You have to understand that when the first Wizardry came out, it was one of the first computer RPGs ever. The technology was really primitive and a lot of concepts hadn't been developed yet, including the idea of loading a saved game from a menu. So if your party died or something really bad happened that you wanted to take back, you had to turn your computer off and reboot the game. You couldn't just hit a load game key. Functionally it worked out the same, but it was much more annoying.

Originally Posted by Kordanor
@Carnifex

Only played Wiz6 and 7. Weren't you able to load in the older games?
However what you write sounds fruststrating and luck based and not actually challenging.