Thank you, I love your books and this post is great advice!

Also, wow, what a collection of retro games and software. I'm so jealous!

Thank you for your kind words.

Dupe with [1], posted 6 hours before this post, although 0 comments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36371656

Nice. I got a small stash of old favourite games on my desk as well.

Interesting Contra was released as Gryzor in Europe

Later Super Contra was released in Europe as Super Probotector instead and was reworked to have robots as playable characters instead of soldiers.

This is beautiful. The copy protection schemes on Stealth, Monkey Island, Another World, Alone in the Dark, and Indiana Jones are practically the appeal of the games themselves.

I didn't have video games growing up for economic reasons, so I missed out on these, but at the time, breaking copy protections was an unoffical national sport. Imagine solving these ciphers as a kid to upload keys to a warez bbs. It's unbelievable.

I thought this was going to be about the sex toy shop in SF...

https://www.google.com/search?q=good+vibrations+san+francisc...

hug of death