/\ I'm not fully understanding where you're coming from, but VHS tapes were around when I was a kid (since in my school years, DVDs didn't exist yet).
< has a program called VHS to DVD 5.0 Deluxe, which not only can convert the contents of VHS tapes to DVD, it has a feature where you can connect just about any video game console to it to play a video game on a computer screen instead of a TV, as long as you have an A/V cable for the console in question (it's required in order to connect the console to the Vidbox accessory included with the software, which then goes into a USB slot), and even record the gameplay on the actual console
\/ has recorded their gameplay on a video game console using the setup I mentioned above, or a similar one?