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Was the X-Files the largest retro vidya? It took up 7 CDs. I don't recall any other game being so huge and being released on so many discs.

>> No.6209705
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>>6209682
Black Dahlia came with a whopping 8 CDs!

>> No.6209729

>>6209682
You can't "recall" something that happened before you were born. Off the top of my head Phantasmagoria was 7 discs on the PC and 8 on the Saturn. There was also a Saturn game that was released in episides over the course of several months that was something like a dozen discs, although the overall size of the game wasn't that big.

>> No.6209737

How many MBs there are videos and audio?

>> No.6209759

And I thought Riven on PS1 was big

>> No.6210223

>>6209729
>You can't "recall" something that happened before you were born.

I really can't stand the gatekeeping that crept in here over the past few years.

>> No.6210227

>>6209729
>You can't "recall" something that happened before you were born.
What a fucking stupid thing to say.

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>>6210223
>>6210227

>> No.6210545

>>6210223
He's basically admitting that retro games don't hold up because you can only appreciate them if you played them when they released.
Which obviously isn't true, but it's a funny enough own goal.

>> No.6210625

>>6209682
Maybe Wing Commander IV.
It even came with its own carrying cade for the discs. I can't remember but it felt like 13 CDs

>> No.6210683

>>6209729
Moron

>> No.6210852

>>6209729
>calling someone a zoomer
Okay zoomer

>> No.6210973

>>6210683
>>6210852
see >>6210328

>> No.6210983

>>6209737
about 350

>> No.6210985

>>6209682
If the new CoD was released on CD-rom it would take up over 200 cds. Could you imagine the installation. I'm getting flashbacks to those Battlefield 1942 collection disc's I had way back.

>> No.6211073

>>6210973
Wow, le ebin epic win, fellow gaymer

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>>6209682
Sierra Online's Time Zone came on 12 disk sides and cost $99 in 1982! = $264.65 now.

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>>6210983

>> No.6211149

>>6211073
see >>6210328

>>6211093
That's nothing. There were games that came on 12+ double sided disks.

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>>6211149
>>6210545

>>6209682
Do floppy discs count? I remember System Shock released on 9 floppys discs.
If you mean filesize, then it obviously doesn't count

>> No.6211395

>>6211275
Who knows what "counts". The physically "largest retro vidya" would be some ancient mainframe the size of a house that could barely manage to play tic tac toe with little bulb lights so I guess OP meant bytes. That being said the largest of whatever medium makes for interesting discussion. I remember in the mid-early 90's a lot of stuff was available on CD or floppy and the number of floppies was yuge. It'd be interesting to know which game used the most. I remember some of the point and click games using a lot. Definitely more than a dozen. I'm sure some NEET here has the time to get a definitive answer.

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>ITT

>> No.6212119

>>6210223
I can't stand that you used such a bs word, so you need to gtfo.

>> No.6212136

>>6209729
>You can't "recall" something that happened before you were born.
??? did you dox OP? i can't tell if he's underaged or born after the X-files TV series.

>> No.6212314

>>6212136
You can't tell because you're also a kiddo

>> No.6212363

Another thread derailed and quality of the board further diminished thanks to people stroking their own egos. Great work everyone. It'd be nice to actually get some janitors worth a shit on this board.

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>>6212363

>> No.6212680

>>6209729
>>6210328
>>6210973
>>6211149
>>6212314
>>6212625

Get the FUCK out of my thread you 45+ y/o sour baby fucking boomer. Get the FUCK out of 4chan.

>> No.6212948

I wonder which games actually used the space for amazing things and not just ugly early 3D Studio FMVs.

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>>6212680
>ITT: a zoomer looses his shit

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>>6209682
Remember that weird incident at the solar observatory? The whole place was shut down. And in the pics there was the X-Files game in the bin. Was anyone else reading tje threads at the time. You just reminded me of it.

So fucking weird.

http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/2018/09/man-infiltrates-solar-observatory-and.html

>> No.6213404

>>6212948
The original of Baldur's Gate with ToSC was 6 CDs. Only a small part of those was dedicated to ugly FMVs and the bulk of the data was those huge area bitmaps.