Back in the day before Xbox 360 Achievements (and now PS3 Trophies), completing certain tasks in gaming were only done to attain a level of accomplisment and pride that existed at the very core of video games. After all, why else would we even bother playing anything in the first place if there was no sense of success or closure in what we did, especially given that memory cards weren’t around a while back and if you died it meant starting all over again from the very beginning and you had to challenge those deformed freaks in Rock Paper Scissors in Alex Kidd again (and lose, repeatedly) until your child self wept?