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==Outside video gaming== [[File:Antifascist protest Washingtonplatz Berlin 2020-08-29 02.jpg|thumb|A "game over" banner at an anti-fascist protest in Berlin, 2020]] The phrase is occasionally used to indicate the end of an argument or process in real life. In January 2011, protesters and rioters in several [[North Africa]]n and [[Middle East]]ern countries used the slogan "Game over" on banners to express their [[Arab Spring|anti-government sentiments]].<ref>[http://silversprite.posterous.com/change-your-government-game-over 'Game Over' for your government?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715105954/http://silversprite.posterous.com/change-your-government-game-over |date=July 15, 2011 }}</ref> "Game over" is also sometimes used as a phrase to concede defeat, as for example in the movie ''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]'' where one of the protagonists, [[Hudson (Aliens)|Private William Hudson]] ([[Bill Paxton]]), shouts, "Game over, man. Game over!" after the dropship meant to rescue him and his expedition is destroyed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/quotes |title=Aliens (1986) - Memorable quotes |publisher=IMDB |access-date=3 August 2011}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=December 2024|reason=WP:CITEIMDB|certain=y}} Paxton's use of the phrase was included in shortened form in the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] [[Alien 3 (video game)|game adaptation]] of ''[[Alien 3]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_3pkxiM2Us |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/n_3pkxiM2Us |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=Game Over: Alien 3|last=GameOverContinue|date=9 February 2009|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=December 2024|reason=WP:YT|certain=y}} although the Hudson character did not appear in the film. The "Game Over" quote is heard in full after the final ball is drained in [[Zen Studios]]' virtual pinball adaptation of ''Aliens''.<ref>{{cite video game|title=''[[Zen Pinball 2]]'' - ''Aliens vs. Pinball'' pack |developer=[[Zen Studios]]|date=April 26, 2016|platform= [[PlayStation 3]], [[PlayStation 4]], [[PlayStation Vita]], [[Wii U]]|level=Aliens - Game Over|quote='''Private William Hudson:''' "That's it man, game over, man, it's game over!"}}</ref> The "game over" line was not in the ''Aliens'' script, but was ad libbed by Paxton.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/bill-paxton-75626|title=Bill Paxton|first=Will|last=Harris|website=avclub.com|date=28 May 2012 }}</ref> The phrase is also used various times in the ''[[Saw (franchise)|Saw]]'' movie series, because of the antagonist's penchant for referring to the traps he creates as "games". Some [[gamebook]]s utilize this phrase as well. Each book in the [[Nintendo gamebooks|''Nintendo Adventure Book'' series]] has only one good ending, with all of the bad ones saying "Game Over".
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