Ah yes, I remember this. you would take 15 minutes to load a game, spend 2 minutes playing on it, get bored, turn it off, and then realise you have just wasted 17 minutes of your life.

I had a number of good games on tape.

Never had a c64 but remember the tape thing from a friend. Sometimes it had a reading error and you had to rewind and start the whole process again, lol!

But I think you were even able to copy games with a regular two deck stereo. Guess that was the reason why most of my friends preferred their c64 to my NES: Being able to copy games.

If I remember correctly the floppy drive for the c64 alone was more expensive than the NES though...

Ah, C64! Nothing beats loading games for minutes only to get 'Loading Error' message!

All together with Turbo 250, I presume?

Yeah, lol.

Not only that. At that time, there were some radio stations that "played" games and programs. You just had to start recording at the right time.
and after that you could play it on your C64 :)
Before any of you start babling about piracy, at that time there was no such thing as illegal software in Poland. First bill about copyright protection was in 1994 i think.

That's pretty wild.

But interestingly enough, the tone would have to be perfect, otherwise all you'd get is the LOADING ERROR message.

I don't know how they exacly recorded it (I didn't own a C64 myself), but i had a friend that actually did that. And as I recall, it was quite popular thing back then. So at least some of that recorded games/programs had to work