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* The end of Mission 4 in ''[[Medal of Honor]]: Allied Assault'', where mooks that [[The All-Seeing AI|can see you through the foliage]] (while you can't see them) are shooting at you from the front, and endless waves of mooks and [[Demonic Spiders|Demonic Guard Dogs]] are [[Teleporting Keycard Squad|spawning behind you]].
* ''[[TIE Fighter]]'' has the eponymous spacecraft. No shields, only two laser cannons for weapons, and no hyperdrive. At least you get better craft later in the game.
** Yes and no. TIE Fighter was a pretty challenging game in places and indeed flying regular [[TI Es]]TIEs was pretty crappy at times, but I don't think it ever went into the realms of unfair. It was also a LOT more forgiving than its predecessor ''X-Wing''. Sure you had shields and stuff, but it made your mission completions pointlessly hard, repetitive and very long training courses before you could earn any medals (you could play the missions, but not earn medals *facepalm*) and a lot of the time if you got shot down, you either were captured or killed and your character was locked FOREVER. The missions were exceptionally hard in places too either putting you against vast numbers or against capital ships you couldn't hope to kill (X-Wing had no interest in locational damage or heavy missiles/bombs). Basically it was crazy tough. TIE Fighter was tough, but fair but comparison.
* The NES ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' video game randomly has a "trap room" that shows up when you enter a room; in place of a door, it has "HA HA!" written on a blank wall. The only way out is to reset the game. [[Jerkass|The developers]] admitted that [[For the Evulz|it was a joke they were playing on the players]].
* After {{spoiler|the end of the world}}, ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' players were treated to being back to one party member until you get to Tzen or (on a CES challenge) Nikeah. Many enemies have an attack with 100% accuracy that causes the Zombie status, best thought of as "instant death meets confusion". There is an item to prevent it, however; it just happens that [[Guide Dang It|you have to know it's coming]].
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