How far would you go to save your game?
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]hen it comes to saving games these days we have the luxury of a feature called auto-save. However, close to twenty-five years ago when the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was released back in November 21st of 1990 there was no auto-save feature. Players would have to pull up the menu and select the ‘save game’ feature in order to save their progress. This saved data was then stored within the gaming cartridge, which had a battery within it to preserve the saved data. Unfortunately, batteries die, which was the case for Wanikun’s copy of Umihara Kawase, a game that was only released in Japan back in 1994.
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Being a dedicated gamer, Wanikun left his SNES powered on for twenty years to save his progress in Umihara Kawase. Wanikun estimates that his SNES was plugged in for over 180,000 hours. The only time Wanikun unplugged his SNES was when he was moving and he was able to plug the 16-bit console back in to preserve his saved game, talk about dedication.
Have you gone to any extreme lengths to keep your saved game safe? Let us know in the comments below or on Twitter!
