The 20 Harshest Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Game Over Screens

[@ophidianmind333]

Even harsher than the game over screen in Splatterhouse 3 is the changes that happen in the story if you don't complete certain levels within the time limit. Having to finish the game with a guaranteed tragic ending is quite the downer. The Death Duel game over screen is downright brutal, but it fits in with the time period in which it was released because games that talk shit to the player were definitely part of the whole 'tude era in gaming.

[@usseaglencc956]

The mini jumpscare of Jennifer becoming a mindless beast will forever haunt my mind...

[@KitsuneYojimbo]

I personally think the one who made Death Duel's game over was just a straight up sociopath.

[@kennethshiro9500]

Actually the harshest thing about this video is the genesis sound chip.

[@LtCommanderTato]

@@KitsuneYojimbo Death duel one was a fantastic game over screen, it added a lot to the lore of that world. Splatterhouse 3 was a very depressing and scary game, you only get the good ending if you mastered the game. But it felt so rewading doing it. Amazing game, the art the sound effects, the music matched all so well. A game who jump scared me back then was Nosferatu from snes, the first level was so damn well designed. The atmosphere, the art. The first time i played it was late at night and was tired, i was learning the controls and failed many times then i noticed something different in the game over screen... i got nearly an heart attack, i wasnt sleepy anymore that day...

[@christlevania5933]

In an ironic twist of fate, Dracula had the whip this time!

[@meziembamara4004]

In an alternative universe, Dracula whips you.

[@erainmartinez8175]

The Game over screen scared me as a kid

[@Zye1984]

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[@Dekkard5]

I think that's supposed to be the stage coach driver

[@isaacmontecillo7948]

​@@meziembamara4004 At 5:54 I feel like he's falling into the dark pit of nothingness.

[@Tony_Cardoza]

8:27 You died and Cyclops is PISSED.

[@alejandrosegato671]

**Logan diying because of a bomb** The whole canon: WAIT A MINUTE!!

[@meziembamara4004]

He didn't die. His spirit was broken. 😟

[@gottfriedosterbach3907]

He didn't die, but the whole world starting with the X Team found out he is a lolicon.

[@siegfriedc2332]

That "Death Duel" game over message is hilariously over the top, especially considering how difficult games of this era usually were.

[@deplorabledegenerate2630]

It reminds me of the AVGN episode on the NES Friday the 13th episode. Like "do you think that is good enough?"

[@novomundo7559]

I think i will copypaste the text, translate into my mother language and use it as a talktrash when someone acts like a scumbag.

[@isaacmontecillo7948]

​@@deplorabledegenerate2630 At 5:28 " The dark lady tightens her grip. And,the land is thrown into despair and war. " -Game over...

[@meziembamara4004]

Alien 3- The fact that timer can give you a gameover meant *the facility got overrun by Xenos, who dragged you A## away to their hive* . Worst fate of all.

[@SonicSlicer]

I've had that happen to me in the final stage as I was tracking down the last prisoner, like maybe another two seconds more on the clock I could have reached the prisoner. All that effort, and one prisoner earned me an immediate game over.

[@OmarAlikaj]

6:16 What kind of a Game Over is that? It's like calling falling soldiers of any country "cowards" for dying.

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

7:06 You mean THIS Game Over screen?

[@frostnova2144]

Its meant to be ridiculous and over the top, not an actual take on fallen soldiers.

[@edwardgaines6561]

3:34 Nice of Palpatine to show up and throw some de-motivational shade.

[@DesertFerret7]

8:19 Cyclops: Wow Logan! You really screwed up! Storm: Poor show you've made for us. Now we have a crisis on our hands. Gambit: You screwed up big time on the mission! You had one job to do! Jubilee: Logan... We were counting on you! Now you really blew it this time! Professor X: You chose poorly! Now endure midlife crisis!

[@GarthTheDestroyer]

I love how Cyclops seems so 'meh' at the sight of a dead Wolverine.

