6 Awesome Game Over Screens Worth Dying For

6. Theme Park - Suicidal CEO

Let’s kick off with some dark humour incredibly inappropriate in a kid friendly game, shall we?

Theme Park is a construction and management sim that rode the craze of similar ‘run your own virtual business’ games that were inexplicably ubiquitous from the mid-90s through to the early 2000s. The aim was to construct and manage your own theme park. Buying attractions, upgrading facilities, selling hot dogs, and making enough virtual cash to attract even the snootiest of virtual gold diggers.

But one thing that sets Theme Park aside from the rest is the game over sequence. Rather than a simple ‘Game Over’ or ‘Your Park Has Gone Out Of Business’ or something to that effect, gamers were treated to a cutscene ending.

In it, we see the reflection of the (now broke) CEO in his family portrait on his desk clamber out of the window and jump from the building, all to the tune of some foreboding, funeral style organ music. It’s enough to give a first time viewer a mini-heart attack.

Not to worry though, his cheeky little face pops up over the window only a moment later, and it’s revealed the building was only one story high. Clearly the devs liked their humour as black as the night sky, and in retrospect it was a good move, as nobody would ever talk about this game anymore were it not for this morbid, gallows humour style game over.