10 Things That Secretly Sucked About Old School Gaming
8. Not Being Able To Save Your Progress Without A Password
Given that built-in video game saves were pioneered fairly early on, you would think that the process of actually tracking your progress in a video game wouldn't have been such a burden.
Yet, video games saves are one of those things that the industry struggled with for years. The most obvious example of this would be cumbersome passwords that were impossible to remember and never seemed to work when you tried them ("Is that a zero or an O?"), but - even as technology progressed - saves continued to frustrate.
Whether it would be a game limiting the amount of users that could save at all (thus leading to many accidental save erases) or the extremely small size of the PlayStation's memory cards, it would be years before games simply allowed you to save your progress without fear or burden.