2 important things: In the Mortal Kombat clip I had to change the song of the fall into the pit because absolutely all the music of this saga has a very restrictive copyright (thanks Warner Bros...); And some continues were too long in length (more than 20 seconds), so I've cut them a little bit to make the video more entertaining to watch. I hope you can understand these little "creative licenses". Enjoy the video!
Some of these were creepy and cruel. Others just felt out of place for their setting or just were boring. It was always interesting how some games used the countdown to really encourage just one more quarter.
The Ninja Gaiden game over screen might be the most vicious, but the Cadillacs & Dinosaurs one is pretty rough as well. Being shot point blank multiple times by some huge shirtless guy with a new wave hairstyle and a glam rock coat would be a humiliating way to go.
Running out of ammo in Operation Wolf always had me. Instead of going out in a blaze of glory, you just become one more hostage. Excellent trolling on the game makers' part, haha.
GAME OVER YEEEEEAH! Hace rato que no me pasaba por el canal, no se por qué RUclips no me avisa si tengo la maldita campana puesta. Qué maravilla cómo seguís actualizando pequeños detalles de la gráfica, y haciendo contenido entretenido xD saludos buen hombre!
I think the "cruelty" in it is the overly joyful song seeming like it's celebrating your defeat as a form of mockery. (Though it's the same song even if you win, so it kinda mitigates that feel when you realize that.)
This got me to thinking on these Game Over screens, in Ninja Gaiden, the words were (neatly) arranged in entrails. Sly Spy is also an underrated Game Over in it's simplicity in showing the consequences of your failure. Capcom's screens ranged anywhere from coercive (Final Fight) to pleading, as in a doctor or healer can't revive you without paying up. The mahjong screen looked like a toned-down Ninja Gaiden for the "step on me, Mommy" set. Comparing Mortal Kombat's screen, which is iconic for the series, if the Ninja Gaiden fate was used in Splatterhouse, would it have made that game more impactful? And on a lighter note, y'all think Tecmo's Team Ninja helped "revolutionize" game physics with the Dead or Alive franchise to atone for their nightmare fuel imagery? Overall, we also have memories of beating the end boss and seeing some good endings to counteract the defeats; perseverance, reflexes, and patience are all qualities in gaming that can be leveraged in the real world. And it's still possible to be a reasonably sane human being after reveling in fictional violence.
Some Game Over screens are simply devastating, making you feel like a total failure. Others are downright creepy and disturbing that makes you regret to lose. Some are simply a letdown that make you feel dissapointed. And then you have Sega Rally's *GAME OVER YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!*
Looking at it from another perspective, the Fatal Fury Game Over, can you imagine if the creators had put the phrase when you defeat Geese? something like: "Andy Bogard dies in hospital 3 hours after falling from a highrise" that would have made it too cruel for the player.
All these are cruel game overs but there's 2 cruel game overs that actually make you feel guilty for not continuing >Take Blue's journey, one woman ask you to continue for raguy but if you don't for atleast few seconds she call you a bad guy because she think you are just another person that don't care pollution and also think that you throw trash everywhere you go, and when it reach zero you see this image that everything in the sky messed up and now you become a monster of mother nature by seeing good air turns into bad smell from smokes and eventually nature is dying slowly >Sly spy is that you see a dozen of missile nuclears is about to launch by multiple locations and once it's fully launch you see everything on the ground destroyed by the nukes, killed countless of innocent people and also it's almost impossible to recover due to dozen of missile nuclears and all around of the planet becoming a nuclear earth war where you cannot breathe so good because of radiation life death threatening, and environment is falling apart and massed suffered damage from the nuclears, I think it's might takes centuries to recover but humanity is also suffered too so all living lifes will unable to live in peace with the PNDW (post-nuclear destruction weapon) thing. Who knows what century will continue after the recover.
"Ninja gaiden" and "cadillac and dinosaurs" are my worst game over nightmares when I was 8 years old. It still haunts me a lot, so that is why in won't play it again, ever
Many of these weren't that brutal, IMO. Also I'd love to see some more modern ones. it's always retro ones they keep bringing up, but I'm pretty sure there must be some brutal and/or cruel ones from recent years in indie games.
