/vr/ - Retro Games

I have no clue why, but this scared the shit out of me.

>>1613551

I still can't tell what anything in that sprite is supposed to be.

>>1613552
Whatever it is, it has a penis.

Stealthgames are the only games giving me a fucking adrenaline rush and constant feeling of "FUCK FUCK FUCK".

Interestingly enough, I discovered this during the Locke segment in FFVI

Those levels spooped me out so much I couldn't play them and had to task a friend with beating them while I walked out. And we played Resident Evil and Parasite Eve without bothering me too much at the time.

>>1613546
>Parasol Coo
with that you can actually kill those guys, right? Shit was overpowered

>>1613569

I only found out recently you can kill them at all, they just take a shitload of hits. That power is one of the safest bets, but you can also stunlock them until they explode with fire Rick among others.

>>1613546
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbIWzsXqpAI

Donkey Kong Land's underwater level and getting chased by a goddamn giant nautilus which triggered a phobia of squids and octopusses for me as a kid. I nearly dropped my gameboy when that thing started to chase me at first.

>>1613591
I literally devour your fears. Cephalopods are amongst my favourite food-animals.

>>1613597
I have to admit they taste rather decently. I ate a few calamari rings once to confront my fear of them and went to the city aquarium to watch them and it's a bit easier now for me since the nautili are in reality a lot smaller and peaceful. squids as well. still, that shit scarred me as a child.

The boss in the sewer level of shadows of the empire totally made me freak out as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLLVwGgzFSs&feature=player_detailpage#t=761

>>1613558
>Interestingly enough, I discovered this during the Locke segment in FFVI

Locke is a rogue so it sure fits the stealth theme

>>1613615
Yeah, but that segment wasn't very... "dynamic".

>>1613623
I agree but JRPGs aren't dynamic in general. it's quite a shame

>>1613602
I like to make squid balls. :-)
Chop up some squid, shove into a blender with egg whites, cornstarch and a bit of salt then blitz until smooth and stir in some chopped coriander leaves and scallion greens.
Fill a piping bag with the squid paste and squeeze into sausage casings, twisting off several balls creating a long string of squid balls that resembled anal beads. Then poach until set, allow to cool and remove from the casing.
Squid is so cheap that it's a fairly common protein for me. $1,49/lb? Yes please!

HAUNT

The chain chomp, the eel and the mad piano didn't scare me. This fucker though...

>>1613657
I had a nightmare that Mario's lower half got bitten off by this thing and he could only crawl from then on. I was so freaked out I never touched this level again.

That forest and the spiders made me wait until I was 9 years old to be able to go past the fourth level. Up until that day, I always stopped playing at that level, terrorifed.

>>1613709
It was meant to be this image

Just fucking why were those things in the game?! There were no other enemies in Xeen THAT gruesome looking, not even the zombies and insane beggars.

>>1613727

On that note, the evil eggplants made me stop playing the Game Boy game.

This.

>>1613583

This motherfucker still scares me.

>>1613742

Also, this huge machete armored green mohawk blue bear.

http://youtu.be/io7JomilMk0?t=4m33s
I can make it! Please let me make it! Oh no! No! NOOOOOO!!!

The Magic of Scheherazade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvBRURRas58

Whole game is freaky. Just really odd and unsettling.

>>1613942
The Guardian Legend is pretty much nightmare fuel from end to end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvBRURRas58

This whole dungeon...

>>1613627
neat recipe!

Took me forever to beat this chapter as a kid because the vambees scared the hell out of me.

As a kid I had Breath Of Fire 2 but never got very far in it because the initial encounter with this fucker scared this shit out of me

>>1613610
Oh god me too. And the sounds the smaller monsters make during the level

>>1614063
this.

those fucking screams it makes while him/it is chasing you through the exploding building...

