I’ve been a gamer all my life. From the days of Atari and Intellivision to King’s Quest to Quake to Kingpin to Call of Duty to Neverwinter 2. I’ve played pretty much all of them, and even designed maps, skins, arenas and worlds!
When gaming first started there were no saves and respawn points. When you played a game you played it from start to finish. If you died you died and you’d have to start from the beginning and play your way through again. Of course, back them there was no such thing as hard drives built into the machines. Hell, my first PC didn’t even have a hard drive.