Crosshair Aware: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time (Video Game)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles in Time]]'' uses this in a [[Jaws First Person Perspective]] during the first fight against The Shredder (the one when you have to throw his [[Mooks]] at him).

* ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]'': The hulking Natural Killer Cyborg's ominously named "[[Wave Motion Gun|End of the Century Beam]]" attack places crosshairs on all of your [[Player Character|PC]]s' [[Hit Point]] counters before launching the giant screen-filling beam. As this is a turn-based combat game, the crosshairs are purely for intimidation.

* Some of the bosses in ''[[Dynamite Headdy]]'' have an arrow with a tone to give the player a hint on how to avoid damage. The first boss that does this uses it in this trope's fashion.

* Completely [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] in ''[[Contra]]: Hard Corps''. One of the bosses, a [[Combining Mecha]], has a move where a crosshair appears on the floor, and then it fires out a lot of explosives into the air. Seconds later, the explosives land on the entire floor [[Violation of Common Sense|EXCEPT the crosshair]]. Needless to say, if you were standing/jumping outside the crosshair, prepare to be blown into bits.

* That inconspicuous blinking targeting laser for the Terran nuke in ''[[Starcraft]]''. The only attack that has both an early warning and a counter. In the coming ''[[Starcraft]] 2'', the player doing the launching sees the full crosshairs - everyone else just sees the dot.

* The kangaroo Noise in ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'' have target markers to indicate where they'll land.

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'', the cursor for setting a Tingle Bomb appears on the screen so you'll know where to get away from when he sets it.

* In most of the ''Zelda'' games post-NES, there is a shadow that appears to warn the player of the Wallmaster that is about to drop down from above.

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4]]'': you'll be able to see where a Gekko is aiming if Snake is wearing the Solid Eye.

* In at least the second and third ''[[Syphon Filter]]'' games, the player receives a warning in the form of screaming red text if an enemy is aiming a headshot at the player character.

* In the [[Sega Genesis]] game ''X-Men 2: Clone Wars'', there's a mutant with a jetpack in the background who tries to shoot you during most of the Asteroid M level. You can see his crosshair. He actually does become the level boss at the end, but by then he's in the foreground and he no longer has a visible crosshair.

* In ''[[Spider Man]]'' on [[Game Boy]], when climbing buildings, your spidersense tells you when something's about to fall on you.