Loading video games from vinyl records | Thompson Twins Adventure Game

usually directly from record might be volume or noise. putting it on tape might have just filtered it enough to smooth it out. way before sounds cards i had a friends that made a sound input via parallel port with some resistors and other stuff and manage to make a sound recording like 8KHz 8bit. sounded horrible but it was sound!

I love how you started out with an almost free one from the thrift shop, then ended up spending $$$ and now own three copies. It reminds me so much of the type of thing I do!

I have an Atari 2600 game that features the Journey called Journey Escape

Okay. I've seen TV/video/PC games on cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, Bluray Discs, floppy disks, diskettes and cartridges of different sizes from the smallest to the biggest... but never games on a Vinyl. Missed that one out so this is the first time I've ever hear of or seen one.

And now we have video/PC games that are digital downloads.

🤔..... Something really doesn't smell right with this one....🌚😶👁️🧐🌝
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You’re dope

I am so happy this exists 🤩

Now to get a copy .....

Not in that way just want a friend who has all these video game connections, send me your number on a vinyl please 😂😂

I would have thought the cracks and pops would muck up the transfer?

I do wonder if this game is online somewhere as a wav file, I'm guessing a wav file would be needed cause the compression of MP3s might distort the data.

Drowned the Thomson Twins first move... gotta love it! I was born in '71 in Atlanta, GA 🇺🇸 and grew up on the 8-Bit architecture and been loving computers ever since! Was not familiar with this game though! Take care Young Lady and thanks for the video! RCA jacks rule🤪🫂🙏🐍🇺🇸

If you can source a copy of Pete Shelley's ORIGINAL 'Homosapien' album on cassette, I believe there is a program embedded on there that can be run in a similar or identical way to the process you've outlined here. I'd be interested to see what it actually does if you ever get a chance to do a video on it. Just subbed and thanks for your content 😊

I had this and coudn't get it to load. I was so frustrated. I feel a little vindicated given how much difficulty you had getting it working.

so u ,like a pirate audio cassete, have transfer the disc on audio cassette and then u can play it with the c68 cassette tapse lec? no becuase if u did this so creative

i never ear sometime like that

I never knew they had games on vinyl that's crazy!

That’s not gonna load correctly with a crease in the play surface of the record. But a game on vinyl acetate?! Ok, new one on me.

So if you have to record the game from the record to a tape, why didn’t they just give out cassettes with the game already recorded on it. I think the record idea was rather stupid to begin with anyway. Lol

They used to broadcast software over the radio that could be recorded onto cassette. I think they did something similar on UK TV as well, back in the 80s.

At least they didn't die of dysentery like the Oregon Trail 🤣🤣🤣🤣

wow i feel old you saying you bought your first walkman lol

Amazing, gotta share.

Have you ever seen the Fischer- Price video camera that recorded B&W video (w/out audio) onto a cassette tape??? Cool Obsolete technology...👍

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I really enjoyed this (first time) video. One note though… I’m not sure if you’re hard of hearing or perhaps had a different sound setup recently, but you sound like you’re shouting for the entire video. That’s really challenging to listen to for any length of time. I would like to continue watching your videos so perhaps consider speaking in a conversational tone and adjust your volume levels as needed. Thanks!

This is awesome

i played so much ps1 on that fuckin disney tv of my sisters

Fantastic ❤

I remember loading games from casettes back in the 80's on my parents Comodore 64. I dont remember wich game it was but i do remember loading games from tapes.
Amasing considering the frequency response of tapes rolls of sharply around 16khz (on a quality tape). I didnt do the math, but hz to bytes at that frequency cant be quick 😆

You could get the record into a early 1970s IBM 8inch floppy disk drive. The originals stored a whopping 80 KB

Idk how to explain it but I got so excited when I read the title and had to watch! I never knew video games were on vinyl!

As a Spectrum user at the time, I'm not surprised games were released on records, considering it loads from sound on a tape. It's just a change of audio format. That said, it is rare enough that I've never seen one, let alone load one. Samantha Fox did a similar one too. Flexidiscs are notoriously difficult to play well. They were only ever intended as cheaply made giveaways to promote other items e.g. the full album as the flexi was a preview. I often wonder what happened at the competition-winning meet and greets of artists most people have long forgotten about if they knew them at all.

Man, analogue technology is so baffling!

for people who dont know this but Thompson Twins got the name from two detectives in adventures of tin tin

We used to swap cassettes with C64 games in middle school. If you knew someone had taken the time to type in a really long game from a magazine then you could copy and/or trade them for it. This was decades before TPB and file sharing sites.

I wonder if anyone ever got the free tickets? Most people probably gave up trying to get the game to load.

I had a flexi disc back in the day. Maybe this one? Not sure if I ever managed to load it...

I got extra credit in Computer Studies by typing in pages of code from Computer Active to get Miissile Command running on the school computer(there was a lot we took turns staying late)

Very nicely done. Information Society on their Peace & Love, Inc. album have a 300 baud modem recording on the last track. You should be able to wire up one of your CD players to a modem, and bring it into your computer. It is only a text file—a story of one of their South America adventures. The band Secret Secret worked with Emily Short to create City of Secrets, an award winning text adventure—also voted into the top 50 all time IF games.

Found this from your twitter post. Just found this channel at random and already loving it. As someone that's, as my kid loves to say is old enough to 'fart dust', These videos scratch that happy nostalgia itch for me. Much thanks and look forward to the future of this channel! 💖.

Hi Kari, I just discovered your channel. I saw the Thompson Twins with OMD as openers in 1985 or 86, but I'm too lazy to get out my ticket stub at the moment. They were great in concert! I had no idea there was a Thompson Twins game on vinyl. I had games that loaded from cassette to an Atari computer, one was a Bruce Lee game and the other was called "Blue Max," the latter was released by Synapse. It seemed like it would take forever for those games to load, at least 30 minutes, but once they had loaded, the gameplay was excellent. I remember how excited I was when we finally got a 3 1/2 floppy drive in our computer and games could load in mere seconds. Good times!

Your content is amazing! Looking forward to see more.

yooo ive never seen or hear of you're channel before, but i have a useless talent and how i aquired this talent.......be efffed if i knew but just from seeing a picture of someone i can tell if they'll have a british english accent but my buddy here didnt belive me and i bet him five bucks you had said accent. SO I HAVE TO THANK YOU FOR THE 5 BUCKS I JUST WON. Also great video did not realize games were stored on vinyl, crazy

Wow! I've never even heard about this. Thank you for making a video of it
and good job getting it to load. Thanks Kari.

That's a neat little novelty of a way to load a game!

Your technical & coding skills are amazing. Love to watching all your projects..