/vr/ - Retro Games

For some reason the Witch in Banjo Kazooie scared me shitless as a child.

Pretty common one here I'm sure. I'll never forget seeing this for the first time. I ran out of the room.

Can't find an image of it online but the Ghost Bomberman (or whatever it's called) from Bomber Hero on the Mirror Room.

I was 8 and it was 10 at night. I heard a bomb go off in the distance but I knew I had not placed any bombs. Little while later, I see the Ghost Bomberman throwing a bomb at me. It was the only thing in video games to frighten me.

>>957905
That mother fucker. The day I found out you could make Barry kill him was such a great day for me

>>957857
the electric catfish in Ape Escape

Two things in particular scared the daylights out of me.

First was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZpU6awSl4 just an audio cue, but it gave me chills.

I also was afraid that Carmen Sandiego would kidnap me. I figured that if she could steal the Grand Canyon, she'd have no problem snatching up an 8 year old.

I am scared to death of ALL super Mario games. I had super Mario 64 and all I did was play on the trees outside and slide down that slide. I was horrified of all the monsters in that game. I still have nightmares of that chainchomp on bomb-bob world.

Being killed by the spider in SNES sim ant.

Fuck that noise, fuck that horrible noise, and fuck the close up of the spider's "Face" to accompany it all. Fuck all of it

A lot of the things in Super Mario 64, but it was mostly the technical stuff.

Like the draw distance and the camera clipping through things.

The eel terrified me, but it was much worse having it pop into view out of nowhere on the swim down.
The camera clipping through walls and showing the infinite sky also freaked me the fuck out
.
Both those things still kind of get me, and I've had a lot of bad dreams where I would wake up sweating where I was viewing it from a SM64 viewpoint and things would clip through walls, the "camera" wouldn't point exactly at what I wanted to look at (usually some kind of scary monster).

>>958071
SKATE
OR
DIE
SKA-SKA-SKA SKATE OR DIE
DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE

This game used to scare me, especially Jobe.

I was scared of the zombies in Conker's Bad Fur day.

>>957905
>>958097

These too.

I was a pussy growing up (._. )

The fucking Scissor man on Clock Tower. My older brother brought his playstation over while our parents were out of town and let me play it. I had a blast killing monstrosities on Nightmare creatures but couldn't even get through the first encounter with Scissor Man. I got so scared shitless by it I couldn't sleep by myself.

The reapers in Alex Kidd.
Also, this entire game. Crawling through pitch black vents full of aliens? No thanks. Oh and if you fail to save anybody, you get to see them chestbursted at the end of the level.
Oh, and the pygmy skeletons in Golvellius. My parents used to tell me that if you stood on a grave in real life, they'd jump out.

Sonic Spinball believe it or not. Just the sinister claustrophobic environment of the game that sucked me in. I used to get nightmares I was Sonic and dying horribly being chewed up in machine gears or falling into lava.

>>957857
Skulltulas. OoT/Majora's Mask.
Not gonna post pics cause fuck spiders.

When I was around 6 years old in '88-'89 I had a nightmare that was really bizarre but also really realistic. I was playing SMB in the dream on one of the levels where it's night time, like 3-1 or something. And there was this insanely scary lightning going on, and then it seemed like it was me running through the level, trying to not get killed by this murderous lightning. Doesn't really sound scary now, but I'm sure I'll remember that dream for the rest of my life.

super mario 64 the water level with the fucking huge electric eel on it, used to scare the shit out of me

>>957971
I feel you man.

The only thing in Banjo that really unsettles me.

>>958448
CRUNCHCRUNCHCRUNCHCHOWCRACKCRACK

Fucking early Pokèmon sprites

I couldn't pass the cimetery level.

>>958183
have you played the original snes clock tower? it's not terrifying or anything, but it is surprisingly scary for a snes game

Big Boo's Haunt. Just about everything freaked me out. Particularly that carousel, those flying books and that goddamn...well you know.

Really the game in general had something off about it to me. I think the graphics had a lot to do with it.

The fight against Boo at Sirena Beach, I had to turn the console off the first time.

Everything about whole game always scared me to death, it was too much for a little kid.

And those ReDeads and the Royal Tomb on OoT were creepy as hell, man. Thank God I never got to the Shadow Temple.

>>958489
Hi, you seem to have missed your proper board.

Go back to /v/ with all the other underage posters.

>>958505
super mario sunshine came out in 2002
people born in 1995 are old enough to browse 4chan

>>958513

Feels old man.

>>958513
>2002
>retro
Go read the rules and try again. It ain't retro, son.

