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Vintage Vinyl Music Games
by Ian Bogost June 19, 2007
categories: Advergames

Thompson TwinsBoing Boing points to a fantastic site about videogame bonus content on vinyl LP records. You would have to record the proper portion of the album to cassette and then run the cassette in your computer (most of these were Sinclair Spectrum programs).

Among the more detailed of these games and demos is a Thompson Twins graphical adventure game "you guide the Thompson Twins around a land of beaches and caves." The game has even been archived for download or online play. There are a lot more examples.

We could consider these advergames, given the "bonus" of getting the game when you buy the album, or we could consider them adaptations, even though few of them seem to deal directly with the themes of the albums/songs.