1-up

Summary: A 1-up is a video game term for an "extra life" or an extra chance to play the game. One ups are usually collected as items or earned by the game's characters through accomplishments. They are usually the ultimate reward, and difficult to obtain. Some games feature 2-ups, 3-ups, or even 5-ups, as well. This term comes from Japanese katakana-English. "~ UP" (Japanese: ～アップ) means "to raise the ability of, to increase." Some English study books in Japan have phrase ...

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A 1-up is a video game term for an "extra life" or an extra chance to play the game. One ups are usually collected as items or earned by the game's characters through accomplishments. They are usually the ultimate reward, and difficult to obtain.

Some games feature 2-ups, 3-ups, or even 5-ups, as well.

This term comes from Japanese katakana-English. "~ UP" (Japanese: ～アップ) means "to raise the ability of, to increase." Some English study books in Japan have phrases like "Ability UP!", etc. written on their covers.

This Japanese shortening of English also provided us with another popular gaming phrase, level up; however, Dungeons and Dragons aficionados may disagree about the origins of this oft-invoked phrase.

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