8 Exact Moments Video Games Ruined Friendships

Now listen, this list was always going to run short of capturing every single example of best friend deletion, as let's face it there are so, so many examples of video games allowing you to wedge a knife deep in the back of your bestie and then cackle as they fall to the floor in a heap.

Betrayal, it seems, is as core an experience to the video game medium as co-op success is.

Hitting your friend with a blue shell on the final corner in Mario Kart, scoring that goal in Fifa and hammering the celebrations home in real life with some excessive thrusting, making them watch the fatalities in full within Mortal Kombat, deleting the bridge in Portal 2, and of course just making them rewatch your success over and over again via replays, all of these center around one core concept.

At this moment, their pain is your pleasure. And you know what? It feels bloody great.

And consider this, they would likely do the exact same thing to you in an instant, because sometimes it's incredibly funny to be an utter jackass to your mates. However, just remember that loss and defeat plus a healthy dose of name-calling and posturing might not be the thing that gets you invited back over for a gaming session any time soon, so maybe dial it down just a little the next time you utterly smash your friend's hopes and dreams on Mario Party by stealing all their stars at the last moment.