Mine rox. Sure, you have to wait 15 minutes for it to load the casette tapes, and when you are half way through the game you gotta turn the tape upside down to finish it, but its really pretty cool!

Did you have one?

woah - haven't heard about one or seen one in years - sorry i was a using a texas instruments system when that was available then swapped to Commodore 64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad

Beast in a tape. Rawr.

I had one a long, long time ago... and I loved it. It's amazing to me how many gamers just don't realize that there was a time when video games were available on cassette tapes...

remember our teacher trying to show us how one works. Basically once he put it in he just told everyone not to breath, since the thing was so old or so sensitive. Then his tape broke and jammed the whole thing. We all laughed. Then we all got beat on by the teacher. Really funny. You would have to be there to understand his reaction.

I had one a long, long time ago... and I loved it. It's amazing to me how many gamers just don't realize that there was a time when video games were available on cassette tapes...


Interesting. I didn't know that was possible.

I remember the days when games came as a book!!! & a big bag of lollies was 5c. (it was at the time of tape drives, mind you when you think about it it was not that long ago)
You would normally buy the book from a guy who looked like he was the lead in revenge of the nerds.
You would then spend 1-2 hrs typing the thing in, play it for 5 min when it would then crash cause you missed typed something.
the one i remember the most was a game called sheep dog,

wow, I didn't know they used make games on cassettes, you learn something new everyday

A piece of trivia:

The founder of Amstrad created The Apprentice tv show.

I remember the days when games came as a book!!! & a big bag of lollies was 5c. (it was at the time of tape drives, mind you when you think about it it was not that long ago)
You would normally buy the book from a guy who looked like he was the lead in revenge of the nerds.
You would then spend 1-2 hrs typing the thing in, play it for 5 min when it would then crash cause you missed typed something.
the one i remember the most was a game called sheep dog,lol, I remember spending an entire day entering GW-Basic code from Mad Magazine just to display Alfred E. Neuman's face on the screen.

Gruseaux - I Remember that one, that was so cool