Ver voor dat de mensen via het Internet aan het syndroom van dowload lijde, kopieerde je games via bekenden, bijeenkomsten en wisselde je dat uit via de post. Maar om dit te stoppen werden er een hoop rare beveiligingen ontwikkelt, die uiteraard allemaal faalde. Daarom heeft de website Topless Robot deze top vijf gemaakt, en onze favoriet is:

b]3) Pirate-Themed Code Wheels, The Secret of Monkey Island and LeChuck's Revenge

Leave it to LucasArts to make something as tedious as copy protection actually fun. In a game about pirates, it only makes sense to deal with the problem in an appropriately pirate way, and the great thing about the dial-a-pirate and mix-n'-mojo wheels was that they performed their function without feeling like a chore or a legal obligation. In fact, these colorful little things look like something you'd find in a box of Monkey Island-themed cereal, which just sort of enhanced the whole thing. Coincidentally, I would totally eat the fuck out of Monkey Island Cereal, but I guess we'll just have to settle with whatever mysteriously familiar cereal that was in the cabinets of the Sea Monkey. I do kind of wish Secret of Monkey Island had come with a tiny useful pirate key.