Death pits

Other (objects, etc.) entity

Includes pits where once you fall, you're never coming back. Either you die during the fall, hitting the bottom or there's just no way out of them and the game doesn't have the grace to call it a game over.

286

games

platforms

Alternate name: Bottomless pits

Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout

NES 1990-08-03

BOH

WIN 1999

Magicka

WIN 2011-01-26

Spellcaster

SMS 1988-09-23

Akumajou Special: Boku Dracula-kun

NES 1990-10-19

Rygar

NES 1987-04-14

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

PS3 2009-04-07

Transformers: War for Cybertron

WIN 2010-06-22

Chester Field: Ankoku Shin e no Chousen

NES 1987-07-30

C16 1986

PS2 2002-11-12

Related:
* Deadly water
* Rope swinging
* Chasms - some death pits are these.

Extremely common in platformers. Occasionally filled with water to doom the protagonist that can't swim (see: deadly water), other times they have no perceivable bottom and you only fall off screen, and the rest have sharp pointy things ready to jab you.

Note that this is NOT for the non-fatal kind that only drops your health a bit but does not really prevent progressing in the game.

Parent groups

Environmental hazards, Tropes

Games by year

The first Death pits video game was released in 1984.

Sega, Capcom and LucasArts published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		68
NES		53
Linux		28
X360		15
Mac OS X		15
PS3		15
MS-DOS		11
Famicom Disk System		7
Wii		6
PS2		5
PC Engine		5
Amstrad CPC		4
Master System		4
Amiga		4
Flash		3
GB		3
Atari ST		2
MSX		2
SNES		2
C16/Plus4		2
iOS		2
Mac OS Classic		2
NEC PC8801		2
Mega Drive		2
Wii U		2
ZX Spectrum		2
C64		2
Xbox One		1
Game Gear		1
PSP		1

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