first thing you pirated?

I mean... kind of makes me wonder. How many video games out there exist that we only know of because pirated copies of said game were floating around somewhere in Taiwan? Or rather video games where the only dump of it to have surfaced comes from a pirated copy. For an industry where companies are absolutely keen on making sure that only copies produced by them have ever existed, there must've been times where ultimately, pirate copies are the only ones circulating the internet. Like I'm not talking stuff like Earthbound where you could get the real deal, just that it's expensive, oh no no no. We're talking stuff like that famous Simon Wai Sonic 2 beta or SAM Coupe games or heck, some fully unreleased games have surfaced this way.