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.
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.
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
Saved game
…them from start to finish. This naturally led to the need to store in some way the progress, and how to handle the case where the player received a "game over". More modern games with a heavier emphasis on storytelling are designed to allow the player many choices that impact the story in a profound way later…
"Game over" screen from the game Torus Trooper
A "game over" banner at an anti-fascist protest in Berlin, 2020