[@fanofgodjimindiva2497]

¨hell yeah, no more rivals for the love of Jean Grey¨ that's what he was thinking

[@edwardgaines6561]

Wolverine can't flex no more. Healing factor went kaput!

[@brunoayala5925]

"why bother, well see him around next tuesday"

[@WindyREDPanda]

@@brunoayala5925 and or inside Jean or Ice Queen XD

[@oxymoron296]

Classic Cyclops.

[@lmcgregoruk]

Squirrel King? The box art looks like it's just a still from Disney's Chip n Dale, and the gameplay looks like it's based on the Chip n Dale NES gameplay. Also CONTIUNE , why CONTINUE? when you can CONTIUNE!

[@KuroNoTenno]

I like how all the other X-Men in Adamantium Rage are clearly grieving, but Cyclops is just standing there like "What a freaking loser"

[@kainedakillerv2704]

Wolverines Admantium Rage is one of my absolute all time favorite games on the Megadrive/Genesis. The thumbnail is why I clicked on the video. Good video btw 😁

[@HitoKingLove]

Who is the girl hugging Wolverine?

[@davidtyler6708]

@@HitoKingLove That's Elsie-Dee. It is an android created by Donald Pierce that has a time bomb set to go off when it gets close to Wolverine.

[@Travis-ea4205]

Virtual Bart actually has several more death animations, the actual game over screen is Bart not liking the vr in the end

[@ViktorKruger99]

the pig bart ending is even worst than the other deaths and the actual game over he is turned into a hot dog and is eaten by homer lol

[@zhrimb]

Only thing harsher than these endings is that bright flash of white in between edits when you watch one of these videos at night

[@BitsBeats]

🤣👌 I will adjust this for future videos. for me it is important that 100% of you have a good viewing experience (be it in the morning, afternoon or night) thanks for the feedback!

[@zhrimb]

@@BitsBeats Oh wow thank you that'd be great!

[@PONTOCRITICO]

I really admire genesis games a lot for their production quality, even with a certain hardware limitation on the color palette. Often its capacity is exceeded by creating true graphic feats in a relatively modest system compared to other 4th generation.

[@troywright359]

I agree that limitations and different graphical styles are more memorable. Take TMNT 1 arcades intro vs TMNT Shredders Revenge intro. One uses a variety of styles in its graphics and the other is just animated very well.

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

Seperation Anxiety had a pretty nasty game over screen with the symbiotes and sinister music.

[@KitsuneYojimbo]

I still think the person who made the game over for Death Duel was a sociopath.

[@broncosbreaks]

The squirrel king game misspelled “continue” as “contiune “ Nice editing!

[@WorldRetroGames]

these game over screens are so nostalgic and cruel 🥺

[@Hatsworthful]

The 'i wish i was mary poppins' bit in the bttf 3's game over unintentionally makes the whole thing funny rather than grim.

[@jdb2002]

Especially since Clara was from 1884, and the Mary Poppins books weren't written for another 50 years.

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

You should see the Angry Video Game Nerd's reaction to the insane difficulty level in B2F3 for Sega Genesis (which was made by a bunch of Laughing Joking Numbnuts who probably tried to program the whole doggone thing in a week).

[@RockmanZeroModernDay]

Alien 3's Game Over screen scarred me. The fact that I would often fail, or die, or fail to save the prisoners in time, makes me recorded this episode.

[@leandroleon7029]

The same thing happened to me, I was horrified by that game over

[@erainmartinez8175]

@@leandroleon7029 Geez talk about overkill!

[@isaacmontecillo7948]

​@@leandroleon7029 At 6:38 What is that thing in the background please?

[@captainernest95]

Most scariest game over? The red zone neclear war

[@EOTA564]

What made it worse is that the game is hard as nails which adds a sense of futile inevitability to its apocalyptic ending.

[@Travis-ea4205]

Felix The HET is 100x worse than red zone

[@jrvy74]

I know you had a limit of 20, but if I remember right the Game Over screen of Risky Woods was pretty creepy. The King of Monsters 2 game over screen also scarred me as a kid.

