Loading World Games from cassette and playing it on my C64

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I was going to take a break at work and get some heavy duty lifting going on, practicing World Games, but... I sorta forgot that it takes some time loading games from cassette. :)
Nostalgia? - absolutely, Fun waiting? - not so much
Still love the old brick though...

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  • @dazza9448
    @dazza9448 Жыл бұрын

    The good old days of loading a game on Friday for it to play on Sunday

  • @tilasole3252

    @tilasole3252

    Жыл бұрын

    Ha! Typing them out was a chore as well, or so I've heard.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha! :)

  • @erhardpostinger1326

    @erhardpostinger1326

    Жыл бұрын

    That was the time when humanity finally split into winners and losers. I don't know if Arnold Schwarzenegger ever used a C64 to play games, but if he did, he got some exercise in the time it took to load the game.

  • @matthewmoloney2336

    @matthewmoloney2336

    Жыл бұрын

    I used to put it on to load then make a cuppa.

  • @maciejweiss55

    @maciejweiss55

    Жыл бұрын

    It should reffer especially to Atari 800XL and its cassette player. ;)

  • @beelikemizu604
    @beelikemizu604 Жыл бұрын

    "Be kind, rewind" was a great movement back in the day.

  • @97channel
    @97channel Жыл бұрын

    It's funny how many tactile memories were evoked during the process of setting up the thing to even begin loading. The click of the power button, the opening of the cassette deck lid, even the vibration on the desk of the tape rewinding. I can still feel those sensations, just by looking at the tasks being performed.

  • @deepcloudsmusic

    @deepcloudsmusic

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly! :) That rewinding sound especially triggered a fantastic feeling in me. That sweet feeling of anticipation :)

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    I totally agree... This was about the first time I unpacked and ran the old brick in like 35 years. But I felt 9 again. I wasn't even sure it would work. I mean old tapes that's been sitting in my basement all these years.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, I know. :)

  • @haweater1555

    @haweater1555

    Жыл бұрын

    The counter reset button of that model of tape drive is absolutely the most satisfying reset on any cassette player. The large size of the button you can really feel the vibrations of the number rollers turning through the tip of your finger as you press.

  • @TheObmj

    @TheObmj

    Ай бұрын

    None of my old commodore systems work any more. You are lucky that yours did. @@MickeKring

  • @johnlovehou
    @johnlovehou Жыл бұрын

    My favorite C64 game took just over 13 minutes to load from the cassette. when we upgraded to a 1541 diskette drive it ONLY took about a minute and a half. Such incredible speed!! Ah, the good old days!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I remeber the xmas when I got the 1541. Copied my games from cassette to floppy and amazed myself with the speed.

  • @princecharmin7208

    @princecharmin7208

    Жыл бұрын

    Next level was "Speed Disk" (was this the name?) replaced the serial cable by a parallel one and then it was really turbo!

  • @RamonDeKlein

    @RamonDeKlein

    Жыл бұрын

    @@princecharmin7208 It was called SpeedDOS innThe Netherlands.

  • @princecharmin7208

    @princecharmin7208

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RamonDeKlein you are absolutly right. Thanks

  • @tlaskows

    @tlaskows

    Жыл бұрын

    I upgraded to DMA load from USB by now but it's 2023. Ultimate 64. Have you tried timing skate or die load times? I'm not sure what version I have, but the loader disk has a turbo load option (only works on a real floppy drive, no go on emulators). It's hard to explain, but the floppy noise speeds up to insane speeds and the game loads in like 1 minute.

  • @vittorioderoberties2110
    @vittorioderoberties2110 Жыл бұрын

    when i was a child ~40 years ago, i was cycling 11km to next town, bought a computer magazine, cycling back home 11km. typing in the game code for VC20 for many hours, searching for and correcting my typos and then played the game. i was so happy!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    I also did that. You sat there and typed and typed, sometimes not knowing what would happen. Then dubugging... and the joy when it worked.

  • @steviebboy69

    @steviebboy69

    2 ай бұрын

    @@MickeKringI remember doing that as well as typing in Machine Language and it was fun finding the typo's in that as there was no error message from Basic. I even remember building a kit that connected between the C64 and short wave radio and I could decode those weather fax and RTTY stations. That was fun times and Action Reply was a lot more fun all the stuff you would be able to do with those.

