Holy Jebus: Thompson Twins Text Adventure Game... On Vinyl!

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The article is here, the game is here.
Too weird.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

10 PRINT "THOMPSON TWINS SUCK";
20 GOTO 10

RUN

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I had this disc. I think my attempts to copy it to tape and play it on my Spectrum were foiled by R:Tape Loading Errors.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

holy crap that's awesome!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: Frankie Goes To Hollywood vs that Queen game from the late 90s.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

There was something a bit weird even then about loading games from 7" vinyl, even indirectly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm trying to figure out how this is possible

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 18 March 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Frequency Shift Coding.

Higher frequency = 1, lower = 0.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't it pretty much the same as how modems work?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 18 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

this is completely insane

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure how modems work.

The Roland MC202, a digital (but pre-MIDI) sequencer with built-in mini synth -- complete with "chiclet" style keyboard -- stored data into cassette tapes this way. So you could record audio tracks from this thing onto cassette tape and then backup the digital data onto the very same cassette, which always seemed strange to me.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I drowned The Thompson Twins!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 18 March 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

That's really interesting, but even more interesting was learning that they guy who sang 'Camouflage' became Frank Sidebottom.

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Friday, 19 March 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The goal of 'The Shaky Game' is to drive Shakin' Stevens' car to the center of a maze while avoiding bats, who bite you.

This sounds like the greatest game ev-er.

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Friday, 19 March 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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