Game Rom Sizes

I give my reasoning on why publishers put game sizes on the packaging. I also recap ROM sizes for cartridge based games.

[@saucyduckglobalomnihyperme7510]

Love your editing style!

[@8bit_Retro]

Thank you!! I appreciate the feedback!!

[@tardiscommand1812]

I too made it through the Bit Wars. Sounds super futuristic eh

[@grandmasterthefuriousfive7487]

Ofcourse it was important if it was larger size you could expect a larger game and usually better gfx

[@8bit_Retro]

I just never really paid attention to it, I guess. But you're right!

[@hstubbs3]

Yeah, this was totally during that time when everyone was boasitng about how many bits was their system and a larger ROM would mean prettier graphics, more sounds ,etc.. but by N64 / PS1 it really just all evened out.. The "Blast Processing" of the Sega Genesis was sheer marketing BS ... although the memory throughput using DMA on the Sega Genesis is pretty beefy, and one could do many different effects by altering the VDPs registers during active display.... Which was about as "blast processing" as anything really got at the time, I think Sega really missed the marketing boat by not gloating about their CPU clock speed... 7.67MHz vs the SNES's effective 3.58MHz (or less... ) ... And the Sega Genesis's 68000 CPU had 32bit registers ... 16 of them... vs SNES's 65c816 ... which only had like 3 16 bit registers...

[@8bit_Retro]

I feel that the Blast Processing was a marketing thing to gloat about the 7.67MHz speed without using the numbers ant technical jargon. I remember the Sega commercials about blast processing and Genesis does what Nintendon't.