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.

993
games
68
platforms

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.

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

EAG, NEUC and Activision published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 291
Apple II E 259
Linux 130
MS-DOS 98
Mac OS X 33
Mac OS Classic 12
BeOS 12
Tandy Coco 10
BSD 9
X360 9
PS2 7
Pandora 7
ZX Spectrum 6
TRS-80 6
NES 5
OS/2 5
C64 5
Atari 2600 4
NeXT 4
Commander X16 4
Flash 3
PS 3
DEC PDP-1 3
Android 3
Amiga 3
Amiga AGA 3
Unix 3
Electron 3
PS3 3
Amstrad CPC 2

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