That and, until the CD-ROM came along, what were your options, floppy disks? (Yes, I know that the Famicom had a floppy drive and that there were piracy decks f

That and, until the CD-ROM came along, what were your options, floppy disks? (Yes, I know that the Famicom had a floppy drive and that there were piracy decks for other systems to load from disk. And they sucked.) Also, the first CD-ROM devices were 1x and were very slow to load games. It definitely felt like a step backward in many ways, and in fact this is the claimed reason that Nintendo went with cartridges for the N64.