Hope I am not asking too many stupid questions. I assume that a saved game is simply a backup in case the computer crashes or for just going back to previous scenes or days for info. I assume each saved game is self contained. For example if you go back to a saved and find an item you missed for your inventory and put it in the inventory this is useless because when you go back to your current game that item won't be there anyway in your current game. Correct?

Benny -- from your description, yes, if you go back to a past/previously saved game, and then find an item, that item will not be found in your later saved games when you reload them.

It's kind of hard to explain, isn't it?

Benny you would have to play forward from the saved game to grab an inventory item you've missed and then play forward from that saved game to where you need/want to be currently.

Sue

Also Benny saved games are very important if you are in a game in which you may get killed, if you do the wrong thing. I found this out the hard way. There is one game I got killed in and I didn't know you could get killed in it, so I did'nt have a save game to start from and go forward with. I had to start the game all over from the beginning. That was when I first started playing adventure games. Now I save quite often, especially before I enter a new room or right before I try and solve a puzzle or move or open something, you never know what could happen. Here at gameboomers forum sometimes someone here maybe able to send you a saved game if you get stuck.