Commodore 128? Heck I couldn't even get a 64. Yeah I did my own "pirating" back then.

I had an Atari 800 w/ a cassette drive. I bought Zaxxon on cassette and played it. On a lark I played it on an audio cassette player (Sanyo IIRC). Just a bunch of blips and bleeps. I figured what the heck, let's see if I can dub the tape. Low and behold it worked and I returned Zaxxon...