You don't remember the VirtualBoy? I mean the SegaCD and the 32x were kinda Meh., but that thing promised the stars and delivered the sewers.
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I remember being excited as hell that I knew enough older trivia that I was able to bypass the "age restriction" in the original EGA version of Leisure Suit Larry.
I also remember if you got the old Quake Shareware CD you could unlock the full version of just about any ID game (Quake, Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, The Master Levels, Heretic, Hexen, Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, and Wolfenstein 3D) with a simple keygen.
I remember there was some CD my brother got his mitts on...I want to say, "Forbidden Subjects III" but I might be mistaken, that had all of this hacking stuff on it and whatnot, but we saw this file on it called, "whale.avi". We both watched it and lo and behold, it was a video of the time when the
Oregon highway department blew up a beached whale carcass using half a ton of dynamite. Note: this was back before the interwebs and all we had was the old BBS dial-up services with the Hayes 2400 smartmodem--so this was about all the video that computers at the time could handle.
I swear we were laughing for hours when we saw that...and the best part is: it never gets old--and if it does you stop watching it for 30 minutes and it's brand new again!