Nintendo Hard/Uncategorised/Fictional Examples

Examples of in  need to be sorted by medium (and genre) and moved to more appropriate pages:

General

 * If it's a Most Dangerous Game type story, it's going to be this; whoever designs such games rarely give the hero much to work with.

Newspaper Comics
"Jason (reading the instructions): Let's see, to throw a basic punch, hold down, the "B", "C", and "X", buttons, tap the "Start" button, use the arrow pad to indicate direction and release the "C" button when the Force Bar tops 80% Peter: That's a basic punch? Jason: Whoops, that was an Uppercut, the Basic Punch doesn't use the "X" button."
 * In one old FoxTrot comic, Jason buys a game called Mortal Karnage II and lampshades how hard it is to pull off combos in Fighting Games:


 * And how do you kick? The game includes a fold out chart showing how to do that.

Western Animation

 * The Riddle of the Minotaur, Edward Nygma's smash hit game from the Batman: The Animated Series episode "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich". According to Robin, no player has ever finished it. Unfortunately, he doesn't tell Batman this until they're in the middle of Riddler's Amusement Park of Doom reproduction of it.