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You can buy this forgotten '90s shooter from its original website, which is a perfectly preserved time capsule of PC gaming's golden age (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Goronmon to c/games
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[–] RubberElectrons 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy that it only needs 3.5mb of disk space.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back then Amiga computers were at their peak, it wasn't uncommon for a whole game to be on a single 1.44 MB floppy. It was also pretty common that booting from the disk was the only way to launch the game.

[–] RubberElectrons 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess it's good that devs don't need to optimize as much as they had to, but I also feel like we've collectively allowed the laziness to go too far, with 110gb updates and stuff.

I personally would prefer spending my time building new stuff, but I think if I had to, optimizing can also be fun and interesting in its own way.