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English
Etymology
From insta- + death.
Pronunciation
Noun
instadeath (countable and uncountable, plural instadeaths)
- (video games, slang) instant death
1994 February 11, 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.
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