8 Video Games That Deleted Your Save Data Just For Fun

ZeroRanger is a criminally underrated, astonishingly difficult shoot 'em up that seems to have (unfortunately) flown under the radar for most people following its release. If you've not played the game, that's a great pun by the way. Because you play as a big plane.

Anyway, if you manage to get all the way to end of ZeroRanger, which in itself is no small feat, you're given a choice - forfeit all your continues, and you're offered ONE shot at fighting the true, final boss of the game.

To add a little context, this is the hardest boss in the game by a country mile. The sheer amount of bullet hell present is enough to deter anyone but the most hardcore of shoot 'em up lovers.

If you fail, not only do you not get to retry but the game deletes your progress entirely. To add insult to injury, should you fail it also makes you watch an extended, unique cutscene of your demise. ZeroRanger then makes a point of showing you your save file getting deleted, just to rub salt in the wound.