Continue

Continue refers to the option in video games, where after losing all lives, the player gets another change to try complete the level without no need to start from the beginning of the game. Originally derived from arcade games, Sonic the Hedgehog games also featured Continues similarly before or after the player manages to get Game Over. The game progresses to the screen, where the player has given ten seconds to decide, whether he/she wants to continue and if so, the player gets usually three extra lives and the player starts from the certain act in the Zone, where he/she loses before.

To gain Continues in Sonic games, the player is required to do certain things to earn them, which most of time in Special Stages. The player either has to get certain amount of Rings, points or certain other objects. Once this is done, the player usually is able to know this on score results, where the player can either hears Continue jingle or seeing chibi-version of the playable character standing on the results. Games like Tails Skypatrol, Sonic Adventure and Sonic Generations have infinite Continues, while the two last mentioned games featured Continue menus after the player gets Game Over.