>>958516
i know, right? i can't believe it

>>958520
i know. that was also not the point of your (or the other guy's) original post

>>958513

>tfw the first Mortal Kombat movie came out in the summer of 1995.

i was scared of Redeads in oot, not so much in majoras mask after i found out they are rendered harmless using the captains hat/gibdo mask or one other mask i cant remember the name of.

Parasite Eve rat mutation sequence.

I used to be too scared to fight tBowser in SM64, so I would get my dad to do it. i was 5 or 6 yo

>>958173
What in the unholy fuck

>>958173
Not sure which one is more horrifying.

>>958453
>not finding her hot as hell
It made getting game overs totally worth it, man.

>>958173
Oh god no, that fucking game cover again.
The games is good, even though the gameplay can be a little bit fucked and some parts are blatantly hard and cheap.
The soundtrack is awesome, but as a kid i was a little about how technology can control all humanity and that sort of shit.

>>958573
Pretty much mandatory.
I saw the gameplay and the game seems pretty blurry but That death scene when you get killed by a lawn mower in the cyber world let's you thinks if you could be stll alive in the real world and all that theological shit.
That fucking cover man. I got more traumatized by the snes cover, and even some guy from here told me that he was so shocked about that game that he had literally a fear against biohazard symbols.

>>958573

What the fuck is Lawnmower Man even about? I remember seeing ads for it in Gamepro and EGM and being freaked out by how it looked.

>>958035

wat

>>958494

SHIT, NOT THIS FUCK AGAIN

>>958472
That car ending was so terrifying, but it made me laugh so hard because it was too perfect.

>>958573
>The-Lawnmower-Man
Oh god...... I got that game for PC.......

>>958513
>super mario sunshine came out in 2002

And it isn't retro.

>people born in 1995 are old enough to browse 4chan

But not old enough to actually remember retro games, therefore underage. Go back to /v/.

>>958626
It's based off a movie which is just a rip-off of flowers for algernon, essentially HERE IS A RETARD, HE MOWS LAWNS FOR A LIVING, HOOK HIM UP TO A VR UNIT, NOW HE IS CYBER GOD AND HATES EVERYONE, AND CAN SUDDENLY CAUSE WEIRD "CYBERIZATION" SHIT IN REALITY AND TURN PEOPLE INTO CG WHICH IS APPARANTLY REALLY PAINFUL AND DEADLY, and the games follow this up by making you play against CG constructs in reality, and diving into VR nodes to fight THE LAWNMOWER MAN.

this and to a lesser extent that fucking sun level in 3

i was always afraid of mission 2 from metal slug 2/X as a kid, the one where you go in a pyramid and fight the mummies and shit, and the boss at the end that appears to be eating an endless tower

>>958442
Big bodies of water are scary as hell. The thought of floating alone in the ocean, or even a lake, is terrifying to me.

>>958549
>I would get my dad to do it
hehehe, d'awww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcyBtVwAsfg

Don't skip ahead. Just let it play.

>>958797
>tfw i can get about 4 million with just 2 credits on Metal slug X, MVS mode.

Captcha: uMostal Axtell

Ghouls and Ghosts and Altered Beast, specially the SMS versions. The whole game scared my ass out back in the days.

>the "RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE" sound from Master System

>>958663
what i want to know is how he could do anything in that car with those unwieldy scissors

>>958703
>it isn't retro
irrelevant to the point of discussion, which is that the poster could be over 18 now, but could have also been a child when sunshine came out; the fact that it's not retro is his error, not mine. see >>958524

>>people born in 1995 are old enough to browse 4chan
>But not old enough to actually remember retro games, therefore underage.
yes, this makes sense because a person can be old enough to browse 4chan and therefore not old enough to browse 4chan
you shouldn't say such thoughtless things, anon. /vr/ is for lo/vr/s

The PS1 startup sound used to scare me shitless as a young retarded child.

Used to always mute my TV before I turned the thing on, then unmute whenever the game started.

Also a lot of demo discs used to creep me out for some reason. Weird menu screens and games with no music...

majoras mask deep pythons.

I cannot swim in a swimming pool that has large valves or grilles on any of the sides, lest one of these things comes soaring out making that horrible noise.

i still get kinda creeped out just thinking about it.

>>959446
This might sound weird but I know exactly what you're talking about ... and I was already a man when the PSX came out

The Super Metroid attacking Samus in Super Metroid terrified me and I had to stop playing for a while.

WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM

>Implying I didn't shit myself whenever a guy from the red team so much as walked into my village.
Every time it happened I stopped playing.

I can't be the only one...R-right?

>>959461

Fuck, I just want to say how uneasy that image makes me.

