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I just tried it with modifying the code to not move the bullet off-screen, you are doing it correctly, you have a flag variable "active", and it's working the way you intended..at least it is for me . The bullet disappears when it collides. Also no fears of memory issues for a memory leak you would have had to have an array that re-sized with every bullet shot and it keeping track of each bullet, so ever growing numbers. What you were talking about is simply changing the same set of variables, which has basically zero effect on memory.

As for your player explosion issue, you use the "Wait()" command, which actually pauses execution of the program, the whole program...explosion and all lol. So if you need the rest of the game to pause while the player explodes into glory, I would use a "pause" flag variable That controls runtime on everything except that explosion and also background sound, explosion sound etc... so that everything stops moving but the player blows up, and is heard blowing up.

If that wasn't clear enough, all your update sub routines and functions could only run if, for example, If GAME_STATE$ <> "pause" Then and for the player explosion If player is hit then pause game and do your exploding stuff...

I hope that made sense.

I will give you a quick example of what I mean....I doubt it's either one of us but both....I usually can't explain all that well lol. I will try very hard to write an example as soon as I can.

Click!... and the light goes on! Many thanks for clearing up my confusion. Much appreciated.