I disagree. A comparison of "higher resolution" in the terms of NES would only mean an increase in nametable size, not in binary size of program. Of course if "increase in resolution" also meant increase in CHR size or sprite count, or color palette size then you would be correct.

My point in NES or in modern software, the target resolution you want wouldn't have an affect on binary size.

  Having made NES games for fun before

So I am. You are right, a more fair comparison would be a tetris.exe perhaps. But my point would still stand, 60mb (and that is zipped amount) orders of magnitude higher.

I want to ask the same question, what is your point? Are you arguing that java runtime or several dependencies OP added is not an indication of modern software bloat?