I think it was back it 2000. I was in the seventh grade or so. I was a huge fan of Sierra/Lucas Arts adventure games. I played LsL6, King's Quest 6, and other games.
Ok, Confession time. I'm Romanian. A relatively poor country (well, at least we have plumbing, but we don't use computers. Right now I'm using smoke signals to tell you guys this
) and so, while 20 dollars may not be that much to you over there, around here it's a relatively large sum. Hence, I cannot afford to buy original games. I have to resort to making *sigh* pirate copies.
Moving on. A friend of my dad's gave me a CD with tons of games. Camelot, King's quest 5, etcetera etcetera and the Quest for Glory series. I played them all, starting with QFG1 remake, and loved them, but got stuck in QFG 4 because of the copy protection...heh heh. I guess I got what was coming to me. Anyway, format, get a new computer, I never saw that guy that gave me the games again.
For FIVE years I searched for them, and now, finally, In 2005 I got the internet and managed to find a website where I can download them, plus QFG5 from torrent. So now, 5 years and 1 GB of downloads later, I have them all, including the PDF version of the manuals.
This has been the story of a guy that loved the game too much, and led him to his demise...or not.
Hope you're not going to tell the feds what I did