Cassette Tape

There are 753 games documented on PixelatedArcade supporting Cassette Tape.
Cassette Tape is part of the category Media.
Beginning in the 1970's, many home computers allowed the use of a cassette tape for storing and loading data. They offered an economical way of storing large (for the time) programs or data. Users would need to manually start and stop the cassette player while the computer read the data. In some cases, games that were released on cassette included versions for two or more different systems on a single cassette; in this case users would need to forward or rewind the cassette to a certain point first in order for the computer to load the correct version of the program. By the early 1980's use of cassette tapes began to decline as floppy disk drives became available and more affordable.

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Atari 410 Program Recorder
Cassette player and recorder for the Atari 400 and Atari 800 computers
Texas Instruments Program Recorder
Cassette player and recorder for the TI-99/4 and TI-99/4A computers.
Commodore C2N Cassette Unit
Cassette player and recorder for Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, and C128 computers.
Cassettes