Okay I just looked it up, I'm going to amend my post after making this comment: The game is stated to be "fifty megs" in size. To which Carol Marcus replies "Christ on a crutch! It's the program that swallowed Saturn!"

I'm not taking it out on the author here, Reagan hadn't signed Moore's Bill into law yet by 1982. The Atari 2600 had less than a kilobyte of RAM, just enough for the stack. The Commodore VIC-20 as shilled by Captain Kirk had 5k of RAM, about 8k of ROM, a diskette (formatted for the VIC-20) held 170k and a cassette tape could hold up to 300k. Also, IIRC, by 1982 Moore's Bill hadn't been signed into law by President Reagan yet. The exponential growth in computer capacity and power hadn't begun. Why would the author see it coming?

Though, the author did avoid saying "megabytes" so it could be 50 "megaquads" which could be any amount of data, though that decision hadn't been made yet.