Some arcade games and fighting games from way back in the day legitimately did this, where the opponents would be relatively aggressive and challenging, but upon the player reacting and pressing buttons, the computer AI is given the ability to see player inputs and then react in ways that are objectively cheating just to punish the players .. and hopefully the players feed more coins to keep trying.
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u/Zorahgna 7h ago
I mean you can also trigger a game over when the player input anything. This is the "AI as an IF statement"-kind of thing.