I don't remember the name of the game, but it was a fantasy beat em up. You played a warrior with a weapon like in Black Tiger/Black Dragon, a flail like weapon, and can fight monsters....as you beat em up, the monsters' faces got more bloody. The game over screen had the hero in the mouth of some big creature with big teeth, and when the timer reached zero, the mouth closed and you hear the hero screaming. Edit: 2:27 Nevermind. :D
The one in Final Fight always tripped me out. Especially after seeing Chris Rock's character in New Jack City get blown up the same way. I was a kid thinking man, they just ended his life for real. These guys had families.
0:38 I remembered playing this as a kid and seeing this game over screen tried to press continue repeatedly to no avail got traumatized for a while later realized you need credits that were three if I remember correctly to start again and no save points too Great now I want to play these games again finish them.
Something I picked up is that the game overs music and sound effects are much more energized than the SNES. Combined with the countdown, it tries to get the player to panic and put in another coin right away.
I remember seeing some gameplay of the Jojo arcade game at Cici's Pizza years ago. I never actually understand the context of the game over screen as a kid...
Did losing in Slam Masters really get to Haggar so much that he got a heart attack? Well shit. That makes the dynamite in Final Fight rather pointless.
Man. I am 42 years old. I shouldn't be surprised to feel this way, but man! The movement, speed and designs of games back then was the bomb! Looking at them now...I feel so lame!
I miss stuff like this. It shows more effort and love being put into the game. I know that since it was the arcade it was for the coin, but having it at home was just a treat. I love it.
"This is a wrestling game, but we gotta make the game over screen look tragic somehow" "Make the character get a heart attack when it reaches zero" "Genius"
No...the cruelest one I remember, that's not on the list, was of a princess (you're supposed to save) tied up and drowning with rising water. Any expert remember that game? I think it was a space shooter?
@@deafmelonex6983 that would be exactly like it, but it's not it. it was a princess, no ropes but chains, and a space shooter. This has been bugging me so hard i might try all 1000 mames and die to find out.
2:17 Im scared of Blue’s Journey game over, I think Queretaro will end up screwup and ruined by the Mexican corruption and pollution and I’ll die exhausted
Oh was wondering about the music thing with MK4 falling lol 😆 I forget channels that get paid can't use licensed music. But yeah MK4s is the best here first time I saw that I was like wow that's messed up lol 😆
Wariors fate fue mi primer beat em up y recuerdo que si me impresionó un poquito la primera vez, era una niña de 7 años, recuerdo que dije: lo van a matar. Ese juego lo conocí en el lugar que comenté en uno de tus vídeos, uno donde mi mamá me llevaba de niña. A medida que avanzaba el vídeo me iba preguntando dónde estaba final fight xDDDD supongo que dejaste lo mejor para el final jejejejejeje... Y eso que no hubo arcade del 2 y 3. En la pantalla del 2 meten al personaje en un lugar amarrado dónde el agua va subiendo, morir ahogado y peor en agua dulce es más terrible que solo explotar en pedazos. Y el 3 amarran al personaje mientras va cayendo una pared con pinchos xDDDD algo similar a lo que ocurre en Ninja gaiden D: Excelente vídeo amigo...
Muchísimas gracias! Al final mis vídeos siempre siguen la misma estructura! Empiezo fuerte, relajo un poco, por la mitad meto otro punto fuerte... y acabo con la traca final. Claro que el Final Fight iba a estar cerrando el vídeo... aunque por unos momentos dudé mucho sobre si ponerlo al principio de todo, y dejar el Ninja Gaiden para el final!
@@BitsBeats Así veo... Buena estrategia, en este caso no creo ser la única que lo esperaba entre los primeros, pero bueno el orden no altera el total jejejejejejejejeje...
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2 important things: In the Mortal Kombat clip I had to change the song of the fall into the pit because absolutely all the music of this saga has a very restrictive copyright (thanks Warner Bros...); And some continues were too long in length (more than 20 seconds), so I've cut them a little bit to make the video more entertaining to watch.
I hope you can understand these little "creative licenses". Enjoy the video!
What's the name of this music in the video?