>>1613546
Any fucking game that involves fish trying to each you in a swimming segment. Any. No fucking exceptions. It is much more terrifying in a 3D game, where you cannot always see them but you know they are there. Led to my fear of lakes. Fuck.

for some reason, echo the dolphin terrified me. it was just so ominous. also, i think i have that fear of the open dark depths of the ocean. idk.

>>1614063
MOVE IT SPIDEY MOVE IT

This entire level, especially the music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdRf-IVFeOs

Still never finished the game.

>>1613657
I quickly got over the chain chomp but the eel and that fucker right there are mostly why I hate water stages in 3D games.

Honorable to wall masters in OoT, and the shadow temple to the point where I said fuck that and went to the spirit one. Oh, and those fucking moblins before the forest temple in those cramped ass spaces.

>>1613657
>GULP

>>1613552
I always thought of it as a giant space brain with magical gems embedded into it's exoskeleton.

>>1613752

I didn't think anyone else ever played this. I agree, that part with the lights out freaked me out every time.

'Sup guys?

Believe it or not,of all the things i could be scared in OoT,this guy right here was just so bizarre i couldn't stand his sit,even more so when he does that mad face once you play the song of storm.

>>1613657

Everything about SM64 is really eerie to me. The fact every world takes place in a void, the chunky graphics, the bizarre enemies... Fuck

I mean looking at the screenshot right there, even if that fish wasn't after Mario, my ass is still clenching in anxiety because in the water but right at the edge of a void that goes into endless nothing, I mean yeah there's an invisible wall in that section of the stage, but jesus it's creepy.

Or pic related, you're in a lagoon out in the middle of nowehere, there's a fucking bottomless void outside and there's this fucking monstrosity you have to get close to.

I could never go back and play this fucking game.

>>1614063
>>1614073


HHUURRREEEEAAAUUURRROOOAAUUGLRLGRLGLRGLGHH.... DOIIIIIIEEEEEEE

>>1615192

I wouldnt say they scared the shit out of me, but that fucking panic when they chased after you, and then kept coming even after you returned to the level

You should know

>>1615438

That ending man. How the hell did that game get past Nintendo's censors is beyond me

>>1615415
To me that eel always seemed like it was just defending its territory. He doesn't actively pursue you or eat you in one bite like Bubba. He only attacks if you provoke him, which was necessary for two stars, and I can see why people would be afraid of messing with THAT, but its actions made a lot of sense to me.

No Dark Forces?

>skeleton dark troopers in dark tunnels
>uber dark troopers who jetpack up from chasms as you're delicately trying to throw grenades on them
>sewer level

>>1615482

Its appearance is what mainly freaks me out, I'll agree with you on Bubba being a bigger threat because he's a smug sunglasses wearing fuckhead that eats mario.

You know what, fuck it, all underwater creatures are scary and they suck.

this guy still scares me, doesn't help that he's strong as fuck

>>1615487
blasters reflect off the skeleton asshole, so you have to use explosives (in a tight space)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJ3v2swJBg&feature=youtu.be&t=8m11s

>>1615496
>>1615487
I use to skip the sewer levels when I was little

>>1615415
Speaking of Mario 64, when I was a kid, I was unnerved by that gaping hole in Dire Dire Docks that appears after Bowser's sub is gone. I know it only dumps you back into the castle moat, but something about it.

>>1615487
>>1615498

These are like evil cousins.

>>1615498
I remember my first time beating IG-88 I somehow glitched into the floor to the point where I could shoot him but he couldn't shoot me. Never could do it again.

I'll never forget those sound effects.

>>1615517
Wrblvrblvrblvrblvrblvrvbrlbvrvblrvrlvbl

>>1613546
The sound of water works in this castle.

Aliens TC for Doom anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-hj1wwHRU

>>1614030
>be a kid
>live in happy little village
>fall asleep while playing in the forest one day
>return home
>father and sister are missing
>nobody remembers who you are
>run away
>fall in a cave inhabited by an ancient demon
>it knows your name and everything about you

BoF2 was some good horror fuel.

