Avoid the Noid



Avoid the Noid is a 1989 platform game for the Commodore 64 and IBM PC, created to advertise Domino's Pizza. You start at the bottom of a 30-story building, and have to deliver a pizza at the top within half an hour. The building is infested with noids, who will use jump kicks, exploding telephones, water balloons and bazookas to destroy your pizza.


 * The Computer Shall Taunt You. Every time you lose a pizza, you are treated to a close-up of a grinning noid, complete with mocking laughter sound effect.
 * It's All Upstairs From Here
 * Interchangeable Antimatter Keys
 * Interface Spoiler: You know the bottom floor of each screen doesn't have trapdoors, because that would cause you to fall off-screen.
 * Malevolent Architecture. For some reason the whole building is full of trap doors (and noids are immune).
 * No Kill Like Overkill. How do you destroy a pizza? Of course, you take out a bazooka.
 * Product Placement
 * Public Domain Soundtrack. Each of the 12 screens has a different tune, including such classics as "Ride of the Valkyries" and "The William Tell Overture".
 * Smart Bomb. You get a handful of "noid avoiders" that clear the screen of noids.
 * Timed Mission
 * Video Game Lives. Five pizzas. If they all get crushed, exploded or soaked, it's game over time.