Troll

During the 1990s and early 2000s, these fantasy creatures transitioned across diverse gameplay genres, adapting to different platform constraints. In the 1994 Super Nintendo port of Ultima VI: The False Prophet, these foes guard valuable treasure chests within deep caverns, requiring players to utilize ranged magic to counter their high physical durability. For the gross-out platformer Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure, developers designed them with cartoonish animations, placing them in the Flatulence Swamps where they lob mud at the protagonist.

In the Game Boy Color release of Shadowgate Classic, the creature guards a crucial rope bridge, serving as a sudden death trap unless bypassed using a specific quest item from the player's inventory. Similarly, the grid-based dungeon crawler Towers: Lord Baniff's Deceit utilizes them as high-damage threats in narrow corridors, forcing tactical retreats. For the interactive adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the encounter represents a pivotal narrative event where players must utilize environmental physics and spell-casting timing to levitate a wooden club, knocking the beast unconscious to rescue Hermione Granger.