Just a Pokemon tape, more valuable for nostalgia than anything. It’s not one I had as a kid, but one I found later when they were cheap & when I was trying to collect them to catch episodes I’d missed.

Oh...Ummm...Did you catch'em all?

Eventually. Collected almost all the VHS volumes; got the last three I needed on DVD a few years ago for my birthday.  

Technically the series is still going, but I consider most stuff after the Indigo league extra; the series seemed complete after the first 1.5 seasons.

Reminds me of when my college roommate and best friend got a Napalm Death tape (First 2 albums on one import cassette) stuck in his car stereo in his '79 Trans Am. We shared cars, so every other week for 6 months we could only listen to Napalm Death in the car!  Good thing we Love Napalm Death!

@GoldLeader So that's where How I Met Your Mother got the idea for the Proclaimers cassingle stuck in the tape deck gag.

?@KaeruYojimbo They're ripping us off man! 

we use to have a guy at work named Hastings...butt nobody missed him thou

That is cool!  Of course Charizard's the best!  Except, of course for Greymon digivolved to WarGreymon!

When I was on my sub and we'd be on on patrol for a couple of months at a time, the recreational fund people on the boat would have a casino night or other raffles to raise money for ship parties once we hit port..and one year..about 45 days into our patrol...they had a 6 pack of cherry coke as one of the items for raffle and it went for $42. 

Been a while...While I'm more apt to worry about buying beer, coffee, various milks, and even fruit juices;  Sometimes I do get the urge for something specific...For example lately Dr. Pepper sounds good...Also I love to buy Henry Weinhard's Black Cherry Cream Soda,  and then add a shot of real black cherry juice to it...And sometimes,  just sometimes, even add a Maraschino or Morello cherry to it

I as happy to see a PS4 re-release, but as soon as I played it, I noticed changes to the controls.  I only ever played the 1st game in the series, and it controlled SO much better on the original PSX.  I went back to play it more, and the optical drive in my PSX went out (I have the 1st released SCH-1000 model).  Looking for a decent optical drive emulator for it.

The original Crash still holds up when compared to the majority of early PS1 games. By early, I mean '95-'97.

I think I'll avoid that...if I got hooked,  I might think I need to catch 'em all.

The amount of tape in a backup tape probably wouldn't be enough to record a few minutes in VHS or Beta quality.

Depends on the tape. Newer tape systems can hold over a terabyte of data, which is more than enough for an HD movie. Problem is they’re more expensive than pressed disks, & they have a relatively limited number of read/write cycles before they’re worn out. Oh, & I believe the only format still in development uses single reel cartridges; the take up reel’s in the machine itself, so you’d need to rewind the tape before ejecting it. It might work as a professional format, for TV stations & archives, but not as a consumer format.

Looks like DAT 320 can hold 160 Gigabytes, enough for 32 hours of video, if Google & my math is right. It’s not under development anymore, but companies are still making drives & cartridges, & both reels are in the cart.

https://www.quantum.com/serviceandsupport/softwareanddocumentationdownloads/dat320drives/index.aspx

No idea about how often it can be read & written to before it wears out.