  • @LAIRDO-

    @LAIRDO-

    14 күн бұрын

    Same. I had a game that I had programmed myself actually be published in one of those magazines. I forget the name of the mag but it was the C64 exclusive one. I did so much with that machine including disassembling an Atari joystick down to the board and mounting it into the door jam of my bedroom to make a door alarm if the door was opened!! My Dad loved it.

  • @vittorioderoberties2110

    @vittorioderoberties2110

    14 күн бұрын

    @@LAIRDO- congratulation your game was printed in a C64 magazine! i too wrote games on then VC20, using multicolor and machine code for fast response (arkanoid and west bank style games). never seen this in a computer magazine for VC20 games. but I was always to shy to send my games to a computer magazine. :(

  • @danthreepwood2760
    @danthreepwood2760 Жыл бұрын

    I had James Bond on cassette for the c64. 10 minutes loading time and when you died (mostly within 60 seconds) you had to load the ENTIRE game again from scratch. It was bloody frikkin' madness how patient people were back in the days.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh my... and still we played these things.:)

  • @Ponk_80

    @Ponk_80

    4 ай бұрын

    Back when we had time for our inner thoughts contemplating about life, without a million distractions surrounding us every second. And for some reason we still managed to get through the day, now everyone has so much technology helping them with everything, and people are for some reason even more stressed out. It’s madness how we have fallen.

  • @mcd3379
    @mcd3379 Жыл бұрын

    "Back in the day" it was quite normal to wait 15 - 20 minutes for a game to load on the old datasette :) I can remember typing in a program from a book which took most of the afternoon and early evening, only for the computer to crash and lose the whole lot - happy days! :)

  • @tilasole3252

    @tilasole3252

    Жыл бұрын

    I've never got to experience this machine, but the 8-bit guy describes it pretty well.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    It was the 8-bit guy that made me go down to the basement and get my old C64. Love him.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah! That's it! Typing and typing, getting a lot of errors, hours and hours and then... you got a ball jumping across the screen. :)

  • @westleyjohnstone4719

    @westleyjohnstone4719

    Жыл бұрын

    I spent days typing one to, for the bloody thing not to work. I typed it correct 🤣 I was enraged.

  • @frankkroondijk586

    @frankkroondijk586

    Жыл бұрын

    been there as well, only played 'horse races' once after typing for forever as 7-9yo or so, the pain. Also had all sorts of superstitious habits as a kid, to avoid it from crashing during loading, never dared to look at the screen while loading for example ;)

  • @rcherrycoke7322
    @rcherrycoke7322 Жыл бұрын

    This is why c64 games had fantastic loading music 😅

  • @norbot79
    @norbot79 Жыл бұрын

    C64 sound effects...the good old days.

  • @S.Topspin.B
    @S.Topspin.B Жыл бұрын

    Worth waiting every second back in the 80s. I can remember well when a friend of me showed me Action Biker the first time on the C64. I was so flashed. Great memory...

  • @peterreijnders4642
    @peterreijnders4642 Жыл бұрын

    I stopped playing an online game a couple of years ago, when I realised there were games that I played on my Commodore 64 in 1985 that I liked a lot better.

  • @kondirecs
    @kondirecsАй бұрын

    Can't recall how many great hours I've spent with friends after school playing this game on this setup ... sweet memories!

  • @pjcnet
    @pjcnet Жыл бұрын

    I loved all the Epyx sports titles, but I was lucky to have a 1541 disk drive and World Games had a super fast loader, I can't imagine playing it on tape having to load each event separately.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I also loved the sports titles. Don't know how many joysticks I've wasted on them. :) Also had the 1541 back in the day.

  • @dirkdex
    @dirkdex Жыл бұрын

    Wow, I remember those days! Looks so familiar! Now I enjoy looking at and playing those same games from time to time on emulators that quick load, sharpen the graphics, and help preserve those classics!

