How Old-School Cassette Tape Drives Played Games | MVG

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• RY

  @Ryan-d3j · 1 month ago

  NOELLE NOOOOOOOOOOO<br><i>I was then dragged into the lake</i>

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• VE

  @Venusmoder · 1 month ago

  Insert chapter 7 side B

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• RI

  @rigorousEtymologist · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS7SWdTVKys&amp;t=283">4:43</a> for the sound of the cassette tape as audio

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• KA

  @kallekonttinen1738 · 3 years ago

  1985 revolutionary year for rural boys in Finland. September 1985 got C64 and cassette drive as did all boys in my village. Doctors boy got floppy drive.

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• JU

  @jukkiske · 3 years ago

  Next you need a 30min episode explaining adjusting the deck head with a little screwdriver to get original games working, because the levels they recorded on to combat piracy were so low, that the games usually didn&apos;t load at all. Except when the deck head was adjusted <b>just</b> right. Enter the &quot;load-it&quot; datasettes with knobs and level meters.

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• MG

  @mgsalmon79 · 3 years ago

  The nostalgia is strong with this one!<br><br>C64 + cassette + Rambo First Blood Part II = CHILDHOOD.

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• ZE

  @Zens_zulu · 3 years ago

  There was nothing like the feeling of going down to the local newsagents and them having a selection of budget games on offer then getting home with selection that you brought with your own saved up pocket money. Then after the anticipation of waiting while it loaded to then be disappointed to find out its a bad game. That was the roulette you used to play.

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• BE

  @benwil1785 · 7 months ago

  Kids these days will never understand what we went through in the 80s waiting 15 minutes for a game to load only to have it crash and you wouldn&apos;t even get to play it. Good times.

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• AN

  @anthonybradley1555 · 3 years ago

  ocean software will always have fond memories with me, having lived in manchester all my life knowing that games like robocop and the new zealand story were being made for my home computer locally gave me a sense of pride, just being outside that old building was nostalgia overload for me.

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• RA

  @raytaylor4199 · 3 years ago

  Kids of today will never understand what we went through back in the 80s loading up games like this, i had an Amstrad CPC 464 with games like treasure island dizzy, Harrier Attack, Geoff Capes strongest man in the world, Batman. &nbsp;Sometimes whilst playing games on my PS5 such as Ghost of Tshushima , I sit and think, imagine we had these types of graphics and worlds to explore back then!!

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• CL

  @clashclay · 3 years ago

  Thank you MVG.!<br>I love the fact that as a 35 year old American i still learn about gaming tech I&apos;ve never heard or seen this channel is amazing.

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• VI

  @Viking8888 · 3 years ago

  In Canada when I was a kid, the Vic 20 was pretty popular, but then the C64 came out and was HUGE. My Dad bought a Vic 20 not long before the C64 was released (the tape drive was included), so we never did get a C64, but friends of my parents had one and the floppy drive, so I was always excited to go over and play better games on their system, but the Vic 20 was still a blast. My cousin had a friend that somehow got all of these games like PacMan, Centipede and this really cool game called Scramble where you controlled a ship that shot straight ahead and dropped bombs at the same time. You had to destroy enemies in the air and on the ground but also fuel tanks to stay in the airborne. My brother and I had a sheet of paper with the counter numbers for each game so we knew exactly where to fast forward too to play the game we wanted. Thankfully the games we had didn&apos;t take long to load. I&apos;m glad gaming is the way it is now, but those are definitely some great memories to look back on!

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