Fuck WB
@@theoioioioi9536 Aries Beats "Synthwave Dreams 2020"
@@BitsBeats Thanks
Well because WB gained the MK IP after Midway shutdown and they released the MK 1 through 4 OST and it is on RUclips
Some of these were creepy and cruel. Others just felt out of place for their setting or just were boring. It was always interesting how some games used the countdown to really encourage just one more quarter.
which one you think were "felt out of place for their setting or just were boring"
@@eddiejoewalt7746 i would say the blue's journey one felt really out of place with the land destroyed and the girl's freaking skull
@@ironmaster6496 DAAAAAANG, I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THAT WAS HER SKULL. THAT'S GRIM! XD 💀
=)
but that Sega racing game😂😂😂game over, yeah?
The Ninja Gaiden game over screen might be the most vicious, but the Cadillacs & Dinosaurs one is pretty rough as well. Being shot point blank multiple times by some huge shirtless guy with a new wave hairstyle and a glam rock coat would be a humiliating way to go.
I have seen similar characters going to a John Maus concert
Not to mention being magically shot 7 times from a 6-shot revolver.
“OOOOo”
@@DeAthWaGer imagine he just threw the last bullet really really hard at you then
Pretty much just saying “Insert coins or your character dies.”
Yes definitely Street Fighter II.
@@Joe_334 I mean they don’t really die. They get knocked out.
Insert coin(s) to continue your progress. It's game over if you don't insert them
Use your lunch money or your character dies or loses the tournament. Starve for the day or feel guilty all week.
Some of the time they just shake violently until they become depressed like in 1:30
These Game Overs are scary, both in term of the imagery of failing, or the red texted one. Love this!
Honorable mention: Operation Wolf (arcade)
Loss of life: You see the solider all shot up
Out of ammo: You become one of the hostages
You have sustained a lethal injury.
You are finished.........here.
"You have sustained a lethal injury. Sorry, but you are finished here." "Since you have no ammunition left, you must join the hostages."
If all the hostages die in the 5th or 6th level: You get scolded by the president and miserably failed your mission.
Apparently, losing a Mahjong game can be very hazardous to your health.
Batman fricking dies
Some people may actually enjoying out that way, though.
Plot Twist: Near-Batman wanted to get stepped on.
I have only played with strip mahjong games as a kid haha, good times (Dad has weird taste, that's for sure).
Wait WHAT
Running out of ammo in Operation Wolf always had me. Instead of going out in a blaze of glory, you just become one more hostage. Excellent trolling on the game makers' part, haha.
I miss the old arcade games...
That Ninja Gaiden continue screen gave me nightmares as a kid. 🤣
You should've included the Japanese version of Real Bout: Fatal Fury 2's game over screens. Those were absolutely gruesome.
“You’ve got to keep playing or I’ll be killed” jeez talk about shameless🙄
When I saw the name of the video, Ninja Gaiden Arcade was the first game that came to mind.
GAME OVER YEEEEEAH! Hace rato que no me pasaba por el canal, no se por qué RUclips no me avisa si tengo la maldita campana puesta. Qué maravilla cómo seguís actualizando pequeños detalles de la gráfica, y haciendo contenido entretenido xD saludos buen hombre!
What about mk 1 the pit bridge with all the bodies at the bottom
I always remembered the Ninja Gaiden one. It was disturbing.
The MK4 game game screen really freaked me out as a kid in the arcades. I appreciate now tho.
Same but I also loved it lol and the music is also dark and grim. The continue screen is messed up.
What's cruel about the Sega Rally one? I want that playing at my funeral, lol.
"Game Over, yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah~!"
I think the "cruelty" in it is the overly joyful song seeming like it's celebrating your defeat as a form of mockery.
(Though it's the same song even if you win, so it kinda mitigates that feel when you realize that.)
It's not cruel at all! Great way to end a funeral.
This got me to thinking on these Game Over screens, in Ninja Gaiden, the words were (neatly) arranged in entrails. Sly Spy is also an underrated Game Over in it's simplicity in showing the consequences of your failure. Capcom's screens ranged anywhere from coercive (Final Fight) to pleading, as in a doctor or healer can't revive you without paying up. The mahjong screen looked like a toned-down Ninja Gaiden for the "step on me, Mommy" set.
