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The "Game Over" screen from Torus Trooper.

Phrase

game over

1. (video games) A message usually signaling that the player failed a computer or video game, for example by losing all of their lives, although the phrase sometimes follows the score after successful completion of a game.
   • 1984, Robert Maxxe, Arcade

     Before I could figure out what the **** was the object of the game, I hear the thing go boom-boom, and the screen lights up with a sign: game over.

2. (by extension) The end of some ongoing situation due to either failure or success.

   If your wife finds out about us, it's game over!

   • 2004, Ryan Russell, Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent, page xxi

     Once we started attacking that network from the inside, it was pretty much game over.

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