[@megafanzx]

The adamantium rage's game over screen creep me out the first time XD

[@erainmartinez8175]

Same here

[@SullySadface]

WOGAN PWEASE DONT WUN

[@RNCV-uf7wu]

I didn't understand that ending

[@stefcannon2580]

@@RNCV-uf7wu I think the girl had a time bomb inside her

[@joarng6424]

@@stefcannon2580 but wouldn't wolverine regenerate from just a explosion...? (

[@gurvmlk]

I clicked on this video expecting to see Death Duel. Now I don't need to call out the video for if that had been absent.

[@facundoavilagallardo3287]

Final Zone game over screen was very cruel and with a melancholic melody...

[@danielguevara2446]

The Donald Maui game reminds me of a dream where the mcdonald's mascots committed suicide from a high building and the hell hands took their souls and bodies, it was really a sad nightmare and technically it's horrifying for anyone to see.

[@HHog]

Whoever wrote the Death Duel one sounds like they have some issues to work out. I read it and audibly went "Jeez, dude..."

[@LPetal86]

_Splatterhouse 3_ has certainly stuck with me all these years. I also think that _The Ooze_ had a funny, but rather unpleasant game over involving getting turned into the contents of a lava lamp while the evil CEO grins menacingly at you.

[@erainmartinez8175]

Damn, that's Brutal!

[@Cool750Boy]

3:03 Save me, please! Player: No. 3:12: Well, screw you then, punk!!

[@fanofgodjimindiva2497]

More like ¨you're a chickenshit¨

[@FuzeFyreGreenFerret]

Damn Death Duel was just a slap in the face for the player xD

[@jaysnow4074]

Jungle Strike: You just took me back in time. Such a great game series

[@headjump803]

Great list! I'd suggest two more: *Earthworm Jim* when you get snapped in half (in the bungy jumping stage or the last level) an basically every death scene from *Another World*

[@ДаниилРубинчик-э4д]

It's a scenes of death, not Game Over Screens.

[@albert09]

5:38 In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jonathan Harker looks more like a very drunk guy laying around.

[@kingvideogames]

Donald got stuck in Hell? I feel more bad for the denizens of Hell than I do for Donald Duck.

[@PoisonousPen]

The Alien 3 screen where it skips between the prisoners dying with that fast paced music scared the hell out of me as a kid 😬😅

[@16-BitKev]

Ahhh the screens we saw more than the actual games as kids lol. Sweet memories

[@OrochiBorgieman]

Revenge of Shinobi not included? I still remember that evil laughter after all this time.

[@Rozay403]

Oh baby, Predator 2, there we go ;) Even scarier is dying to the Predator gibbing you, or if you lose too many hostages. I didn't know about the second game over screen until I was a bit older, and that would have terrified me even more than the game already did when I was younger, lmao

[@erainmartinez8175]

Sweet Jesus!

[@gabrielmeth4844]

Outlander is straight Mad Max.

[@darkerfalcon3747]

3:46 The American version removes that tiny thing that make this game over, dark. The "To the pits of hell, with you Strider!" line that is present in the European version of the game.

[@tylerbowling]

The Donald Duck one is just terrible

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

Lol why?

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I kinda liked the little islander duck paying respects to Donald. Possibly the most wholesome of these game overs....

[@erainmartinez8175]

@@DrawciaGleam02 That's really nice of him

[@isaacmunoz272]

Lol, I thought it was cool!👍

[@mkaplan1383]

7:20 I couldn't stop laughing 🤣. Doc: *Reading the tombstone* Teacher for a day. Fell into Clayton Ravine while wishing she was Mary Poppins. *Looks up at Marty* What kind of future do you call that?

[@KniGhTKrawLeR9]

7:05 This shit is more brutal than "You and your friends are dead."

[@Deibodese]

An old video from a KZbin channel that I believe no longer exists- Classic Game Room- did a dub of the Death Duel game over. And he gave it proper justice. It was hilarious.

