Kill screen

A kill screen is a screen that prevents progress from the player. The screens in some games stop the game with gibberish or otherwise impossible figures. In Pac-Man, at a certain level the screen overflows and spreads fruits and ghosts across the arcade machine's screen.

Games with kill screens

• Pac-Man
• Donkey Kong
• Contra
• Dig Dug
• Tetris

These are games that have integer overflow.^[1]