1UP Community Feature – 90s Gaming Problems

The 1UP Community shares tales of game saving woe.

By: J. Kartje
March 30, 2012

The year was 1998 and I had finally saved up enough money to get a used PlayStation and a copy of Final Fantasy VII.
I got a ride to the local game store and went home with a huge smile on my face. Soon after returning home, two issues surfaced.
The red, yellow, and white cords didn’t plug in anywhere on the old TV in my room, and the game was prompting me for a memory card
that I did not have. This meant that I couldn’t save my progress and I had to take turns using the TV in the family room. It took
two weeks to finally get an RF adapter, and another two weeks to finally get that first memory card. Finally, I could progress
past the Train Graveyard.

Here at 1UP we’ve spent some time recently talking about the ’90s. Saving your game progress on a cartridge or external card isn’t
exclusive to that decade, but now it seems almost archaic — something few gamers will miss. Nowadays our consoles have
built-in storage and cloud saves, and you don’t normally worry about those things called “memory cards.” Let?s take a look at some
of the 1UP Community’s ’90s Video Game Problems.