BoingBoing put together this delightful collection of death animations from arcade games through their history. Seeing all of these brings back a ton of memories for me. I also really enjoyed the chiptune version of “Mad World” which plays throughout. Just a class act altogether and I’m sure you’ll enjoy watching.
It gets me thinking about other death animations that I’ve liked. One of the things which comes to mind isn’t so much an in-game thing, but a continue screen. The arcade version ofNinja Gaidenhad an animated sequence with a circular saw being lowered on to a pinned-down Ryu, who became more frantic the longer you waited to feed the machine with a new quarter. I love that.
Classic arcade game deaths[BoingBoing]
