Yes there was such a thing, for those of us that leaved throught the 1980's.

There are tons of games that you can fit into 60m, 90m, or 180m tapes, when 48 KB/128 KB is all you got.

More like 20 or something.

Magazines like Your Sinclair and Crash would have such cassete tapes,

https://archive.org/details/YourSinclair37Jan89/YourSinclair...

https://www.crashonline.org.uk/

They would be glued into the magazine with adhesive tape, and later on to avoid them being stolen, the whole magazine plus tape would be in a plastic.