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** Extremely literally for Volvagia, in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]''. You even hit him with a hammer as he pops randomly from a number of holes dispersed through the arena.
*** Less literally, Phantom Ganon, also from ''Ocarina of Time''. Substitute 'hole' for 'picture'.
** Non-boss example: Wizrobes in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]''. They can create illusory copies of themselves and pop from warp point to warp point. The trick is to pay attention to the solid one. Finding the one that's gearing up to attack you helps too.
* A variant occurs in ''Super [[Metroid]]''. Botwoon is a snake-like miniboss that pops up from holes in the wall. To damage it you must shoot it in the head when it peeks out of one of the holes to spit projectiles at you.
* That...incredibly suggestive-looking worm thing from ''[[Silent Hill 3]]''. Ugh.
** And the Caterpillar boss from ''[[Silent Hill 1]]'', which pops up in random spots.
* The first boss in ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' has so much resemblance to Volvagia that it might as well be a [[Shout-Out]].
* Monty Moles in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'s'' Tall Tall Mountain level, and by extension in ''[[Mario Kart 64]]'''s Moo Moo Farm level (although in that version, you can't fight them).
** You DO get to play a Whack-a-Mole type mission with the Moo Moo Farm moles in ''[[Mario Kart]] DS'' though, in mission mode. Another variant later in the same game has you do the same with Stars and Rocky Wrenches in the Airship Fortress level.
** Lemmy and Wendy in ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' pop out of pipes along with two fakes.
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* In ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'', it's revealed that Eggman has a whack-a-Sonic game. Amy has to beat the high score to unlock the prison door.
* One of the best NES Powerpad games was essentially whack-a-mole with a different skin. In ''Eggsplode'', you were a dog who had to protect a hen house from foxes that would try to blow up the chickens with a bomb (awesome, I know!). Points for stepping on the Powerpad where a bomb was, loss of life for stepping on a chicken that had laid an egg. Came as a multi-cart with ''Short Order''.
* ''[[Okami]]'' has a minigame like this that does feature moles. There's a ring of holes, and you need to headbutt the leader three times. You can predict where he'll pop up by the dirt clouds he sends up as he travels underground, but he's also got two or three henchmen doing the same thing to throw you off. And they speed up every time you make a successful hit. Fortunately you only ever need to do this once to [[
* ''[[Terranigma]]'' has a boss like this.
* The first fortress boss in ''[[Mega Man 8]]'' acts like this. Four parts of the ceiling, and the boss appears in one of them, along with three dummies. What makes it worse is its weakness: the Mega Ball, which is always fired at an angle.
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