Als je dacht dat veel games nu een teleurstellend einde hebben, dan had je er moeten zijn in het 8bit NES tijdperk. Want na vele uren spelen (en veel games waren fookin' hardcore toen der tijd) kreeg je vaak een kleine eind sequence die je behoorlijk deprimerend kan noemen. De website Topless Robot heeft tien van deze treurige eindes op een rij gezet, onze favoriet is:

3) Vice: Project Doom

Vice: Project Doom is one of those unfortunate NES games that came out shortly after the Super NES arrived, when the last thing anyone cared about was a game for the distinctly non-super NES. Yet those who picked up Vice: Project Doom got an excellent side-scrolling action game interspersed with driving, first-person shooting, and, of course, despair.

Over the course of the game, Special agent Quinn Hart steadily uncovers secrets involving aliens and corporate sabotage, and it costs him the lives of his girlfriend Christy, his former partner Reese, and Christy's adorably '80s punk hairdo. What's more, Hart finds out that he's a clone built by the evil organization behind everything, and he destroys the apparent ringleader.

But nothing really changes. Our hero's friends are still dead, and his fellow alien clones are still out there. Take note, young Nintendo players: you can't fight the system. You can only walk grimly and very slowly away from it.