I was browsing through some old magazines yesterday and I read a lot of reviews of Japanese games which weren't localized. We know now, back then, typical Japanese games such as Snatcher didn't make their way to Europe. This means someone selected the titles which were suitable to import. Is it known who did that back then? Was it mainly one person or more? How was it possible that there were cracked versions of original games available, MUCH sooner than the original titles itself through import channels? Actually, a pretty fucked up situation 
How did Japanese software make its way to Europe in the late 80s/early 90s?
Someone bought it, someone else cracked it, we copied it? 
in argentinia all the games cracked already were from spain.
I want names 
Cheers Bas, did he crack or had a link in Japan through which he got the games? It's just, I noticed the MSX scene in the late 80s/early 90s was just as small as nowadays, actually. They were talking about 'MSX being dead' in those days too, it's reaaaally funny to read This implies though, that there most probably really were only a few people who were responsible. From whom got Martos all them originals and stuff? It interests me
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