[handrous]

Ah, my generation! The ones whose video games, at least during our elementary school years, were good enough to be really fun, but also bad enough that we'd eventually get bored of them and go ride bikes or hit each other with sticks or some other healthy activity, all of our own volition.

I remain tentatively skeptical of "saving" features in video games. They may be one of the great social ills of our time. Going back to the beginning if you lose may have been a healthy kind of frustrating.