Based on a true story! If you've ever been bummed out over missing out on a sweet pre-order bonus (I'm looking at you, Ocarina of Time on a GameCube disk!), just imagine not even being able to finish a game unless you bought it at retail! At least nowadays we have the Internet to look this stuff up, but it wasn't too long ago that such a thing was impossible. If you didn't have that one sheet of paper that originally came with the game, and you didn't know anyone who did, or who happened to know the code, you'd either have to guess it or just give up. I'm sure I wasn't the only kid who picked the latter.