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VicViper on 09 July 2012
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d21lewis said:
JEMC said:
d21lewis said:
Memory is a little fuzzy but I think the biggest Super Nes game was either a Donkey Kong Country title or Super Street Fighter 2. I think the magic number was 32mb. I think there was a 40mb Genesis game, too. Possibly Super Street Fighter 2.

Were they so big?

I remember seeing stickers on game boxes/cartridges about having 16MB, even 1 with 24MB (maybe Urban Strike?), and me and my friends always thought that those games had to be good because they had those 16MB.

Ah, the good old times...

Yeah, I remember Sega making a big deal about Strider because it was "The world's first 8 Meg game!".  Then Nintendo made a big deal about Street Fighter II being a 16 Meg game!  It went back and forth for a while.  Even the Super Metroid commercial said, "That's 24 Megs!  Nintendo's biggest game, ever!"  I stopped keeping track at around 1995 but I remember seeing an ad for Super Street Fighter 2 for the Genesis.  It said, "The Genesis version comes in at a whopping 40 Megs while the Super Nintendo version limps in with only 32."  Goddam, Sega knew how to push my buttons!  I was furious!


I think those "megas" were megabits and not bytes.

So dividing by 8, maximum genesis game was 5 MB - Street Fighter and Ultimate Mortal Kombat - and SNES was 6 MB - Tales of Phantasia

(I think...)