My uncle was an electrical engineer back in the day and our family would get hand-me-down PC's, and every DOS game I ever played as a kid was pirated. I'm guessing my uncle would get them on BBS or something it's that far back. I was 10 in 1993, and I remember struggling with Leisure Suit Larry (which, because one needed to type in English taught me a great deal! Including the "prove-you're-an-adult quiz" to even get into it). I also remember thinking how easy Civilization 1 was but it turns out I was playing with a "trainer" the whole time and could just pump out units at near 0 cost 😄. But as a kid I didn't know any better.
In 1996 I bought my own PC, AMD K2 200mhz, 3 GB HDD and who knows how many ram, but only a measly Matrox 2D card to begin with, and yep, even then a lot of the games were pirated, and a few years later, probably 1998 I got my first CD-rom drive which just made piracy even easier. A friend from school had a dad who would get pirated games, almost like it was linux distributions. Most of these CD-rom's would be repackaged games without cutscenes but with custom installers with music. It's how I got into Blümchen at the peak age of 15.
Then in 1999 I began going to a local computer club which was mostly a way to play LAN games with friends and share pirated stuff and use a faster dedicated internet connection. Oh and lots of LAN parties were if course had from around 1998 and onwards into the mid 00s, which is how I was introduced to anime like Rurouni Kenshin (aka Samurai X for y'all yanks (why?!)). And then home internet got good enough that one could pirate at home and LAN's began falling off after the mid-00s.

As for consoles, I never pirated. I went from Sega Master System to Sega Game Gear (gifted to my brother and I from a German family that my parents were friends with) to Sony Playstation. And funnily enough I never played any pirated games on any of these consoles, but that's also why I stuck with PC from there on afterwards, with the exception of a PS3 in 2011 which I never really played on..