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* ManVersusMachine: The main plot of Mash Man, who gets replaced by a grape-stomping machine [[spoiler: that goes berserk, of course]].



* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Mash Man used to be mashing berries for his home town, until they could afford a machine to do the mashing for them. They did not hesitate to shoo out Mash Man, even to the point of insulting him.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Mash Man used to be mashing berries for his home town, until they could afford a machine to do the mashing for them. They did not hesitate to shoo out Mash Man, even to the point of insulting him.him and putting nails on the ground to harm him!
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* UngratefulBastards: The villagers in Mash Man [[spoiler: decide to hang Mash Man after he destroyed their rampaging machine. Even after he saved their lives!]]

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* UngratefulBastards: {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s: The villagers in Mash Man [[spoiler: decide to hang Mash Man after he destroyed their rampaging machine. Even after he saved their lives!]]
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* UngratefulBastards: The villagers in Mash Man [[spoiler: decide to hang Mash Man after he destroyed their rampaging machine. Even after he saved their lives!]]
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Dr. Murdon (the villain of Non-Human) has green skin. He's the guy based off the large green heads from the original.
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* WasOnceAMan: All the enemies in Non-Human were once human.
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* AsteroidsMonster: The zombies in Non-Human's hard mode can split into multiple smaller horrors.


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* BodyHorror: The zombies in Non-Human's hard mode will transform into even more grotesque creatures (and sometimes, multiple) if you take too long to kill them. The FinalBoss also transforms from a green human into a caterpiller-like thing in the hard mode.


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** Even Non-Human (already quite dark) gets turned up here. Enemies die by exploding into LudicrousGibs, and then there's the BodyHorror zombies.


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* FlunkyBoss: The TrueFinalBoss of Non-Human.


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** NonHuman's theme starts playing as the BGM in the final area. You even go through a similar section like in the NES game, with roughly similar enemy positions, as well as the large green heads in the bottomless pit.


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* HugeHolographicHead: Remember the giant green heads in the NES Non-Human? The remake justifies those by making them appear on computer screens at the bottom of the level.


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* LudicrousGibs: Enemies in Non-Human die like this. There's a setting that allows you to turn this up further!
* MoreDakka: Your main weapon in Non-Human can be upgraded to become this. Be careful of cooldown, however.


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* OneWingedAngel: The BigBad of Non-Human turns into a giant caterpillar-thing after being defeated in Hard Mode.
* PuzzleBoss: Many of the bosses:
** The final boss of ''Non-Human'' has to be shot in the stomach so that he will bend down, after which you will have to shoot his mouth to push it backwards into a meat-grinder machine, and then activate the switch to damage him. You have to do this about 6-7 times to beat it.
** The second boss of ''Sombreros'' has a metal vest, and will fall down and get up at full health if you try to beat him the conventional way. In order to defeat him, you have to make him fall down on each of the nooses tied to a donkey, and once you do so, shoot both donkeys to make them rip him into half.
** The final boss of ''Sombreros'' has you killing his minions, but his diplomatic immunity makes him immune to you shots. You have to shoot off his white hat, then go to the red hat and throw it onto his head. This makes a bull come and pulverize him.
** The stomping machine boss of ''Mash Man'' is aided by beserk robots, to beat it you have to hit one of the small robots, and make the boss jump on top of the electrocuted wreckage.
** The boss of ''Fuzz Power'' cannot be hurt normally, you have to wait for it to shoot out hairballs and bombs from its hat. Roll into the hairballs to hit it back at the boss and damage it.
** The mechanical bull in ''Rocket Jockey'' attacks you from behind, making you unable to attack it directly. You have to force it to line up with an asteroid so that it crashes into him and does damage.


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* TrickBoss: The first few bosses of Non-Human start out as a regular zombie Mook... then when you kill them, they transform into a grotesque creature.
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*** [[ItGotWorst Of course, if you're evil]] [[spoiler: Carmilla joins Star Evil to become the Star of Death and [[KillEmAll eradicates Earth.]] ]]

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*** [[ItGotWorst Of course, if you're evil]] evil, [[spoiler: Carmilla joins Star Evil to become the Star of Death and [[KillEmAll eradicates Earth.]] ]]
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* Expy: Done intentionally on some games.

