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Probably the cowboy death in Atari 2600 Outlaw.

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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!


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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.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXAnt2WK2Xs

alpiner on the ti/99 had a funny death too - you would yell HEELLLLP in a lame robotic voice as you fell down the mountain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GN497HptGE&feature=related



and hunt the wumpus had a cool death too

either the wumpus mouth closing on you then smiling or the always funny falling in the slime pit head first
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ET...the game responsible for single handedly destroying the video game industry. If it wasn't for this game and it's affect on the industry, we may not be where we are at now. The game is also a record holder in the sense that it was created in 6 weeks.
The History of the Atari 2600...Waring: 8pgs long
in case you're too young to know about the ET game...
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As far as character deaths go...this is one of my favorites.
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and...a video of the death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjajVf3BEc

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As far as character deaths go...this is one of my favorites.
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and...a video of the death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjajVf3BEc


i played yars revenge for so many hours

i thought the character death was kinda lame though

when you shot the satellite thing though- that was awesome

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ET sucked! I could never get out of that pit once I fell in!

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My other favorite is the death of a blood elf in World of Warcraft. It's really well done when you see the blood elf gasping for air and reaching out then finally dying.

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man i was raised by sierra games! i rarely bring them up in talking about old video games, because nobody ever seems to know what im talking about!

i spent so so so many late nights playing those games when i was a kid!

the re-issued most of them recently, but i cant play them on a mac. lame!

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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

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haha yep - that was the first computer game I played (prior to that we had a vic20, which doesn't really count, although you could programme basic on it).

I think leisure suit larry was my favourite series though, i felt so NAUGHTY playing those as a kid, even though i'm pretty sure I wouldn't have got a lot of the jokes. 2 & 3 especially were awesome.

sucks about not being able to play them on a mac, i remember downloading the old EGA ones and them not working properly (funny that)

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man i was raised by sierra games! i rarely bring them up in talking about old video games, because nobody ever seems to know what im talking about!

i spent so so so many late nights playing those games when i was a kid!

the re-issued most of them recently, but i cant play them on a mac. lame!

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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


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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...


I totally forgot about that. That game had some pretty gruesome funny stuff in it. I always sucked at it. :D

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joshuajh wrote:
man i was raised by sierra games! i rarely bring them up in talking about old video games, because nobody ever seems to know what im talking about!

i spent so so so many late nights playing those games when i was a kid!

the re-issued most of them recently, but i cant play them on a mac. lame!

soda pop SMASH wrote:
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


If you have a pc at least one of the kings quest games has been touched up with new graphics, music etc. I think they were working on one of the space quest games as well.


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joshuajh wrote:
man i was raised by sierra games! i rarely bring them up in talking about old video games, because nobody ever seems to know what im talking about!

i spent so so so many late nights playing those games when i was a kid!

the re-issued most of them recently, but i cant play them on a mac. lame!

soda pop SMASH wrote:
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


If you have a pc at least one of the kings quest games has been touched up with new graphics, music etc. I think they were working on one of the space quest games as well.


haha i dunno if you're talking to me or him, but he said he has a mac there.. i dl'ed that KQ, wasn't into it.. can't remember the KQ i had, the one that was based on fairy tales...


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I like all the Dragon's Lair deaths, but that is my fav, Dirk gives the player a dirty look for getting him killed

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joshuajh wrote:
man i was raised by sierra games! i rarely bring them up in talking about old video games, because nobody ever seems to know what im talking about!

i spent so so so many late nights playing those games when i was a kid!

the re-issued most of them recently, but i cant play them on a mac. lame!

soda pop SMASH wrote:
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


If you have a pc at least one of the kings quest games has been touched up with new graphics, music etc. I think they were working on one of the space quest games as well.


haha i dunno if you're talking to me or him, but he said he has a mac there.. i dl'ed that KQ, wasn't into it.. can't remember the KQ i had, the one that was based on fairy tales...


D'oh!! I missed the entire part about having a mac!!

I think the fairy tale one was no.2? No. 3 was the one with Mannanan the wizard where you started out as his apprentice, can't remember the others?


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Gauntlet 2 for the NES had some great sounds. When you would die the character would spin around and this strange voice would cackle. Thats still one of the funnest 4 player games ever.

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