Extra lives

These usually don't have any mechanism to save your game progress as they originate from systems (arcade) where such things were impossible (and undesirable).

Continues are treated as lives in terms of this.

By default it can be assumed that depletion of lives forces player to restart the current level, except in case of arcade games where we can assume permadeath is the case. Otherwise permadeath tag should be used as appropriate to distinguish cases.

Parent group

Game-like elements

Child groups

Shared lives, Shared Death

Games by year

The first Extra lives video game was released in 1094.

Atari, Mastertronic and Sega published most of these games.

Platforms

C64		1235
ZX Spectrum		923
Amstrad CPC		631
MS-DOS		543
Amiga		486
Arcade		449
Apple II E		365
Atari 400/800		360
Atari ST		334
MSX		283
VIC-20		279
NES		268
Tandy Coco		265
BBC		227
C16/Plus4		168
Atari 2600		163
Linux		162
GB		127
Windows		122
Electron		103
Dragon32		95
Mac OS Classic		87
Mega Drive		85
Memotech MTX		84
Oric		77
PC Engine		66
Master System		64
ColecoVision		60
Atari 5200		55
NEC PC8801		48

Most common companies

Atari	198
Mastertronic	165
Sega	165
Firebird	146
Ocean	135
Taito	118
CP Verlag	115
U.S. Gold	111
Codemasters	110
Konami	105
Elite	84
Players	82
Hewson	82
Gremlin Graphics	81
Activision	79