How far we have come in terms of using more memory for larger objects than we used for smaller objects?

How far we have come in general. a modern video game is made of orders of magnitude more data than something like Mario, to the point where older games are comparable to pictures we share instantly across the world through something small enough to fit in your hand.

Really?

Yes. something being smaller does not equal it being better. [INSERT DICK JOKE HERE]

That's why I said they're masterpieces. You're weird.

No. something being a masterpiece is a statement about the quality of the object in question, and how much you work or how good that work can have little to do with the final product, especially if the work in question is mostly irrelevant to it.

In this case it demonstrates that the designers worked really hard and were really clever with compression and efficiency when designing the game, but that doesn't make it a good game.

For instance: E.T The Extra Terrestrial for Atari probably had a comparable file-size, yet that does not make it a work of art. nor does modern games sizes make them less artistically meaningful. (As a wise man once said: "size matters not, judge me by my size do you? hmm?")