During last nights argument, myself, markopoloman and Quazar were definitely in favour of cassettes, others seemed to prefer carts despite the ludicrous costs, while Katzkatz ignored all options and went for floppy disks

So, which one is it?
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I agree. Cartridges were the best video game medium, imo. The problem was just that they were so dang expensive. And btw, the N64 going with carts was a conscious, deliberate decision. I've been thinking about it and came to the conclusion that no matter how you look at it, the N64 was destined to be a cartridge system, for better or worse.The Laird wrote:Carts - no question.
Something very lovely and very collectable about them, plus they never stop working.
I think you mean the successor of the floppy.Matt_B wrote: And the CD-Rom was really just the cassette tape of the 90s; newer technology, but the same strengths and weaknesses.
Except for the Atari 8-bit, obviouslyMatt_B wrote:Yes, cartridges were clearly better, but not to the extent that they were worth paying two or three times the price for, and we were usually looking at that sort of premium. On pretty much any system that also offered tapes and/or discs they just didn't get a look-in, for obvious reasons.
Well, it did have the worst cassette implementation of any 8-bit. Still, even then there are just over a hundred games on cartridge versus several thousand on cassette.The Laird wrote:Except for the Atari 8-bit, obviouslyMatt_B wrote:Yes, cartridges were clearly better, but not to the extent that they were worth paying two or three times the price for, and we were usually looking at that sort of premium. On pretty much any system that also offered tapes and/or discs they just didn't get a look-in, for obvious reasons.
No, of the tape. Both were designed for storing audio and, while cheap and capacious, were far from optimal for data.outdated_gamer wrote:I think you mean the successor of the floppy.Matt_B wrote: And the CD-Rom was really just the cassette tape of the 90s; newer technology, but the same strengths and weaknesses.
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