  • @WaynesWorldUnlimited
    @WaynesWorldUnlimited Жыл бұрын

    The Commodore 64 with the cassette deck. This was my first introduction to computer and games. I had one of these my God, this brings back memories.

  • @johnedwards6215
    @johnedwards6215 Жыл бұрын

    Love the nostalgia. I had the vic20 with its huge 3.5k memory. I remember getting the 16k expansion feeling like I was stepping into the future !

  • @alccad
    @alccad Жыл бұрын

    I was six when I used the C64. I swear that listening the sounds of this video you took me back in time and I could even smell the plastics. Tnx!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    The nostalgia is strong in this one. :) You're welcome!

  • @rowdybliss
    @rowdybliss Жыл бұрын

    Memories!!!!! Wow. My family had this same setup… and boy, we thought we were hot sh*t when we got a floppy drive (5.25 inch, naturally).

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, yeah I know. I got the 1541 disk drive the next christmas after I got the C64. And... a printer! Hot sh*t indeed! :)

  • @swifty1969

    @swifty1969

    Жыл бұрын

    Well! Compared to cassette having a floppy drive was like having M.2 gen 4 ssd……😁😁😁😁

  • @24theMoney
    @24theMoney Жыл бұрын

    This brings back the memories. It also shows how far technology has come. Amazing.

  • @supernoir_YT
    @supernoir_YT Жыл бұрын

    Thank U for this video. Im 39 year’s old, and now as i seen your video, came back for me many beauty memory-when i was ~6 years old, and me& my father couldn’t started video games in C64 :). Mybe anno was need some day when realised for our, how is working some helping by friend’s of father.

  • @sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317
    @sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317 Жыл бұрын

    Whilst waiting for World Games to load, I went for a drive into the bush found a large tree, chopped it down, trimmed it up and taught myself how to caber toss. Upon establishing a new Australian and Commonwealth record in the discipline and soaking up all the corresponding adulation I returned to my abode and was over-joyed to see the title screen had loaded.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha! :)

  • @bultronlagore4932
    @bultronlagore4932 Жыл бұрын

    My first game console was the TI (Texas Instrument)-99 which I enjoyed and still do. Also love the C64 but not the wait time with the cassette drive. Thanks for sharing and posting this video!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! When I posted the video I hade just about dug out the old C64 from my basement. An almost 40 year old computer that worked out of the box with cassette tapes that actually worked. Impressive, but the nostalgia of running it was so strong that I decided to record it. The sounds, the feeling of turning it on.... I was 9 again. :)

  • @bultronlagore4932

    @bultronlagore4932

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MickeKring indeed, very cool! Lots of great memories with the old consoles and just that time period in general.

  • @ronfoley5683
    @ronfoley5683 Жыл бұрын

    I remember Starleague Baseball taking like 15-20 minutes. LOL. God those were great times. Made you appreciate playing the game more.

  • @cyrus2728
    @cyrus2728 Жыл бұрын

    ha the anticipation before more loading, i remember it well

  • @lachicadesistemas
    @lachicadesistemas Жыл бұрын

    I just stumbled upn this video by chance. I'm almost 40 years old. I work as a sysadmin. Some people ask me from time to time how did I get into computers. It was the year1986 and my dad had a C64 exactly like yours. Having to learn how to type stuff in order to get a game going got me used to terminals an keyboards when I was just 4/5 years old. The rest is history. Thank you for sharing!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, you're welcome. I'm a couple of years older than you, but this was also my first computer. I was 9 when I got it. And... this was what got me into computers as well. It was us nerds with the C64 against them Nintendo 8 bitz kids. :)

  • @ryanbradley2875
    @ryanbradley2875 Жыл бұрын

    Hello from Birmingham, AL, home of World Games 2022 that was held here in July. I was searching for C64s and tape drives and am loving the game you chose for your demo.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    It's a great game! That, and all the other .... Games (World, Summer, Winter...).

  • @marcellachine5718
    @marcellachine5718 Жыл бұрын

    I remember we used to load a game from a cassette, or even a disk drive for the commodore 64, then go to the living room and play Atari for a bit while the game loaded after 2 to 9 minutes.

