{"id":3139,"date":"2016-06-26T21:51:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T20:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2016-06-26T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T20:51:01","slug":"booklet-piracy-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/26\/booklet-piracy-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Booklet Piracy Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piracy has been an issue throughout the history of the games industry. None more so than in 8 and 16-bit eras when cassettes and disks were easy to copy. Many methods were used, one of the more popular was using the included instruction manual as part of the solution: Every time the game ran the program would ask you for an icon or image or text from a page of the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_298.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_298-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_scan_298\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_298-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_298-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_298-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_296.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_296-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_scan_296\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_296-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_296-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_296-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_297-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_297-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_scan_297\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_297-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_297-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_scan_297-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=hardistymark\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piracy has been an issue throughout the history of the games industry. 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Many methods were used, one of the more popular was using the included instruction manual as part of the solution: Every time the game ran the program would ask you for an icon or image or text from a page of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,4,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inlays","category-games","category-gremlin-the-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3143,"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gremlinarchive.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}