Comparing Mortal Kombat's screen, which is iconic for the series, if the Ninja Gaiden fate was used in Splatterhouse, would it have made that game more impactful? And on a lighter note, y'all think Tecmo's Team Ninja helped "revolutionize" game physics with the Dead or Alive franchise to atone for their nightmare fuel imagery? Overall, we also have memories of beating the end boss and seeing some good endings to counteract the defeats; perseverance, reflexes, and patience are all qualities in gaming that can be leveraged in the real world. And it's still possible to be a reasonably sane human being after reveling in fictional violence.
7:53 “Game Over Yeah” isn’t really cruel, more just annoying
Some Game Over screens are simply devastating, making you feel like a total failure.
Others are downright creepy and disturbing that makes you regret to lose.
Some are simply a letdown that make you feel dissapointed.
And then you have Sega Rally's *GAME OVER YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!*
Looking at it from another perspective, the Fatal Fury Game Over, can you imagine if the creators had put the phrase when you defeat Geese? something like: "Andy Bogard dies in hospital 3 hours after falling from a highrise" that would have made it too cruel for the player.
🤯Did haggar just have a heart attack🤯?!?!
That one's kinda messed up considering how many pro wrestlers die from exhaustion and weakened hearts from steroids/drugs.
@@DeAthWaGer Hager doing steroids to get through his later wrestling years is CONFIRMED AS CANON🤣.
@@DeAthWaGer So he LITERALLY had a basic death...from either exhaustion or weakened heart. XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
All these are cruel game overs but there's 2 cruel game overs that actually make you feel guilty for not continuing
>Take Blue's journey, one woman ask you to continue for raguy but if you don't for atleast few seconds she call you a bad guy because she think you are just another person that don't care pollution and also think that you throw trash everywhere you go, and when it reach zero you see this image that everything in the sky messed up and now you become a monster of mother nature by seeing good air turns into bad smell from smokes and eventually nature is dying slowly
>Sly spy is that you see a dozen of missile nuclears is about to launch by multiple locations and once it's fully launch you see everything on the ground destroyed by the nukes, killed countless of innocent people and also it's almost impossible to recover due to dozen of missile nuclears and all around of the planet becoming a nuclear earth war where you cannot breathe so good because of radiation life death threatening, and environment is falling apart and massed suffered damage from the nuclears, I think it's might takes centuries to recover but humanity is also suffered too so all living lifes will unable to live in peace with the PNDW (post-nuclear destruction weapon) thing. Who knows what century will continue after the recover.
I really liked your comment, this kind of contributions make the videos much better
Don’t forget Toki’s game over, where you’re flat out told that the woman will die if you don’t continue.
The Tecmo Knight one is so cool. I would have been fumbling to put quarters in as fast as I could.
"Ninja gaiden" and "cadillac and dinosaurs" are my worst game over nightmares when I was 8 years old. It still haunts me a lot, so that is why in won't play it again, ever
Ninja Gaiden 1988 was the scariest and most brutal of Game Overs but Wild Fang topped that one at 2:29.
I know. The music is terrifying.
Blue’s Journey Game Over literally scared me when I was a kid…
more tragic than scary
@@noeliabritos8817 It is creepy to me anyway
Glad I never played it as a kid. You can actually see the skull of the main character on the bottom right corner. 💀
@@elmono6299 never noticed that before until you told me
I'm surprised that Non-Standard Game Over in the "Heaven" rounds from New Zealand Story didn't end up in this.
Toki's continue screen always broke my heart. Shadow Warriors (Ninja Gaiden arcade) should be number 1.
I think special attention has to be drawn to the bootleg version of The Lion King where Simba LITERALLY HANGS HIMSELF!
Classic, but not an arcade game.
@@DeAthWaGer Owch, my bad!
some of those game over screens would cause night terrors in small children
Many of these weren't that brutal, IMO.
Also I'd love to see some more modern ones. it's always retro ones they keep bringing up, but I'm pretty sure there must be some brutal and/or cruel ones from recent years in indie games.
9:28 That "oh ma gahhh" cracks me up
Nice. I think I would have given a runner-up award for the Alien Versus Predator arcade game over screen that shows Predator arming his suicide bomb.
The Slammasters II countdown took a lot of balls. Literally.
