(File) Size Matters?

What features do you think make good selling points for games? An immersive world and interesting character development? Challenging obstacles and boss fights? Or what about how big the file size is to download? Because for some reason, video game marketers in the 90s suddenly started doing a lot of bragging about how big the game was. And when I mean big, I don't mean "the world is so expansive". No, I mean "32 megs". It felt perfectly normal at the time, but it's so totally ridiculous now to imagine.

There's plenty of good things to say about Super Mario RPG. I don't know if '32 megs' was worthy of a bullet on the box!

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