  • @youtubeurevil
    @youtubeurevil Жыл бұрын

    Nice video in my days when a moped came past the house we had to start all over again (EM pollution)specially when you used speed loader program I`m so Glad we have better stuff nowadays

  • @gabrielegagliardi3956
    @gabrielegagliardi3956 Жыл бұрын

    So cool, I'm making a 3d model of the c64 cassette tape and I'll use this as a reference. I still remember my much older brothers playing with this beast, especially fist 2 and wizard or oz stuck in my mind forever. That music and aesthetics, sublime. Have a good day pal!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Gabriele! The nostaligia is strong in this one.

  • @deepcloudsmusic
    @deepcloudsmusic Жыл бұрын

    What a great video!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! And yeah, it was the same for me when I unpacked the old brick and fired it up again. Instantly was 9 years old again. :)

  • @deepcloudsmusic

    @deepcloudsmusic

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MickeKring Nice :) Your idea was brilliant to show the loading part from the beginning. Would be amazing to see more. What was your favorite game? Mine was The Last Ninja 2 :)

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    @@deepcloudsmusic OMG! Yeah, I loved it too. But also all the Summer/Winter/World/California games, Green Beret, Commando, Rambo, Uridium, Barbarian, Bruce Lee and lots more.

  • @deepcloudsmusic

    @deepcloudsmusic

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MickeKring Yeah those are all incredible! There´s so many great ones! 🙂

  • @edejong
    @edejong Жыл бұрын

    A joy for life. Never had one. From Pong to atari2600 to colecovision to Commodore PC XT.

  • @leeballington3136
    @leeballington3136 Жыл бұрын

    Ah yes a gamer kid in the 80's. Set your game to load, go outside for a game of football, back in to have your dinner then run upstairs to your room to see if it's loaded yet. It hadn't, but there was a cool picture of the box art of the game you'll be playing soon.

  • @SwedeSpeeder
    @SwedeSpeeder Жыл бұрын

    I had an Apple IIGS back in 1989. A buddy of mine and I would play Mean 18 golf. It literally took 10 full minutes to load from 3.5" floppy. lol

  • @tenminutetokyo2643
    @tenminutetokyo26439 ай бұрын

    That is froogin’ nuts!

  • @virtualscouser
    @virtualscouser Жыл бұрын

    My cousin and I used to hack the games, pausing the load at a certain counter point and then entering in new lines of code (POKE'ing and PEEK'ing). Great memories!

  • @vicroberts3080
    @vicroberts3080Ай бұрын

    Wow it really makes you think about the things we now taking for granite

  • @Chilliconcarnage
    @Chilliconcarnage7 ай бұрын

    This video gives me the feels. I'm so glad i grew up in this pioneering era. The C64 and Amiga were incredible pieces of hardware.

  • @paul2k2b21

    @paul2k2b21

    5 ай бұрын

    I feel this. My older bros got the amiga when I was 6 and had the c64 before that. I feel so lucky I grew up watching them play. It was amazing!

  • @robertdaone
    @robertdaone5 ай бұрын

    I miss my old C64. Loved playing The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Alice in Video Land on cassette back in the 80s.

  • @OmegaPoint042
    @OmegaPoint042 Жыл бұрын

    I lived with this for about a week on an Apple II before purchasing a floppy drive as quick as I possibly could. LOL!

  • @jusssy5078
    @jusssy5078 Жыл бұрын

    Just lovely.

  • @Hooligoon78
    @Hooligoon78 Жыл бұрын

    This was my childhood. Wizard of Wor was my game! Also Hillsfar and Maniac Mansion!

  • @danbanks7930
    @danbanks7930 Жыл бұрын

    Some of my first Computing experiences were with friends and their Commodore 64 I can remember loading up plenty of programs that were on cassette tapes like calculator programs and keyboard program and we goofed around a lot ewith those units.... racing destruction set ..race cars and change the gravities and have little car Wars that was one of the funnest games we used to just laugh so hard when we hit jumps and that gravity would be set on the planet Pluto or something and your car would fly off the screen that was just the best of the best for us back then thank you Commodore 64 for that game it was so fun

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    The C64 formed my early years too. So much fun. Typed in programs from magazines, played games and ruined joysticks playing sports games. It was a wonderful time.

