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524: Confessions of a Pirate BBS SysOp: The Arcadia Story - The Retro Hour EP524

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) · March 27, 2026

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01:10:24 - 01:11:08

um We had a cracker in america And one day I had three titles from I think actually it was the virgin megastraw in those days um So I got three titles. They were RBI baseball two um pp hammer and I honestly can't remember the third title, but When I got them to Home, I started warping them up because in those days you would that was a way of archiving them and transmitting them So I started warping the first disc and then I uploaded it direct to our cracker in the states of course via illegal methods, um,…

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... I mean was it always like a real effort, you know to kind of be the first one to get like a big game out there Oh, it was it was real competition It I mean that was Again, this is one of the things that appeals to people of a particular kind of mentality. But yeah, it was all about the competition so um We had a cracker in america And one day I had three titles from I think actually it was the virgin megastraw in those days um So I got three titles. They were RBI baseball two um pp hammer and I honestly can't remember the third title, but When I got them to Home, I started warping them up because in those days you would that was a way of archiving them and transmitting them So I started warping the first disc and then I uploaded it direct to our cracker in the states of course via illegal methods, um, because that was part of the way these things worked and I uploaded it here and then I started on the second disc and Before the second disc had got to him in the states. He had cracked the first disc. He had archived it up And was ready for me to download it and I had to say to him what do you want me to do? ...

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