10 Mind-Blowing Gaming Features Everybody Takes For Granted

It’s hard to believe now-a-days, but the ability to save games used to be something of a luxury. It was a downright revolutionary feature first debuted on select NES cartridges, though it eventually became a definite necessity as games grew to be far too lengthy to finish in a single sitting.

The first and second iterations of Sony’s PlayStation consoles were marred by a lack of on-board memory, and older fans likely remember the frustration associated with renting a console for the weekend only to skimp out on the memory card and lose an entire day’s worth of progress.

The current console generation is now so advanced that saves don’t even have to be tied to a specific console. Rather, game saves are connected to a players accounts and can be accessed remotely. In some instances, they aren’t even saved on the consoles hard drive and are instead logged via cloud storage.

Features like this would have been a pipe dream to every unfortunate late 90’s kid who accidentally left their GameCube memory card at a friend’s house or woke up one day to see their Tony Hawk’s Underground save data to be corrupted.