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Running video games off VHS tapes

Original: Porting video games to VHS

Developer Gardiner Bryant has written about the idea of porting video games to VHS tapes, exploring what it would take to distribute and run games on the analog cassette format. The piece revisits an era before CDs and cartridges-only consoles, and has sparked discussion among retro gaming enthusiasts about the technical challenges and nostalgic appeal of loading games from videotape.

Why now: Retro gaming and unusual technical experiments consistently draw interest from the hacker and gaming communities.

Gardiner BryantVHSretro gaming

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Rank over time, top of the chart is #1. 52 snapshots from 1 d ago to 1 h ago.

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• Porting video games to VHS · Kate0CoolLibby · 52

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