5/30/2026 at 1:50:52 AM
by 1970-01-01
6/1/2026 at 5:34:23 PM
They did music videos for a few of these too:Blue Busters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOnfN-ZDrs
Apple II Forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcjlhFVTY50
Leading the Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJy0O4UFSM
I guess stuff like this is what happens when your marketing department has too little to do.
by ndiddy
6/1/2026 at 5:02:26 PM
This is like maximum 80's cringe... I say that as a child of the 80's... I'm half tempted to cut this up and try and build some sort of vaporwave track. Seems tailor made for vaporwave.by lordfrito
6/1/2026 at 5:19:42 PM
Oh wow. This is exactly why people were trying to require a license to use a synthesizer. Maybe it gets better ?? [1] It could probably be clipped into something good though, yeah.OTOH, when the piano hits, Ripples feels so much like I'd Do Anything for Love for a bit, but predates it by six years.
[1] 3 minutes in, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. EDIT: after the whole thing, yeah, it doesn't really get better... but I kind of like the APPLE spelling thing towards the end of the cassette. Ending on some laser shooting sound effects is a good note though.
by toast0
6/1/2026 at 11:33:22 PM
To those who know more about this, who is the "Blue Busters" song targeting? (It's just the Ghostbusters theme)"If there's something strange, stinking up your desk, who you gonna call? Blue busters!"
by CrimsonCape
6/1/2026 at 9:16:39 PM
"Breaking Through" (~22:00) is, truly, an artifact from a lost era. They don't write power ballads like that any more.by nxobject
6/1/2026 at 4:43:26 PM
Hard to deny culture has gotten less optimistic when you see stuff like this.by tracerbulletx
6/1/2026 at 5:25:38 PM
They were certainly over optimistic about "Apple II Forever"!by DonHopkins
6/1/2026 at 8:55:52 PM
Forever only means 9 more years apparently.by chocochunks
6/1/2026 at 8:03:39 PM
It lives on in Unicode... forever.by kevin_thibedeau
6/1/2026 at 5:12:33 PM
This leaves me without words, and I only listened to the first track.by Photogrammaton
6/1/2026 at 7:37:44 PM
Time will tell wether I find myself singing "Apple II Forever" in the shower.by tcdent
6/1/2026 at 9:10:51 PM
Making life better and better!Apple II forever!
Bringing the rainbow to you!
(Join us.)
by nxobject
6/1/2026 at 4:05:48 PM
We’re making it out of Cupertino with this one.by nhatbui
6/1/2026 at 3:16:25 PM
Wouldn't releasing an album during that time be quite risky because of the ongoing legal issues with Apple Corps[1]? In 1991 Apple legal was so paranoid that they even worried about the names of Mac OS system sounds[2].[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
by ginko
6/1/2026 at 3:30:36 PM
This looks like something that was handed out at a WWDC or similar conference around that time, especially with the inclusion of the "Apple ][ Forever!" song. It was never for sale.That said, I miss the Garamond era of Apple design and marketing. It brings back a lot of memories.
by joezydeco