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[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with]] ''[[The Most Dangerous Game]]'', or [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|the trope named after that story.]] [[Sub Trope]] of [[The Game Plays You]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* One of [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Brentford Trilogy'' books features a ''[[Space Invaders]]'' machine at the Flying Swan that causes its only player to become possessed by ''actual'' space invaders.
* What kicks off the story of ''[[Otherland]]''. A number of kids who access the future-Internet fall into comas.
* Inversion in ''[[Only You Can Save Mankind]]'': you can't actually die in the game, but [[RPG Mechanics Verse|the mobs you're killing are real, sentient beings]], [[Humans Are Cthulhu|under siege by]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]] [[Ace Pilot|Ace Pilots]] [[Why Won't You Die?|who won't stay dead]].
** Comes with the implication that ''all'' games are like this; at one point they pass by the wreckage of a ''[[Space Invaders]]'' fleet.
* The ''Shivers'' novel ''The Animal Rebellion'' had a cursed (...or something, it's never really explained) computer game that caused all animals in the immediate vicinity to go violently insane. In order to reverse the effects of the game (which was purposely [[Unwinnable]], being the kind where you just have try and survive for as long as possible) the main characters had to wipe it from the hard drive and destroy the physical copy.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''Destroyer of Worlds'' from ''[[Regular Show]]''. Plugging it in (you don't need to play) unleashes an enormous, pixelated devil face with intent to, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|as the name implies]], [[Omnicidal Maniac|destroy the world]].
** [[Recycled Script|Similarly]], one episode featured the final boss of a video game ('The Hammer') [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|coming to life]] and attacking everyone after Mordecai and Rigby [[Lightning Can Do Anything|short circuit the TV]].
* ''[[Megas XLR]]'': Coop comes into possession of what appears to be an old video game cartridge, but it's actually an intergalactic ''prison'' housing many dangerous alien criminals. When Coop finally finds a game console that it fits into (or rather one that he can hit it hard enough to fit into), he accidentally releases them and spends the episode putting them back in.
* ''SinisteRRR'' from ''[[We Are the Strange]]'' is an evil arcade game that (possibly) acts as {{spoiler|a watchdog and alarm for the [[Big Bad]]}} and later {{spoiler|transforms into a [[Humongous Mecha]] who proceeds to kill off all but 3 of the main cast}}.
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