>>959492

I keep expecting it to crawl out of the monitor or some sinister grunting/rustling to be heard over my shoulder. Don't look behind you, acknowledging it is what gives it its power.

>>959492
The other anon probably got it from /x/. (I haven't been there in a few years.)

It's less disturbing when you look at how dumb the teeth look.

Run COWARD.

>>959528
>>958827

>>958035
that feel when you turn your back to butt pound the wooden stake and hear the inevitable barking.

The fucking level with all the mist and the sea monster too. Fuck that.

And of course the eel

First time I encountered Super Metroid's Mother Brain, I had nightmares.

This entire game

The second stage of Machine Hunter, when you start the bomb and have to run back to the exit at the beginning of the stage, which literally took 90% of the time you had to escape. I damn near had a heart attack at 7 years old. And the sounds. This damned game.

Yes, this game was not suitable for my age at all!
I was just a small kid and this game has the most horrid death scenes ever.
Everything in this game is deadly and even if you ask an old woman if you can help her she apparently is so hideous it scares you to death, literally.
Such a fucked up game.

This scene

>>959528
Ever since I saw the Phoenix Wrong video where they used Sinistar's voice clips out of context it isn't as scary anymore.

This is how Uninvited gave me a phobia of dogs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CpV_FUXULRw&t=630

Yes, I was too young for this shit. Shame there were no age ratings when I got given this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-uJqHR5tt0

>>958759
So Systemshock is a rehash

>>959446
I still think it's awesome. Reminds me of a time when games were exciting and fresh - at least to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ivdML1Xes

>>959825
I don't understand why it has to be in 1080p
The console went as high as 640x480 and YouTube's highest audio quality is 192kb/s which is already in 720p

>>959829
Idiots on Youtube don't realize that.

>>959829
Emperors new clothes.

The fact that the family in Maniac Mansion would, seemingly, walk freely around in the mansion and, if they caught you, would look straight through the TV screen when they talked to you scared me shitless as a child.

Seriously

>>959839
Bot to mention that the original video is most likely compressed, and then they upload it to YouTube and they compress the shit even more.
In the end there's nothing "HD" about it but a bloated up image

>>959865
... The aspect ratio isn't even correct
FUCK

>>959805
and that's why fanshit is shit

>>957879
You and me both

>>958791
This fucker.

resident evil. i got a playstation for my 10th birthday. my dad doesn't know shit about gaming but he knows how to make a kid happy so when i asked him if he had bought any games for it he said "yeah i bought one of each that they had but you cant have them all at once, ill give you one every week" and he had a big bag filled with 20+ games. we set up the console and the first game i chose was resident evil. he watched for a while and he was pretty surprised at how violent the game was so he asked if i was alright playing it. "ofcourse dad, im 10 now Im not a little kid". i was so excited about the playstation i couldn't sleep so i got up in the middle of the night to play some more. i got to the part where the dogs jump through the window and i got so scared i yelled loud enough that my dad woke up. he came to my room and understood what was going on. he took the resident evil disc and said he would return it once i was big enough to play it. i got the disc back a year later and to this day he taunts me about being scared of a video game.

>>959934
That dog scene dog part even gets the biggest of RE1 fans it's okay

It's going to sound stupid but did any of you have that Speedy Gonzolas game for the SNES?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InDV6JP8sBo#t=26s

Not really scary but it was dark for me.

>>959984
Ever played that one hack where Speedy is replaced with Sonic and he has to rescue lots of small, caged Marios?

Funnily enough, I actually rented it back in the day thinking it was an actual game.

>>959446
You are probably possessed, because this is a pure angels song.

>>959934
Your parents sound like pussies, and they wanted you to become a pussy too. Mine let me watch John Carpenter's The Thing when I was 8 years old, and it toughened me up. It's no wonder why we have so many faggots in the world today. Pussies raising pussies.

>>959991
Oh gosh, I never heard of that one.

>>960000
Don't be an ass

>>960002
The only thing that's bad are the crappy sound samples. It's just such a bizarre game, man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty27nEc_CqQ&hd=1

>>958448
mmm, lovely.

>>960000
>Mine let me watch John Carpenter's The Thing when I was 8 years old, and it toughened me up
Your parents made you tough enough to trash talk people as an anonymous poster on the internet? Wow, they must be so proud.

>>960014
Oh you know what I remember seeing this years ago now but yeah this game is still odd as hell.

I didnt think this was the same game you were talking about. Guess I blocked it out of my mind due to SONIC SONIC

>>958759
Also the movie got its title from a Stephen King short story that has absolutely nothing to do with its movie, plotwise.

When I heard about The Lawnmower Man game, I had thought it was based on the Stephen King story, which would be weird since such story involves a man stripping down naked and eating freshly cut grass.

