These are the two most famous examples of what?Answer: The answer I was looking for was Kill Screen - the name given to a level in a video game beyond which it is impossible for any player to proceed due to fundamental programming flaws or design oversights. They are most often found in the early arcade games (Pac-man and Donkey Kong shown here) where register overflow errors were the frequent culprits. The Pac-man kill screen is especially famous with even a $100,000 reward for a player who can get past this level. Mekie, Iam and Hari got the answer I had in mind while Adi and Schmetterling went with more generic connects. Well done.
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Ah, good old memories... pacman and donkey kong.
Not sure of the connect. The pacman pic shows a counter overflow bug in pacman, but donkey kong did not have this bug.
The obvious connect is 80's arcade games, but that will make it a dumb question.
So, I'll go with video games that made it into the Guiness book of world records.
8 bit/atari video games
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