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by nilamo 776 days ago
The PS1 used CDs. Many games could be dropped into a cd player, and if you skip the first track (the data track), the rest of the game's music/audio could be played.
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It was possible to do the same with some PC games! I have fond memories of listening to the soundtracks of Driver, and Knights and Merchants, on my little stereo.
Cassette tapes for Atari 800XL used just a single channel for data. The other one could have music and you would listen to it during game loading.
Yeah, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter had a lot of the popular Star Wars music in redbook audio so it would work fine in a CD player, a fact that I was super excited to find out when I was a kid playing with my action figures.