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These are awesome. Suart Campbell's posted up some anti-piracy ads from the 80s, revealing the lengths ELSPA used to stoop to to stop people putting Amiga games on floppy discs. It was all bobby's on the beat and bags of chips as big as your head back then. See for yourself.

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Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.
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