DK64 has the same eerie feeling as SM64 but amplified a million times. There were a lot of dim areas where the lighting bounced all around and screwed with your head and enemies seemed to come out from nowhere, with giant clubs and loud-ass grenades. The underwater areas were really bad too, all murky with that eerily distant music and loud swimming noises, and it doesn't help that I was just coming off SM64 into them when I played.
And then there's this shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMTSdS1yZiE

>>1615672
You're damn right there. The atmosphere of game especially during the early parts was really unnerving.

>>1613583
>Score 420
BLZ IT

Scary, but lovable at the same time.

>>1616050

I always stopped playing when I got to Paramonia.

>>1613657
Being swallowed whole seems to be a pretty common primal fear, despite the fact that there are very, VERY few animals big enough to do so. Of course, all those animals live in the ocean, so there's that.

>>1613583
What the fuck even are those things? Some kind of proto-mechasonic?

>>1613591
Scariest thing in Donkey Kong for me is that one bee level where King Zing chases you. It just comes completely out of nowhere. You're just bumbling along a honey-lined passage (heh, bumbling), you drop down a hole and BAM, huge fucking bee RIGHT behind you. It doesn't help that I have a phobia of wasps.

>>1613657
I always thought it was harmless. I had to try and get it to eat me just to see if it could and it still took a while.

>>1615675

>>1615505

Same here, that big porthole for the sub to exit always fucking horrified me, and I will never understand why.

Another SM64 thing that freaked me out; the endless staircase. Something about the combination of frantic music and the very concept of infinity made me avoid that staircase like death itself. I recall even having an nightmare about it as a kid, it was so bad.

>>1613557
A penis with a barnacle bellend for your pleasure.

>>1614967
Why is the spawn of Cthulhu in Ecco? I just thought it was a game where you just fucked around in the ocean or something.

>>1613747
I could never get past this stupid level. But not because of the boss; by that point the platforming gets really hard, and you have those slippery controls.

Altered Beast, on the other hand, used to scare me to death.

>>1616131
yeah, I remember these bees. christ, they were annoying. but the Nautilus creatures are just nightmarish for me. I think it's because a lot of areas made everything look really fucking massive and dark with a fuckton of shading.

>>1614027
>Brave Fencer Musashi

http://grooveshark.com/s/Terrible+Plan+Of+The+Vambees/2smBna?src=5

Terrifying.

>>1613742
>>1613747
to me it was the ghost thing that came out when you ran over the "?" blocks. I used to panic the second I saw them, and would wind up running into something else while fleeing from it
>>1616282
if you buy the cane you can pretty much float through most of the level. I used to just buy the bike and run through the whole level with it, crash it into the bear and just beat the pussy up. I played the game so much as a kid that I used to be able to do it perfectly each time. Probably still could

>>1616282

Altered Beast on SMS scared me as hell when I was a child. The colors are darker than Arc/Genesis, and the sound effects reminds me the Alex Kidd's thunder (>>1613742), also the muffled voices.

>>1613657
>>1615005
>that fucker right there are mostly why I hate water stages in 3D games.

Fucking this. I don't know why it bothered me so much in 64 and not in 3, but holy shit even now I can't fall in the water in this level without spazzing out until I reach safety. And yeah, nearly any water level in 3D games brings fear, and all because of this fucking fish.

>>1615415

The weird thing is, the fact that they all take place in a void seems soothing to me. I know it SHOULD freak me out, but looking out there and seeing all that nothing, or those semi-weird backgrounds in some levels... I dunno why, but it brings me some strange kind of peace.

>>1616171
>Something about the combination of frantic music and the very concept of infinity made me avoid that staircase like death itself.

One strange thing is that I always thought this was the coolest shit, but as soon as I was a teenager (and even now from time to time) I started having night terrors about infinity, though this never triggered any of that. Why is infinity so terrifying?

