Heart

A life is found in the shape of a heart in both Croc: Legend of the Gobbos and Croc 2. Every time Croc is hurt during the game while holding no white crystals, he loses a life and returns to the start of the level or at the beginning of part of level, for example, when Croc enters a door. Lives are found in Smash Boxes, lying around and are also obtained by collecting 100 or more white crystals in a level. The maximum lives Croc may have at one time is 98. Croc starts a new game with 2 lives, and when he dies while the count is 0, the game is over and Croc must restart the level he last played.

In Croc 2
Croc may have as many lives depending on the number of Heart Pots he has. The game starts off with 4/4 and they can be bought from Swap Meet Pete in his shop for ? crystals. The maximum heart pots, and therefore, lives Croc may have is 9.