Yep, I remember this also.I remember we paid a hundred bucks or so to have a chip installed in our PS1 so it would play regular CDs. Dad then installed 2 cd writers into the PC so we could borrow games from the video store and copy them. We went from having 2 games to almost 20 in the space of a few months
Ended up burning games for other people in the neighbourhood for $5 a game.
Had stacks of games coming in from Malaysia also.
The good old days.