Balatro has like, an actual kill screen - a point at which the game breaks because it can't represent numbers large enough. I wonder if it's the first popular game to actually feature a true kill screen in... how long? A few years? 10 years? Since the 16-bit era? Can anyone think of another modern example?
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This sort of falls outside of what you're looking for but, while we knew it was possible, the kill screen for NES Tetris was finally reached by a human being only this year
Risk of Rain would frequently crash if you got enough missiles and while I never quite got the remaster to crash I did crater it down to single-digit FPS.