15 Arcade Kill Screens

If you know of any other arcade kill screens or kill scores then please post a comment. I put some levels on here that aren't exactly kill screens, but are very hard, glitched, and interesting levels, so if you know any like that then post a comment as well. My descriptions of the kill screens are very simplistic, check out donhodges.com/ for some detailed info on some of the kill screens.
0:00 Black Widow
0:10 Bosconian
0:23 Burger Time
0:41 Dig Dug
0:51 Donkey Kong
1:09 Donkey Kong Jr
1:31 Fix It Felix Jr
1:59 Galaga Easy
2:16 Galaga Hard
2:38 Jr Pac-Man
3:09 Kick
3:20 Mario Bros
3:35 Ms. Pac-Man
4:04 Pac-Man
4:27 Pac-Man Plus

[@gbadspcps2]

There is something so serene about the empty Galaga soft lock where you just fly through space quietly after so much destruction.

[@philive1681]

Yea. I also imagine someone seeing that in an arcade and not knowing what is happening.

[@robbiewalker2831]

@@philive1681 3:22: It was at that moment, that while cleaning the pipes in the Basement of Castle Toadstool, Mario heard Peach’s cries for help; the whole game was just a distraction as Bowser sent his minions to be rid of him, but Mario took it upon himself to save the princess.

[@genevievesweeney2293]

@@philive1681 1:41 Disney Wreck It Ralph Movie

[@ciberkid22]

Kind of the good ending for Galaga with the very last of the aliens being destroyed

[@Danyplaysboblox]

Fun fact: while it is indeed impossible to beat level 256 in Pac-Man, if you somehow managed to beat level 256, it’ll return you in level 1, and the code of the fruit will restart, causing the game to revert back to normal

[@zbigniewkocik8207]

2:11 Galaga.Exe Has Stopped Working

[@1rz2rz3rz]

I dunno why, these messed up sprites/letters makes me nervous and feels anxiety...

[@user-ur6uw6vn9t]

Me too when objects clip into one another (especially the camera thus exposing the inside of a model) in 3d games... your not alone.

[@baxter22071990]

Nice to know about the non pacman/donkey kong/ galaga ones,
Supposedly frogger and lemmings have ks too but theres not much info out there ☹️

[@philive1681]

I came across people saying Frogger had one and people saying it did not. Seems like maybe if it does have one then it can be kind of random to trigger? If anyone has any info then I'd love to hear it.
Lemmings for which console? I'll probably do another video for other consoles if they have enough kill screens, or just a video of all the other ones I know of.

[@jwgodard]

In Fix-It-Felix Jr. Level 39 end, 0s, 1s, and 2s scrambled in different colors are called a homage.

[@genevievesweeney2293]

1:38 That’s From The Movie Wreck It Ralph

[@user-kg2cl1mm6u]

Captain Obvious!!!

[@Randomalistic]

Great video!! Love that the information is easy to understand and the footage is high quality :]

[@hhhh82user]

i think donkey kong's killscreen (or atleast 25m) can be passed, using a glitch where jumping off the side will cause the level to finish (for a reference, see the tas of the arcade game)

[@user-ff3uh7td3s]

これは貴重な映像ですね

[@RR_sans_phase_5]

Par 2 when

[@sa3270]

There are some hacks of Pac-Man that have been modified to show only one fruit in the inaccessible area on the middle right side of the screen, like for Galaga hardware, where the screen area is a little smaller. So I wonder if those versions have any glitches on level 256, or other levels?

[@TristenTimberwolf]

I guess 256 is the magic kill screen number

[@user-nh1cb4fq7f]

Dragon Warrior Vs Earthbound

[@luisreyes1963]

Nothing is forever...😕

[@hamptergaming4396]

Can you do Chrono Trigger vs Earthbound?

[@philive1681]

Ok, that's one that I had been thinking about. I look into it.

[@arthursnyder6935]

​@@philive1681there's even a Jakk's Pacific plug n play that comes with a special version of Pac-Man dedicated to letting the average player experience the famous kill screen

[@PacFoxWaylan]

1:10 level 22*

[@user-wh9kj5ph8b]

Normal pac man a bug in level 256

[@mariodykstra6555]

What about Space Invaders, Galaxian, Frogger, Qbert, and Tetris? Do they have Kill Screens?

[@Danyplaysboblox]

while Tetris does have a kill screen, people are mostly focusing on about the NES version, so I’m unsure about the arcade one