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Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up (programming.dev)
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The Clip if you've never seen it before.

Recently I've been archive my PS3 library of games, and I just finished backing up MGS4. Normally a third party PS3 game is between 7-12GB, however MGS4 is 33GB. To play MGS4 on a 360 you'd need like 4-5 DVD's depending on how they compressed it.

Didn't realize how large games were back even a decade ago.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 22 hours ago

Basement Brothers' videos on Youtube shows the amount of different floppy disks that some PC88/98 would come in. 5+ was common. Some games would also ask the player to create a user disk, which was essentially a personal copy of some stuff from the main disk plus space for save data, which lowered the risk of messing one of them