You Only Live Once (video game) (original) (raw)

You Only Live Once is a 2009 Flash platformer by game developer Marcus Richert, designed to be only playable once, not allowing the player another chance after dying in the game, even if it is restarted. It was a finalist at Sense of Wonder Night at the Tokyo Game Show 2009. It has together with One Chance been frequently cited in computer game academia as an example of the game mechanic permadeath. It has been also called a metagame and a "response" to Super Mario Bros. or an "affectionate parody of the tendency of video games to trivialise victims."