
Even terrifyingly crap titles like BC Bill took upwards of four hours.Īnd so I spent a lot of my time outdoors, cycling circuits around the block and waiting for the cassettes to do their duty. Sadly, whatever I played, I’d have to wait a minimum of 15 minutes for them to load, and that’s if the tape didn’t jam. While most of its games seemed tedious, insanely difficult or downright unplayable, there were a few I just couldn’t get enough of – International Karate and Shinobi were particular standouts. I was without anything approaching “cutting edge” for a good few years, but I learned to work the C64 surprisingly quickly. In my earliest days of gaming, I only had access to an inherited Commodore 64 and a broken ZX Spectrum.
