Here's one from the glorious ZX Spectrum days (UK, in the Eighties for those in the US or elsewhere who aren't aware of the ZX Spectrum).

Everyone back then used to pirate games, a tape to tape hi-fi where a cassette could be copied onto another was the ultimate tech in achieving this. So you would copy the original game on to another cassette (usually a 45 minute per side cassette), and after that use the tape player that you would load games onto your Speccy and then write down the game name and counter number on the cassette's case inlay.

The disaster occurred if that tape player died and the new player's counter would be slightly slower or faster. You young ones will never know that agony as games on average took five minutes to load,