A saved game (also sometimes called a game save, savegame, or savefile) is a piece of digitally stored information about the progress of a player in an electronic game (like a video game). This saved game can be reloaded later, so the player can continue where he or she had stopped. Players usually save games to prevent the loss of progress in the game (as might happen after a game over unless the game features permadeath, in which the save file is permanently deleted), especially when interrupting or ending a game session.
The use of saved games is very common in modern video games, particularly in role-playing video games, which are usually much too long to finish in a single session.
Read more about Saved Game: History and Overview, Integration of Saved Game Systems Into Gameplay, Save Sharing, Arcades
Famous quotes containing the words saved and/or game:
“They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: “You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.””
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
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—For the State of West Virginia, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)