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1 life

Video game concept

*123*
995
games
70
platforms

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.

Notable people involved: John Nelson, Donald Brown, Sam Ruby, Robert Parker and John Carmack

Alternate name: No extra lives

Related:
* 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.

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Games by year

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The first 1 life video game was released on July 1971.

EAG and NEUC published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows291
Apple II E259
Linux130
MS-DOS98
Mac OS X33
BeOS12
Mac OS Classic12
Tandy Coco10
X3609
BSD8
Pandora7
PS27
TRS-806
C646
ZX Spectrum6
OS/25
NES5
NeXT4
custom4
Commander X164
Atari 26004
Electron3
Unix3
PS33
PS3
Dragon323
Flash3
Amiga3
Android3
Amiga AGA2

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