Lethal objects

Other (objects, etc.) theme

Objects that collide with the player character, environment or enemies and do a fair bit of damage, possibly even killing anyone they collide with. Commonly encountered as large boulders rolling down a hill.

games

platforms

Donkey Kong

COL 1982

Trine 2

PS3 2011-12-20

The Dead Lands

LIN 2003

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

SNES 1991-11-21

Fragments of Power

LIN ? *

Donkey Kong

IIE 1984

The King

COCO 1982

Classic NES: The Legend of Zelda

GBA 2004

Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy

FDSY 1986-02-21

Donkey Kong

WTCH 1982

Donkey Kong

NES 1983-07-15

Souls of Wisdom

LIN 2011-06-14

This does not mean that merely touching the objects is lethal, but that they can, under certain circumstances, cause injury. Such as a boulder sitting quitely on the ground will not cause damage no matter how much you tromp on it, but have it fall down 5 floors down and hit your head and the situation will be quite different.

Other common objects are barrels and logs.

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Games by year

The first Lethal objects video game was released on July 9, 1981.

Nintendo, Atari and Frozenbyte published most of these games.

Platforms

Linux		32
Game & Watch		4
Pandora		4
GBC		4
Windows		4
PS3		4
MS-DOS		3
GBA		3
NES		3
X360		3
Apple II E		2
Arcade		2
Famicom Disk System		2
C64		2
custom		2
Mac OS X		1
Wii U		1
Atari 7800		1
Amiga		1
GP2X		1
Memotech MTX		1
ColecoVision		1
3DS		1
Intellivision		1
TI99		1
Coleco Adam		1
SNES		1
GameCube		1
Tandy Coco		1
ZX Spectrum		1

Lethal objects

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