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Extra lives
(Tries / Continues) Video game concepts
Player character has multiple "lives".
Related:
* Retry points
* Instant retry

Contrast:
* 1 life
* Deathless
Sanguine # 2010-01-17 05:14:06
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.
Sanguine # 2009-08-12 22:47:26

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Extra lives games for each platform 
NES 78
MS-DOS 27
Amstrad CPC 24
Amiga 20
C64 18
C16/Plus4 16
Windows 16
Vic 20 13
Megadrive 11
MSX 4
Neo-Geo 4
ZX Spectrum 4
Amiga AGA 3
Master System 3
PSP 2
Arcade 2
GBA 1
BBC 1
Electron 1
Win3.1 1
PCE 1
ZX Spectrum 128 1
X68000 1
Atari ST 1
GB 1

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