I started recording music on a little tape player I hape back as far back as I can remember playing games. I held that little thing up to the speakers of my small TV while playing nintendo favorites... Lufia... Zelda... a few others come to mind...
I continued this practice into high school - was recording Crono Trigger, Arcana, Final Fantasy III (VI) at the time then.
A friend of mine heard one of my recordings once and said - dude I can get that for you on a CD. At the time I was just getting into mainstream music and I shocked that anyone else liked game music. I was kind of embaressed that it was the only kind of music I listened to at the time.
Later in college I found I wasn't so strange...
Jam it back in, in the dark.