back in my day we traded and lended each other pirated game
IS THAT TWICE AS WRONG?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? 
lol I remember doing this too. One lucky dude would have an older brother/uncle/etc pull something off a BBS or early innanets and it would spread like wildfire. The best ones were adventure games that had piracy measures like 'what is the third word on page 24 of the manual', which of course meant someone would just dump all the answers in a txt file 
there was one dude in the neighbourhood who was always ahead of the curve due to his dad:
having a monster PC at all times,
having john romero hair,
blasting motorhead and iron maiden whenever you went over there,
calling you a pussy when he destroyed you at LAN doom/quake over the house intercom,
selling you shareware that you couldn't even run anyway.