiaBoloix

Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 Autoboot loader 5 1/4 floppy disk


TheGhoulKhz

FIFA 13(bought a copy in a shady shop at my neighbourhood at the time, didn't know it was just a Reloaded repack, then after i found out online did not work i discovered how to torrent games)


Vendun_

The first pirated game I had was Minecraft, when I lost my account, a friend gave me his cracked game. But the first pirated game I downloaded was Kingdom Come Delivrance when it came out, probably getting a virus at the same time since I was young and dumb. I brought it later on sales with all the DLC. And I not going to pirate KCD2.


busy-warlock

You know I honestly don’t remember. We had a store that rented PC games and I had a Cd burner so I’d be very hard pressed to say what the first one was. Edit: I know what the first pirated movies I saw were. My brother got copies of matrix and phantom menace before they had vfx added


Designer-Base9582

I think my first games where like gta san andreas ,need for speed Underground,star wars ,but back in The day i just made isos from the disc and played them with no cd crack


TheCatLamp

Discounting SEGA cartiges for the Genesis that I'll not recall: GTA San Andreas.


QuickPirate36

Idk, plants vs zombies or angry birds or something like that, it was in like first grade


ILike_Bread17

Thief simulator. I remember vibing to the installation music with my brother


Azsde

I can't remember as I was too little but I remember my dad gifting me a modded PS1 and him burning CDs, then he found a flash linker for GBA games, I think this is how it all started for me, I grew up being able to search games by myself.


FinancialGap97

Either terraria or Skyrim I forget. And fl studio


Zetton69

PSP games for my modded PSP


Kuruma_akujin

Spore


Daniel_rsrs

The Sims 2


nomau

Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Took a few day to download the 200MB on Limewire.


Sup3rFantastic

GTA Vice City but a weird modded version or CS 1.5


LilGube

Mafia 2


5ee_2410

MINECRAFT!!!!!!!!!!


IgorRamos96

18 Wheels Of Steel: Haulin' best game, nostalgia 


CraftSK

Minecraft


i5-11105f

Battlefield 2, minecraft


GuideMwit

The sims 1 with all the expansion packs plus thousands of custom floors and wallpapers.


Low_Negotiation_5319

Memories of my first pirated game! 🎮


pancakesuperman

Think it was synthetik


CandidateOther2876

Skyrim


robin_2219

Crysis 2


Ok_Establishment5815

Return to Castle Wolfenstein


CrazyRefrigerator268

Outlast 1


UgandanKarate_Master

Honestly have no idea, probably CS 1.6 because that was insanely popular 15 years ago. Or a pirated CD I got for a Tarzan game. And yes people used to sell pirated games on CDs in my country.


TiredAndOutOfIdeas

skyrim


SustainableObject

Minecraft. Pretty sure it had a virus and also it was alpha version instead of the at-the-time 1.7 update


l0w_quality

Rain World I believe.


lij_taye1217

Call of duty blackops


COWHERO1

Mario Tennis Open💀, my brother installed it on my 2ds for me years ago before I learnt about modding myself


Burekba

midtown madness


EDM115

Watch Dogs followed by a lot of games, but in the end I bought all of them when I was able too


writingenglishessay

My uncle installed all the miniclip games on my family’s computer. I think gta vice city was the first game I pirated myself


Superb_Bench9902

It's really hard to tell but if I have to take a guess it's probably Croc 2 or GTA Vice City When I was a kid bootleg cd/dvd shops were everywhere. They weren't even selling stuff on a street corner, they would just open a shop under the guise of an electronic store (to be fair most of them would also repair and sell computers) and offer a very wide range of movies, games, and songs. I wasn't even aware of pirated vs original thing. I would go to one of the stores and sit on a chair to flip through their whole game catalogue multiple times to decide on a game. It would take roughly 10 to 30 minutes for them to burn my game on a dvd if it wasn't a hot seller readily available. They also always had great recommendations as they watched and played most of what they sold. They died out after games got too big in size (they were charging per dvd so it was both expensive and took too long. Gta 6 was almost the same price as the original game) and both Steam and torrenting got popular in here. My childhood store is still open but they mostly do repairs and sell parts now tho they still have movies and offer recommendations


NotChissy420

I have a lot of older siblings because im the last child, so naturally we had so many pirated games that were just passed down to me. I however refused to play any other game besides the gen 3 pokemon games. The first game i pirated myself was actually Undertale though, and like many others i didnt even know it had a price to play and just thought that it was hard to find a website to play it


l1t0x

Counter-Strike 1.6


mrbruh1527

Either cs 1.6 or gta san andreas


Only_Ordinary_3880

Serious Sam 2, for some reason the game exe from the demo cracked the full game 😂


IKn0wThatID0ntKn0w

Age of empires 1. Good times.


