The Internet is filthy with guides on creative ways to win video games. You don't need Cracked for that. But we've found that developers work just as hard at inventing hilarious and obscure ways for the player to die. That's a good thing, because we've always said that if you can't succeed, at least try to fail in an entertaining way.

6 Sonic CD -- If You Forget to Pause, Sonic Gets Bored and Kills Himself

Sega Corporation

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Sonic's whole marketing strategy was that he was Mario with attitude. He was as cool and edgy as middle-aged men in suits with 64KB of RAM could make him. He wagged his finger disapprovingly at the camera, wore radical red sneakers, and refused to take his ADHD meds -- if you kept him waiting, he'd impatiently tap his foot (unlike Mario, who just stood there staring ahead, lost in his own private world).

And if you kept Sonic waiting too long in Sonic CD, he broke his self-imposed vow of silence, assaulted the third dimension, and jumped to his death.

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Wait, What?

Say for instance you're halfway through Sonic CD and you take a quick breather to get a drink from the fridge but you forget to pause the game. You leave Sonic standing there, idly tapping his foot. There are no enemies on the screen anyway, so what's the worst that could happen?