  • @WorksOnMyComputer
    @WorksOnMyComputerАй бұрын

    And yet back then, it all seemed so magical. That said, the majority of us in Australia quickly got 1541 disk drives.

  • @swifty1969
    @swifty1969 Жыл бұрын

    I remember even with the 1542 floppy drive sublogic flightsim 2 took ages to load.

  • @davidworrall669
    @davidworrall669 Жыл бұрын

    Feel your pain, that moment when you pumped your fist at the title screen. Gold! It seemed so random to me whether it would load or not, I got superstitious about loading games via tape. I would leave the room, pretending I didn’t care whether it loaded or not. So many wasted hours doing this. Good times 😂

  • @lagus76
    @lagus76 Жыл бұрын

    I had that exakt TV-model back in the 80/90s!

  • @HansKarlsson1971
    @HansKarlsson1971 Жыл бұрын

    Wow... this brings back good old memories of my C64... i had the floppy drive 1541 though.👍

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I got the 1541 the xmas after. What a blessing. :) And the fact that the pirated games were so much better in regards of loading time.

  • @carolobuj2159
    @carolobuj2159 Жыл бұрын

    I felt happines and some stress waiting the loading game. Not allways the loading was succesful 😂😂😂. Nice memories of my commodore 64 and lot of games; spy demise, decathlon, Midway, Cobra, Rambo, Robin hood, Comandos, platoon...

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, I know. Will it work this time? Is something wrong? Yeay, it worked this time!

  • @mistermornevanderberg
    @mistermornevanderberg Жыл бұрын

    Things were simpler 35 years or so ago But they lasted longer than some of the things today

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    They sure do!

  • @andruskyg.8836
    @andruskyg.8836 Жыл бұрын

    And when you're just about to start playing you hear : - Miiike! Dinner's ready! -damn! 😂😂

  • @theimortal1974
    @theimortal1974 Жыл бұрын

    the fact you can run anything off of a casette tape other than music blows my mind. even with a long wait.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    I totally agree... :)

  • @RonaldEijkman
    @RonaldEijkman Жыл бұрын

    Great video! Epyx' Games series were awesome. I think California Games was my favorite, competition with friends was extra fun. Hard to stomach that this will be forgotten by the next generation. They won't search for "c64" and the video will be buried beneath heaps of tiktok-like crap. Guess I've officially transformed into an old fart 😀 Oh and I didn't know about the shift/runstop hotkeys, nice!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, I know. Officially an old fart now. California Games was one of my favorites as well. We trashed so many joysticks playing all kinds of sports games.

  • @RonaldEijkman

    @RonaldEijkman

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh yes, the joysticks! I still love those with only one fire button. Who needs a controller with 16 buttons right?! Decathlon was a notorious joystick breaker. I remember having worn out a few joysticks but we pretty soon ended up with "The Arcade" by Suzo, apparently a Dutch company. Until this day it remained indestructible :-)

  • @waynelivera8333
    @waynelivera8333 Жыл бұрын

    I felt pretty good about myself around those that only had the cassette loader because I had a floppy drive but felt like a punk to my mates with an Amiga

  • @druide10
    @druide10 Жыл бұрын

    What nostalgia. I can't believe we could wait that long before we could start gaming.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    I was going to say we had nothing to compare it to, but... my class mate had the Nintendo 8-bit and you put the cartridge in and just played....

  • @davidm4677

    @davidm4677

    Жыл бұрын

    Didn’t you supposedly use screwdriver I remember loading my games way faster!

  • @sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317
    @sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317 Жыл бұрын

    I remember being like 9 or 10 years old and going around to this kid Jarrod’s house who had the C64 with the tape deck. ….I remember a distinct sense of envy and anxious anticipation at even being able to interact with this new technology.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, when I was 8 I was incredibly jealous of my neighbor who had the C64. Tried to spend as much time with it (the C64) as I could. Fortunately for me, I got my own the next christmas.