The dragon in the opening sequence of Super Zaxxon. I am talking about the Commodore 64 port where there is music when the dragon breaths fires to spell out "Zaxxon."

>>958865
WIVE FWOM YOAH GWABE

We were playing Bram Stoker's Dracula on the Megadrive back in 1993 or so, and one kid got scared of the music and suddenly started flipping out. He was so annoying that we grabbed him, held him down in front of the TV, turned off the lights, turned up the volume and played some more Dracula right then and there.

The kid called us names and wriggled for a bit, but then he lost it and screamed so horridly we actually got scared ourselves. Then his mom, a mean dumb bitch we all hated, came into the room and took him away. We all thought it was a good riddance indeed and played on until we lost interest on the stairways level, which was too shitty even for a bunch of 9 year olds. Egads, the Psygnisys Dracula game was so bad.

I remember a game that use to terrify me when I was younger, but I can't think of the name for the life of me. It was a haunted mansion point and click adventure game for Windows 95 (I think?). There were twin girls playing patty-cake that would come at you with a knife, a dead girl in a bathtub, a ghost that flew up when you took the lid off a platter, maybe a werewolf?

I feel like the name had dark or darkness in it? Regardless, it scared the SHIT out of me when I was little. Can anyone help me out here? I would love to play it again.

>>958448
>>959857
>>958791

These fuckers right here

Nothing really scared me. The closest thing though would be the shark in Ocarina of Time.

It was just so creepy for some reason. Especially the fact that it was a sprite and not a 3d object.

This fucking thing from the intro to Ys 3 on the SNES.

The sound effect that plays when it pops up, jesus christ.

When those two dogs jumped through the window in the first hallway in Resident Evil 1, I fucken jumped back and dropped the controller.

>>959817
Came to this thread to post that.
I played sierra games with hi-speed and this fucker came out of nowhere. Scared me shitless.

Also, this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqRgDkWXA0

fucking nightmare creatures for ps1. I remember spending christmas at my grandma's in an RV in the backyard and playing that game on a demo disc on a shitty tv. I swore I could still hear the sound effects after i turned it off and was trying to sleep.

>played DK Land on GB
>underwater level
>what is that weird looking rock
>suddenly a fucking huge Nautilus starts chasing the fuck out of me
>turn off GB in disgust and fear
>develop an octopus phopia
>eventually finish the game though

another one:
>play Shadowman on N64
>get nightmares, can't sleep at night
>didn't really progress
>game is fucking disgusting and has such horrible motives and themes going on
>never touch it again
>try not to remember it

that fucking game is a true horror game but don't bother if you don't want to get disturbed. it's so disturbing and depressing.

Shaq fu scared the fuck out of me.

>>962718

I know, Shaw could palm your entire head. That's fuckin scary. Toss you around like a ragdoll, you couldn't do shit. The man was massive

Everything in Banjo Kazooie. Never got past Treasure Trove Cove.

>>962726
Yeah, also when you defeated your opponent, their eyes would roll into the back of their heads. There's a lot of traumatizing shit I've noticed as kid playing this hell hole.

>>961901
>I was totally gonna bone my girlfriend, but then a Wildcat appeared and she just couldn't get into the mood anymore
>Fucking Wildcats, man

>>962761
Protip: She used it as an excuse.

>play fighting vipers for the first time
>beat arcade mode 5 or so times
>this gets unlocked
i know i am going to get ridiculed but the fact that it does not have any voice/sound effects and that fucking face terrified me back then so much that i would reset data everytime he was about to get unlocked

>>957857


this music (shadowgate NES)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZfpM7Ej6lI

I dunno why, but this always freaked me out back in the day.

>>964353
It transforms too early for it to scare me.

>>964458
The fuck is this?

>>957857

Parasite Eve and Xenogears had their moments. Parasite Eve was much more visual, Xenogears more of a mental thing.

<-- parasite eve final boss final form

dear god the horror of running from a mutant baby. it crawls after you and jesus christ it's just so horrifying

>>964512
>spoiler
You misremember, you do that after it grows and then evolves into a transcended being

The Atlantean creatures in Tomb Raider 1.

>>957879
>Except dat gameover screen.
>Gruntilda got da booty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnA_6I4y0_0

>>958505
>11 year old game
NOT RETRO ENOUGH!!!11

>>959817
;_; yes.

>>964806
Don't be an idiot, Anon.

the into to abe's oddysee, Watching it with my friend. I couldn't sleep for months

>>958448
fucking snacker!

>>958210
>>959452
>>959474
>>964745

Yep

Prespoen Was

>>960000
cool it quads, my parents let me watch anything too..