Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140221183807/@comment-1496755-20140621221308

I got Wolf 3D and Spear of Destiny on 5.25-inch disks. Nowadays, the only place you can see those is in a museum (or Google). Installing a game was a long process - please insert Disk 2... please insert Disk 3... please insert Disk 4... please insert Disk 5... you can imagine.

Then there were 3.5-inch disks. Doom and Heretic were initially distributed on those (along with many others).

CD's were a major improvement. This was the era of games that could be installed partially - you keep just a small portion of the game on your hard drive (their capacity was pretty low), while the huge files with graphics, sounds and video stayed on the CD. The "full install" option was considered a luxury for people with big hard drives.

Quake II has a minimum install option too, mainly because of the cutscenes.

Man, the good old days... in 1992, a 10 MB game was considered "huge". Can you imagine that?