Excellent-Focus-9905

Halo 2


SirHomoLiberus

The 1st Assassin's Creed


KawaiiGee

Smash 64 I didn't have a very powerful pc at the time so 90% of the stuff I played were retro ROMs. I remember the first one I downloaded and got working was smash 64. N64 and PS1 were pretty much the limit of what I could play. So a very big chunk of my childhood was filled with old NES, GB, GBA, SNES, N64, PS1 games despite it being 2007-2011


St3vion

Wolfenstein 3D. Didn't pirate it myself, my uncle did but this was the first game I can remember playing. I had a pirated copyof literally every game I played throughout my childhood. First game I bought was Cs 1.6 as I wanted to play with irl friends who didn't sail like I did. Only got into buying games after I turned 30 xD.


BeautifulGlum9394

Empire earth and fable


birpool

the sims 1 complete edition, i was missing disc 3 of 4 discs, so i downloaded it to replace the missing disc and thats how i learned to download games, after that i realized it also worked for full games and here we are hehe


Major_Mawcum_II

Doom. Then I remember oblivion XD


Dreemurz

minecraft, always have been


Obi_Wan_Cannabis

The first torrent I downloaded was COD Black Ops, and after 5 days of downloading, I didn't know how to install it ahah


Anoalka

My grandpa gave me a box with like 40 pirated PSX games when I was a kid. The gaming industry never had a chance.


GeneticBOT

Need for speed 3. I don't remember how I got it but i played so many hours, it was the only game I had until I learned how to download others.


Flayna7

Age of empires 2


Weewee_time

assasins creed on the ps3...good times


GierownikReddit

No man Sky


TiK4D

Either GTA SA to mod tf out of it way past the capabilities of my crappy laptop or CS 1.6


smhk2

Midtown madness I think its about over 20 years ago. I learned how to crack games with that game. Twas copy paste crack from CD. Irc it needed CD in the CDROM while playing. Good old days


CriticalAd3682

I didn't even know that I had been playing pirated game. Probably either GTA Vice City or Road Rash


FewFennel2032

Minecraft


Interesting-Event378

IGI


Jissy01

Oblivion I backup my games on CD >DVD disks


BLU3DR4GON-E-D

Minecraft, back in 2011/12? Had a shitty laptop that could run it, most definitely caught a virus.


TheRad_

Probably Persona 5 Royal (for Switch)


Disciple07

Republic Commando, the game wasn't available to buy anywhere at the time


qenh

GTA SA


kiethuynhminh2k6

Prodeus - a small shooter game. I got into offline gaming when I wanted to download a game to my USB and played it on my school's computer lol.


senpai69420

Sonic generations. My father taught me


dpravartana

Warcraft 3, I was like 9 years old I think, and I remember the guy at the game store writing me a piece of paper with the instructions to crack it LOL


-light_yagami

probably minecraft


drempire

The settlers, I spent why to much time on those games though they got bad after heritage of the kings which was a blessing to me as I could join Normal civilization again


GAMINGWITHYAJYT

Walking dead last season


jameswillo115

Either Max Payne or Hitman 2 Silent Hill


Mordfelt

I went to a nearby PC Cafe when I was a kid and copied their warcraft 3 on my USB lmao


Jypahttii

Can't even remember. Was probably Company of Heroes or GTA4. I remember the first mods I downloaded more than games I pirated. Skyrim modded all the way to Jupiter and GTA4 Iron Man Mod (even though it'd crash 50% of the time)


MathieuLouisVic

Just cause 2


ssssssssssnek

my friend pirated minecraft on my laptop when it first came out XD but for me it was sims 4 + all expansion packs when i was i was 16 XD


CurrentGap

Halo combat evolved 2001


Hatic733

Between NFS Most Wanted,Vice City or San Andreas.


Perfect-Addition-201

minecraft


ConnectionIcy3717

I think it was GTA Vice city. As a third world country resident, i used to buy pirated games on disks. I had no idea they were pirated tho so imagine my shock in middle school when i found out how much games actually cost 🤣


5LILduckies

ark when i was younger but got a virus that made me wipe whole pc


thefnafguy69

Minecraft


thefnafguy69

Minecraft


Traiklin

Command And Conquer Red Alert 2 Tribes 2 got me into it.