It was a generation later but I remember going to my Cousin Tony's place where I'd play Metroid Prime on the GameCube (disc-based but short stroked) which did a great job of minimizing and hiding loading times and also Mafia on the PS2 where it would seem to take 10 minutes to load a level, then I'd take a long and boring drive across town to some Italian restaurant where I was supposed to shoot the people up but I'd get shot up myself and have to wait through the loading screen and repeat the drive. Maybe if I wasn't an adult with a driver's license it would have been more cool but the difference in loading time was striking.