GameMusic Tapes: An Introduction

Well, instead I go on with the TnC GameMusic Collection I decided to introduce a slightly different series of Posts. Again with GameMusic, featuring tapes I made many years ago.

I was very fond of playing Pinball and Race games on my PC and noticed during playing by accident that the music I heard came from the CD-ROM directly, cause the CD-ROM kept spinning while playing the music. So I put a CD-ROM in my CD-player, skipped data track 1
and listen to the music tracks I never heard before. Then decided to check all the PC-games I had collected over years for CD-audio tracks, cause that is what they were called.

In the end I got so games with CD-audio, I started to record the best tracks on tapes so
I could listen to them on my Sony walkman. Yeah, it was before mp3 became famous.
I created 3 types of tapes with CD-audio, Race games, Pinball games and all other PC-games I could find. After recording more than 24 tapes I stopped, but still there were PC-games with great music but no CD-audio, so I ripped a lot or browsed the net to find those OSTs, converted to 1 format mp3 (192 kbps) and burned a lot of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs.
I believed I made more than 100 CD-Rs and 50 DVD-Rs. Don't worry I wont upload them all or post about every CD-R/DVD-R...

About the music you find on the tapes a very strange mix with different music-genres,
house, hard-rock, swing, rock n roll, boogie-woogie, techno, electronica, cross-over, disco, and plenty more. I always searched for a up-tempo track to start the tape and to reduce the switching of the CD-ROMs  in my CD-player I tried to record 2 tracks of the same game one after another.

I found an interesting website about (new) GameMusic, check this on: http://www.vgmonline.net/ or remixes of famous GameMusic, check: https://ocremix.org/
Lookinmg OSTs of older games, check here: http://downloads.khinsider.com/

Wanna see a strange shop where you still can purchase TDK tapes: https://www.duplication.ca/shop/TDK-SA-90.html  or a complete catalogue of manufacturers of compact cassettes: http://www.c-90.org/catalogue/tapes