OK, you could probably save all of my personality on a floppy disk, but I'm kind of dull.

I'm also not thousands of years old, and my voice isn't quite as cool as his...honestly, Optimus may sound more human than I do; I get accused of being a machine all the time. Anyway, from 2006, IDW's Transformers: Generations #7, reprinting Marvel's 1987 Transformers #24, "Afterdeath!" Written by Bob Budiansky, pencils by Don Perlin, inks by Ian Akin and Brian Garvey. Reprint cover by Nick Roche; and the controller on it is far too modern; but I'm not sure any of the computer stuff in the original story was drawn with any references, either; both computers and video games may as well be sorcery at this point...

This may have been about when I fell off buying Transformers as a kid: young energy researcher Ethan Zachary unwinds after work by using the massive screen and supercomputer to play games, but when Megatron and Optimus confront each other over the energy plant, his game becomes a battlefield. Captured, Ethan had overheard Optimus suggest that Megatron wouldn't want to risk destroying the plant before getting whatever it was he was after, so Ethan proposes they fight it out in the game. I would've been 100% onboard if this meant Megs and Optimus were going to settle things with a match of Super Smash Brothers or whatever, just to see them with tiny controllers in their hands...wait, what head-to-head fighting games were there in 1987? Karate Champ? Or the first Street Fighter.

Instead, Optimus and the Protectobots and Megatron and his Combaticons are loaded into the game. (This was well before the concept of the Transformers' "sparks," so they were basically considered programs here?) Megatron had also proposed raising the stakes: for him and Optimus, if they died in the game, they died in real life, and both are rigged to self-destruct at the press of a button. The Protectobots give a good showing of themselves, making allies within the game to help them beat their opponents. But, when Megatron cheats to reappear after falling to his death, Optimus is forced to cheat himself, "sacrificing" innocent bystanders to defeat him, something he could never have done in real life. He tells Ethan to press the button and destroy him, and he does!

The victorious Decepticons help themselves to the research center's work; while the Protectobots solemnly return Optimus Prime's body to the Ark. But, Ethan still had Optimus saved...on a 5¼-inch floppy disk!? That is insulting. Standard floppy was about 1.44 MB, assuming Ethan had the higher end 2.8 MB, which would get you what, maybe not even 30 seconds of Transformers: the Movie? In lowest-possible def. Optimus was also killed in that, just the year prior; so the continuity was already getting iffy, but would continue merrily along it's own path for years to come.