Via BoingBoing :

"In the early personal computer days, recording artists included hidden computer programs on vinyl records -- you recorded the LP to tape, then put the tape in your computer's cassette drive. Here's a nice history of the practice, with screenshots of the programs in action and links to emulated versions.

A gigantic step up from encoded text files were actual games included in the grooves of records. In 1984, The Thompson Twins released 'The Thompson Twins Adventure Game' in both regular vinyl and flexi disc formats."

Somehow, this totally escaped me.  Of course, maybe it was the fact that I didn't own a Thompson Twins album back then, but that's just a minor snafu.

Thanks to Kremmit for pointing this out.

Videogames Hidden In LP Records 

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