1 life
Video game concept
Player has no extra lives nor continues, death or other loss condition simply results in game over or in some cases automatic loading of newest save.
994
games
68platforms
Alternate name: No extra lives
WIN 2004-11
WIN 2006
WIN 2012-11-24
WIN 2007-06
WIN 1997-08-31
WIN 2003-12-02
WIN 2009-02-10
OCS 1993
WIN 2009-02-20
WII 2008-06-03
DOS 1994-06-01
WIN 2006-08-14
Related:
* Permanent death - any saves are deleted upon death as well
* No saves
Contrast:
* Lives
* Unlimited lives
* Deathless
* Permanent death - any saves are deleted upon death as well
* No saves
Contrast:
* Lives
* Unlimited lives
* Deathless
Continues commonly seen in arcade games are treated the same as lives for this.
This is only useful to mark games that have been reviewed not to have multiple lives.
Combined with retry points, we can assume the game creates some form of non-permanent (in memory) auto saves at certain points.
This is only useful to mark games that have been reviewed not to have multiple lives.
Combined with retry points, we can assume the game creates some form of non-permanent (in memory) auto saves at certain points.
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The first 1 life video game was released on July 1971.
EAG, NEUC and Activision published most of these games.
Platforms
Most common companies
EAG | 104 | |
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NEUC | 102 | |
Activision | 24 | |
Electronic Arts | 20 | |
Interplay | 13 | |
Ubisoft | 11 | |
Valve | 10 | |
Eamon Adventurer's Guild | 10 | |
GT Interactive | 10 | |
Beamdog | 9 | |
Sega | 9 | |
Eidos | 9 | |
Bethesda Softworks | 8 | |
Softdisk | 7 | |
Quicksilva | 7 |