• Chuck Rock (SNES)

    ...life bars are good, and insta-deaths are bad. There isn’t a single insta-death in the entire game, not even if Chuck takes a nose-dive into a pit of acid. Curiously...

  • Oh, the Humanity!: Gamer Girl

    ...Matt the Insta-Buddy. Mom doesn’t understand the pain she’s going through. Even drawing manga doesn’t help cheer her up. No, there’s only one thing that can make her life worth...

  • Dear Readers: Out of Their Minds

    ...too scared to. Right at the beginning of the game, there are these evil slug monsters who jump completely out of nowhere and kill you instantly. They’re impossible to avoid—at...

  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (PS1)

    ...got irritated with all the jumping from platform to platform, which was made more difficult by the fact that the controls are too loose, and a fall usually means instant...

  • The Jungle Book (GG)

    ...for a game to go in, some of the insta-deaths in The Jungle Book are a little hard to swallow. Dying via landing on spikes or falling into water isn’t...

  • DeathSpank (XBLA)

    ...mode). It’s much more accurately described as Diablo with jokes, and on a console, and without 14-year-old grievers insta-PKing you with their Boba Fett trainers in order to collect your...

  • Mega Man Zero Collection (DS)

    ...GameShark and used the Infinite Lives/Energy codes, I still couldn’t get past level two (because the codes don’t make you immune to all the insta-kill traps). Obviously, as I said...

  • [NSFW] Ten Game Franchises More Deserving of Death Than Phoenix Wright

    ...Hedgehog in 2D should be insta-fun, but instead it was a sluggish mess that played like it should have been a Flash game for Sega’s website to promote Sonic 4,...

  • .hack//INFECTION: Part 1 (PS2)

    ...players who will help you on your quest by giving you their “member addresses”. Once you obtain a member address you can send a flash mail (instant message) to them,...