

Mario didn’t beat Donkey Kong in the original game, but Mario’s evolved a lot since then? (And so has his opponent Donkey Kong Good old Donkey … He started out as quite a monstrous character posing on top of giant structures throwing barrels at people.’Īnd then what really tipped me off (yeah, I’m a little slow) was the logo I saw when I actually started the game up, which says ‘International Rising Sun Organized Piracy’ in a white and red logo almost identical to Nintendo’s. Today he is a high resolution polygon model in all his glory, but he started out as a 10 pixel (approx.) high sprite battling DK.

I’m repeating it as it’s written: ‘Mario Mario Mustache #1 in the world! Mario super star and alround good plumber. The first thing I noticed, and basically just laughed off, was the copy on the back cover of the box.

Not that that sort of thing can’t be duplicated, just that it didn’t set off the immediate warning bells. It’s close enough to get most of the details right - hell, it was even in a shrinkwrapped package with the official Nintendo seal of quality. Donkey Kong from eBay and, though it took me a while to put it together, I do believe I’ve got a piece of pirated software on my hands. I didn’t give it a second thought as a kid, but these days I’m mindful of the lives of people who spend their time on these games I enjoy, and I’ve put behind me all those hacks and pirated warez.
#GAMEFAQS CRUSADER NO REMORSE CRACKED#
I won’t lie to you and tell you I’ve never dabbled in pirated games before - back in my youth nearly all of my Commodore 64 library was a collection of cracked games.