Then again, why is Mario 64 so unintentionally terrifying?

>>1615192
Oh yeah, those things...

I'mma go ahead and post this.

>>1613657

The entire Jolly Roger Bay level scared me shitless.

It still makes me somewhat uncomfortable every time I go back to play Mario64.

Large bodies of endless water issues, I guess.

So how does this make you Mario 64 guys feel?

>>1616657
Aw, but whale sharks aren't interested in eating people.

I really want to pet a whale shark. I wonder how the skin feels.

>>1613546

>>1616660
If it's anything like other sharks, it feels like wet rubber one way and steak knives the other.

>>1616156
Fuck, that's creepy. Source?

>>1616748
It's a whale shark. They eat plankton (hence the whale name). They're like giant cows.

>>1616174
>I just thought it was a game where you just fucked around in the ocean or something.

This dude right here

>>1616808
This thing is nuts, chasing a human skiier down a mountain instead of eating the slower, much more filling wildlife. No instinct, just pure insanity.

>>1616808
>>1617146

http://ski.ihoc.net/

>This is the voice of the Abominable Snow Monster. monster

>>1617178
>Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 11:28:22 -0400
>Subject: ski free!

>If this is the correct person, please tell me why the stupid fucking monster comes out from nowhere and eats my main guy before he gets to the bottom of the hill. Nothing personal, but this is Sunday morning & I really did not like the idea of getting eaten by the monster this early. that I am really trying to say is fix the program or stop making games for the likes of me, who can't win. Actually, you ruined my day. Have a nice one,
>THE WOODMAN

>>1613546
The abandoned front base in strife.

It was weird having nothing around you.

I expected something to jump out at me.

Don't laugh.

>>1617321
It was a little off putting to put slavery and murder in a kids game.
Still my favorite enemy in rayman though

At the end when he keep popping up to blast you if you take too long on the puzzles fried my nerves. Freakin hard game to play as a kid I remember paying for hints from every once in a while from support

Some traps in Lemmings did that to me.

>>1616748
Donkey Kong 64.

It's the sunken ship in the lagoon level.

>WRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

>>1618404

RON HOWARD

This and the Frog killed me too many times.Atavistic fear initiated.

This special stage...

>dem eyes

>>1616374
I think it was mostly the muffled voices for me. Especially that scream when your playable character dies.

A shame that version played terribly.

yoshis story when you die and get dropped off in that castle. Would have nightmares of that frame as a child

This motherfucking alien/reptilian guy.

The game is Dinosaur Safari, and is about going to the past to take pictures of dinosaurs.

But this guy is your sponsor/boss or something, and he creeps me the fuck out.

>>1616628
I know the feel anon. There were plenty of parts of SM64 that made me uncomfortable. The underground level with the hazy maze stands out, as does the spooky piano.

Also, pic related creeped me the fuck out on the NES.

>>1616161
these are adorable

All this talk about Jolly Roger Bay and the eel. Jolly Roger Bay is THE first level I think of when somebody mentions Mario64. I love it so much. The music is beautiful (I get too nostalgic hearing it) and there's so many memorable things about that level. Never minded the eel either.

Only thing that ever scared me in a non-horror vidya was huge Baby Bowser in Yoshi's Island. I actually didn't touch the game for quite a few months after getting trampled by that giant for the first time. Music was creepy too; not at all what you'd expect in that game.

>>1618317
For me it's Angry Aztec in the temple where you play as all the Kongs to get a banana, and once you get the said banana for each Kong...
>GET OUT

>>1619102

I'd like to add that "GET OUT" in Donkey Kong 64 was mildly unnerving as well. Not too much though.

