Dont Try This At Home / Video Games

Video Games always give the warning to never try what we see in them in real life!

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• Animal Restaurant: The Stamp & Puzzle event, which involves a coffee-loving cat named Aten (the mascot of a real life cafe), has disclaimers not to feed coffee to cats.
• Monkey Island:
  • The Curse of Monkey Island has a scene where Guybrush gives the audience a disclaimer right before cheerfully ingesting a spiked drink.
    Guybrush: It just occurred to me that mixing medicine and alcohol is a really stupid and possibly lethal thing to do. If I were a real person instead of a lovable, inept cartoon character (with the potential for a few more sequels), I wouldn't even consider it. Skoal!
  • In Escape from Monkey Island, just before he pulls the fire alarm at the schoolhouse on Knuttin Atoll, Guybrush turns to the player and says that you should never, ever do this in Real Life.
• In Day of the Tentacle, Laverne revives a hamster from cryogenic suspension by putting it in a microwave. She then turns to the camera and remarks in a very emotionless, bored tone that you should never do this unless you have access to a highly advanced future microwave. "Kids who put hamsters in microwaves back where I'm from get taken away from their parents and put up for adoption. So DON'T do it!"
• "The skaters depicted in this game are either professionals, made-up or just plain crazy." — The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series.
• The Need for Speed series always included a short video disclaimer about safe driving, delivered by whoever was playing the hottie in the FMV cutscenes.
  • Many Racing Games tend to have an opening disclaimer urging you to always race on a professional track, ensure your car is in racing condition and, of course, to wear your seat-belt wherever you drive. Games based around street racing will also often have a disclaimer stating that modifications you do in the game may be illegal in Real Life, and to not try and install them on your own car.
• Lampshaded in Ratchet: Deadlocked, which had Dallas, the male announcer spouting out random comments while you fight, say "Remember, don't try any of this at home. Go to a friend's house!"
  • Ratchet & Clank's advertising campaign made much use of this trope by demonstrating just what happens when you do try it at home
• Psymon Stark in the SSX series will occasionally shout, "Don't try that at home, kids!" after landing a death-, logic- and gravity-defying snowboard trick.
• Used in a more subtle way in Saints Row 2, during a mission after trying to find out the recipe for Loa Dust, Tobia's wife tells about what is in the Loa Dust but does not explicitly tell what exactly it is made of to the player and gives it to Shaundi instead. Given the possible controversy of teaching gamers to produce real-life chemical drugs. It was a good idea anyway.
• Used in the title of an Xbox game, Backyard Wrestling — Don't Try This At Home, featuring various characters (including members of Insane Clown Posse) mauling one-another with garden-tools and various common-household improvised-weaponry.
• Some eroge come packaged with a message like this. An example can be found here.
• If the player falls hard in Backyard Skateboarding, Erik says "Don't try this at home, kids" after landing.
• In Brütal Legend, Eddie Riggs can perform an attack with the roadie unit where he holds his guitar in front of the amplifiers the roadie is carrying, and play it, hurting enemies with feedback. While doing so, he'll remind the player that he is a professional and not to do this themselves.
• Tekken Tag Tournament PS2's bowling minigame when the player overcharges and gets a foul or chooses to knock out someone with the ball on either side of the bowling alley. The manual is more serious, stating the game is for entertainment purposes and states not to try using the moves at home.
• From Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Baddest of the Bands:
  Strong Bad: Kids, this may look like fun, but Strong Bad is a stunt driver on a closed course with a team of licensed crustacean wranglers backing him up. So remember, NEVER put live buttered lobsters down your pants... Unless, you know, you got five bucks riding on it. Then knock yourself out.
• Hedgewars manual, disclaimer:
  Do not try to recreate the cake in the real world. Some people might not appreciate the idea of their heads blown off by a birthday cake.
• Rune Factory Frontier pulled this when you're trying to cheat on your wife by triggering the "Love Confession" scenes. If Raguna is already married, his wife will come and beat him up, following with the line "* Do not try this at home." after the screen has turned white.
• Monday Night Combat announcer Mickey Cantor sometimes lampoons the trope as parting words. An example:
  Canor: Remember the violence you see here is performed by trained combat professionals with a deep personal hatred for their opponents. Do not try any of these things you see here at home unless you have a certified copy of our home game.
• Spider-Man: The Movie had a spoof message in the tutorial. When it comes to web-slinging, Bruce Campbell informs children that they should not try this at home... because "your house isn't nearly tall enough".
