Game Over


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Game Over refers to a situation in a video game where the player has lost all lives, which were lost by getting hit by an enemy, deadly obstacles, getting crushed, drowning or falling into bottomless pits. Many games are also known to show the words "Game Over" on the screen after all lives are lost.

Throughout the series, Sonic the Hedgehog games are seen to feature Game Over as well. In earlier games, when the player gets Game Over, he/she has to start at the beginning of the whole game, mostly at the title screen or menu section.

Description
After the save feature got introduced in Sonic the Hedgehog CD and Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the player can always start again from the first act of the zone where he/she got Game Over. Like in many Arcade games, if the player has got Continues from Item Boxes, Special Stages or any other way, the player is able to continue the game if he/she wants to. In SegaSonic the Hedgehog arcade game, the player has to insert more coins into the cabinet within ten seconds to continue, which otherwise leads to an instant Game Over. Without continues will also lead to an instant Game Over and having to start over. In several games such as Sonic Adventure and Sonic Generations, if the player gets to the Game Over menu, the game asks to continue playing or return to the title screen or menu section of the game.

There are three Sonic games in the series where Game Over has not featured at all. When the player loses all lives in Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), the player moves automatically to the menu without getting Game Over. However the player has to pass through the level again. A special example of a game to not feature Game Over is Knuckles' Chaotix, which involves infinite lives. If the player loses a "life" in one of zones, he/she returns to hub-world Newtrogic High Zone. In Shadow the Hedgehog when the player loses their last life it will show blacked out as a Game Over

Trivia

 * Sonic CD features an easter egg, in which if the player waits three minutes while standing still, Sonic is then heard saying "I'm outta here!", jumps off the zone and oddly the player gets a Game Over. After that, the player has normally to start from the first act of the zone.
 * When Sonic beats Shadow in their final showdown in Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic replies "Game Over, Shadow".
 * Similarly after the player defeats Diablon and Sonic at the Black Comet in Semi-Dark Story of Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow says "Game Over, Sonic!", possibly refreshing their battle in Sonic Adventure 2.
 * The game over screen of Sonic Lost World is heavily reminiscent of the continue screen from Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), but only in the Wii U version. In the Nintendo 3DS version, the screen almost completely fades to black and the words "Game Over" appear, and Sonic is under the words "Game Over"
 * Additionally, Sonic Colors ' game over theme was reused in Sonic Lost World in both versions.