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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My first video game (Zaxxon) was on a cassette tape, before VHS (early 80s). Each time we wanted to start a gaming session, we had to download the game from a shoebox cassette player to the CoCo 2 computer, and it took 2 or 3 minutes.