This is a great discussion of challenge by perfection (few saves/retries), as I pointed out here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725036 http://news.ycombi

This is a great discussion of challenge by perfection (few saves/retries), as I pointed out here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725036 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725036 Some people like that. It might not be a suitable challenge for casual gamers with little time on their hands, although that can be greatly mitigated by allowing save-quit. I first saw someone use the save-quit approach on the Gameboy Advanced for Dragon Warrior: you quit the game, saving your progress, and when you come in again, it restores you perfectly and deletes your save. I am not sure how something like that would work for a game like Galaga. It might be too disruptive.