What are password games?

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was reading an amazon.com review of the Bionicle game and reviewers say
its a password game. I was going to buy this for my son (7). I know
absolutely nothing about GBA's. So what is this password thing?

help! - Craig

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John Salerno <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message news:<N8udnQQboZY8vTjcRVn-qg@rcn.net>...
> who me? wrote:
> > was reading an amazon.com review of the Bionicle game and reviewers say
> > its a password game. I was going to buy this for my son (7). I know
> > absolutely nothing about GBA's. So what is this password thing?
> >
> > help! - Craig
>
> Wow, I didn't know games used passwords anymore. Anyway, like Ace said,
> it means instead of the game automatically saving your progress, you
> have to write down a password, which you then enter again when you play
> the game, to resume your progress.

Yeah only developers too cheap to put in a battery use passwords now.
SpiderMan for the GBA is a password game, even though it was made by
the same company that did Tony Hawk GBA. Go figure.