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Sierra’s and Lucas old CopyRights protection methods :)
i still get amazed everytime i remembered their ways of including Copy Rights protection Codes/Sheet inside their Game’s Manuals , sometimes its straight forward just to insert a number or code at the start of the games and sometimes you a get that question/request in the middle of the game and some others strangeness methods was in the middle of the game you asked to enter a word from a specified page of the manual and sometimes the manual of the game comes with special Glasses ...etc .
that is The page of the copyright codes for collected photos of some chicks phone numbers which were scattered all around in the manual.
I am not sure i doing a correct something posting this photo, but i know all Official Sierra games Installer which are available for free, avoid you this trouble of using those Codes
P.S: i Erased the numbers just in case
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I always liked games that somehow got the manual involved, even if it was for simple copy protection purposes. I liked the potion recipes in QFG4. Once the internet got really popular this method vanished.
I for one don’t remember these copy protection methods all that fondly. As a dumb kid not knowing English all that well I was extremely confused trying to get Monkey Island to work, being blocked by that damn wheel. Had to get my big brother to help me every time I wanted to play the game.
It amazes me it took them so long to figure out they could just to use serial numbers instead of elaborate copyright protection methods.
I mean, Leisure Suit Larry 5 has more complicated copyright protection than Windows 95! It was crazy. Made for some interesting extras with the game though.
Daedalic does the retro copy protection. Not only that, but their boxed releases is filled with goodies just like in the old days:
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It wasn’t an AG as such, but the copy protection for Alone in the Dark 1 was good. They gave you a little book and you had to navigate to a certain word on a certain line on a certain page. 
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I’ve never been too keen on games which require me to use something other than the game itself to play them, whether it be looking in a manual for things, or having a grab a piece of paper to jot down passwords or work through puzzles. I prefer the game to just be one self-contained unit.
That said, some games have employed some quite clever copy protection techniques, so you have to give them credit for that. It can be pretty frustrating though if you think you’re just stuck on a puzzle, and don’t realise that the reason you can’t progress is because the solution is contained in a manual.
I’ve never been too keen on games which require me to use something other than the game itself to play them, whether it be looking in a manual for things, or having a grab a piece of paper to jot down passwords or work through puzzles. I prefer the game to just be one self-contained unit.
For my part, I feel like some of the BEST adventure games are ones that require me to take notes and jot stuff down to solve things. If I can do it all in my head or by trial and error it can still be enjoyable, but the difficulty level is sort of minimal.
Not copy protection exactly, but didn’t one of the Leisure Suit Larry games ask you all sorts of random questions to check if you were an adult? I remember that being a right pain as they were all very American questions. Oh and I was a kid.
Not copy protection exactly, but didn’t one of the Leisure Suit Larry games ask you all sorts of random questions to check if you were an adult? I remember that being a right pain as they were all very American questions. Oh and I was a kid.
yeah That is Larry 1 the Original release, and the copyrights issues wasn’t recognized/determined yet.
and yes that was not some kind of those copy protection Questions, it was just to determine the Age (as you said) as i guess Larry 1 was considered having some explicit scenes.
i remember my father playing/checking the game with me back then, to see if it was proper for my age 
I don’t mind if I need a serial number to install a game, and back in the day I didn’t mind if I had to look something up in the manual to be able to start a game.
What I DO mind is when the game is not clear that it requires you to check the manual, and I really hate it if they totally break immersion by presenting you with a “enter this number from the manual” halfway into the game.
Also, if a game requires you to read the manual to be able to understand its controls, then the designers did something horribly wrong. But that’s got little to do with copyright protection…
Also: about the first Larry game, probably the oldest trick in the book is pressing Alt+X to bypass the age-questions… 
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Also: about the first Larry game, probably the oldest trick in the book is pressing Alt+X to bypass the age-questions…
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Also: about the first Larry game, probably the oldest trick in the book is pressing Alt+X to bypass the age-questions…
WHY DIDN’T I KNOW THIS WHEN I WAS A KID
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Growing a mustache?
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A beard?!?
I too wish I’d known that! I wasn’t a kid, but I didn’t know the answer to some of those very American questions.
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We’d spend half an hour just trying to get into LSL1! We were young and had no clue.
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I’m on a whole new adventure.
Growing a mustache?
No. Bigger than that.
A beard?!?
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