For what it's worth the first computer I played on had games on cassette tapes

You can play games on cassettes using MSX,

My Atari used cassettes too. All things considered, I prefer NVMe drives and SSDs.

Commodore 64 had cassette games.

Lol, I love how some people are like: what if we make it worse?

It does sound like a fun project though. 😛

strange physical media

VHS

dies inside

I have yet to read the article. My first thought is, that we had videogames on tape already, like those audio tapes. Now I personally never interacted with such device, but my friend told me and off course I have emulation with dumps of games that were on tape. It's like having the game on disc, but loads extremely slow before game can be started.

I will read the article and may or may not add more comments. Love these topics.

Is it coded in Malbolge, though?

Hi! I believe you are the author of the blog? Thank you for this interesting article!

It's off-topic, but you wrote under it that Google said that they were dismantling their search platform; what do you mean by that?

Most of the actual news about this project has already been covered elsewhere, so this is really just me indulging my love of strange physical gaming media and the wonderfully impractical things people come up with.

I've always been fascinated by oddities from gaming history, and the idea of someone getting Doom and Super Mario Bros. working with VHS tapes was far too interesting for me to ignore.

So here's a little/casual dive into GCVHS, the bizarre Action Max console from 1987, and why I think there's something super curious about people finding new uses for old technology. Sometimes I just like writing about things because they're weird :)

In the Sinclair era we used cassettes instead of discs. It was shitty but cheap solution.

The only question here is how many bytes per minute the VHS can hold. I’ve played several games in music cassette tapes. They played in normal speed and sounded like a modem after the handshake. IIRC, It took more than 20 minutes to load Hero and, sometimes, it didn’t work.

So the VHS version of DOOM is something like Dragon's Lair, but way more seamless. That's amazing.

It's almost nothing like using a cassette drive to store your BASIC game code.

My first video game (Zaxxon) was on a cassette tape, before VHS (early 80s). Each time we wanted to start a gaming session, we had to download the game from a shoebox cassette player to the CoCo 2 computer, and it took 2 or 3 minutes.

I had a TI-99/4A and backed up games that in input manually from a magazine, on to a cassette tape. My tape recorder had a counter so that you could put multiple programs on a single tape. The fun part was if you forgot to reset the counter or the tape wasn’t rewound to zero you could get half of one program plus half of another.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5258/star-trek-the-next-generation-interactive-vcr-boar

This was already a thing. There was a Captain Power set of VHS tapes that had VFX patterns that works with a toy with IR sensors and interacts with the toy.

Bang! Yeehaw!

Long and frequent load screens

I instantly knew it was Throaty Mumbo, his channel is full of neat stuff like this