Game over
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"Game over" is a message in video games which informs the player that their play session has ended, usually because the player has reached a loss condition, such as character death. It also sometimes
"Game over" screen from the game Torus Trooper
A "game over" banner at an anti-fascist protest in Berlin, 2020
Saved game
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A saved game is a piece of digitally stored information about the progress of a player in a video game.
Game over
…less common as players are allowed to respawn at a previous state of the game, which has been stored in memory either through a player deliberately saving the game or reaching a checkpoint (which causes the game to save automatically). Many modern games do not technically "end" until they are completed…
Electronic memory cards used explicitly for game saves, such as this one for the Sony PlayStation, were common during the 5th and 6th generation of consoles as read-only media became more popular. This method of storing game saves has been largely replaced in newer consoles by internal hard disk drives and solid-state drives.