Keempa has this really fascinating story up about the practice of hiding old text adventure games on some of the records released in the 70s and 80s.

Most of these hidden games were written for the Sinclair Spectrum home computer, which is probably why I never experienced the Thompson Twins game first hand. To play the game you had to record the proper section of the record onto a tape and then use a tape recorder to load the game into the computer.

Ahhh, tape players, those were the days. Brian Crecente

Vinyl Data [Keempa, via BoingBoing]

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