9 Video Game Titles Which Lied To You

5. No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!

FFIV title
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Dominoes are best known for three things: being Eric Clapton's backing group, pizzas, and falling down. The black and white tiles' perennial battle versus gravity is so well-established that it informs a handful of clichés, so it's a little rich of the title of this underrated 1998 puzzle-platformer to suggest its titular hero - an anthropomorphic domino, naturally - is impervious to his manifest destiny.

No one can stop Mr. Domino... except they can, or else the game would be trivial. Across any of the game's six stages, there are a variety of blocky blockers waiting to thwart Domino-san on his quest for chained Rube Goldberg satisfaction. The title is less confident about the unrelenting qualities of No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!'s other protagonists, amongst them Miss. Domino (naturally), and a devil domino called, um, Bruce.

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Benjamin was born in 1987, and is still not dead. He variously enjoys classical music, old-school adventure games (they're not dead), and walks on the beach (albeit short - asthma, you know). He's currently trying to compile a comprehensive history of video game music, yet denies accusations that he purposefully targets niche audiences. He's often wrong about these things.