/vr/ - Retro Games

The first one I played when I was 3 or 4.

You posted it OP

Mother Brain in Super Metroid is a seriously scary monster design

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo5-qcLfx4I

MK2

I remember watching my Dad play Resident Evil on my PS and being pretty shit up by that.

>>4116789
This motherfucker scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Like nightmares. The noises were just as scary as the actual enemy.

I cried because I couldn't figure out the warp pipe combination you need to do to beat Super Mario Bros and felt like I was trapped in some sort of endless video game hell. I was six.

Probably Robot Attack on the TRS-80. The title screen literally screams ROBOT ATTACK!!!! at you, and it startled me. It was also certainly my first time encountering voice synthesis on the computer, so it was doubly surprising.

>>4116789
Protozoid slimers in duke nuken.
Fuckers pop up out of nowhere.

>>4116789
Maniac Mansion

That creepy old bitch that takes you into the dungeon freaked me out as a kid.

Also the part where Bernard has to fix the wires and if he takes too long the house blows up (I think). I had to have my dad do that part for me because the pressure was too much.

>>4116789
also kind of the bull from Mumbos Mountain, more because he was invincible than actually terrifying

>>4116789
Friday the 13th on NES.
When I turned in the cabin and Jason was there I got up and kicked the NES and ran away.

>>4116856
The Super Star Wars games had some rather menacing sprites.

Shadowgate

>>4116789

Definitely Sinistar.

Shadows of the Empire

2D games were honestly never immersive enough to really scare me, but with the 5th gen I got to play some truly frightening games. SotE was the first to really get to me. The Wampas, the tense fight with IG-88, exploring the sewers, the game is full of terrifying moments. The game also controls kind of clumsily so it has a sort of survival horror feel, especially on the harder difficulties.

>>4116789
Sea snakes in Majora's Mask scared the fuck outta me. I quit playing the game for a while, but eventually went back to it.

Out of This World. When I was being chased and inevitably was eaten the first couple times, it stuck with me.

For the next 15 or so years, if there was some challenge too great in my waking life, those gnashing teeth would follow me in my dreams to remind me.

>>4116789
>6 year old
>first game I ever touched was A Link to the Past
>my tiny 6 year old face when Dark World for the first time

>>4117103
I relate mate, those fuckers were really intimidating back then.

Original Doom. I actually couldn't play that game without sweating until I've turned 27. The overly pixelated graphics and the superb ambient noises leave too much for my incredibly vivid imagination.

>>4116826
This one comes as close second. Those MIDI voices are creepy as hell (same thing with Forest Temple theme in OOT)

Made the error of playing Silent Hill when I was home (semi-) alone at night

>>4116789
Lighthouse: The Dark Being
That game disturbed me a lot as a young adult right after I had my first child and was freaking out about every little thing.

After my 3rd child? Hell, I'd do whatever ritual I needed to in order to have one come in and take that little bastard away.

>>4116842
Same, just for Resident Evil 2. First one that I played myself I can remember is Ocarina, but I shouldn't have to explain why at this point. You've heard it all before.

Parasite Eve game me horrible nightmares that made me feel sick.

>>4117175
I can't blame you. I can barely stomach watching the mutation scenes even now.

Shadow of the empire n64 was a wierd game. It had a unintentional eerie spookiness to the levels the only the n64 could do.
There were a few different levels that scared me as a kid.

>>4117202

Pic related made me shit my self the first few times, did not expect it at all

Shadowgate on NES.
I dont know if youd call it "scared" but it certainly made me uneasy, even long after I wasn't playing it anymore. It just unnerved the living fuck out of me for some reason

>>4116789
You posted it. The ghost ship terrified me as a kid. I recall having to mute the creepy audio to get through it even...

Ocarina of Time

Any time I walked into the spider house I'd immediately leave. Didn't know you could get stuff for gold skulltula tokens there for like a year.

Forest Temple also scared me, enough that I stopped playing the game at that point. If I wanted to play more I'd just start over and do the child stuff again.

As a kid I was kind of a pussy.

>>4117110
Same. I never got very far in the game, it was far too spooky for my young self.

