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Almost every DOS game I played was cracked, so none of those annoyances for me!

The one game which wasn't, MicroProse F-19, thought it would deter me by asking me the names of various shapes of Cold War era aircraft. As if! It only served to teach me those few shapes I didn't already know.

The copy protection quiz in the first instalment of Leisure Suit Larry taught me trivia that wasn't really applicable to real-life conversations.

That quiz was for age verification though, not copy protection.

Oops, that's right. I thought the answers were listed in the manual.

I could probably still today answer 2/3 of the Wing Commander questions without looking them up. It was 100% back when I played the game daily.

Example: Maniac's age is 23.

"Your sound card works perfectly."

HMI Module Alpha Humana on approach to Space Station Mercury!

I know this was the test sample in the sound configuration utility for a lot of mid-90s games – but do you know the origin of it? Anybody?