"kill screen" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Scott Rogers, Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design, page 48",
          "text": "The most famous kill screen from classic gaming is the 256th level of Pac-Man. At this point, due to a bug half the screen becomes garbled data, which keeps the player from collecting all of the dots and clearing the board to move on.",
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        {
          "ref": "2020, Michelle Herte, Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games, Routledge",
          "text": "Kill screens—a problem largely limited to arcade games—occur when an unexpectedly far progress of a player causes an error in the game program.",
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        "A level in a computer game that is impossible to win, usually due to programming errors."
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        "(video games) A level in a computer game that is impossible to win, usually due to programming errors."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "killscreen"
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      "topics": [
        "video-games"
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        "kill screen"
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          "ref": "2010, Scott Rogers, Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design, page 48",
          "text": "The most famous kill screen from classic gaming is the 256th level of Pac-Man. At this point, due to a bug half the screen becomes garbled data, which keeps the player from collecting all of the dots and clearing the board to move on.",
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          "text": "Kill screens—a problem largely limited to arcade games—occur when an unexpectedly far progress of a player causes an error in the game program.",
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        "A level in a computer game that is impossible to win, usually due to programming errors."
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        "(video games) A level in a computer game that is impossible to win, usually due to programming errors."
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