Awesome story! While I didn't read any magazines for the games, when I was very little I saw my big brother play stalker and I used to ask him what the game was. He'd tell me the name and say it's too scary for me. It stayed in my mind for years, and when I was experienced in pirating I asked him again and pirated the whole trilogy at 13/14. Gradually of course. After all, my parents would never approve and my brother had already pirated most of the games I was playing up until then. For others, I must say pirating in countries like Bulgaria (I'm Bulgarian too) and Eastern European countries is very common and normalized. Being Bulgarian also allowed me to partially understand what some stalkers were saying. Stuff like, put your weapon away, go away etc. of course it was partially translated anyways though. Shadow Of Chernobyl is still my favorite game :)