2:35 as soon the video started, I remembered of this game and I was hopping you woudl include it :)
Great work
I don't remember the name of the game, but it was a fantasy beat em up. You played a warrior with a weapon like in Black Tiger/Black Dragon, a flail like weapon, and can fight monsters....as you beat em up, the monsters' faces got more bloody. The game over screen had the hero in the mouth of some big creature with big teeth, and when the timer reached zero, the mouth closed and you hear the hero screaming.
Edit: 2:27 Nevermind. :D
03:53 - Quite appropriate! Out of all the opponents Jotaro faced before Dio, Daniel J D’Arby was the closest to defeating him.
The building man.. You'll never forget that building fall.
The one in Final Fight always tripped me out. Especially after seeing Chris Rock's character in New Jack City get blown up the same way. I was a kid thinking man, they just ended his life for real. These guys had families.
Pookie wasn't blown up, though he was killed before they rigged him with the bomb.
8:20
In some way, I feel like you're not really losing
😂
0:38 I remembered playing this as a kid and seeing this game over screen tried to press continue repeatedly to no avail got traumatized for a while later realized you need credits that were three if I remember correctly to start again and no save points too
Great now I want to play these games again finish them.
Something I picked up is that the game overs music and sound effects are much more energized than the SNES. Combined with the countdown, it tries to get the player to panic and put in another coin right away.
2:17 By not spending another quarter, you polluted the entire world...
As a kid, my broke ass used to feel bad when the blue s journey fairy called me a bad guy for not having coins to continue 😂
I vividly remember seeing Final Fight's continue screen for the first time and being really unesttled by the image.
Your channel is amazing 👍
Cadillac's and Dinosaurs make my childhood flashbacks go into a saddened state. Memories.
I remember seeing some gameplay of the Jojo arcade game at Cici's Pizza years ago. I never actually understand the context of the game over screen as a kid...
Yeah, that kind of is one where you need to actually know the Jojo lore to realize what's going on there.
The Game Over screen from F-22 Interceptor used to really freak me out as a kid. It was pretty grim.
Did losing in Slam Masters really get to Haggar so much that he got a heart attack? Well shit. That makes the dynamite in Final Fight rather pointless.
Idk why the Ring of Destruction one is so sad. A wrestler at his lowest point just getting a heart attack and just passing away :(
Like, what?
Awesome video! One of My favourite Game over screens was predator 2 on the Sega megadrive!😎👍🏻👍🏻
Many thanks Mark!!!
@@BitsBeats You're welcome dude!🙂👍
In arcades Street Fighter 2, Jojo, Garou Densetsu, Sega Rally, Final Fight 2 most cruelties of game over.
No, it's Ninja Gaiden and Cadilacs and Dinosaurs
7:53 Sega's most memed BGM
Man. I am 42 years old. I shouldn't be surprised to feel this way, but man! The movement, speed and designs of games back then was the bomb! Looking at them now...I feel so lame!
Ninja Gaiden game over got me nightmare as a kid thought the chainsaw will get me next. The punisher part the EMT saying come on pun com on oh nooo🤣
Miss these old school graphics and sprites. So nostalgic.
The one from Jojo jumpscared me when i was younger
6:30 Ron Burgundy!
"You stay classy, Street Fighter."
I miss stuff like this. It shows more effort and love being put into the game. I know that since it was the arcade it was for the coin, but having it at home was just a treat. I love it.
I miss these, the Final Fight one and the Ninja Gaiden one were legendary.
7:36 Great, you also gave those poor people heart attacks lmao
"This is a wrestling game, but we gotta make the game over screen look tragic somehow"
"Make the character get a heart attack when it reaches zero"
"Genius"
I KNEW 'NINJA GAIDEN' WAS ON THIS LIST W/O EVEN WATCHING THE VIDEO
When arcade games basically hold your character hostage for ransom
No...the cruelest one I remember, that's not on the list, was of a princess (you're supposed to save) tied up and drowning with rising water. Any expert remember that game? I think it was a space shooter?
Kinda sounds like final fight 2, but I could be wrong
@@deafmelonex6983 that would be exactly like it, but it's not it. it was a princess, no ropes but chains, and a space shooter. This has been bugging me so hard i might try all 1000 mames and die to find out.
