• no banana
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        37 months ago

        “Peter piper picked pickled peppers” seems weird to me as an age verification, but maybe that’s because the game is old?

      • @BradleyUffner
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        27 months ago

        Was this actually an age gate, or was it a form of copy protection where the answers are in the printed manual?

    • @stanleytweedle
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      7 months ago

      It was an old ‘kings quest’ style adventure game featuring ‘adult’ content, though I don’t think it was much past PG-13 really. You had to answer a series of trivia questions to play that were supposed to be things only an adult would probably know. I remember some questions like “What is Havarti: Cheese, A Country, Species of Fish”.

      • @Deestan
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        207 months ago

        That verification really did put a hurdle in front of kids back in the pre-internet era.

        …and adults outside USA who don’t know shit about baseball trivia or comedians famous in West Wisconsin City.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          47 months ago

          It was a legitimate challenge if you didn’t have an encyclopedia set handy.