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''Avoid the Noid'' is a 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. |
'''''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. |
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Contains examples of the following tropes: |
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* [[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. |
* [[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. |
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* [[It's All Upstairs From Here]] |
* [[It's All Upstairs From Here]] |
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* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys]] |
* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys]] |
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* [[Interface Spoiler]]: You know the bottom floor of each screen doesn't have trapdoors, because that would cause you to fall off-screen. |
* [[Interface Spoiler]]: You know the bottom floor of each screen doesn't have trapdoors, because that would cause you to fall off-screen. |
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* [[Malevolent Architecture]]. For some reason the whole building is full of trap doors. |
* [[Malevolent Architecture]]. For some reason the whole building is full of trap doors (and noids are immune). |
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* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]. How do you destroy a pizza? Of course, you take out a ''bazooka''. |
* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]. How do you destroy a pizza? Of course, you take out a ''bazooka''. |
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* [[Product Placement]] |
* [[Product Placement]] |
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* [[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". |
* [[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". |
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* [[Smart Bomb]]. You get a handful of "noid avoiders" that clear the screen of noids. |
* [[Smart Bomb]]. You get a handful of "noid avoiders" that clear the screen of noids. |
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* [[Timed Mission]] |
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* [[Video Game Lives]]. Five pizzas. If they all get crushed, exploded or soaked, it's game over time. |
* [[Video Game Lives]]. Five pizzas. If they all get crushed, exploded or soaked, it's game over time. |
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Latest revision as of 00:46, 2 October 2020
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.
![](http://static.miraheze.org/allthetropeswiki/a/aa/Noid_5031.jpg)
Tropes used in Avoid the Noid include:
- 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.