Who here can't imagine running games from tape? • Gaming • General Gaming • Eurogamer.net

Khanivor 19 Jun 2007 20:35:37 44,800 posts
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Yunger uns who missed out on the joys, I'd imagine.

Introspectre 19 Jun 2007 20:36:51 3,274 posts
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oh the joys of fiddling about with my ickle screwdriver+C64 cassette deck, trying to get creatures to load.

yay.

Morb0 19 Jun 2007 20:38:34 132 posts
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Ah the days of pressing play and then going off to make a cup of tea while that screeching noise filled the room.

And sometimes coming back to the horror of

R: TAPE LOADING ERROR

otto Moderator 19 Jun 2007 20:38:54 49,322 posts
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Tape? What's tape? ;p

Anyone remember those floppy discs that came attached to the front of mags? No I don't mean "floppy discs" I mean proper records you put on the turntable, only made of wobbly plastic not hard vinyl.

deem 19 Jun 2007 20:39:59 31,667 posts
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Introspectre 19 Jun 2007 20:40:22 3,274 posts
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HEY OTTO!

otto Moderator 19 Jun 2007 20:41:21 49,322 posts
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Pah, that's nothing. I remember when we had two empty cans of beans connected by a piece of string, and I'd put my ear to one and listen to someone in the other room yell "ONE!" or "ZERO!"

Took aaaaages for games to load.

Khanivor 19 Jun 2007 20:42:28 44,800 posts
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I remember copying tapes by playing one out of one tape-player while the mic from a recorder was pressed up close to the speaker.

It even worked sometimes.

Lukus 19 Jun 2007 20:43:55 24,640 posts
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I remember when the internet was nothing but fields.

Introspectre 19 Jun 2007 20:44:12 3,274 posts
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hmm?

Lukus 19 Jun 2007 20:45:22 24,640 posts
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I do seriously however fondly remember going round to my friend's house when I was about 7 or 8 and playing Dizzy and Barbarian after lots of trial and error waiting for the tape to load. Great days!

Freek 19 Jun 2007 20:46:04 7,682 posts
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I can't, I got into gaming through the NES and a 386 PC at a friends house.
But it sounds like the old medium had some completly awsome possibilities.

MrTomFTW Moderator 19 Jun 2007 20:46:23 47,501 posts
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C90s full of games... ah yes. I used to try and mark the spot where the next game began with a pencil, then it was trial and error to find the exact beginning. God forbid it failed after that! Messing with levels was annoying, even if it was an essential part of the experience.

Khanivor 19 Jun 2007 20:48:26 44,800 posts
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Mapster wrote:
I had C90's full of games

Finding the spot in between the games was really hard tho.

The jump up to floppies was a real boon. Dozens of quality 64 and 128 games on a single item!. Wowzaz! No more marking tapes, LIST and LOAD FTW

Psychotext 19 Jun 2007 20:49:59 70,652 posts
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I keep an old c16 around to show my kid relatives just exactly how good they've got it. =)

MrWorf 19 Jun 2007 20:51:28 64,193 posts
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AHA!

Peekaboo bitch!

/launches at mapster

phAge 19 Jun 2007 20:52:26 25,487 posts
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Some of my bestest gaming memories ever start with me carefully peeling off the 2 (sometimes 3!!!) coverdisks from the cover of The One, and (a lot less carefully) slamming them into the drive of my Amiga 500+.

God, those were tha days.

*Sniff*

MrTomFTW Moderator 19 Jun 2007 20:53:21 47,501 posts
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Ah The One Amiga. They kept getting their mucking wrods fuddled up :-)

Xerx3s 19 Jun 2007 20:54:44 23,970 posts
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Post 2k births lol.
Post 80's births lol.
Post 70's birth lol.

Tbf, the late 80's through middle 90's where some of the most entertaining and social periods of gaming. Fucking about with ancient equipment, not caring about who had the most terraflops, no Internet to raise your blood pressure and playing coop games like golden axe and alcatraz on the C64 with 1 button joysticks.

Come to think of it, that period is responsible for most of my current day 'real' (inner circle if you will) mates and the odd girl. Ah yes, C64 + coop games + beer + people = shitloads of fun.

We pirated the shit out of everything though, my mate had an entire attic full of those old 5" black ones, enough to play a new game every day for years and years.

Khanivor 19 Jun 2007 20:55:03 44,800 posts
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DDevil wrote:
Ah The One Amiga. They kept getting their mucking wrods fuddled up

ZERO FTW!

MrWorf 19 Jun 2007 20:55:27 64,193 posts
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The only thing I remember from tapes is crying after my sister decided to decorate her doll house with the "string" inside my msx tapes. ;_;

silentbob 19 Jun 2007 20:56:22 29,527 posts
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Azimuth ate my hamster!

NewYork 19 Jun 2007 20:57:42 24,807 posts
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Grunk 19 Jun 2007 20:58:21 4,718 posts
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wizzball was the uber game of C64 coop madness.

I remember playing it for hours with my trusty sidekick.

NewYork 19 Jun 2007 20:58:26 24,807 posts
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I remember when I was REALLY young, like this tall, I went to a games shop and saw Street Fighter II on sale, in tape format.

At the time I thought it was a music cassette with music from the game, which was a pretty cool thing to me.

It's haunted me ever since, but I now realise that that's what games come on

/illegally downloads Street Fighter music