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.[citation needed] This method of storing game saves has been largely replaced in newer consoles by internal hard disk drives and solid-state drives.[citation needed]
"Game over" is a message in video games which informs the player that their playing session has ended prematurely, due to misfortune such as losing all of one's lives or failing a critical objective. It also sometimes appears at the successful completion of a session, usually in games designed for arcades, after the player has exhausted the game's supply of new challenges. The phrase has since been turned into quasi-slang, usually describing an event that will cause significant harm, injury, bad luck, or even death to a person.
"Game over" screen from the game Torus Trooper
A "game over" banner at an anti-fascist protest in Berlin, 2020