Coffin Conversations - by dementia

Dead bodies have been vanishing in games for decades because of technical difficulties. Old 2-D games — like just about anything on the original Atari, Sega and Nintendo systems — could only display a limited number of character graphics, or sprites, on a TV screen at one time. Letting a zapped enemy lie prone on the playing field caused problems, limiting the amount of new things, like new on-rushing enemies, that could be drawn onto the screen. "You would end up sacrificing one of your precious moving objects to display an essentially useless dead body."