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Porting video games to VHS

A developer has explored what it would take to distribute video games on VHS tapes, revisiting the idea of loading game code from analog video cassettes. The write-up covers the technical challenges of encoding playable game data onto tape, a concept once used by home computers in the 1980s. Readers are debating whether the format could realistically work and recalling earlier cassette-based gaming experiments.

Why now: Retro-computing experiments that revive obsolete media formats reliably draw curiosity and nostalgia online.

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• Porting video games to VHS · Kate0CoolLibby · 52

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