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{{quote|''"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09s-c2JVI40 Game over] '''[[Big Yes|YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!]]'''"''|''Sega Rally's'' infamous Game Over theme}}
{{quote|'''''"FAILURE!"'''''|The ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' Announcer [[Take That, Audience!|telling you just what you are]].}}
So, things are going pretty well for you. You've beaten your [[Rival Turned Evil]] a few times, the [[Man Behind the Man]] revealed himself when you killed off the [[Disc One Final Boss]] and now you're ready to collect the [[Plot Coupons]] and storm his [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|Fortress Of Evil]].
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But what's this? A [[Scrappy Level]] where you must use the weakest character to [[Escort Mission|defend]] the [[Player Character|hero]] while he [[Heroic BSOD|stumbles forwards blindly]] (get ready to fail your mission objectives)? Did you just run into [[That One Boss]] unprepared? Are those [[Goddamned Bats]] fluttering around just out of reach, [[Scratch Damage|scratch-damaging]] you? Did you [[Super Drowning Skills|step in a puddle]]? Or are [[You Suck|you]] just out of your depth (wave good-bye to your [[Hit Points|health bar]])? All right, maybe you just made the wrong choice [[Nonstandard Game Over|in some dialogue]], or it's the [[Unwinnable|developer's fault]]. Either way it's '''{{smallcaps| Game Over}}''' for you. ("You have died" is the way [[Interactive Fiction]] typically puts it.)
So now what? The nicest games might just [[Death Is a Slap
Of course if you're really lucky the
This is, at its most basic, the condition of having lost the game. Some text or animation appears to let you know you've lost, and there's nothing left to do but start over. You can achieve Game Over by:
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* Running out of [[Hit Points]] or [[Video Game Lives]]. In a game with [[Final Death]], this occurs if the main character or a plot-important character dies.
* Failing critical mission objectives (such as letting the target of an [[Escort Mission]] die)
* Certain circumstances (covered in [[Unwinnable]]) don't technically result in a
* Games that are [[A Winner Is You|too lazy to give you a special victory screen]] will simply show you the standard
In the earliest games, you had to start over from the very beginning, but later games provided a password so you could continue from a later spot, and eventually game saves to fulfill the same purpose more conveniently. Some games also let you 'continue' from the same level you were previously on. Indeed, the
Some games will even give you a
A [[Nonstandard Game Over]] is a variant that occurs in special circumstances, when you've ''really'' screwed the pooch.
Sometimes the screen is accompanied by a [[Game Over Man]] (no, not [[Alien (
[[Crowning Music of Awesome|Also the name of a]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phwdyzz_IVo single] by Club Caviar.
Examples go in the [[Game Over (
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[[Category:Undead Horse Trope]]
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[[Category:Videogame Culture]]
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