Another way to think about it is that the game used almost all of the available RAM and drive space. That would be like a game today needing 3.5 GB of RAM and 0.90 TB of disk space. :)

You've played Crysis then ;-)

ha awesome, compare that with how much space a "hello world" executable takes when compiled on a modern OS with standard libraries

4.6k, for 2 lines of code and 66 characters (in C). Wow.