>>1618971
Heh, from the thumbnail it looks like Sarge's Heroes. Speaking of, these things. Some of the scenes in these games are so fucked up, soldiers getting tied up and melted under magnifying glasses, and getting fed through a machine that turns them into spiders. It's literally a kid friendly version of the Nazi atrocities.

motherfucking Goro
i was like 4 and that image scared the shit outta me

>>1613558
This
I had a jumpscare when shooting a silenced gun in MGS3 ( EE playthrough )

>>1619102

The funny thing is, when I first fought him, it unnerved the fuck out of me, but I fucking loved that it did. Like, just that rocking fucking final boss theme, that mode 7, that OH SHIT of him charging at you and breaking the platform, it was a rush for sure, but man it was awesome.

>>1615005
>I quickly got over the chain chomp
The Star you got for freeing Chain Chomp helped me get over him a lot.

I made up this story in my head that he was just grumpy because King Bob-Omb chained him up, and he didn't understand I was setting him free because people had always been mean to him.

>>1615192
i clicked this thread to make sure this was posted

>mfw those parts as a 9 year old kid

>>1619853

What, are you afraid of the sound "fwewp"?

>>1614027
as a kid, I can understand.
but really? these guys look fucking goofy if anything and most of them just mind their own business.

you can go and sleep on the streets in town while they are wondering around. it never mattered at all and I thought it was badass sleeping while they run about.

These fucking things. I used to call them chompers.

CHOMP. CHOMP. CHOMP. CHOMP. SLIKT--

Used to scare the shit out of me when I was like 4 or whatever.

>>1621221
God damn it.

>>1621225
What version has that kind of blood and gore?

>>1613660

>>1621237
Macintosh version, probably some others.

>>1613959
I wish it had been designed entirely by Giger. There is an area with a lot of fleshy bits

>>1616660
Like silk, or really coarse sandpaper, depending on how you rub it.

Denticles.

>>1613551
it looks like it tickles.

>>1613591
When you cook squid, it's tentacles squirm around and look alive again. They taste delicious, but then you get diarrhea.

>>1613730

I feel for you. I'm too scared to lick the thumbnail. Click it. Regret it. *hugs anon*

>>1613747
that's not a machete, that bear wants you.

>>1613942
gross, it has three eyes.

>>1614967
should I be glad the manatee never let me pass?

>>1615645
how about the whole game? It doesn't help that they're remaking it for ps4 and we have to see ads for it everywhere.

>>1616058

D : *hugs anon*

>>1616598

*hugs anon* *throws away ecco*

>>1618404
*hugs anon*

>>1618998
*hugs anon*

>>1619732
*hugs anon*

>>1619846
I named my turtle Sheila, when I was nine.

>>1621225
*hugs anon*

I'm surprised none of you mentioned giygas or the bonus level. In fact, the whole damn mother series.

All the bad guys in Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest scared me. Although, I'd like to see a more detailed updated version of this with better graphics as depicted by the old pictures, this game would be amazing. I loved the battle music.

>>1616131
They're suppose to be armadillos, I think. But that's what I thought as a kid, too.

I thought it was an incomplete Metal Sonic trying to come find you. I should draw a picture of what I though the bastard looked like. I always ran away, because I was too scared to look at him.

>>1621828
>mothertargetaudience.jpg

>>1613583
>>1616131
>>1621917
No joke, this is what I thought they looked like.
Some horrifying Alpha Build Metal Sonic.

GET OUT

>>1621721
That might be too retro even for this board, but I remember Evil Otto.
I remember having dreams about him. Terrible dreams!

>>1622421
too retro? no such thing

>>1621950
Pretty close actually.

>>1621828
>*hugs anon*

No homo, right?

I'm not joking. When i was three this guy and the three others were the most terrifying thing in the world for me.

I'm 21 so I was like 6 or so when I got a Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure.
The opening scene gave me nightmares just for the music alone.
The way he twitches man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmSSuoGbcFs

>>1613747

That scream scared the absolute shit out of me when I was a kid. I used to get my dad to run past them for me.

>>1613546

I mean, look at it. I always skipped the page in the manual.