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9th Jun '13 8:45:13 AM EarlOfSandvich

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* A minor version of this appears in ''HalfLife''. To avoid being turned into swiss cheese by a [[WeakTurretGun tripod turret]] placed around a corner, bounce a grenade or two off the wall to knock it down. Tripmines are often set off from a safe distance in a similar manner.
* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite'' has two of these, and the sequel has one.
* Quite naturally, many billiards-based games have several of these, usually requiring English. ''Side Pocket'' was filled of these.
* The Spyro the Dragon franchise ''loves'' this trope. In several of the games, you cannot kill certain enemies, solve certain puzzles or obtain certain collectibles such as gems without climbing onto an oddly designed cannon and shooting at something that is sometimes not even visible from where the cannon is. In A Hero's Tail, an entire set of minigames revolves around Spyro shooting enemies from a cannon while they spread out all over the place - so you might be doing great shooting them on the left, but you lose because others snuck in from the right.
* ''{{La-Mulana}}'' has two puzzles involving tossing bombs through tiny openings: a thankfully optional secret shop in the Temple of Moonlight, and an infuriatingly complicated one in Hell Temple. To add injury to insult, most of your attempts will literally blow up in your face.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' series has you doing this with the Gravity Gun and Energy Orbs.

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[[folder:First Person Shooter]]
* A minor version of this appears in ''HalfLife''. To avoid being turned into swiss cheese by a [[WeakTurretGun tripod turret]] placed around a corner, bounce a grenade or two off the wall to knock it down. Tripmines are often set off from a safe distance in a similar manner.
*** The ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' series has you doing this with the Gravity Gun and Energy Orbs.
* ''DukeNukem3D'' has puzzles that are not quite so tricky, but they do involve bullet-sensitive switches across chasms and such.
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[[folder:Platform]]
* The Spyro the Dragon franchise ''loves'' this trope. In several of the games, you cannot kill certain enemies, solve certain puzzles or obtain certain collectibles such as gems without climbing onto an oddly designed cannon and shooting at something that is sometimes not even visible from where the cannon is. In A Hero's Tail, an entire set of minigames revolves around Spyro shooting enemies from a cannon while they spread out all over the place - so you might be doing great shooting them on the left, but you lose because others snuck in from the right.
* ''{{La-Mulana}}'' has two puzzles involving tossing bombs through tiny openings: a thankfully optional secret shop in the Temple of Moonlight, and an infuriatingly complicated one in Hell Temple. To add injury to insult, most of your attempts will literally blow up in your face.
* You have to do this with ''yourself'' several times in ''SuperMario64'', using the cannons. In the Rainbow Cruise level, aiming at the middle of a rainbow will get you to a floating island with a Star.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' games do lots of these, though they mainly involve ''redirecting'' projectiles or objects (or [[HumanCannonball yourself]]) onto trick-shot trajectories rather than firing them directly, since the player doesn't have any actual weapons.
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[[folder:RPG]]
* All the ''WildArms'' games do this a lot, with using various of your tools with terrain features to trip switches or move things.
* There's one in ''VideoGame/{{Fable|I}}'' where you have to shoot an arrow through a hole to activate a secret.
* Part of the final Thieves' Guild quest in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' is to shoot an arrow at a switch. You have to unlock the ''keyhole'' first, though, and fire through a statue.
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[[folder:Simulation]]
* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite'' has two of these, and the sequel has one.
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2nd Jun '13 12:19:04 AM sunlitgarden

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15th Mar '13 2:00:40 AM EarlOfSandvich

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28th Feb '13 10:54:16 PM nombretomado

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