Microsoft Adventure - The first ever video game Anti-Piracy | MVG

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In 1979, Microsoft released 'Adventure' an interactive text adventure game that was a port of Colossal Cave Adventure - a mainframe adventure game released in 1976. Microsoft Adventure would contain the first known method of Copy Protection on its disk. In this episode we take a look at the Anti Piracy measure put in place and how it was defeated.

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