eggebrecht identified ram, not storage, as the key bottleneck for any console; so he identified cd-rom performance of the day as exacerbating that bottleneck and favored cartridges to virtually eliminate the bottleneck. even after having designed "indiana jones and the infernal machine" for personal computers equipped with hard drives, eggebrecht significantly attributed the technologically and aesthetically superior nature of factor 5's nintendo 64 port, to his programmers' aggressive utilization of the cartridge format.