I remember spinning cassettes on a pencil to rewind them
. Apropos loading games, i got less loading crashes if i stuck a thin bit of folded paper in to "clamp" the cassette in place a little, as tape drives were often not the best build physically.
The happy days of typing "load" then going off to do something else for 5 minutes or more ...
Kids of today wax lyrical about how vinyl and even cassette tapes "sound soooo much better".....
.... But having lived with them first time round, i will stick with digital and just roll the top end off a bit as necessary or get softer sounding headphones. Vinyl and cassette only really perform on expensive and bulky equipment, but digital is quite astounding for its ability on small devices.
I think i have gone full spectrum with vinyl, cassette, portable CD, mini disc, original mp3, modern lossless codecs. If fact i recently found an old Sony Discman in the attic, but it's reluctant to spin discs up properly.
Loved my mini-disc so much, it was just great sounding and super desirable to look at the beautifully made player.