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    In the UK back in the '80's some bands put Sinclair Zx Spectrum games on vinyl records....

    from wikipedia:

     

    Spectrum software in popular music

    A few pop musicians included Sinclair programs on their records. The Buzzcocks front man, Pete Shelly, put a Spectrum program including lyrics and other information as the last track on his XL-1 album. The punk band Inner City Unit put a Spectrum database of band information on their 1984 release, 'New Anatomy'. Also in 1984, the Thompson Twins released a game on vinyl.[16]The Freshies had a brief flirtation with fame and Spectrum games, and the Aphex Twin included various loading noises on his Richard D. James album in 1996—most notably part of the loading screen from Sabre Wulf on Carn Marth. Shakin' Stevens included his Shaky Game at the end of his The Bop Won't Stop album. The aim of the game was to guide your character around a maze, while avoiding bats. Upon completion your score would be given in terms of a rank of disc, e.g. "gold" or "platinum". The game had a minor connection with one of his tracks, It's Late. Scottish band Urusei Yatsura included a Spectrum program that showed a satanic message in the beginning of the song Thank You (from the album Everybody Loves Urusei Yatsura).

    There was also a music program for the Spectrum 48K which allowed to play two notes at a time, by rapidly switching between the waveforms of the two separate notes, a big improvement over the mono Spectrum sound. The program was branded after the popular '80s pop band Wham!, and some of the biggest hits of this group could be played with the Spectrum. The program was called Wham! The Music Box and released by Melbourne House, one of the most prolific publishing houses at the time.

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    I'm not sure I quite understand the point of this:

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SOCKET-Colecovision-Homebrew-Player-Rom-to-cartridge-adapter-/221965252854?hash=item33ae28f8f6:g:HQsAAOSw7FRWadug

     

    Seems like a lot of effort to go through to burn an eprom, shove it in the socket to play a game when the AtariMax will do the same thing with much less hassle. What is the attraction to doing it this way?

    I asked the guy who is very nice, and he told me that he don't like to choose his game from an on-screen menu, but rather phisically change the hardware every time...

    and, you know, for a moment he got me there...

  18. Posted

    Spadafermo51, we both have this in our collections of Videogiochi magazine. Not exciting if you mind the source (Videogiochi was a videogame magazine) but IMHO the advertising itself deserves attention and to be shown to the rest of the world :)

    Found in Videogiochi 33/34, January/February 1986 (Italy)

    Ahhhh.the much beloved and very expensive Video Giochi italian magazine.... :)

  19. Posted

    so...i just had time to connect all the cables, all the controllers and stuff and played slither!

    what fun!!! actually the controller itself adds value and fun and gameplay to the game!!!

    very addictive.

    on my first go i scored just above 100.000 points! is this normal.???

    anyway i say: "roller controller: thumb up!!!" :)

  20. Posted

    roller controller

    this is my latest purchase... i'm very happy with it because i've been looking for a roller controller for a long time now.
    for 10 euros i just couldn't pass it over!!!
    item's conditions are what you see in photo anyway...
    what do you think as collectors of a piece in conditions like these?
    would you buy iy or just let it go because it doesn't "meet your standards" :)
    cheers!

     

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