One of the old classic games in internet history is Nethack.
If you never tried it, pls do. (Check the wikipage)
It is a singelplayer game with an incredible depth.
Free down load and easy to get started. (And hooked hehe)
In Nethack, if you ran close to death you got messages as a warning.
There were two of those, and one is the topic of the thread.
If below 1/10 of max hp you heard the howling of the CwnAnnwn...
Spectral hounds of the otherworld (Annwn).
The other rather cool message occured if you had 1hp left.
"You hear the wailing of the Banshee!"
Not really a suggestion, as those messages are from Nethack.
Still the idea is fun and could, if there were someone who had the time and lust to fix something similar, be fun in Genesis too.
PS Another fun little thing in Genesis was charisma.
A stat like strength, dexterity etc etc
Charisma was good in some occations. In shops, you got lower prices, and some animals would not autoattack if you looked handsome (high chr).
One feature someone added was if a female character (amazon) was wearing a T-shirt (start armour of the Tourist) she could take a bath in a fountain and thereby raise her CHR considerably before visiting a shop.
