Editing Saved game (section)

===Password===
Passwords are a form of saved game not stored on [[non-volatile memory]]. Instead, everything needed to reconstruct the game state is encoded in and displayed on-screen as a string of text, usually comprising random alphanumeric characters, and the player can then record or memorize it. The player may later resume play from that point by entering the same password. Passwords were widely used by home console games before the advent of non-volatile memory and later internal and external storage.<ref name=Lowood-Guins>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5F4pDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA385|chapter=45 Save|title=Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon|last1=Lowood|first1=Henry|last2=Guins|first2=Raiford|publisher=[[MIT Press]]|date=2016|access-date=2021-11-17|pages=385–387|isbn=9780262331951}}</ref>