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* Expy: {{Expy}}: Done intentionally on some games.



* WaveMotionBeam: The third stage of Star Evil gives one of these.

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* WaveMotionBeam: WaveMotionGun: The third stage of Star Evil gives one of these.
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** Streamers seem to look and play similar to BionicCommando for the NES. It even heavily implies to be a prequel, just for good measure. It's funny too, considering Silent Rob (during his review of Action52) made the comparison of the original Streamers to BionicCommando back in 2006.

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** Streamers seem to look and play similar to BionicCommando VideoGame/BionicCommando for the NES. It even heavily implies to be a prequel, just for good measure. It's funny too, considering Silent Rob (during his review of Action52) made the comparison of the original Streamers to BionicCommando VideoGame/BionicCommando back in 2006.



** Streamerz seem to really pay a lot of this to BionicCommando, to the point of heavily implying itself to be a prequel.

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** Streamerz seem to really pay a lot of this to BionicCommando, VideoGame/BionicCommando, to the point of heavily implying itself to be a prequel.
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* EliteMook: The final boss of Illuminator is basically a superpowered vampire, taking a ton more hits to kill than a normal one.

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* EliteMook: The final boss FinalBoss of Illuminator is basically a superpowered vampire, taking a ton more hits to kill than a normal one.
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* BlackoutBasement: Every level in Illuminator, forcing you to use your flashlight to see what's going on and defeat enemies by charging it up to a certain point before turning it on. You can also collect night lights, christmas lights, lamps and strobe lights to plug in and help you see what's going on and spot enemies.


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* EliteMook: The final boss of Illuminator is basically a superpowered vampire, taking a ton more hits to kill than a normal one.
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* RiseFromYourGrave: The checkpoints from Silver Sword are graves, and when you die, you do indeed rise from the nearest one.


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* SwordBeam: Your weapon of choice in Silver Sword is firing swords from your sword. It even changes properties as it travels, first being a fire sword, then turning into a silver sword, and then an ice sword.
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* TurnsRed: The vampires in Illuminator will chase you if you hit them, requiring a second hit soon after the first to kill (unless you hit them point blank with a fully-charged flashlight)
** If a ghost is set on fire from another enemy, it'll also rush the player for a second or two before it dies.


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* WaveMotionBeam: The third stage of Star Evil gives one of these.
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* BigDamnHeroes: The secret ending of [[spoiler: Mash Man has him saved from being hang thanks to the Cheetahmen coming to his rescue!]]

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* BigDamnHeroes: The secret ending of [[spoiler: Mash Man has him saved from being hang hung thanks to the Cheetahmen coming to his rescue!]]



** Mash Man to a lesser degree. His toes represents hit-points, that appeared to get [[{{Gorn}} ripped right off]] just for taking a hit. Plus [[spoiler: the ending involves him being hang.]]

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** Mash Man to a lesser degree. His toes represents hit-points, that appeared to get [[{{Gorn}} ripped right off]] just for taking a hit. Plus [[spoiler: the ending involves him being hang.hung.]]



* EarnYourHappyEnding: In Mash Man, beating the game ends with [[spoiler: Mash Man being hang by the villagers for destroying the juice machine ([[WhatTheHellTownspeople the very one that was killing others and destroying the village]] [[AssholeVictim in which the Mash Man saved them from]]).]] However, if you beat the game by [[VideoGameCaringPotential not killing any of the handful of moving creatures in the second area]], [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes The CheetahMen will come to Mash Man's rescue]].]]

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: In Mash Man, beating the game ends with [[spoiler: Mash Man being hang hung by the villagers for destroying the juice machine ([[WhatTheHellTownspeople the very one that was killing others and destroying the village]] [[AssholeVictim in which the Mash Man saved them from]]).]] However, if you beat the game by [[VideoGameCaringPotential not killing any of the handful of moving creatures in the second area]], [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes The CheetahMen will come to Mash Man's rescue]].]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: In Mash Man, beating the game ends with [[spoiler: Mash Man being hang by the villagers for destroying the juice machine ([[WhatTheHellTownspeople the very one that was killing others and destroying the village]] [[AssholeVictim in which the Mash Man saved them from]]).]] However, if you beat the game by [[VideoGameCaringPotential not killing one of the handful of moving creatures in the second area]], [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes The CheetahMen will come to Mash Man's rescue]].]]

