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Avoid the Noid is a 1989 platform game for the Commodore 64 and IBM PC, created to advertise Domino's Pizza. You start at the bottom of a 30-story building, and have to deliver a pizza at the top within half an hour. The building is infested with noids, who will use jump kicks, exploding telephones, water balloons and bazookas to destroy your pizza.
Tropes used in Avoid the Noid include:
- The Computer Shall Taunt You. Every time you lose a pizza, you are treated to a close-up of a grinning noid, complete with mocking laughter sound effect.
- It's All Upstairs From Here
- Interchangeable Antimatter Keys
- Interface Spoiler: You know the bottom floor of each screen doesn't have trapdoors, because that would cause you to fall off-screen.
- Malevolent Architecture. For some reason the whole building is full of trap doors (and noids are immune).
- No Kill Like Overkill. How do you destroy a pizza? Of course, you take out a bazooka.
- Product Placement
- Public Domain Soundtrack. Each of the 12 screens has a different tune, including such classics as "Ride of the Valkyries" and "The William Tell Overture".
- Smart Bomb. You get a handful of "noid avoiders" that clear the screen of noids.
- Timed Mission
- Video Game Lives. Five pizzas. If they all get crushed, exploded or soaked, it's game over time.