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.

285

games

platforms

Alternate name: Bottomless pits

Journey to Silius

NES 1990-08-10

Super Mario Bros. Special

SX1 1986

Robot Unicorn Attack

FLA 2010-01

Super Mario Bros. Special

8801 1986

Captain Silver

SMS 1988-07-17

Kamen Rider Black: Taiketsu Shadow Moon

FDSY 1988-04-15

Darksiders II

X360 2012-08-14

Bio-Miracle Bokutte Upa

NES 1993-02-26

DuckTales

NES 1989-09

Kiteretsu Daihyakka

NES 1990-02-23

Exodus from the Earth

WIN 2008-09-24

Alan Wake

WIN 2012-02-16

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.

The first Death pits video game was released in 1984.

Sega, Capcom and Titus published most of these games.

Parent groups

Environmental hazards, Tropes

Platforms

Windows		67
NES		53
Linux		28
Mac OS X		15
PS3		15
X360		15
MS-DOS		11
Famicom Disk System		7
Wii		6
PS2		5
PC Engine		5
Amstrad CPC		4
Master System		4
Amiga		4
GB		3
Flash		3
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
Atari ST		2
Arcade		1
Internet Only		1
Sharp X1		1

Death pits

Other (objects, etc.) entity

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