[@jackcoleman5955]

Man, Death Duel doesn’t pull any punches… 1. You’re mech suit is a smoldering ruin. 2. You are visited by the Grim Reaper, his hair blowing in the wind. 3. The game graphically and extensively explains the dismal fate of your corpse in the coming millennium.

[@MohammadDoesIRL]

Something about that Adamantium Rage Game Over always made me so depressed lol. I think the music also played a big part!

[@mehlessmidori602]

That Death Duel game over is just like AVGN's made up game over screen for Ft13th on NES.

[@Trayxxxx]

Death Duel might as well have just come out of the TV and kick me in the 🥜.

[@baalfgames5318]

Not even bootleg games are safe from this channel. XD (I mean, Squirrel King's Game Over is pretty dark tbh.)

[@BitsBeats]

😁👌

[@cedrio1027]

I didn't expect such a good video

[@BitsBeats]

Welcome to Bits & Beats 😁👌

[@justrok79]

Squirrel King sure looks a lot like Chip n Dale

[@meziembamara4004]

Yeah. It is sort of a bootleg.

[@jironamos7650]

It IS a bootleg and was also transformed into a Bootleg mario game for Sega, literally a Bootleg of a Bootleg, this chinese/taiwanese people are impressive.

[@justrok79]

@@jironamos7650 an alternate ending to the Chip N Dale movie where Sweet Pete wins

[@DavidFlores-ix2cy]

@@justrok79 😆😆😆👍

[@csten84]

That beat on death duel is fire

[@screwthenet]

YES! I still have Rolling Thunder 3! One of the coolest soundtracks in a game to this day.

[@HyperDefective]

Sad there's no mention of Chakan: The Forever Man

[@armorbearer9702]

I have to give Bram Stoker's Dracula creativity points(5:38).

[@dattotalonerylsguyfrfr]

finally someone mentioned vectorman 2

[@noisethebarbarian]

Alien 3 was nightmare fuel for me as a kid

[@thefaster4914]

Wolverine Adamantium Rage's game over screen always scared me when I was younger in those days I still remember

[@traviscooper2205]

An explosive wouldn't kill Wolverine. I had a comic where he was blown in half, and regenerated.

[@PNNYWZEPRODUCTIONS]

Ah the GMS sound chip...wreaks as much havoc on my ears as it hits me in the childhood

[@jasongretencord3326]

Wolverine went down way too easily in the Adamantium Rage ending.

[@soulreaver1983]

Awesome dude!!!!!! These video's are outstanding 👏 👌 🙌

[@carthage10]

Ah Squirrel King and it’s contiune….

[@GothicXlightning]

poor Eric Lecarde at the intro XD he deserve better than that Castlevania Bloodline was prob the hardest from this list for a full no death run now totally remember how badass the ALIEN3 game was on the genesis and how it had some really hardcore visuals, Genesis had so much hardcore arcade elements to it 'LIVE FOR ME, DON'T DIE STRIDER' always thought she was cute how she cast her blessing on Strider and hell yeah X-MEN!! X2 CLONE WARS was always one of the most beautiful looking Genesis titles and it's 90s Marvel comic glory it still ahead of it's time also Outlander is NOT a very very ROAD WARRIOR inspired game at all..

[@Travis-ea4205]

Return of strider felt like a bootleg

[@serenitynow85]

How is Outlander not MadMax Squirrel King?

[@fruitlion8]

1:33 What was it about Disney games back then having scary or mournful game over sequences? This one always unnerved me!

[@TheDarkNinja7]

I’m so glad you guys put Death Duel on here! I didn’t think anyone else knew about that game😂

[@jeffb.6642]

Squirrel King? Was that a bootleg of Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers? What happens if you "CONTIUNE" in that game?

[@shawnzalewski6861]

beat me to it... the misspelling L0L

[@gurvmlk]

You're punished by having to continue playing a bootleg.

[@phantomthiefjoker939]

Wolverine: Adamantium Rage has the cruelest game over.

