Media: Magnetic Strip
Hardware concept
Comes on a magnetic strip adhered to a rigid backing meant to be rolled through a reader.
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Most of these formats are basally, like a credit card cropped to just the strip. In fact, some readers were designed to read these strips and credit cards. Magnetic strips were once a popular option for portable scientific calculators. The reader, (wheel, slot, reading head), was small, as were the strips themselves.
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Games by year
The first Media: Magnetic Strip video game was released in 1975.
Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard and Texas Instrument published most of these games.
