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LeftOfSelf-Centered

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Fri Oct 25, 2013, 11:33 AM Oct 2013

Cracked: The 7 Least Necessary Pirated (i.e. unlicensed) Video Games

Unlicensed video games exist to fulfill impossible fantasies -- I'm pretty sure that when I was a kid I had a bootleg copy of Street Fighter II where you could literally fill the entire screen with Hadoukens, and a pirated version of Tiny Toon Adventures where Donatello and Fred Flintstone apparently attended Acme Looniversity together (my two greatest childhood dreams). These shitty knockoffs gave us the gameplay experiences that the real game companies couldn't or wouldn't give us, like impossible ports, badass kung-fu versions of kiddie characters, or 8-bit boobies.

Or at least some of them did. Other unlicensed games seemed like they could have only been summoned into existence by the sort of kid who got beat up by Magic-card-collecting nerds (so, no one). Bear in mind that most of the games I'm about to show you were made in the '80s or '90s, way before technology advanced to the point where any 12-year-old can hack a Mario game and replace everything with Nazi penises -- these atrocities took actual effort to create, even though their only possible use is being made fun of 20 years later.

Source: http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-least-necessary-pirated-video-games/

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Cracked: The 7 Least Necessary Pirated (i.e. unlicensed) Video Games (Original Post) LeftOfSelf-Centered Oct 2013 OP
That Harry Potter rip-off game was hilarious! Vashta Nerada Oct 2013 #1
And on the "Titenic" no less! LeftOfSelf-Centered Oct 2013 #2
I love that one item on the list is actually a reverse-engineering of another one. (nt) Posteritatis Oct 2013 #3
 

Vashta Nerada

(3,922 posts)
1. That Harry Potter rip-off game was hilarious!
Fri Oct 25, 2013, 11:57 AM
Oct 2013

Since when did Harry Potter go around and kick fat kids in the first book?

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