Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006)

Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by jrockway on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @02:15AM (#12120101)

I remember playing Railroad Tycoon as a kid. I never realized that the train it showed on startup was copy protection. I just thought it was a stupid guessing game that they threw in as a bonus or something, like they wanted to make sure you knew all the locomotive types before you got to them in the game.

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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by themaninthedark on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @05:30AM (#12120765)

I remember that, lost my manual but played it so much I knew the trains by heart. Same with Civilization.

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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @06:01AM (#12120850)

Civilization has the special trait that all of the copy-protection questions have their answers available in-game through the civilopedia. I always thought that was funny.

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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by sevensor on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @11:15AM (#12122238)

Did the same thing with RRT. A great game, and the gameplay still holds up, although the station limit is annoying. Even the signal system is fun once you learn how to use it.

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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by antisthenes on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @03:40PM (#12124256)

Same with Master of Orion (surprised it wasn't mentioned yet)

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