Until relatively recently in computing history, games (and all other programs) were small. Hell, Pokemon Gold fits un a floppy trivially compressed, together with a working GBC emulator. I can trivially fit rePalm unto a floppy and leave enough space for a great PalmOS RTS - "Warfare Inc"

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tredre3 a day ago | parent | next [-]

I disagree with your blanket statement. The vast majority of (commercial) PC games were never that small, even in the 3.5" heydays. Most games required 2-10 disks.

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pjmlp a day ago | parent | next [-]

When PC really took off as gamming platform against Amiga and Atari ST, shipping games in CD-ROM was already a thing.

Amiga had plenty of single disk games.

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dmitrygr a day ago | parent | prev [-]

PC? what pc?

Every single NES game or CGB game would fit on a floppy. More or less all GBC and SNES games could compress down to a floppy

	▲	pjmlp a day ago \| parent [-]
		At least in many European countries, game consoles were never that big during the 1980-90's, until PlayStation really took off. However, and to go with your remark, ZX Spectrum, C64, CPC, Archimedes, Amiga, Atari, plenty of games that would fit into a single floppy.

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roytam87 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Off-topic: regarding Windows NT emulation challenge, now IA64 and AXP32/64 target are also somehow filled.