History VideoGame / Hangaroo

* ShaggyDogStory: If you manage to somehow clear the game, the kangaroo will put off his noose and dash off the hanging platform. [[spoiler:As he's hopping to the distance, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim he gets either run over by a truck, Struck by lightning, or crushed by a falling meteor that comes out of nowhere, killing him anyway.]]]]

* ShaggyDogStory: If you manage to somehow clear the game, the kangaroo will put off his noose and dash off the hanging platform. [[spoiler:As he's hopping to the distance, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim he gets either run over by a truck or crushed by a falling meteor that comes out of nowhere, killing him anyway.]]]]

* ShoutOut: ''Hangaroo 2'' version uses a wrong letter counter with ''Series/FamilyFeud''-style Strikes.

* ShoutOut: The 2002 version uses a wrong letter counter with ''Series/FamilyFeud''-style Strikes.

* DeadpanSnarker: The kangaroo never fails to make snide comments if you pick a wrong letter (e.g. "Thanks a lot there, Einstein", or "Why do I always get stuck with the idiots?" and many more). He might even make insulting comments even if you do choose rightly ("Well, maybe you're not as dumb as you look."), albeit rarely.

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[[caption-width-right:342:"I am sooo dead..."]]

* DeadpanSnarker: The kangaroo never fails to make snide comments if you picked a wrong letter (e.g. "Thanks a lot there, Einstein", or "Why do I always get stuck with the idiots?" and many more). He might even make insulting comments even if you do choose rightly ("Well, maybe you're not as dumb as you look."), albeit rarely.

* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: If you don't immediately restart or quit the game after failing around, you'll see the blue ghost of the kangaroo fly off the platform while scowling at you for letting him die.

A sequel, ''Hangaroo 2'' was released in 2007. It has the exact same gameplay as the previous one, just with a different background.

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: A statement that "No kangaroos were harmed during the making of this game" appear on the screen before the credit and title screen.

* DynamicDifficulty: The words/phrases you have to guess each round are randomly generated with no regard to difficulty. You might get a proverb (typically the easiest category, as they usually contain a lot of letters and common phrases so you aren't likely to make too many mistakes even if you're just picking letters randomly) right after having to name a very obscure animal/plant/disease that contains uncommon letters (e.g. "mononucleosis").

* ShaggyDogStory: If you manage to somehow clear the game, the kangaroo will put off his noose and dash off the hanging platform. [[spoiler:As he's hopping to the distance, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim he gets either run over by a truck or crushed by a falling meteor that comes out of nowhere.]]]]

''Hangaroo'' is a flash-based games that was first released in 2001 by NC Entertainment for Windows XP. It's basically a classic hangman game... if you replace the "man" with a mouthy kangaroo, reduce the number of allowed wrong guesses per round to just 4, and require you to complete 10 rounds to win the game.

A sequel, ''Hangaroo 2'' is released in 2007. It has the exact same gameplay as the previous one, just with a different background.

* DynamicDifficulty: The words/phrases you have to guess each round are randomly generated with no regard to difficulty. You might get a proverb (typically the easiest category, as they usually contain a lot of letters and common phrases so you aren't likely to make too many mistakes even if you're just picking letters randomly) right after having to name a very obscure animal/plant/disease that contains uncommon alphabets (e.g. "mononucleosis").

* DeathAsComedy: If you fail the round, the kangaroo is hanged. Not long afterwards, his ghost emerges (complete with wings and a halo), and he ascends to the top of the screen while glowering at you. [[spoiler:He gets killed anyway even if you do manage to save him from the hanging, and while no ghosts appear in this instance, the cause of death is so absurd[[note]]crushed by a sudden falling meteor[[/note]] that one can't help but laugh]].