The Bad - Gone Without a Trace
My oldest SNES games were always having their memory wiped. Nobody in my family was intentionally or unintentionally erasing files or anything. It was just something to do with the cartridges themselves. It was a bummer when it happened but when those games happened to be Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario World, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, it wasn’t too hard, both in difficulty and time required, to get back to where I was. I did not have the same attitude in a later occurrence.
In 2000, I received Paper Mario for Christmas. I let my sister have a file on it and we both would play it a lot and compete for its use. After roughly 20 hours into the game, I reached the final point in the game. Instead of beating it right then and there, I decided to take a break and attempt to beat it later on.
My sister happened to play it after I got off. When I returned to finish it in the evening, I was horrified by what appeared on the screen. My file that occupied the first slot was gone. My sister’s file was intact but not mine. I went ballistic.
I was never a physically violent person, but I went on a verbal tirade directed at my sister that my mom or sister had never seen from me. I accused her of erasing my file, which she denied doing, and I remember throwing in a ***** and ******* in there. After five minutes or so, I calmed down and went to my room so that I could restart my file.
I don’t know what the truth behind the matter was. I do know that my sister would never intentionally erase it, but she was the type who would lie if she did something wrong that she didn’t mean to do. If she did accidentally erase it or if my file was the victim of some cartridge problem is something I’ll never know.
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