I was born in 1978, and some of the earliest games we ever got were KQ1, and then 2. WE had "unoriginal" copies, and SAVE - for whatever reason - never worked...
Now... we loved those games, but we had to try to finish them in one sitting... the game could only ever be tackled right from the start.
You can imagine, there might be a bit of tension in the room - 3 brothers huddled around the monitor - when it came time to walk the path of thorns, to try to reach Dracula's castle across the poisoned moat in KQ2.
Oh, my, god. And that path of thorns was so unforgiving, sooooo not-even-laid-out-fairly-or-intuitively to know which footstep might be your last... and we had no save. One bump of a thorn and the entire game had to be played from the beginning!
Once! Once upon a time... we made it.
Oh the delight to see inside the castle! What was in there? What awaited us there?!?
A circular stairway, leading up. My brother and I (twins), were asked to leave the room while our older brother attempted the climb.
He promptly fell down and died.
At this point, he deemed it appropriate to get scissors and cut the disk into "8 even pieces". Not something I approved of at all, and yet, it seemed somehow like a justifiable reaction.
This became a long standing family quote, and "fond memory" of playing Sierra games in our youth.