  • @ivanl.8201

    @ivanl.8201

    Жыл бұрын

    I remember spending some time back in 1984-1986 with the kids of my father's boss, and they had a C64. I think they had that soccer game that only C64 had, and I was amazed by how good it was. Fast-forward one year, and my mom and I traveled from Belgrade to London to get my first computer. But that year (1985), we had these awful customs restrictions in Yugoslavia, where you could only bring in the computer that cost up to 150 GBP. And the Spectrum+ was 149.99 and C64 was 179 or 199. I don't recall, but it was a bit over the limit, and I could not get that C64 I dreamed of :(. I remember being very happy with the Sinclair, and then I got a PC and started to learn programming in GW Basic and Borland Turbo Pascal. Then, I moved to U.S. when the civil war started, got a Computer Science degree and started working as a programmer etc, etc. But a part of me still feels heavily nostalgic both towards the C64 and the Amiga 500's my friends had, and maybe if I'd had those instead of the Sinclair and the PC's, I would have had a much earlier start with computer music and could have gotten further ahead with it. Never too late, of course, but it sometimes makes me wonder how differently the future would have turned out.

  • @mj77777
    @mj77777 Жыл бұрын

    I still remember having a Vic20 and the Commodore datasette.

  • @ban-one7711
    @ban-one7711 Жыл бұрын

    I remember that you could save some time by resetting the counter on the tape deck when it was fully re-wound and then noting the numbers when the level you wanted started to load. Then next time you could fast forward the tape to just before that point and you wouldn't have to wait so long !!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Yup, that's what you did. :)

  • @haweater1555
    @haweater1555 Жыл бұрын

    Greetings from Canada. Back in my C64 time, games on cartridge were uncommon and games on cassette were unheard of. Everything was on floppy disks. Sure it was expensive for the one time purchase of the drive. But once you've gone over that hurdle, you had a very wide selection of pirated games on disk available by schoolyard trading.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I know. I got the floppy (1541) the xmas after I got the C64. Unfortunately it didn't survive history. But back when I got the C64 all my friends was cassette only (around 83-84). And, absolutely, everyone traded games. :) Even if you had the original you wanted the pirated one, since they loaded faster.

  • @louminarty
    @louminarty Жыл бұрын

    My first ever computer, very happy memories from simpler times

  • @magicmulder
    @magicmulder Жыл бұрын

    I owned three games on cassette - Space Pilot took 22 minutes to load and every other time it failed to load, so basically 44 minutes every time I felt like playing. The other two were Hovver Bovver and Frogger.

  • @MBkaido0101
    @MBkaido0101 Жыл бұрын

    The intro music was what i was interested in.

  • @ingoinkognito4517
    @ingoinkognito4517 Жыл бұрын

    Always those rich kids with their tape decks! I have to type my games from the '64 magazine listing.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, yeah, we did that too. Typing for 20 hours only to get one character wrong and the whole thing errored out...

  • @swifty1969

    @swifty1969

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol we all did.

  • @swifty1969

    @swifty1969

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MickeKring yep! There was always a problem in the peek and poke.

  • @YoreHistory
    @YoreHistory Жыл бұрын

    THis is why I am glad I grew up in NA with my 1541 :)

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    I got one the xmas after I got my C64. Let's say, things got smoother. :)

  • @swifty1969
    @swifty1969 Жыл бұрын

    Watching this made me immediately go to my iOS RetroArch. It took mere seconds to load the practice weight lifting🏋️‍♀️ ….😁😁😁

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, I know. I've got the C64 mini which loads games in a second, but... there's the nostalgia bit too. The anticipation... will it load this time?

  • @Longestrunever
    @Longestrunever2 ай бұрын

    Me and a friend were playing a game once in the living room and my mum unplugged the extension lead to plug the hoover in. She realised then tried to plug it back in thinking the game would still be there. Another long wait ahead.

  • @sikeyimboyleisi
    @sikeyimboyleisi Жыл бұрын

    Sensational. Makes me sad I didn’t look after my C64 as good as you did and it ended up in trash

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    And I even had a fully functional VIC-20 at my job that I threw away. Oh, how I regret that.

