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Some interesting comments. But here in the UK, there were a lot of 8 bit home computers around in the 1980s (Sinclair and BBC being major players). Software protection was possibly in its infancy, but there were a massive amount of games being produced on both cassette and disk.
As a teenager, I got far more pleasure from cracking those protection schemes than playing the games. No manuals, tutorials, or even bulletin boards to help. It was all a case of self-learning, brute force, a lot of time, and patience.
It also helped me to gain sufficient knowledge to get a foot in the firmware industry, skills that is still help pay my bills.
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