I don't know if it's the best, but the funniest was when the Sims first came out. I set it up on a computer at work and let it run over the weekend. When I came to work on Monday, the guy had starved to death. The game even showed me pictures of him clawing at the door, trying to get food. I laughed for a week over that.
Walking into the 1st Goomba in Super Mario Bros. Not only does it kill Mario, it kills any shred of self respect you may have once had.
"First, we have aspirin. A common cure for things that aspirin cures. Leads to.....rabies."
i actually like the heroinc non graphic death of the soldiers on contra hard corps, the space one, yeah.
In the VGA version of Space Quest 1, if you die certain ways in the desert cave, the 2 game designers come on the screen and analyze your death. I always liked that. That scene has awesome music, too.
In the first Leisure Suit Larry, if you die in front of the seedy bar in the begining, your body is lowered by a hidden elevator to a secret lab where all sorts of damaged characters from other Sierra games are being tested and repaired. When they finish with Larry, he is raised back up to where he started ready to begin again.
Best ever death scene for me also involves the Sims. I had installed the House Party expansion and was playing around with the fireworks. Lo and behold they set my lawn on fire and my friends character catches on fire. Well, we just laughed as she ran around the screen trying to put out the flames. So she dies and Death appears to collect her. As Death is walking toward her he walks across the burning lawn, and catches on fire!! So, not only are the charred remains of my friend still smoldering on my back lawn, but now death is on fire and running around the lawn. I can't actually remember if Death dies from the fire, but it was insanely funny nonetheless.
Gremio in Suikoden. Eaten by spores. If you've gotta die heroically and save your friends, that's the way to do it.
My favorite part of Shadowgate is all the horrific ways to die, from getting toasted by dragonfire to tripping when your torch goes out.
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