Well I miss cartridges from like the SNES on up. The NES days sucked. Dunno if it was the carts, the system, or both. But getting a game to start up was a task in of itself. But once it did play, no load times. No freezing. It was cool. I know when I first played the PS1 at a cousin's house, we put in a baseball game. And I could not believe the loading times. One to start the game. One before the opening sequence to show the field. One when stats were shown. And then, some point in the first inning, the game locked up. Due to a damaged disc I'm sure. And I couldn't help but wonder, who in the hell would willingly deal with this crap.
First party Nintendo games tend to not have load times, or they're hidden well enough that you don't notice. I know the GC was the system built to really minimize load times, and you only saw them from cheap ports of PS2 games, which seemed to be filled with them.
