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Weird walkman-style cassette players that played Tetris and Blackjack

Lux Sparks-Pescovitz
Nov 24, 2024
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image: Argos catalog, 1996

Recently, retrosound77, an Instagram account about interesting vintage stereo gear, posted a video about the Toshiba AS-10, a portable cassette player smaller than an actual cassette. However, for a brief moment, he showed a size comparison to another cassette player that instantly intrigued me: The Spectra LGW-40 is a cheap po…

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