Video Game Trivia… Kill Screen

Here’s something that only the most avid gamers and die-hard retro gaming geeks know about. It’s called a kill screen, and it’s basically a bug or glitch that causes a game to become unplayable. This is usually due to limitations in the hardware, and caused by integer overflow- when numbers go beyond hardware or software limits. Famous kill screens include a level in Donkey Kong where the timer becomes too short for the player to possibly complete the level.

Kill Screen [Wikipedia]