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: In Mash Man, beating the game ends with [[spoiler: Mash Man being hang by the villagers for destroying the juice machine ([[WhatTheHellTownspeople the very one that was killing others and destroying the village]] [[AssholeVictim in which the Mash Man saved them from]]).]] However, if you beat the game by [[VideoGameCaringPotential not killing one any of the handful of moving creatures in the second area]], [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes The CheetahMen will come to Mash Man's rescue]].]]
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Action 52 Owns is a FanRemake project. This started as a collaborated effort back on April 2010 to remake all the games from {{VideoGame/Action52}} for the NES, and make them better, appealing, or at the very least: playable. There are 23 out of 52 games recreated so far (including beta and alpha releases), with a couple of them going off to being their own games. The main event, the {{Cheetahmen}}, will be taken by a developer of the project head's choice. Though, because only half the games are finished so far, it may be a while before that will ever happen.

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Action ''Action 52 Owns Owns'' is a FanRemake project. This started as a collaborated effort back on April 2010 to remake all the games from {{VideoGame/Action52}} for the NES, and make them better, appealing, or at the very least: playable. There are 23 out of 52 games recreated so far (including beta and alpha releases), with a couple of them going off to being their own games. The main event, the {{Cheetahmen}}, will be taken by a developer of the project head's choice. Though, because only half the games are finished so far, it may be a while before that will ever happen.

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Action 52 Owns is a FanRemake project. This started as a collaborated effort back on April 2010 to remake all the games from {{Videogame/Action52}} for the NES, and make them better, appealing, or at the very least: playable. There were 26 out of 52 games recreated so far (including beta and alpha releases), with a couple of them going off to being their own games. The main event, the {{Cheetahmen}}, will be taken by a developer of the project head's choice. Though, because only half the games are finished so far, it may be a while before that will ever happen.

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Action 52 Owns is a FanRemake project. This started as a collaborated effort back on April 2010 to remake all the games from {{Videogame/Action52}} {{VideoGame/Action52}} for the NES, and make them better, appealing, or at the very least: playable. There were 26 are 23 out of 52 games recreated so far (including beta and alpha releases), with a couple of them going off to being their own games. The main event, the {{Cheetahmen}}, will be taken by a developer of the project head's choice. Though, because only half the games are finished so far, it may be a while before that will ever happen.




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* {{Abandonware}}: Could be too early to say, but with the project seeming to have hardly been updated for over a year or so (save for some of the games like Streamerz and Non-Human being independently released), it can be assumed that this project may be on it's way to this.

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* {{Abandonware}}: Could be too early to say, but with With the project seeming to have hardly been updated for over a year or so (save for some of the having games like Streamerz and Non-Human being independently released), it can be assumed that this claimed by makers far as 2010, the project may be on it's way to this.



* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Chef Boyardee provides his awesomeness with Non-Human. The first stage of Streamers also qualify.



** Streamers has [[spoiler: [[CaptainErsatz A very super man named Joe]] who did manage to destroy an enemy base, with his base having been destoryed as well. He then plans to form the [[{{Homage}} FSA]] in memory of his superior officers.]]

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** Streamers has [[spoiler: [[CaptainErsatz A very super man named Joe]] who did manage to destroy an enemy base, with his base having been destoryed destroyed as well. He then plans to form the [[{{Homage}} FSA]] in memory of his superior officers.]]



* HilariousInHindsight: TheAngryVideoGameNerd did a review of Action 52 where he commented on Rocket Jockey. He mentioned on how it would be cool if you could use the lasso instead of the game being just another shoot-em-up. The remake does just that!
** Silent Rob reviewed Action 52 a long time ago, and commented on Streamers being like BionicCommando. [[AffectionateParody The remake looks and even feels similar to Bionic Commando]].
*** On that note, he also died by touching money (issuing the cult-famous line: "[[PrecisionFStrike I fucking trusted you, money!]]"). The money has been placed out of reach (although possible to gather), and the commanding officer, at one point, tries to convince you that it is not worth collecting.
* Homage: Lollipop's opening (according to a video) seems quite similar to how Super Castlevania 4 starts.