  • @swifty1969

    @swifty1969

    Жыл бұрын

    You think that’s bad I trashed my amiga 1000 & 2000 plus monitor due to not having any space in my bedroom. God! I wish I didn’t

  • @matteominellono
    @matteominellono Жыл бұрын

    When commodore came out with the floppy disk, it was fast like lightning! Or at least it’s what I remember…😅

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that's what I thought as well. Got it the xmas after I got my C64.

  • @chittypoofs
    @chittypoofs Жыл бұрын

    I remember having the cassette for Pogo Joe (QBert knock-off), it took 11 minutes to load the game.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    That why all of us had the pirated versions even if we owned the originals. :)

  • @dalebenton3354
    @dalebenton3354 Жыл бұрын

    this is going back some years,Console I had in the 1980's,Put the casette tape in,Type in load game,Took for ever for a game to load up

  • @Megalocade
    @Megalocade Жыл бұрын

    Old times, i remember doing this with my spectrum, thing is this was normal and we didn't know any different, people complain of load times now but that nothing compared to big games on cassette even worse if you spent ages loading in a game and the load bombed out halfway through so in the hope that you cleaned the tape head and tape path it would work then retry lol 😁 good old days.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, I know the feeling. With the C64 you had to do the "Azimuth head alignment", where you tuned the cassette player with a screw driver once in a while. So after a while, you didn't know if there was a problem loading a game or if you had to adjust it. But still, good ol' days. :)

  • @columbo74
    @columbo74 Жыл бұрын

    I had a VC20 as a young boy and it took ages to load winter games 😂

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    I found an old VIC-20, fully funtional at work like 20 years ago. It had some games on cartridge. You wanna know the worst thing in the world. I threw it away in the dumpster. I still regret it to this day.

  • @jp3274
    @jp3274 Жыл бұрын

    Oh, yes……… the magic has begun………. Loved my 64 in the 1980s

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    ...and everything that's come after it just sucks. :) We're old.

  • @WINGSANDRAILS
    @WINGSANDRAILS Жыл бұрын

    Brings back memories!!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    When I recorded it, that's exactly what I felt. I think you can actually see my hands shaking a bit when I take out the cassette from its sleeve.

  • @itrzho
    @itrzho Жыл бұрын

    I'm love Kaleydoscopio, Rambo and first Metal Gear!

  • @mtyzsw6549
    @mtyzsw6549 Жыл бұрын

    My young times 😁 I remember that from my teenage days !!!!!

  • @boiledliddo
    @boiledliddo Жыл бұрын

    this is amazing

  • @mwj1974
    @mwj1974 Жыл бұрын

    I grew up with the Commodore 64 but I never had the tape deck, we had the 1541 floppy disk drive and it was loud and took a while but man it was a lot quicker than the tape deck and here I thought the floppy took forever! Lol😂 Great memories I had so many good games!

  • @DizzyD850

    @DizzyD850

    Жыл бұрын

    i had both, i loved Zaxxon, but took forever on tape. Then, I think, I had the very first Transformers game and Ghostbusters game that came out on floppy.

  • @DonWon4725
    @DonWon4725 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing how tech has advance since the days of commodore 64, remember the days getting home from school on Friday nights get together with friends from around the neighborhood trade games on disks even learned basic computer programming on the C64 those were the days.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Yup. No internet, so all the knowledge you got was from someones older sibling. But here's where the love for coding and gaming started.

  • @michaelvoulgarellis8298
    @michaelvoulgarellis8298 Жыл бұрын

    Rule of thumb, the thinner the lines during loading, more chances to load successfully

  • @thorstenwidmer7275
    @thorstenwidmer7275 Жыл бұрын

    I still remeber these days

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Good ol days :)

  • @ATLRCFlyer
    @ATLRCFlyer Жыл бұрын

    Also, once the program is found on the tape, you can press the C= key to continue loading without waiting ;-)

  • @johnedwards6215
    @johnedwards6215 Жыл бұрын

    Me and my friend used to spend hours typing the code into the vic20 from one of the gaming magazines of the time, just to find it didn’t work probably because we’d got 1 digit wrong out of many thousand !. Happy days.

