There were definite advantages to cartridges. I remember a few occasions where PS1 memory cards ate my save data, which never happened on N64. And I remember te

There were definite advantages to cartridges. I remember a few occasions where PS1 memory cards ate my save data, which never happened on N64. And I remember tedious disc swapping and long load times on a few games: Riven had a few discs and you'd have to switch when traveling from one area to another, and those were always fraught with the potential for game crashes. On the other hand discs allowed much larger games. There was a crazy amount of variety on the PS1, though as a result also a lot of crap to sort through. I was a Nintendo-first fanboy at the time, but when the PS1 dropped in price to about $100 I picked one up, trading in N64 games I no longer played to help fund the purchase. I think it was around the time FFVII came out because I remember reserving it for day-1 release. Ahh simpler times, working manual labor while in school. Sometimes I'm nostalgic for those days of unskilled (relatively) non knowledge-based work. It was much less stressful, even if the pay was crap.