Thanks for the post, Mark. Having those key codes handy is vital and something I never knew when I was a kid (thank you, pirates!).
I wish I could have included Jeff's comments about piracy. He talked quite a bit about the subject and had a very liberal and fair mindset about it. He said that he figured for every legit copy of SoF, there were probably dozens of pirated copies. Once he was invited to a friend's house (I believe in Sweden or the Netherlands), and the guy there recognized him and said he played SoF all the time and wanted to thank him! Then when he went inside, he found that the guy had a pirated copy! LOL!
Jeff's attitude was basically that piracy is wrong, but DOES have a positive side in that word gets out about your game, and many people who never would have played it get the chance. Some of those will buy it themselves, or at least tell others about how great it is and THEY will buy it. Still, it is sad that so many people got a pirated copy, played it to death, and never considered buying a boxed copy despite having the money to do so. I hope very much that anyone who pirated it back in the day will consider buying this iPhone version, since it will really make a difference to Jeff and to the future of retrogaming in general.
Thanks for the post, Mark. Having those key codes handy is vital and something I never knew when I was a kid (thank you, pirates!).
I wish I could have included Jeff's comments about piracy. He talked quite a bit about the subject and had a very liberal and fair mindset about it. He said that he figured for every legit copy of SoF, there were probably dozens of pirated copies. Once he was invited to a friend's house (I believe in Sweden or the Netherlands), and the guy there recognized him and said he played SoF all the time and wanted to thank him! Then when he went inside, he found that the guy had a pirated copy! LOL!
Jeff's attitude was basically that piracy is wrong, but DOES have a positive side in that word gets out about your game, and many people who never would have played it get the chance. Some of those will buy it themselves, or at least tell others about how great it is and THEY will buy it. Still, it is sad that so many people got a pirated copy, played it to death, and never considered buying a boxed copy despite having the money to do so. I hope very much that anyone who pirated it back in the day will consider buying this iPhone version, since it will really make a difference to Jeff and to the future of retrogaming in general.
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