[fydorm]

You can play Pokémon Red but not save your game, because the batteries inside the game cartridge are dead.

[deergomoo]

Yeah but all it takes is a soldering iron, a Philips head, and 2 minutes to put a new one in.

Quite different to a modern game where what’s on the physical cartridge/disc may not even be playable without a day one patch from a long-decommissioned server.

[teeray]

My original game saves are actually still there, miraculously.