Oh, the memories!<p>My favourite one was on a C64 disk mag called <i>"Input"</i>. It looked roughly like this:<p><pre><code> menu entry 1
<-> * menu entry 2
menu entry 3
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</code></pre>
with<p><pre><code> <-> a little space ship
* a projectile
----- the ground
</code></pre>
You had to move the spaceship up and down and then fire at the menu entries to select them.<p>Since the menu entries had gaps between them you could miss. You likely missed by accident even, because control on home-computers was not what we are used to today.<p>When you missed the projectile was reflected from the opposite wall and if you didn't dodge, it hit your own ship.<p>The little ship crashed to the ground and a tiny, just a couple of pixels, figure appeared complaining and dragging his broken ship off the screen.