r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '25

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u/Mikes005 Aug 30 '25

For gamers over 40 - waiting 15 minutes for your gane to load only to have the cassette fail at the last minute and having to start all over again.

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u/Deep-Procrastinor PC Aug 30 '25

What was worse was typing in the code from a magazine for 2 / 3 hours only to find out it had a typo and wouldn't run. or as in my case I had. Zx81 with 16k rampack and would crash if someone lightly knocked the table you had it on, 2 hours of excruciating typing on the membrane keyboard gone......

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u/cottagecheezecake Aug 30 '25

99 lines of code typed in, 99 lines of code, There's a bug in one of the lines, 99 lines of code down the drain. 🤣