instadeath

insta- +‎ death

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnstəˌdɛθ/

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instadeath (countable and uncountable, plural instadeaths)

1. (video games, slang) instant death
   • 1994, Jacob Bara-Skowronek, “Re: Space Gods (was Re: Demographics)”, in alt.games.torg‎ (Usenet):

     It may seem rather harsh, but if one's going to play a cyborg (or the equivalent), the benefits of almost unlimited cyberware counterbalance the risk of dying in pure zones (or InstaDeath due to transformation).

   • 1995, Robert J Chverchko, “Re: Napalm LRM's”, in rec.games.mecha‎ (Usenet):

     It's way too powerful, the point with the inferno SRM-2 was that it needed to close into a range where the infantry might have a chance of firing back before suffering instadeath.

   • "Dylan O'Donnell", "Re: New spoiler - instadeath", rec.games.roguelike.nethack Usenet

     It's still only on the 5-turn timer if you're hit by a monster-thrown egg, though, as opposed to the instadeath from "elementary physics" if you throw one upwards yourself.

   • 2007, "Mark Mackey", "Lost char due to bug in Crawl SS 0.7", rec.games.roguelike.misc Usenet

     One of the nice things added to Crawl in the dc400 beta days was the removal of typo instadeaths: back in the bad days accidentally moving onto a lava or deep water square was effectively an instadeath.

• instakill
• permadeath