Extra lives

Video game concept

Player character has multiple "lives", that are basically how many tries a player has before a Game Over.

9352
games
155
platforms

Alternate names: Tries, Continues

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.

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Parent group

Game-like elements

Child groups

Shared lives, Shared Death

Games by year

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The first Extra lives video game was released in 1975.

Atari, Mastertronic and Sega published most of these games.

Platforms

C64 1212
ZX Spectrum 920
Amstrad CPC 631
MS-DOS 542
Amiga 485
Arcade 437
Apple II E 363
Atari 400/800 353
Atari ST 333
MSX 272
NES 267
Tandy Coco 266
VIC-20 264
BBC 209
C16/Plus4 168
Linux 162
Atari 2600 155
GB 127
Windows 122
Electron 101
Mac OS Classic 87
Dragon32 87
Mega Drive 85
Memotech MTX 84
Oric 74
PC Engine 66
Master System 64
ColecoVision 59
Atari 5200 55
NEC PC8801 48