Oh, the memories!

My favourite one was on a C64 disk mag called "Input". It looked roughly like this:

              menu entry 1
              
    <->   *   menu entry 2

              menu entry 3


    -----------------------------

with

    <->   a little space ship
     *    a projectile
    ----- the ground

You had to move the spaceship up and down and then fire at the menu entries to select them.

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.

When you missed the projectile was reflected from the opposite wall and if you didn't dodge, it hit your own ship.

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.