• Both Jet Set Radio games have the following disclaimer at the start of the game.
  Graffiti is art. However, graffiti as an act of vandalism is a crime. Every state/province has vandalism laws that apply to graffiti, and local entities such as cities and counties have anti-graffiti ordinances. Violation of these laws can result in a fine, probation, or a jail sentence. Sega does not condone the real-life act of vandalism in any form.
• I Am an Insane Rogue A.I. has "Children, don't try this at home, unless you are also an insane rogue AI."
• The disclaimer for Science Papa states "Never try to reproduce anything in this game without professional supervision!"
• Star Ocean: The Second Story features a private event where Rena reformats a public computer's hard drive, erasing the data. The fourth wall is broken and the player is told: "Do not try this at home!"
• In Flight, when you purchase an upgrade which allows you to use a fuel engine to make your paper plane go faster, it displays the message "This is totally impossible in real life. Please don't try it at home!"
• In MacSki, an old Obstacle Ski Course game for the Macintosh, one of the help screens says that the game is only for entertainment purposes, not training: "If you do not seek professional ski instruction, you could injure yourself very badly and look like a complete idiot in front of family and friends."
• The Inazuma Eleven video games hilariously informs younger players not to try performing the special moves from the games at home when you start a new game, despite said special moves involving including summoning the hand of God, jumping in the air and spinning around so fast the ball catches on fire, summoning a dragon, kicking the ball into the air so that it gets zapped by godly powers and summoning the devil.
• The description of the "Pyromaniac" achievement in Rescue Team 4 states "Wait until 10 houses are on fire on level 31. Warning: do not try this at home!"
• In Fire Emblem: Awakening, this is one of Basilio's critical lines.
• "Remember kids, taking someone's possessions and selling them without asking is a crime." — Disgaea DS
• The Long Dark opens with a short warning that even though the developers have pushed for realism in the game's development, that the game should absolutely not be taken as a substitute for real wilderness survival training. It also states that the animals present in the game are abnormally aggressive due to the bizarre geomagnetic event that also knocked out all electronics and sent humanity back to the stone age; in real life, wolves and bears are not ravenous killing machines that attack all humans on sight, and the development team does not in any way condone the killing of wildlife in real life.
• The Arcade Game 720° displays this warning message at the start of a new game:
  ATARI GAMES CORPORATION WOULD LIKE TO STRESS THAT THIS GAME DEPICTS SOME SKATEBOARDING TECHNIQUES WHICH MAY BE HAZARDOUS IF ATTEMPTED IN REAL LIFE. WE WISH TO URGE ALL SKATERS TO SKATE SAFELY, AND TO ALWAYS WEAR PROPER PROTECTIVE GEAR.
• Dragon Age: Inquisition gives an In-Universe example: Leliana can offer to train you to be a bard, re: spy/assassin. Said training is a codex entry that, based on her bad experience, amounts to, "Don't."
• The dynamite-making achievement plaque in Grim Facade 7: Monster in Disguise states "Please do not try this at home."
• Sega's official magazine, Sega Visions would occasionally stick disclaimers into articles for games like Road Rash or the extreme roller-blading game Skitchin', usually followed by something like "seriously, you didn't try running into walls at high speed after playing Sonic The Hedgehog, did you?"
• During the Hairdresser Octopus rap in Parappa The Rapper 2, a caption reading "Kids, don't try this at home!" appears as Parappa and the Octopus dance around with scissors.
• In Subterraneus Clodomir comes across an altar with a statue made of junk, surrounded by candles.
  Clodomir: Some lit candles, with no one around, surrounding a pile of inflammable things? Please, don't do this at home!
• In Matchington Mansion the profile for Gustavo, a balloonist who attaches fireworks to his balloon for added altitude, states "Gustavo recommends that no one try this at home, fireworks should be handled by professionals."
• In PAYDAY 2, one of the loading screen tips simply states "Do not try this in real life." If you do, you'll most likely be taken into custody.
• In Puyo Puyo Sun, Zoh Daimaoh gets angry at Schezo for calling him a "demon" and performs a technique where he burns a hole in the ground just by standing in place and slowly sinks into it, all with Schezo set aflame in his grasp. Zoh yells "This technique is dangerous, so be a good kid and don't imitate this!"
  Schezo: Like a human could possibly do that?!
• SPY Fox: In SPY Fox 2: Some Assembly Required, one of the spy gadgets available is an ID printer (which Fox must use to pass himself off as an employee of the restaurant where the Big Bad has set up shop). After Professor Quack explains how to use it, Fox remarks: "Creating false ID cards is something only secret agents can do. And then only when we're on a case!"

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