I had a pirated version on a zip drive

people wax poetic about betamax and laserdisk but never heard anyone mention zip drive, in a good or bad way, lol

Before cd-rs, it felt like magic. Like a floppy but 100 times bigger!

I was the kid with the backpack Zip drive and Zip disks, like a weird Santa Claus of game piracy. Duke3d, Descent, Quake, you name it. All of it was in service of modem dueling each other. Wild times!

It was magical for about 2 years, then USB drives came along and made it look quaint.

IOMagic Zip Drive?

38 even!