I'll trust that there was a great video there that I couldn't see because of my browser's javascript blocking.
The closest thing I did back then was make a tiny scratch in a certain spot on games I rented. When I went to rent them again, I would check and bug the clerk for a different one if it wasn't mine.
When I played my first rpg on the Playstation, I left the thing on for 48 hours until I could to the store and pick up a memory card.
Only time I did something like that was save over every slot in Shadowrun for the Genesis so I could return the game and finish it the next weekend. That was a great game.
I had a friend in high school who had a Turbo Grafx 16 and for some reason was obsessed with keeping his high-score game of Devil's Crush active so he literally just left the TG16 on for years.
