Ends
Run out
Run out verb - Use up all one's strength and energy and stop working.
Both terms in one sentence
- Timed Mission: The fuel gauge acts as your timer: run out of fuel before the level ends, and your game ends.
Source: Video Game / Astro Blaster - Vancouver is largely cutscenes, and what action there is is so heavily structured, it's basically just a controller tutorial instead of a proper mission (one battle actually ends when you run out of ammo; you can literally just shoot the ground until you run out and get on with it).
Source: Noob Cave -
However, just when it seems time is going to run out, an MIA squad attacks the CCA base to buy you time, which ends the timer.
Source: Video Game / Battlezone 1998
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