The mahjong one was probably the cruelest, win or get shot then curb stomped by a pretty girl.
8:13 wot? is this a batman
No!
The irony of "2nd A" appearing as the high score name entry after your character is shot in Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.
8:09 - 8:21
I don't see this one as particularly cruel. Honestly, I'm pretty sure this is someone's fetish.
I remember the cadillacs and dinosaurs ending scaring me as a kid 🤣
So... If you continue on Fatal Fury, geese throws a rope or something to Andy?
This really makes me want to spend more quarters.
Id probably put MK4 as number one that included the eerie background music. Alien 3 had a pretty good gameover screen as well.
I remember all of these. They are just as fucked up as I remember.
6:24 I didn't know that Ron Burgundy was in an SNK game.
7:52 - That's not cruel, that's legendary!
So Haggar goes back to a shabby locker room and goes into cardiac arrest after losing the match? Damn.
Mortal kombat and JJba was the 2 best on the list
Sega rally game over music is the best music for a gamers funeral.
On Street Fighter Alpha 3 when you loose against M. Bison. He destroys a city and evil rules 🌎
2:17 Im scared of Blue’s Journey game over, I think Queretaro will end up screwup and ruined by the Mexican corruption and pollution and I’ll die exhausted
Even though I don’t play these games these are the worst game over screens I have ever seen since they are deadly
5:50 ball shot
8:19 Jokes on you im into that shit
Just watching these again makes me nervous with the count downs even though I know about them lol
Oh was wondering about the music thing with MK4 falling lol 😆 I forget channels that get paid can't use licensed music. But yeah MK4s is the best here first time I saw that I was like wow that's messed up lol 😆
5:22 Punisher is DED
The sega rally championship is most weird than cruel.
I immediately thought of Sly Spy
Wariors fate fue mi primer beat em up y recuerdo que si me impresionó un poquito la primera vez, era una niña de 7 años, recuerdo que dije: lo van a matar.
Ese juego lo conocí en el lugar que comenté en uno de tus vídeos, uno donde mi mamá me llevaba de niña.
A medida que avanzaba el vídeo me iba preguntando dónde estaba final fight xDDDD supongo que dejaste lo mejor para el final jejejejejeje...
Y eso que no hubo arcade del 2 y 3.
En la pantalla del 2 meten al personaje en un lugar amarrado dónde el agua va subiendo, morir ahogado y peor en agua dulce es más terrible que solo explotar en pedazos. Y el 3 amarran al personaje mientras va cayendo una pared con pinchos xDDDD algo similar a lo que ocurre en Ninja gaiden D:
Excelente vídeo amigo...
Muchísimas gracias! Al final mis vídeos siempre siguen la misma estructura! Empiezo fuerte, relajo un poco, por la mitad meto otro punto fuerte... y acabo con la traca final. Claro que el Final Fight iba a estar cerrando el vídeo... aunque por unos momentos dudé mucho sobre si ponerlo al principio de todo, y dejar el Ninja Gaiden para el final!
@@BitsBeats Así veo... Buena estrategia, en este caso no creo ser la única que lo esperaba entre los primeros, pero bueno el orden no altera el total jejejejejejejejeje...
@@BitsBeats I can't speak Spanish.
The Ninja Gaiden one is awesome!
01:20 "enhorabuena usted ganador"
Ah... ignorance at it's finest back then xD
"congratulations, you winner" Right!? XD
The omg from first funky fighter sounds the same as the omg from the car scene from final fight 9:32
Arcade Strider.
It's not that bad but I've seen and heard it so many times it gave me nightmares. =_=;;
0:54 Garbage day!
Those game overs really have a cruel loss and defeats
That's insane I've been playing JoJo's bizarre adventure for years and never go down to zero that is crazy to get smashed into a poker chip
I KNEW Ninja Garden was gonna be here. That scene freaked me out as a little kid.
Gaiden. You spelled it wrong.
@@alexdow1797 😆😆😆😆😆
@@alexdow1797 If I'd known I put Ninja GARDEN up here, I would have fixed it months ago.
@@iveyyewitt1621 Ikr? 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆😆😆😅😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣
Before I even clicked on the video I thought to myself that Ninja Gaiden better be here, and sure enough there it was, first clip.