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Re:Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over f... by Aeolun on Saturday March 25, 2023 @07:58AM (#35301777)
> I think the number of games that include player punishment is astonishingly small.

I remember Game Dev Tycoon released a ‘hacked’ copy of their own game to torrent sites in which you’d always eventually lose due to ‘losing sales due to pirating’, but that’s the only instance I remember.

Did much older games do similar things?

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Re:Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS stores closing means game over f... by goosedragons on Saturday March 25, 2023 @09:50AM (#35302616)
Some but it's pretty rare. Earthbound spawns more and more enemies when it detects a legit version isn't being played and will break on the final boss if you make it that far. It's a bit more common on home computer games I think because the barrier to copying a floppy or CD is much lower than a cart but it's still a lot of effort to add.
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