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* HilariousInHindsight: TheAngryVideoGameNerd did a review of Action 52 where he commented on Rocket Jockey. He mentioned on how it would be cool if you could use the lasso instead of the game being just another shoot-em-up. The remake does just that!
** Silent Rob reviewed Action 52 a long time ago, and commented on Streamers being like BionicCommando. [[AffectionateParody The remake looks and even feels similar to Bionic Commando]].
*** On that note, he also died by touching money (issuing the cult-famous line: "[[PrecisionFStrike I fucking trusted you, money!]]"). The money has been placed out of reach (although possible to gather), and the commanding officer, at one point, tries to convince you that it is not worth collecting.
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{{Homage}}: Lollipop's opening (according to a video) seems quite similar to how Super Castlevania 4 starts.



* VideoGameCaringPotential: A creature politely and insultingly asked Mash Man to not step on her children. She'll be much nicer towards him if he comes back without blood on his feet. [[spoiler: Nice enough to call the Cheetahmen to his rescue.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Mash Man used to be mashing berries for his home town, until they could afford a machine to do the mashing for them. They did not hesitate to shoo out Mash Man, even to the point of insulting him.

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* VideoGameCaringPotential: A creature politely and insultingly asked Mash Man to not step on her children. She'll be much nicer towards him if he comes back without blood on his feet. [[spoiler: Nice [[spoiler:Nice enough to call the Cheetahmen to his rescue.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Mash Man used to be mashing berries for his home town, until they could afford a machine to do the mashing for them. They did not hesitate to shoo out Mash Man, even to the point of insulting him.him.
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* UpdatedRerelease: Flash and NES versions of Streamerz included additional content, such as playing as a scientist who can alter his own gravity.
** Non-Human is part of the Tales of Games vidcon pack due to the developer being 'too creative.'

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* UpdatedRerelease: Flash and NES versions of Streamerz included additional content, such as playing as a scientist being that you can play Streamerz mode, which gives you control of [[VillainProtagonist Dr. Tary, who can alter his own gravity.
gravity]], a [[BrutalBonusLevel Superb mode]], remixed versions of the original and Cheetahmen themes, and cheats. The flash version also features online leaderboards.
** Non-Human is part went from being a basic remake to being it's own game, because the developer was "too creative" with it. That's what you get when you're involved with [[VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden Tales of Games]]. You can find this version in the Tales of Games vidcon pack due to the developer being 'too creative.'Vidcon pack.

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You can download select games [[http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/action52/ here]].
[[http://www.sharkarmstudios.com/2011/06/action-52-owns-launcher.html There is a launcher as well]], containing some games that are not in the other page, courtesy of SharkArm Studios.

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Action 52 Owns is a FanRemake project. A collaborated effort to remake all the games from {{Videogame/Action52}} for the NES, and make them playable. It is far from finished, but after the 51 games are complete, CheetahMen, the 52nd game, will be made by a developer of the lead's choice.

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Action 52 Owns is a FanRemake project. A This started as a collaborated effort back on April 2010 to remake all the games from {{Videogame/Action52}} for the NES, and make them playable. It is far from finished, but after better, appealing, or at the 51 very least: playable. There were 26 out of 52 games are complete, CheetahMen, recreated so far (including beta and alpha releases), with a couple of them going off to being their own games. The main event, the 52nd game, {{Cheetahmen}}, will be made taken by a developer of the lead's choice.
project head's choice. Though, because only half the games are finished so far, it may be a while before that will ever happen.

You can download select games [[http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/action52/ here]].
[[http://www.sharkarmstudios.com/2011/06/action-52-owns-launcher.html There is a launcher as well]], containing some games that are not in the other page, courtesy of SharkArm Studios.
The forum topic of the project is [[http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=12439.0 here as well]].






* {{Abandonware}}: Could be too early to say, but with the project seeming to have not been updated for the past couple of years (save for some of the games like Streamerz and Non-Human being independently released), it can be assumed that this project may be on it's way to this.

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* {{Abandonware}}: Could be too early to say, but with the project seeming to have not hardly been updated for the past couple of years over a year or so (save for some of the games like Streamerz and Non-Human being independently released), it can be assumed that this project may be on it's way to this.

