15 Bizarre 'Game Over' Scenes You Weren't Expecting

3. Sonic CD - Go Fast Or Go Home

Like just about any platformer worth its salt, the games featuring Sega's speeding bullet has any number of ways for Sonic to die. One of the most unusual was leaving him stationary for too long. If a player were to leave the game unpaused and not touch the controller for three minutes, Sonic would stand their tapping his foot in irritation before breaking the fourth wall and escaping the level. No, really - declaring "I'm outta here!" the hedgehog would leap down into a bottomless pit to his death. Were this not surreal enough, the game over screen would echo with a distorted version of the usual theme and echoing evil laughter. The most sadistic part of all of this? This really was game over. Sonic killing himself in this manner is enough to cause the entire game to reset, sending the player back to square one. Sonic doesn't just blip back into existence sans a life at a previous checkpoint, instead the game puts everything back to level one with no Chaos Emeralds or ability to access later stages.