10 Video Games That Pushed Consoles To The Limit

Discs revolutionized the gaming industry thanks to their higher graphical fidelity and memory space as compared to cartridges. This is why most third-party companies went over to the more esteemed competition during the 4th console generation, leaving poor Nintendo holding the bag with the N64.

The PlayStation and Dreamcast simply offered more freedom for what they could do with their disc-based consoles.

But that doesn't mean every third-party dev abandoned Nintendo. Some managed to make it work with the cartridge system, one of which was Capcom with Resident Evil 2.

You would think Resident Evil 2, one of the biggest and most advanced games of its day, would have trouble squeezing itself down into an N64 cartridge, but they managed to do it and do it really well.

Sure it took pretty much everything the N64 had to run it right, but that it worked at all shows how the industry was really underestimating the N64 at the time.