LekhoriLekhoriAn option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.
So if you died battling the green monster inside the cave—and you had run out of lives—maybe a continue would be available.
From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Middle English thurghwonen, from Old English þurhwunian.
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To make last; to prolong.
Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?
To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
[…] dip the mouth of it within the second glass and remove your finger; continue it in that posture for a time, and it will unmingle the wine from the water […]