>>4116970
yeah they really did

Watching my dad play Doom when he got attacked by a spectre for the first time and I nearly crapped my pants

I'm playing the Doom PSX port and it's actually pretty scary, the sound is effective as hell.

I can't recall the name of the game, but I remember playing it when I was about three. It was on the NES, and took place inside of a mansion or large house of some kind. When you entered a room in the house, it changed to a first person view, and you had to find stuff in the rooms.

Thing is, when you checked certain doors, monsters would sometimes pop out, and would chase you after you were forced out of the room. One of them was a blue skeletal gorilla or something, and that was the one that spooked me. I don't remember much else about the game, other than it being really hard.

Shadowgate was another one that I thought was kind of scary when I was a kid. I was five when I first played that one. There were so many ways to die in that game, and I probably found most of them. The music and atmosphere were unsettling, and you had to keep an eye on your torches, as well. Once they go out, you're screwed.

At least I didn't play Uninvited when I was five.

>>4117071
RUN COWARD I LIVE

I was a huge pussy as a kid, and the Boos in Mario 64 rustled me, as dud the mummies and skellingtons in Banjo Kazooie.

I can't think of an earlier example, I never really felt that feeling from 2D games, though I guess the duingeon music in Zelda for the NES made me feel like I should turn back.

>>4116789
Zelda OoT. The Royal Family's Tomb and the destroyed Hyrule Castle Town were my least favorite areas for a very particular reason.

>>4117395
Dr. Chaos?

This fucker right here. His final forms were so jarring

The Ooze - on Genesis

It's about this guy who works at a nuclear waste site, and gets restrained and experimented on. He turns into this creepy ooze creature. You play as ooze and have to navigate all these creepy environments and there's mutants and stuff. The music has a kind of creepy vibe to it.

It scared me as a kiddo, so I never played it but a few times.

>>4117453
That's the one.

>>4117206
>>4117202
Low-polygon 3D has such a strange and creepy feel to it that I'm surprised more indie horror games don't use it. Shit like King's Field and even stuff like the Voltigore tunnels from Opposing Force are downright terrifying.

For some reason the moon scared the fucking Christ out of me when I was three.

Friend of mine had a 3DO and this game.
I didn't know about "Lovecraftian" horror at the time. From the first moments of this game, I was creeped the fuck out. It only got scarier as we managed to struggle through it. It scared me to the core and totally shaped what I think of now as scary for any media.

Resident Evil seemed like a weak knock off of this to me back in the day. nothing got to me like the original Alone in The Dark again until Eternal Darkness years later.

>>4117596
My man, I totally understand.

>>4117154
>Jesus!

Are there different versions of SH1?

>>4116789
Some zombie game I walked in on my older cousins playing before I ever even started playing video games.
Didn't scare me enough to run out of the room or have nightmares or anything, but I was like 4-5 and a bunch of bloody 3D zombies freaked me out.

I've always wondered what it was. I think it was a lightgun game and it was the mid-90's.
First game I PLAYED that scared me was Mega Man X. I have a crippling fear of bees that was even worse as a child, so when the giant bee gunship flew down in the first stage I had to turn off my SNES and compose myself for a while before I went back in and toughed it out.

>>4117634
It sounds like it'd be home version of House of the Dead but that was a late 90s game.

I vividly recall that Rescue on Fractalus about made me fall out of my chair one time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbZ-chrOgGg

I did NOT expect that to happen.

to date the only game to give me nightmares

"ahhh fresh meat!"

Sega Genesis games scared the shit out of me as a kid. Partly due to how creepy and alien the FM sound chip sounded.

Ecco the fucking Dolphin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZAqbCCcXpw

>>4116789

>>4117771
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBInc6kp5iI

also Jurassic Park T-Rex scared the shit out of me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rafYEQ7VFss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEjBD8C8bPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCtGNiLb7A

Any games featuring deep water levels.

Ecco was probably the first, but the most memorable one (to me) was Jolly Roger Bay with the fucking eel.

>>4116789
Kid Icarus for the NES. Those mini game rooms with no music and pots that you could shoot and get items... or shoot the wrong one and that little evil looking dude popped out with ominous music suddenly blaring. Would make my heart jump into my throat every fucking time.

