History CameraAbuse / VideoGames

* The ''UsefulNotes/Vectrex'' game ''[[VideoGame/StarTrek Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'' has a camera crack if the Enterprise is hit by a torpedo (and shields were not active). This is justified in the manual, because the captain is behind a wind shield.

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** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': The game introduces the Assist Trophy, an item that might summon a cute ''VideoGame/{{Nintendog|s}}'' puppy that proceeds to jump up on the camera for a few seconds.

* The first ''VideoGame/ThunderHoop'' ends with your titular character throwing the "Game Over" sign at the camera. Complete with breaking glass!

*** Slightly less drastic from the same game: Tidus steals a pair of binoculars from a tourist on a boat. The camera POV switches to what he sees as he looks through them. It retains that POV even as Tidus absent-mindedly (or [[JerkAss Jerk Assedly]]) tosses them overboard when he's done with them.

* Failing Wonder Pink's first [[QuickTimeEvent QTE]] in ''[[VideoGame/TheWonderful101 The Wonderful 101]]'' has her storm toward the camera and angrily punch it to knock it over, then start stomping on it with [[RedEyesTakeWarning her eyes glowing red]].

* One of Fang's attacks in his battle against Trip in ''VideoGame/SonicSuperstars'' will cause Trip to crash into the screen like a screen KO from ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' if the attack hits her. Fang will also crash into the screen after he's been defeated.

* ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers'' use this trope to indicate when the player takes damage.
* ''VideoGame/Area51'' use this trope to indicate when the player takes damage.
* ''VideoGame/VirtuaCop'' use this trope to indicate when the player takes damage.
* ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'', use this trope to indicate when the player takes damage.

* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2'' has a few victory poses doing this. Marrow, for example, [[IncrediblyLamePun throws the camera a bone]].

*** Also in ''11'', Sindel's Friendship has her take out a wine glass, then attempt to [[GlassShatteringSound shatter it]] [[MakeMeWannaShout with her sonic scream]]. [[BaitAndSwitch Guess what happens instead.]]

* ''VideoGame/FobiaStDinfnaHotel'' has a justified example in your last fight against [[ImplacableMan Aquilles]]. You're wearing a gasmask in that fight, and Aquilles managed to break a damage it with it's claw leading to a cracked hole from your POV that lasts several seconds.

* In the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' games, particularly the ones on the [=PS1=], lining up a shot perfectly with the camera and shooting right at it will cause a bullet hole to appear briefly on the screen. the kind of holes that appear depends on what sort of gun you use to fire into the camera.

* In the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' games, particularly the ones on the [=PS1=], and particularly the Director's Cut of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', lining up a shot perfectly with the camera and shooting right at it will cause a bullet hole to appear briefly on the screen. This may be doable in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' and ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis 3]]'' but memory is fuzzy. The hardest part is finding a room or hall where the camera is positioned perfectly for the shot.
** It can be done in 2. The corridor with the first Licker contains such a camera positioning. And the [[ElevatorActionSequence turntable elevator]] during the battles with G's second and third forms.

** At one point, you turn on a security monitor to find that [[strike: Trenchcoat Man]] Tyrant is in the hall behind you, then he smashes the camera.

* In ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame'' and ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime Turtles in Time]]'', you can throw foot soldiers into the camera. The Super Nintendo version of the latter game uses this as part of a boss fight: when you encounter Shredder in the fourth level, he's manning a giant gun. After he taunts you, the camera spins around so that he's in the foreground. The only way to hurt him is to throw enemies into the screen... and thus into Shredder's gun.