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SanAndreasX on 22 February 2015
| Intrinsic said: It all started for me as a 6yr old kid back in 1987 with the amstrad. at this point games cane on cassette tapes and had a 17min load time to start menu. |
The TRS-80, TI-99/4A, and the Atari 130XE all had tape games. In addition to the long loading times there was also the delightful analong data noise that played while the tapes were loading.
Talking about that noise reminds me that in 1993, I started dabbling in online gaming through locally run Bulletin Board Systems using a 2400 baud modem running off of my phone line, where the modem played loud computer noise if you were lucky enough not to get a busy signal from the BBS you were calling. The BBS "door games" ranged from the simple, like Legend of the Red Dragon, to games like Land of Devastation which were reasonably credible RPGs.
