my favorite is the guys falling to their death in kung fu on the nes. whats yours?

bonus points for screen-shots!!

spiderman on atari.. out of webs so brutal it hurts.

The Megaman particle explosion. I can still hear the sound in my head.

munchman on the old texas instruments home computer

it was a total pacman ripoff, but when munchman was caught, he would melt then disappear with a great noise that sounded like ooooooAAAAAAooooooooooo MAH!

yeah...those were awesome! Though I like little mac in punch out, I would have to say old school dragon's lair during the lava part... where it would cut to the knight dude like turning red and grimmacing in agony...GREAT THREAD


EDIT: BTW akum6n, I was so close to including the mega man explosion


EDIT #2 ---and I can't believe I didn't include my main man Thrilla wiping out during th T&C game with the game show "you blew it," music coming on

no love for tuxedo cat?

never

Smurfs for ColecoVision.
Totally, hilariously abrupt and unceremonious.
An electronic fart sound and your little blue guy would instantly be horizontal.

Actually now that I remember it Berzerk death for atari was even more brutal..

guy got fried!



and as if it wasn't frustrating enough to deal with all the androids you had that weirdo smiley face thing that did not follow any rules and always got you in the end.

The "death" sound from Ms. Pac Man is still stuck in my head. I'm sure there were better deaths from the old arcade and early console days, but that's the one I'll always remember. If you want to see xoco make a total fool of himself some day, ask him to sing the Ms. Pac Man theme song and make some noises from the game. To his shame, he can do that.

like when you would impale yourself on gargamel's fence!

rolling thunder,,,loved how the tall skinny guy & the hooded enemys would crumple to the ground...

Lemmings!

Pitfall

Oh yeah Lemming massacres for sure, I also liked frying someone's tank in a pit of napalm in scorched earth.

YES! Pitfall was great and who could forget frogger. SPLAT

skate or DIE!!!!!!!!!!

Favorite death would have to be the big guys in Double Dragon II

This will show how young I am but I used to love pounding bad guys into the ground then kicking them in the face in battle toads.

i remember playing space quest in 89 and that had some pretty cool deaths.. getting eaten by an android spider thing, going into space and your head exploding, falling into some lava-ish pit, getting smashed by meteors..

fuck i loved sierra games

Eternal Champions!

I miss simple hoppy platform games. Why did Duke Nukem have to go all 3D and stuff? Is that really progress? I guess simple hoppy games don't do much for nVidia's bottom line.

Holy shit - you're now the second person i've ever come across that had a TI home computer. My parents had one when i was a young-un and i clearly remember my mum spending huge amounts of time on munchman!! That's such a blast from the past!!

Favorite video game death, not particularly to reflect my age but i don't think you can go far wrong with the 'worms' airstrike.

Not so old but, Mortal Kombat Gold PIT FATALITY (in the arcades when I was little playing this I had to look away because it scared me)
Better than a Picture

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qWF9kcUghz8

Me too. For me, it's not so much the movement from 2D to 3D (the original Starfox was still simple fun...), but the movement to immersive game play (e.g., MMORPGs). I don't really feel like living my video games- I'd much rather have something that can be picked up and put down at my leisure.