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The Best Video Games Ever Made
Most Addictive Video Games Ever
Games No One Ever Finishes
The Most Popular Games Right Now
The Greatest RPGs Ever Made
Games Based on Comic Books
The Greatest Video Game Franchises
Games That Were Way Overhyped
Classic Games That Actually Suck
Greatest Fighting Games
Re-Release or Remake Wishlist
The Best Branded Games Ever Made
Great Video Game Sub-Franchises
Games Ripe for an HD Remake
The Hardest Games of All Time
Horror Franchises Ripe for Revival
Sci-Fi Games You Never Played
Ranking all the PlayStations
Classic Games You Can Play on Your Phone
The Greatest of Cyberpunk
History's Most Disappointing Game Sequels
Games to Beat in One Sitting
Games That Revived Dormant Franchises
The Best Game System Controllers
The Greatest Full Motion Video Games
Bad Games You Played as a Kid
The Top Classic Video Games
Games to Beat at the Arcade
The Scariest Games of the 1990s
Most Punishing Games of All Time
Even Better Versions of Popular Games
The Scariest Video Games Ever Made
Awful Games with Great Graphics
The Worst Games from the Greatest Franchises
The Best Games of the 2010s, Ranked
The Best Games That Never End
The Best New Games of 2022, Ranked
The Greatest Game Sequels
The Best Sword Fighting Games
Confirmed Xbox Series X Games
The Best Xbox Series X Games (So Far)
All The Best PS5 Games (So Far)
Games You Can Beat in One Day
Old Games to Put on New Systems
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The Most Infuriating Death Screens In Video Game History
Let's go ahead and remember all the lives we've lost and which losses have infuriated us the most (in video games). Here's a list of the most annoying, frustrating and frankly insulting video game death screens that we have ever suffered through.
Few things in gaming have riddled lists, hatred of the gaming community and anxiety nightmares more than the laughing dog in Duck Hunt. It's not just that the stupid dog laughs at you when you fail, it's the fact that before that, he'd been helping you all along. If anything, the part that hurts the most is the betrayal.
Since you cannot truly and effectively die in Mario Kart 64, the "losing" screen is obviously when you've placed behind anyone you're playing with. And it's a mean one - not only have you lost a game you've spent over half an hour playing already (if you've gotten to the ceremony screen), but you have to watch everyone else celebrating their success.
Then, as you're sitting in the background, watching everyone else get their trophies, they send a Bob-Omb to come blow you up. After that, they show you crying with a sign under you that says "what a pity."
Mortal Kombat's fatalities were the biggest "FU" you could give another player back in the day short of actually flipping them off. If you were playing with a friend and did one, everyone laughed and reveled at the glory. If you were playing at the arcade and did a fatality on someone, it was ON (not unlike Donkey Kong). The player either had to put in another quarter or leave in shame and hang their head low all the way home.
Metal Gear Solid is such a careful, slow, stealth-dependent game that whenever you die in it, it feels like someone just knocked over your award-winning sand castle. To add infuriating rage to the fact that you're going to have to replay a stealth level, you have an ear-prodding, sound-barrier-piercing voice come on your headpiece. No matter which character does it, it's always annoying.