More than 20 years after they were essentially made obsolete by the CD, cassettes are "in" again. Unlike the vinyl revival of the decade prior, which happened in part due to the different method a record stores sound compared to the way a digital sound file does, cassettes are by most people'🌜s est🐈imation an inferior audio format, at least insofar as sound quality is concerned. In a world where most music is listened to digitally, however, the compact size and unique aesthetic of a tape has made it a of sorts .
Developers Huey Games have taken this trend a step further and begun releasing video game cassette tapes. Just as the retro format caught on in the music world, game collectors have taken too to Huey Games' video cassettes, as evidenced by a💛 Kickstarter campaign ꧅for their latest release in under 24 hours.
Huey Games specializes in retro-inspired indie titles, so the format makes sense for the content of their games in particular. The first "cassette" tape release by the company was for its pixely shoot-em-up Hyper Sentinel, 🐷numbered #000 in its Collector👍s USB Cassette series.
Each cassette is capable of storing an entire video game due to, unsurprisingly, not actually functioning as a cassette tape. While the object 🐷itself 💧appears as if it were a plastic tape container straight out of the '80s, in truth each cassette release is a USB drive including the required game files, playable on a home computer.
Their latest Kickstarter campaign is for a physical release of Titan Attacks! which is a Space Invaders-esque arcade-style space shooter, numbered #005 in the Collectors USB Cassette series. Its has a goal of $4,704 needed to be met by July 9th in 𝕴order to secure funding. In total, the campaign has currently earned just under $6,000 with the balance of June still remaining.
While £25 (which right now equals about 31 USD) is required to receive a cassette of your own as a reward, subsequent tiers will net backer🐼s specia𒐪l versions of the cassette that include added content, both in-game and in the construction of the physical object. More information about both the tape and the campaign are available on its .
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