A Japanese gamer has revealed that he kept his Super Nintendo turned on for 20 years just so he didn't lose his progress.

Unlike game consoles today that offer saving technology, the Super Nintendo console, which was popular in the 1990s, lost all game progress when its batteries died.

So Twitter user Wanikun decided to never turn off his console in order to save his progress in the Japanese game Umihara Kawase.

Twitter user Wanikun claims he hasn't turned off his Super Nintendo for more than 20 years in order to keep from losing progress in his game

Wanikun said he keeps his console on in order to keep data saved from the December 1994 game Umihara Kawase

He shared an image of his Super Famicom, the Japanese name for a Super Nintendo which can also be called a SNES, and told his followers that it had been on for more than two decades.

Earlier this year, he said the console had been constantly running for 180,000 hours, or 20 years, six months, two weeks, three days, eight hours and 39 minutes, according to the Mirror.

It is unknown if the device has been turned off since the Twitter posting.

'By the way, I've left the first generation Umihara Kawase for the SNES on for 20 years. I think it's breaking past 180,000 hours,' he wrote. 'If the power is turned off, I'll lose my replay data. Probably.'

Umihara Kawase is a game that was released in December 1994 and stars a 19-year-old Japanese school girl who is lost in a world of mutated fresh-water and salt-water creatures.

Wanikun said that he did unplug his console once, when he was moving houses, but that the battery stayed on long enough to keep the progress saved.

'The sound track and the data have remained the same without change,' he wrote in a second tweet about moving houses.