  • @nickholl
    @nickhollАй бұрын

    man alive! I dont remember it taking thiiiis long to load games! - I think this is a particularly slow example

  • @David-kq1jc
    @David-kq1jc Жыл бұрын

    I was lucky enough to have a speccy 48k but I would have loved one of these 😊

  • @Kellerkind80
    @Kellerkind80 Жыл бұрын

    "Whats going on, Mama und Papa!" -"The Berlin wall just fell down and Germany will soon be reunited!" "Berlin Wall, Tchernobyl, blablabla, whatever!Have you seen my California Games Diskette?"

  • @arcadealchemist
    @arcadealchemist Жыл бұрын

    3 min loading times will never get old.

  • @BiAir75
    @BiAir75 Жыл бұрын

    Underrated channel!

  • @bxpress6507
    @bxpress6507 Жыл бұрын

    My radio Shack trs-80 color computer 2 was similar to this..did not have money to get the floppy disk drive..getting the cassette drive was alot cheaper but soooooo slow in loading saved files depending how big they were..I wrote lots of programs in BASIC😎👍nostalgia overload!

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    The nostalgia is strong in this one. For me, it was the C64. Both as an entertainment system with all games, but also as the start of coding. In Basic.

  • @MsKuzmichev
    @MsKuzmichev Жыл бұрын

    In 1990, I made such a computer myself (Sinclair). So my children stayed with him for hours.

  • @Cormano980
    @Cormano980 Жыл бұрын

    This got me into gaming, God I'm old

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, yeah... we're actually old farts.

  • @bigmaxy07
    @bigmaxy07 Жыл бұрын

    Impossible mission took half an hour to load. I remember going and having lunch. Luckily by the time World Games came around I was on the disk drive.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    And that's why you played the cracked games, even if you owned the originals. :) And also, I got the 1541 a year later. What a relief.

  • @bigmaxy07

    @bigmaxy07

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MickeKring Great video I would love to have my old 64 back and the disk box with my entire collection again. I imagine that's your 64 you kept all along? They are such hard things to find now, and very tightly held onto. Would love to find one to buy.

  • @sdfghgtrew

    @sdfghgtrew

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bigmaxy07 they are not hard to find. Plenty of them to order online.

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bigmaxy07 Yep, but I also got a couple of spare C64 from work. They used to have the C64 as school computers back in the early 80's. I just miss my old 1541. It did not survive history.

  • @GodzillasaurusJr
    @GodzillasaurusJr28 күн бұрын

    Is it loading now? Eh, kind of... we're waiting for it to load the loader first. Good times! Never played World Games as a kid, but we played a lot of Winter and California Games, both in small and large groups of friends. Similar experience with the loading.

  • @boom2278
    @boom2278 Жыл бұрын

    i remember i got Wizardry on the c64 for Christmas one year and i took over and hour to load, me and my bro played it and were near the end and my dad came in turned it off! No saves back then 😞

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha, been through that one more than a couple of times. Mom or dad came up and told it was time for bed and you begged to play for just a bit more. But no... And then you had to start all over again.

  • @audiovectra
    @audiovectra Жыл бұрын

    C64: where the load times are longer than the games

  • @LurgsHowToGuides
    @LurgsHowToGuides Жыл бұрын

    When kids (ie Us) had patience. Now they skip from one thing to another if nothing happens for 5 seconds! Loved my old C64

  • @MickeKring

    @MickeKring

    Жыл бұрын

    Have you still got it? Your old C64?

  • @LurgsHowToGuides

    @LurgsHowToGuides

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MickeKring No I sold it a long long long time ago. Loved that machine, seemed to be the start of proper computing and gaming when that arrived

  • @eddiedantes7470
    @eddiedantes7470 Жыл бұрын

    "the expectation of pleasure is itself the pleasure"

  • @ggousier
    @ggousier Жыл бұрын

    The era of patience.

  • @bilgisayarmuhendis
    @bilgisayarmuhendis Жыл бұрын

    Legend !!

  • @juanmanuelbaccino
    @juanmanuelbaccino16 күн бұрын

    So Good Unforgetable

  • @bunglebongle9003
    @bunglebongle9003 Жыл бұрын

    That was brilliant

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