>>4116789
Barbarian on the Amstrad Schneider CPC 664

>>4117818
I actually had to ask my old older brother to beat this level for me since it traumatized me. He also helped me beat Zelda 64 since it was also scary. My big bro was a cool guy.

>>4117760
Oh yes. The music and vibe of the game was just so creepy and intense. Then when you open the door to the butcher then he says that. Fuck that, i ran like a little bitch.

tomb raider 2

>>4117621
IIRC that's what it says when you try to investigate it a second time, but I'm not 100% sure.

>>4117771

Also how unexpected it was. Randomly typed in NNNNNNNNNNN and get WELCOME TO THE MACHINE.

>>4117150
Doom for sure. The feeling I'd get as I would slowly creep around corners is unmatched. Silent Hill 2 brought back some good spooky feels, but it couldn't compare to Doom. Then again I was 6 yearsold playing Doom and an adult playing SH2

>>4116789
fuck this game

>>4117484
One of the few old games that are far superior with an analog stick. I played it in the Sonic Mega Collection on the PS2. Very different, very unique game.

The fucking jump-scare with the dogs jumping through the windows near the start of Resident Evil 1. I had to pause the game.
And I never expected there to be a second one, so that one caught me off guard too.

After that, I'd have to say the abandoned industrial part of town in Mega Man Legends.
I don't even know why it creeped me out.

>>4117484
Shit I forgot about that game. I used to like to play it ever now and then just to see how far I could get.
>>4117484
Yeah I played it on that as well. I can't remember, is The Ooze on the ps2 genesis collection? I haven't played it in quite a while.

Got myself a copy of Thief when I was 8 and played it without knowledge of what is this game about. After completing the first mission, I thought it's gonna be all about sneaking around people. Then, second mission, I keep checking dead bodies in the mines and suddenly one of them I was bending over starts wheezing and stands up to attack. NOPE'd the fuck out. To this day I think that Thief has the most scary looking and sounding undead enemies.

>>4118807

>He didn't even run into the Haunts

God just thinking about those guys gives me the creeps.

>>4118621
>I'd have to say the abandoned industrial part of town in Mega Man Legends.

I think it's the fact that there's so little to do in the area until endgame, the desolate atmosphere and the wild dogs everywhere. The entire place gives off this dreadful feeling, like there's something terribly wrong with it. It's at odds with how happy the rest of town is, too.

>>4117671

took me back with this one. terrible game, but weird atmosphere.

>>4118832
Oh I did, few years later when I grew some balls
>Reversed satanic babbling of Apparitions
>JOIN US, JOIN US, JOIN US NOW! of Haunts
>Dozens of zombies moaning and gurgling through the walls everywhere
Return to the Cathedral gave me some nightmares

Oh man, fuck SM. I was so engrossed that I didn't notice my legs falling asleep, so when I finished it and tried to get up I fell off the chair :(

Alien 3 on SNES had good graphics, creepy music and good sound effects. Good formula to creep out young me

>>4116789
Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse

This fucker freaked me out when I was 6 y/o. I even had nightmares that it was floating around outside my window, growling.

>>4119189
yeah, I can't remember if it was in 1 or 2, but the dog in the hallway and the birds busting out the window. scared the everloving shit out of me when I was 10.

>>4117586
Thief: The Dark Project is a great example of that too. The zombies and haunts in that game with the levels that are dripping with atmosphere are way more pants shittingly scary than nuhorror vidya where it's just jump scares in a "hide in the closet" simulator.

System Shock 2 is amazing for the low poly horror too.

For some reason the hand that pulls you down in Mario 3 on World 8 scared the shit out of me when I was like 5 or 6

>>4116972
This. I played it as a kid and didn't know about the torches so I took my time looking around despite the horrific music that plays when your last torch is about to go out. When it went black and I died and then the grim reaper's terrifying face shows up, I nearly pissed in my pants and ran out of the room in a panic.

>>4116789
Scarabeus.

turok 2 i think, those crypt places in River of Souls with all the zombies and the sisters

The Dungeon Level of The Last Ninja.

