Question:
What’s the peripheral name that enabled the play of cassette tape on the Atari 2600.
Answer:
Starpath Supercharger
Fact:
In 1982, the company Starpath released the Starpath Supercharger. The Starpath Supercharger is a peripheral that allows loading games from a cassette tape player. The device gets inserted in the cartridge slot of the Atari 2600 and has a wire to connect to the cassette player through its headphone jack. When plugged in, it can provide extra RAM for a total of roughly 6KB instead of the standard 128 bytes. The extra amount of RAM allowed the Atari 2600 to play more complex games and process more sounds. The games released for the Starpath Supercharger were the following: Phaser Patrol, Communist Mutants from Space, Fireball, Suicide Mission, Escape from the Mindmaster, Dragonstomper, Killer Satellites, Rabbit Transit, Frogger, Party Mix, Sword of Saros, Survival Island.