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* {{Abandonware}}: Could be too early to say, but with the project seeming to have not been updated for the past couple of years (save for some of the games like Streamerz and Non-Human being independently released), it can be assumed that this project may be on it's way to this.



* FallenHero: [[spoiler: The protagonist of Star Evil slowly descents to this to the end, if the fangs are any indication. You have the option to dive it further by [[GoshDangItToHeck swearing at your enemies]].]]

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* FallenHero: [[spoiler: The protagonist of Star Evil slowly descents to this to the end, if the fangs are any indication. You have the option to dive it further by [[GoshDangItToHeck swearing at your enemies]].]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Carmilla of Star Evil.
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** Streamers seem to really pay a lot of this to BionicCommando, to the point of heavily implying itself to be a prequel.

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** A couple of games play just like NES games, like Meong and Streamerz. Streamerz even got an NES port.


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* SamusIsAGirl: Star Evil stars Carmilla, who is implied to be female.

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** Non-Human as well. It is included in the Tales of Games Vidcon pack

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** Non-Human as well. was suppose to be a basic remake. Then the developer (Tales of Games) got too creative with the game and decided to make it stand on it's own. It is included in the Tales of Games Vidcon packpack.



** Star Evil ends with [[spoiler: the hero making a HeroicSacrifice by destroying Star Evil. [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Not that he had much of a choice otherwise.]] ]]

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** Star Evil ends with [[spoiler: the hero Carmilla (the pilot) making a HeroicSacrifice by destroying Star Evil. [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Not that he she had much of a choice otherwise.]] ]]
*** [[ItGotWorst Of course, if you're evil]] [[spoiler: Carmilla joins Star Evil to become the Star of Death and [[KillEmAll eradicates Earth.
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* HulkSpeak: The characters in Chill Out.
* KarmaMeter: Star Evil has this, though the only real way to go to the evil side is by [[GoshDangItToHeck swearing a lot]]. See DownerEnding above.



* MissionControl: Streamerz has the Streamerz commander.
** Star Evil has Commander Commodore being moral support to Carmilla.



** Streamers also. As soon as you see the boss, you'll know that you're near the end of the game.


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* VideoGameCaringPotential: A creature politely and insultingly asked Mash Man to not step on her children. She'll be much nicer towards him if he comes back without blood on his feet. [[spoiler: Nice enough to call the Cheetahmen to his rescue.]]
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** Non-Human could qualify as well if [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYIYFHiy8sQ this is any indication.]]

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* BigDamnHeroes: The secret ending of [[spoiler: Mash Man has him saved from being hang thanks to the Cheetahmen coming to his rescue!]]


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* MultipleEndings: Games like Mash Man and Star Evil feature this.


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* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: Non-Human lets you know that you are at the final level when the classic music begins to play, and you start to see that familiar face...
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* CallBack: Some games will reference it's source material. Non-Human and Streamers, for example, plays the same game music from the original in the title screen.
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** Mash Man to a lesser degree. His toes represents hit-points, that appeared to get [[{{Gorn}} ripped right off]] just for taking a hit. Plus [[spoiler: the ending involves him being hang.]]


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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Mash Man gets cast away from his village, until he learns about the rampaging machine. He saves the town, but gets hung anyway since he destroyed a helpful machine...]]
** Star Evil ends with [[spoiler: the hero making a HeroicSacrifice by destroying Star Evil. [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Not that he had much of a choice otherwise.]] ]]
** Streamers has [[spoiler: [[CaptainErsatz A very super man named Joe]] who did manage to destroy an enemy base, with his base having been destoryed as well. He then plans to form the [[{{Homage}} FSA]] in memory of his superior officers.]]


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* TookALevelInBadass: A lot of games, especially Non-Human. Not only does the setting look awesome, but the game play has improved on a vast scale, and the music definitely carries it along more than well.

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* [[BreakoutCharacter Breakout Game]]: A flash version of Streamers was posted on Kongregate.com. It got so popular, it got an NES version (which can be emulated, of course), and it has additional content as well.
** Non-Human could qualify as well if [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYIYFHiy8sQ this is any indication.]]



* DarkerAndEdgier: Illuminator went from slaying vampires with the lights out most of the time to a survival-horror about using your flash light to combat dark abominations.
** Space Dreams is about a baby having a dream of a pacifier in a shoot-em-up setting, that slowly descends to a nightmare inducing setting.
** Star Evil certainly seems to be more depressing than we remember.



