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[–] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

I remember playing Jill of the Jungle in early 1997, it was on one of those "100 in 1" pirate CD that were common around the time the CD-ROM was introduced (became somewhat common in my region).

That same pirate compilation had Commander Keen, Dune 2 and many other games.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Shareware was big back then. Chances are good that your copy was actually legal.

[–] kethali@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had a bunch of those myself back then, dozens of great shareware games on each disc. Sure beat trying to download something on slow slow dialup.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 month ago

And those games usually got really really hard beyond the first episode, so we (at least me) wouldn't have gotten far in the full games anyways.

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