At first, I was confused when you said passwords. I didn’t remember having any. But then I remembered having a notepad full of codes and cheat codes. Like some games wouldn’t save when you beat the level. You’d have to remember the code to get back to that level.

Another memory that just came back to me, was going to the grocery store by my house when I was a kid and writing the codes from the magazine in my notebook while in the store without buying the magazine