Super Mario 64 was on an 8 megabyte cartridge
@Felthry I think the max texture size on the N64 helped a lot
you just can't put a lot of textures in your game
@noiob Oh absolutely, you compare it to PS1 games and the biggest difference is textures and sound; that's where all that massive 650 megabyte CD space went to
it's wild to think of how small these games are and how large they would be if made today