Loading World Games from cassette and playing it on my C64

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...

[dazza]

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

[vittorioderoberties]

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!

[channel]

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.

[johnlovehou]

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!

[jukkiske]

At least it started up the first try. Using a tiny screwdriver to adjust the azimuth tiny bits at a time and reloading the game 10+ times is where the real childhood trauma comes from.

[danthreepwood]

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.

[beelikemizu]

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

[mcd]

"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! :)

[christophsommer]

Great memories...as a teen, I liked to play Colonial Conquest. It took about 20 minutes to load. I remember one day I started the loading process, then went with my bike to a supermarket to get some lemonade and snacks. Game on when I was back! ... some months later, a friend showed me his new software called FastLoader. With that, loading was done in 3 minutes, could not believe it.... ;-)

[peterreijnders]

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.

[alccad]

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!

[rcherrycoke]

This is why c64 games had fantastic loading music 😅

[S.Topspin.B]

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...

[pjcnet]

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.

[norbot]

C64 sound effects...the good old days.

[LeaneFeu]

Remember the times in loading 4 games in a Saturday to play with my friends … when it was a new games the fear of having a crap one at the end after the loading … so sweet memories … thank you for the remember

[kondirecs]

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

[theMoney]

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

[WaynesWorldUnlimited]

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.

[rowdybliss]

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).