It maybe not look like much today... but the music - the fucking MUSIC by Ben Daglish.

BTW great job, no Audio in WEBM's in the whole video game section
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shLboPmbibM

>>4117419

Super Mario Bros, because Bullet Bills were loud and fast to my young, sensory overloaded brain.

>>4116970
Lava Beast Jawenko can go fuck itself

>>4119894
Yup

my 6 year old self was NOT READY FOR THIS.
This was like my 2nd PC game. The first being like a shitty jumpstart education.

Just the idea that that was a human prisoner, that slowly devolved into being a screamy-police-summoning slave wasn't too deep for me to realize, and shudder at.

Space Quest IV was scary af (and hard to get through as a fucking child)

>>4117454
Yes. I remember Andross himself wasn't scary but when I took on his second form it honestly freaked me out so much that I had to shut off the game. It took me so long to beat Area 6 and Star Wolf that I was ready for anything.

Also the robot from sector x threw me off too.

I still have nightmares to this day.

>>4116972
Seconding Shadowgate.

Alone in the Dark scared the fuck out of me.

>>4117454
Yeah, fake Andross' second form creeped me out.
>>4117760
Him and Duriel both freaked me out. Also, fuck Duriel.

>>4118584
Whenever I think about this game, I keep confusing it with Beyond Forbidden Forest that has the dragon at the end.

>>4116789
Half-Life. I was 4 years old and pretty good at navigating. I actually made it to the science experiment scene without help. Once the screen started flashing and you start teleporting into Xen, it really freaked me out. When the sirens went on I cried until my grandma came into the room.

>>4117760
I remember playing this and getting to him and just literally shitting my pants. What really scared me though was joining my first online session and having everyone throw ears at me.

Pic attached though is my first true cherry poppin scare.

>>4124027

I remember that game. Man what awful controls.

>>4117484
Isn't there someone on here who has one of the songs stuck in his head?

>>4116789
The first for me remains one of the most scary. Opening a scroll in Rogue and hearing maniacal laughter in the distance always got me. I had no clue what it even meant but once it happened I knew my game was probably shot.

>>4117241
I got my copy of this because a guy I knew could never beat that boss. Pretty awesome.

The first Freddi Fish game. The Squid Father and the sunken ship scared me so badly when I was little

>>4117241
that's disturbing

>>4117448
literally me
I'd skip getting the Sun's Song and would never go through town unless I absolutely had to

>>4118630
>is The Ooze on the ps2 genesis collection
Nope.

>>4117448
>>4125583

I recently learned that Re-Deads in those games are blind, and if you move really slowly past them they won't attack, and that only makes them rustle me a little more.

>>4117604
Same. Actually, looking through the screenshots, RE seems like even more of a knockoff in hindsight.

Some things in Rayman 2 scared me to death. The spiders and caterpillar things especially.

It was a PS1 game but I can't remember what the name of it was It was a scrolling shooter like Gradius, except submarines instead of space ships

I remember there was a big golem boss that you fought from above, and it scared the living shit out of me as a kid, when he was almost dead his eyes burst from their sockets in a gory mess, or something like that.

>>4116789
house of the dead

>>4117224
>Nintendo removes or changes the blood because "it's too scary"
>removes or changes symbols and music because "muh religion"
>leaves the
>HOUSE
>FULL
>OF FUCKING SPIDERS

Spiders are legit fucking frightening, yet they never removed that shit. Fucking cocksuckers changing muh temples, removing a little bit of blood, but goddamn houses of literal nightmares get to stay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxkzCre3XJY

Fuck that noise

>>4127952
I love spiders and think they're cute.

Donkey Kong Country the giant K. Rool in the cave and Harry Potter with that voice saying he was going to kill you when you go upstairs

>>4116789
One of the only nightmares I ever had I was stuck in a weird maze that looked like Doom graphics (it was even pixelated) and there was just crazy laughter everywhere.

>>4127850
In The Hunt is one of those games that no one remembers the name of and the game gets mentioned constantly. It's like Torin's Passage in that way

>>4116789
RE