By Xah Lee. Date: 2012-03-02. Last updated: 2012-03-30. Conway's Game of Life within Conway's Game of Life. Conway's Game of Life within Conway's Game of Life. Video made by Mike Stay http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike/ (aka http://www.youtube.com/user/metawetayt on YouTube.) The pattern that emulates a single life cell is called “unit life cell”. First discovered in 1996 by David Bell http://www.