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Yeah, that's one of Jeff Minter's early titles:Lol Attack of the Mutant Camels??
Great vid!!
Most of the games I played BITD were from tapes before we got an Amstrad 6128, then an Amiga 500 (both disk based).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.
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 amberMost 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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