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[Wreck-It Ralph] What would happen if a game that was previously unplugged, became replugged in?

It's well known that you die if your game gets unplugged, if you don't get out in time. So what if the game was plugged in again? Would the characters be gone or would new versions of them be generated?
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Well, it would depend on how long it was unplugged for. Video game consoles are just like any other computer, and have small CMOS batteries in the mainboard. If the console isn't left unplugged long enough for that battery to die, then no harm, no foul. The game picks up where it left off. Of course, if some of the main characters *did* escape, and then the console is plugged in at another site, well, it'll probably get unplugged again as defective.  
If the CMOS battery *does* die, when the console gets plugged in, a few things will happen. For starters, it will have to be reconfigured with basic information again, such as the time and date, and any other special settings the BIOS has. Once it's booted up, it's a brand new game. You'll have very similar characters, who of course won't have any of the "life experience" of the previous ones. And, of course, if that CMOS battery doesn't get replaced, they won't have much of a chance to get any, either. The first power outage to come along and they're gone again.  
  
Man, that would suck. Being in the consoles next to them, knowing that their friends will get wiped out any time the power goes out? After a few  outages, do you think they'd stop making friends with them? Would the new characters wonder why no one else really acts friendly to them, no one invites them to their parties or games, or in general has the time of day for them? If they explained to the fresh chatacters what was going on, would they develop a complex? Decide to hang out outside their game, maybe at first only during the hours the arcade is closed, but then eventually decide to stay in the grid, abandoning the game that they know will kill them otherwise?