User blog comment:Urkelbot666/Experiments./@comment-5934310-20140707204457/@comment-11139677-20140708192049

Yeah, the problem with PC games from shady sites is that the protagonist has to be so gulliable to want to download it from something like that. It's like they want to get a virtus that wrecks their computer. (Really, I think a big problem with the really cliche pastas is often the protagonists, now that I think about it. They are so dumb sometimes! If I saw a cartridge with no art and a crappy label, I would assume it was a rom put on a cartridge and wouldn't buy it.)

There's also stuff about the person providing the download link or however the game is obtained dissapearing mysteriously aftewards, and most of the time when that's used it seems like a lazy way to not have to elaborate any further.

Anyway, yeah, PC games are a bit more likely to find in obscure places than consle games which I can kind of say out of personal experience. After all, I seriously once found a stack of PC games, most of which selling for around two dollars, and most of them I hadn't even heard of. And this was a store that doesn't sell games. Seriously.

Now, there actually is a problem with using a legitmate store-bought game, because something like that is always going to be normal, given that these kinds of things are mass-produced and no one copy is going to be special rigth out of the box. So often having SOME kind of explanation can be good for the pasta; but the obtaining of it does NOT have to be the creepy part. In fact, the person the protagonist gets the game from could have no idea of what's on the game, really.