Video game store 1983

Besides the obvious GBP symbol for the currency, you can tell it's in the UK because their software market was dominated by cassette tapes due to lower cost. I remember quite a few cracked C64 downloads BITD that were imported to the US from a UK supplier that had been transferred from tape to disk form.
 
Watching those home systems and listening to the sounds - it brings back memories of why I kept going to the arcade.

That GORF version was a shadow of the arcade version that sucked so many quarters out of my pocket. Same with the other games.
 
Besides the obvious GBP symbol for the currency, you can tell it's in the UK because their software market was dominated by cassette tapes due to lower cost. I remember quite a few cracked C64 downloads BITD that were imported to the US from a UK supplier that had been transferred from tape to disk form.
Most of the games I played BITD were from tapes before we got an Amstrad 6128, then an Amiga 500 (both disk based).

As anyone that has ever loaded a game from tape would know that the audio level on the cassette player had to be just right otherwise the game would not load. Given that a typical game would take 5 minutes to load, imagine how frustrating it was when the game crashed without loading…

Oh, the wonderful old days…

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Most of the games I played BITD were from tapes before we got an Amstrad 6128, then an Amiga 500 (both disk based).

As anyone that has ever loaded a game from tape would know that the audio level on the cassette player had to be just right otherwise the game would not load. Given that a typical game would take 5 minutes to load, imagine how frustrating it was when the game crashed without loading…

Oh, the wonderful old days…

p
Yeah I had a tape player for the 64 when I first got it in 1982 as a Christmas gift from my rich uncle. Loading from cassette was an eternity. I had Jumpman on tape and Radar Rat Race on cartridge. He gave it to us with an amber
Monitor that had no sound so I didn't know for the first few months that it even had color and sound!

It wasn't until maybe 1986 or 87 that I got a floppy drive for Christmas, followed by a modem I bought from a guy who shoplifted it, then the piracy went into high gear and carried over to the Amiga in 1990 when I bought the 500.
 
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