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NEW: Replacement belts for some popular tape players are now available!
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Here are reproduction 8-track tape cartridges for vintage arcade games.  These tapes were used for sound effects and background music for gun games, driving games, and others back in the late 1960's and early 1970's.  If you own one of these games and your tape cartridge is missing or it's not what it's used to be, we may have what you're looking for.

These tapes are recorded onto premium NOS (new old stock) blanks with digitally re-mastered audio taken directly from the best examples of original cartridges that we have found.  This is an ongoing project, so we will continuously add new titles and new capabilities.

The fee that we charge for these tapes is for the blank tape media and the recording service, not for the audio content itself.  The audio for all of these tapes (as well as many others) is available at our companion web site: http://arcadearchive.org/em/sound/.

Below you will find a selection of replacement rubber drive belts for some tape players used in arcade games.  As we identify other tape players and obtain suitable replacement belts, we will list them here.  Age, wear and ozone all work to destroy the drive belt, which connects the drive motor to the capstan which in turn moves the tape across the playback heads.  Any slipping or binding and the audio will be distorted, and of course if the belt is missing or broken, you're dead in the water until it's replaced..  Installing a new belt just takes a few minutes once the tape player has been removed from the game.  

 
Drive Belt for Mayfair 8-Track Player

Used on games such as Midway's Wild Kingdom

 
Drive Belt for Midway Proprietary 8-Track Tape Player

Used on games such as Midway's Haunted House, Gangbusters, Dune Buggy, Sea Rescue and others.  While there are many variations of this tape player which accommodate playback of one to four simultaneous audio channels, as far as we have observed, the capstan drive mechanism is the same, and the replacement belt should fit them all.

 
Drive Belt for PlayTape Model 1604 Tape Player

Used on Chicago Coin's DriveMaster and possibly others.  PlayTape is an obsolete tape format that preceded the 8-track format.  About half the size of an 8-track cartridge, the tape is half the width of that used in 8-tracks (1/8 inch vs. 1/4 inch), making the tapes even more fragile.  We don't currently have the ability to reproduce new PlayTapes, so for now these drive belts are the only help we can offer for these tape systems.