[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/vr/ - Retro Games

View post   
File: 10 KB, 645x773, okk.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9116386 No.9116386 [Reply] [Original]

>read review from 90s gaming mag
>cons: installation requires a whopping 160MB of hard drive space

>> No.9116398

>>9116386
Yeah bro, that's a big chunk of my 1 gig hdd. If games get any bigger, I won't have much room for anything else!

>> No.9116401

>>9116398
fuckkkk bros we're old

>> No.9116408
File: 35 KB, 550x371, ezf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9116408

>>9116398
Just get a SyQuest EZFlyer 230 MB removable drive bro, essentially infinite storage.

>> No.9116417

>>9116398
Same story with my 250 GB SSD today. Never going to install a 100 GB game.

>> No.9116419

>>9116386
my Windows 95 PC had a whopping 2gb of storage space

>> No.9116446

>>9116386
I remember the first game I got on DVD was Blade Runner and it had a full install option that used up all the free space on my 4GB C: drive

>> No.9116469
File: 60 KB, 500x600, java.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9116469

>>9116386
Programmers used to care about efficiency.

>> No.9116479

Pretty sure my first computer had 512 megabytes and Win 3.1 back in 1995. Tight squeeze

>> No.9116532

>>9116386
You can always spot the zoomie when it talks about old technology by the decade.
160MB of HDD storage cost a small fortune in 1990. By the end of the decade it wasn't even enough to install windows

>>9116417
I use 256MB SSDs on one of my old PCs. Perfect for some ancient setups with 4x32mb partitions. And since they basically look like GBA carts I modded them so they work like cart. Shit is cash. Literally. I bought a stock lot of them for a few bucks cash.
Probably still way out of your league, but I also put games on SDs or USB sticks and use them in many systems. I have several systems with far more than 250GB of games on a storage device smaller than your toenail fungus.

Taking odds on whether 250 GB SSD anon will splurge on a USB stick for his hand me down (((gaming))) netbook or do the drill. 1:9001

>> No.9116564

>>9116386
Funny memes OP. I had to stick with 40GB HDD since 2003 all the way until 2012.
160MB games felt like a blessing to me

>> No.9116576
File: 44 KB, 640x480, optimus-prime-thinking.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9116576

>Read pretty much every single 90s RTS game review
>Reviewer: Yikes, yet another Command & Conquer clone? into the bargain bin it goes!

Was the genre THAT oversaturated?

>> No.9116618

>>9116532
>You can always spot the zoomie when it talks about old technology by the decade.
Nah, I don't think so. I was born in '86 personally and don't know anything about computers so it wouldn't occur to me to talk about it in more detail than "the 90" vs today. I don't even really know what a lot of memory today is except that a terabyte is definitely more than I've ever used or seen.

>> No.9116663

>>9116386
Wanna know why Half Life 2 didnt get a 100% from PC Gamer ?

"Some attempts at humor fall flat."

98%

>> No.9116889

>>9116564
i've got 32gb, all but about 1 gone to windows. so until i realized i can run games off sd card, it was 30mb demos only for me. i still don't feel ok downloading 1gb or so so i'm holding off trying morrowind till next computer

>> No.9116895
File: 115 KB, 640x480, polaniecd-3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9116895

>>9116576
>Was the genre THAT oversaturated?
Yes. More than you can imagine.

>> No.9116930 [DELETED] 

Fuck off, retarded wojak poster.

>> No.9116935

>>9116618
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. You were not born in '86 and you did not fight a bad dude called cornpop. Go back to your basement and don't come out until your father says you can.

>> No.9116953

>>9116469
Though C is probably responsible for more errors and hacks per LoC than any high level language ever.

>> No.9116956

>>9116953
*JavaScript exists*

>> No.9117120

>>9116386
Yeah, imagine that, storage space was a larger premium in the days of more primitive hard drives and limited disc and floppy media. You fucking idiot.

>> No.9117172
File: 490 KB, 500x282, cringe.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9117172

>>9116953

>> No.9117396

>>9116386

My first PC had 15GB of HDD space. I thought that was huge. I remember buying a second drive that could store 80GB. My current phone has a 256GB microSD card in it.

>> No.9117429

>>9117172
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfY1lfFu8j8

>> No.9117474

>>9116398
thats why i stopped playing modern games. seems like no lessons were learned from these soulless developers

>> No.9117846

>>9117396
Mine had 80mb
Couldn't full install Warcraft, though it had a 4x cdrom so the movies loaded fast anyways