And before that, there were games that spanned multiple floppies. Plus, floppies were less reliable, so there was a higher chance one of the disks would fail to read, leading to the Retry, Fail, Abort menu.
They were only 1.44MB so a 50GB game would take like 40k floppies.
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 days ago
Windows 98 came on 28 floppy disks… We definitely felt the pain property to 2007…