- Name
- Audio Cassette
- Aliases
Audio Cassette
A magnetic tape-based media format made for ease of recording and portability. It was particularly popular as a commercial music medium before the advent of CDs.
Overview
Before CDs came along, audio cassettes were typically the portable audio format of choice in non-professional environments. The devices consist of two miniature spools for a magnetically coated plastic tape upon which the audio is encoded, protected by a simple plastic shell.
As A Storage Medium
Throughout the 1980s, many systems read data off of these cassettes in an audio format, allowing the use of standard-issue tapes as a cheap and efficient format for game data. While microcomputers like the ZX Spectrum (Platform) and Commodore 64 (Platform) were famous for this, other methods of gaming experimented with this as well - Data East's DECO Cassette System used the tapes to hold data for arcade games. Ultimately, though, cassettes suffered from lengthy load times, and were slowly discarded in favor of floppy disks and ROM cartridges.
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- American Dream (Game)
- Anatomy (Game)
- Ancipital (Game)
- Antonblast (Game)
- CSI: Deadly Intent (Game)
- Cassette Beasts (Game)
- Criminal Minds (Game)
- Crossing Souls (Game)
- Daryl F. Gates' Police Quest: Open Season (Game)
- Deponia (Game)
- Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist (Game)
- Dropsy (Game)
- Escape From Hell (Game)
- Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (Game)
- Far Cry 2 (Game)
- Fatal Frame (Game)
- Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly (Game)
- Fatal Frame III: The Tormented (Game)
- Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Game)
- Firewatch (Game)
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (Game)
- Gone Home (Game)
- In Sound Mind (Game)
- Lucius (Game)
- Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (Game)
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Game)
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Game)
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Game)
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Game)
- Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (Game)
- Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D (Game)
- Observer (Game)
- Omori (Game)
- Police Quest Collection: Step Behind the Badge (Game)
- RalphGame (Game)
- Receiver (Game)
- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (Game)
- Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender (Game)
- Scribblenauts (Game)
- Shadow Warrior (Game)
- Small Radios Big Televisions (Game)
- That's the Spirit (Game)
- The Forest (Game)
- The Wolf Among Us (Game)
- TheNightfall (Game)
- Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers (Game)
- Umurangi Generation (Game)
- Wasteland 3 (Game)
- Zool (Game)