Next-gen console war: The verdict by mcvuk.com

[MikeB]

@ LordTheNightKnight

Wait a second. If the SNES ran a DVD drive, it could handle the gameplay of Crysis and Oblivion? I always thought it was the limited 3D power of the system that prevented it from running full 3D games.

Maybe severely cutdown Doom-like versions. Additional storage does add a lot of possibilities.

For example:

Defender of the Crown (original Amiga disc based version from 1986)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cvW6okgy4wA

Defender of the Crown (CDTV version, CDTV was technically an A500 + internal CD player)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Af0vFi4sSzw

Sadly the A1200 did not come with an internal CD ROM drive, thus many CD32 games only took 1/700th of the space available on the CD as they were mostly just the A1200 version placed on CD.

Another example would be the c64, most early games took only a single (lenghty tape) load, but later more impressive games like Turrican or Enforcer: Fullmetal Mega Blaster were disc based and loaded different levels one at a time:

Enforcer: Fullmetal Mega Blaster:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DJPoFuIks-A

Turrican:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UoQ2uPvwxUo