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sguy78 on 16 August 2009

Behold 15 minute load times!

 

 

You literally could start the tape playing, and then go eat dinner, then come back when it was loaded. What a pain in the ass it was loading those games for the Commodore 64. The thing is, you had cartidges too, which loaded immediately.



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CatFangs806 on 16 August 2009

How would you play games on a cassette anyway? It would be the same as trying to play a game on a VHS. It's all one way.



sguy78 on 16 August 2009
CatFangs806 said:
How would you play games on a cassette anyway? It would be the same as trying to play a game on a VHS. It's all one way.

I don't know, I just remember it would take forever to load in order to play a game.



SHMUPGurus on 16 August 2009

Remember when you had to CREATE the game by typing all the codes first though? Fun times... *cough*



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Why is Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 getting so much hate? We finally get a real game and they're not even satisfied... I'm starting to hate the gaming community so f****** much...

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sguy78 on 16 August 2009
SHMUPGurus said:
Remember when you had to CREATE the game by typing all the codes first though? Fun times... *cough*

Yeah, I totally forgot about that.



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Vectorferret on 16 August 2009
CatFangs806 said:
How would you play games on a cassette anyway? It would be the same as trying to play a game on a VHS. It's all one way.

As you play it, the game is copied into the consoles internal memory. That's why the load is so long, it needed to play the entire tape before you could start.



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CatFangs806 on 16 August 2009
Vectorferret said:
CatFangs806 said:
How would you play games on a cassette anyway? It would be the same as trying to play a game on a VHS. It's all one way.

As you play it, the game is copied into the consoles internal memory. That's why the load is so long, it needed to play the entire tape before you could start.

That's more annoying than capturing video from a camcorder onto a hard drive.



sguy78 on 16 August 2009
CatFangs806 said:
Vectorferret said:
CatFangs806 said:
How would you play games on a cassette anyway? It would be the same as trying to play a game on a VHS. It's all one way.

As you play it, the game is copied into the consoles internal memory. That's why the load is so long, it needed to play the entire tape before you could start.

That's more annoying than capturing video from a camcorder onto a hard drive.

Imagine being an impatient kid waiting for your game to load.



CatFangs806 on 16 August 2009
sguy78 said:
CatFangs806 said:
Vectorferret said:
CatFangs806 said:
How would you play games on a cassette anyway? It would be the same as trying to play a game on a VHS. It's all one way.

As you play it, the game is copied into the consoles internal memory. That's why the load is so long, it needed to play the entire tape before you could start.

That's more annoying than capturing video from a camcorder onto a hard drive.

Imagine being an impatient kid waiting for your game to load.

I would've said, "F**k this. I'm buying an NES."



sguy78 on 16 August 2009
CatFangs806 said:
sguy78 said:
CatFangs806 said:
Vectorferret said:
CatFangs806 said:
How would you play games on a cassette anyway? It would be the same as trying to play a game on a VHS. It's all one way.

As you play it, the game is copied into the consoles internal memory. That's why the load is so long, it needed to play the entire tape before you could start.

That's more annoying than capturing video from a camcorder onto a hard drive.

Imagine being an impatient kid waiting for your game to load.

I would've said, "F**k this. I'm buying an NES."

The NES wasn't in the U.S. yet.