: Maybe it just wasn't going fast enough, or didn't hit me at a good angle. But
: it's sure not like a Ghost, which can irritatingly kill you with the
: merest brush at low speed (often with some fool Marine on it!). I've been
: smacked dead many times in mid-air though, when I didn't get my baill
: right.

: The ship did cause my death once when I was on the bridge. As it came up
: through the deck near the corner, it pushed me through the cliff face and
: out of the loaded part of the level.

I thought that in the first game the merest touch of a vehicle could kill you. Flipping a Banshee can kill you if it bounces back and touches you.

In the rest of the games you can survive a slow hit but not in the first game (or so I thought).