** Streamers does play this straight. Anytime you die, you simply respawn to the last check point.

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** Games like Streamers and Alfredo does play this straight. Anytime you die, you simply respawn to the last check point.point (though the latter does force you to start a boss fight over).



* HilariousInHindsight: TheAngryVideoGameNerd did a review of Action 52 where he commented on Rocket Jockey. He mentioned on how it would be cool if you could use the lasso instead of the game being just another shoot-em-up. The remake does just that!
** Silent Rob reviewed Action 52 a long time ago, and commented on Streamers being like BionicCommando. [[AffectionateParody The remake looks and even feels similar to Bionic Commando]].
*** On that note, he also died by touching money (issuing the cult-famous line: "[[PrecisionFStrike I fucking trusted you, money!]]"). The money has been placed out of reach (although possible to gather), and the commanding officer, at one point, tries to convince you that it is not worth collecting.



** Streamers seem to really pay a lot of this to BionicCommando, to the point of heavily implying itself to be a prequel.
** Sombreros has a game play mechanic that seems to work just like the Dead Eye mechanic in the [[RedDeadRevolver Red]] [[RedDeadRedemption Dead]] games.
* {{Metroidvania}}: Alfredo plays very much like this.



** That's not to say there are no consequences for all the games if you die. See DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist above.

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** That's not to say there are no consequences for all the games if you die. See DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist above.above.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Mash Man used to be mashing berries for his home town, until they could afford a machine to do the mashing for them. They did not hesitate to shoo out Mash Man, even to the point of insulting him.
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* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Subverted, depending on the game where despite having infinite lives, you are still inconvenienced in someway.
** Star Evil for example: You have to collect letters to advance to a boss. Dying makes you lose two letters, and you will have to catch them, or otherwise wait til a specific enemy comes back with that letter. The boss' health also regenerates fully if you die during a boss fight.
** Streamers does play this straight. Anytime you die, you simply respawn to the last check point.



* EasyModeMockery: Non-Human has an easy mode, where the game is 2/3rds shorter, has no final boss, nor has an ending.



* OneHitPointWonder: Some games have this. To balance this out, they also tend to have infinite lives.

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* OneHitPointWonder: Some games have this. To balance this out, they also tend to have infinite lives.lives.
** That's not to say there are no consequences for all the games if you die. See DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist above.
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Action 52 Owns is a FanRemake project. A collaborated effort to remake all the games from {{Videogame/Action52}} for the NES, and make them playable. It is far from finished, but after the 51 games are complete, CheetahMen, the 52nd game, will be made by a developer of the lead's choice.

[[NeedsMoreLove A work in progress here.]]
!!Action 52 Owns includes examples of:
* BraggingRightsReward: Streamers has the money bags, which Mission Control explicitly tells you that it's for points. Lampshaded further that he tries to convince you to not attempt for a harder to grab bag if you get close enough.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Chef Boyardee provides his awesomeness with Non-Human. The first stage of Streamers also qualify.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In Mash Man, beating the game ends with [[spoiler: Mash Man being hang by the villagers for destroying the juice machine ([[WhatTheHellTownspeople the very one that was killing others and destroying the village]] [[AssholeVictim in which the Mash Man saved them from]]).]] However, if you beat the game by [[VideoGameCaringPotential not killing one of the handful of moving creatures in the second area]], [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes The CheetahMen will come to Mash Man's rescue]].]]
* Expy: Done intentionally on some games.
** Streamers seem to look and play similar to BionicCommando for the NES. It even heavily implies to be a prequel, just for good measure. It's funny too, considering Silent Rob (during his review of Action52) made the comparison of the original Streamers to BionicCommando back in 2006.
* FallenHero: [[spoiler: The protagonist of Star Evil slowly descents to this to the end, if the fangs are any indication. You have the option to dive it further by [[GoshDangItToHeck swearing at your enemies]].]]
* Homage: Lollipop's opening (according to a video) seems quite similar to how Super Castlevania 4 starts.
* OneHitPointWonder: Some games have this. To balance this out, they also tend to have infinite lives.

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