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Category: Gaming

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Description: Netflix thingie: help.netflix.com/en/titlerequest Way back in the mists of time, software for 8-bit computers was distributed on audio cassettes. And it was great! If you liked waiting literally 6+ minutes for a game to load. But how did they package these cassettes to both protect them, and to look so good on the shelf that little Darren would spend his birthday money on them? Let's have a bit of a dive into it... At the time of writing there are still some copies of the Super Rare Mixtape Vol 2 available - it's pretty damn ace: superraregames.com/products/srg-mixtape-volume-2