[@ForgetfulHatter]

7:05 oh the horrible pain of defeat! me: bro im literally dead, i don't feel anything this is acutally not so bad lmao.

[@fosforum1]

For me, the most harshest game over screen was in Battletech, when they show your destroyed mech, and then the commander blames you for the failure of the mission

[@MrOrcshaman]

That Wolverine game over weird is weird, so the android kid, Elsie Dee was it?, she explodes indicating wolverine died from the exploration, and yet it shows him laid down fully in tact and perfectly fine, even his costumes undamaged, meanwhile his friends stood over him, xavier rubbing his chin, while storms stood there smirking?

[@Sailorbunny18]

I'm not going to lie to maui mallard one got me like I know Donald's a cartoon character but knowing that he actually died for me for some reason is kind of disturbing

[@dawnofthedave5072]

gotta ease people into the video , had volume up high and then video starts hear some kind of crazy nintendo banshee scream right away lol

[@Gojiro7]

did you do something to the audio?? I know the genesis sound chip is a bit funky, but all these sound like their playing underwater

[@BitsBeats]

It's emulation footage, but recorded and rendered at the highest bitrate possible. No filters or enhancements.

[@luisreyes1963]

Real downers, those endings. The one from Wolverine: Adamantium Rage creeped me out.

[@PNWAffliction]

Strider :< damn, but no it's Night Trap and Mortal Kombat that got yelled at. :/ Also Blades of Vengeance is a freaking great game.

[@asurlybarber3620]

Of course the Donald Duck one would be one of the harshest. After all, Disney has killed off Old Yeller, Bambi's mom, Han Solo, and many others.

[@darkstardarin]

Saw the X-Men 2 one more than a few times as a kid.

[@adamjenkins190]

I loved virtual Bart. Never owned it but rented it atleast once a month. Criminally underrated game

[@Trayxxxx]

I remember seeing it in 'West Coast Video' all the time, but would decide never to get it.

[@TheTrueBro]

It's one of those "bad" games that has its charm. At least you pick the levels using that machine and not in that Street like hub from Bart's Nightmare.

[@retrofedora7061]

Storm: shedding tears Gambit & jubille: mourning Prof: deep sorrow Cyclop: pissed I know logan is like a rival for scott in relationship with jean, but still...

[@NumbHydro]

All of these were legitimitally creepy, not gonna lie.

[@jdeke84]

Props to you for showing off Death Duel 👍

[@braincrusher8407]

Don't you know the US Strider Returns Game Over Is censored? The EU Strider Returns (Strider II) Game Over the Grandmaster have anorher line that says "To the pits of hell with you Strider!" That the US version had censored

[@cordellriemer5177]

We need a part 2 of this great video

[@Cynna_M]

Hey, I didn't knew there was a sequel to desert strike, that helicopter game was quite good ngl

[@Im_moved_my_old_channel]

Outlander: **shows game over screen** Me: *new fear unlocked*

[@minakohiashi8882]

can someone tell me what the little girl did to Wogan? who was she meant to be?

[@LJC279]

There is one game over screen where the earth just straight up explodes but I cannot for me the life of me remember which game it is or even if ifs a genesis game

[@matthewcasiglio2539]

These are my favorites of the 1's you chose alien 3 squirrel king vectorman 2 virtual Bart x men 2 and wolverine adamantium rage

[@theswapmeetflea]

Wolverine - *" comes back to life"* Haha, fooled you guys, I heal, remember?.

[@Evan_Makeba]

Jokes on you, I can’t even read the word ‘assimilated’.

[@IbanBan27]

Nice video,.i like retro games

[@wesker100000000]

What about forgotten worlds game over.

[@gameboy8425]

The Vectorman 2 one traumatized me as a kid.

[@marcusbighouse]

Warlock was a twisted and scary game for me when I was a kid. Should be here too

[@henrlima87]

My copy of xmen2 had a different cover, and i can almost swear that the game over screen was the exact same, but NO professor x in the back.