/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1099547]

Things that creeped you out in retro games...pic is very much relevant.

Aside from the many visitations of Death, Shadowgate also had the excessively creepy change in the musical score when your torch was about to burn out, heralding your iminent doom.

[Anonymous No.1099551]

Shit, maybe thats why I always end up dying from torches, using sound instead of a visual. I played that game without sound for a long period of time.

[Anonymous No.1099574]

>>1099547
That grim reaper scared me so much when I was a kid. Of all of my childhood vidya boogeymen, this guy took the cake in scaring my shit. Anytime I'd die I'd reset the game before his ass would appear. I also kept my torches good n' lit at all times.

I have the game memorized though. Partially because it meant I wouldn't have to see Death's ass again but mostly out of trauma.

[Anonymous No.1099579]

this guy

[Anonymous No.1099612]

[Anonymous No.1099620]

Antlions.

Pick 3 random retro platformers and at least one would have a goddamn antlion pit at one point or another.
That's the point where I'd either give the controller to somebody else or just stop playing altogether.

[Anonymous No.1099638]

The H ending in Clock Tower, it just terrifies me completely and i couldn't sleep for days. I HATE JUMP SCARES SEEN IN THE FIRST PERSON.

[Anonymous No.1099642]

>>1099638
I never understood why the people in the games are so afraid of Scissorman.

I mean, I get that he's some demonic being or whatever, but it's still just a little shit (or old limping shit) with a hedge clipper. Nobody (haven't played all the games, so maybe I'm wrong here) ever puts up a fight, they just let him go to town on them.
You can even knock him down, so why not just grab him and kick his ass instead of running away?

[Anonymous No.1099647]

>>1099547
>Shadowgate also had the excessively creepy change in the musical score when your torch was about to burn out

[Anonymous No.1099650]

>>1099647
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhYnK8uVdUY

[Anonymous No.1099653]

>>1099620
This song must haunt your dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CMJxF3MlNQ

[Anonymous No.1099657]

when i was very young this motherfucker scared the shit out of me. Why he was so angry? What i had done for piss off a fucking SUN ?

[Anonymous No.1099661]

SMS Altered Beast always creeped me out 'cause the sound effects, the voices and the pallete, it's too dark. But damn, i was about 7 years old. Also, the knight in Sega Chess.

[Anonymous No.1099670]

>>1099642
Because he can't be killed without using the Clock Tower (Snes) or been sucked into a portal/black hole (The real Clock Tower 2 and not the Resident Evil clone one).

Wouldn't you be scared of a demonic serial with inhuman strength, who's immortal unless you have a clock tower?

[Anonymous No.1099674]

>>1099547

If you think Death was bad, you should give The Uninvited a try. Holy crap.

[Anonymous No.1099689]

lavender town

[Anonymous No.1099691]

>>1099689
>The background music in the Generation I games contains high-pitched sounds that are outside the typical adult hearing range, but inside the typical child hearing range. This has inspired all kinds of popular myths and conspiracy theories about the effects of the music.

The original pokemon was always kind of creepy like that...

[Anonymous No.1099718]

From Sweet Home

[Anonymous No.1099723]

>>1099689
>Lavender Town theme backwards
>suddenly can't sleep

I never even payed any attention to that place when I first played through it.
You could possibly make a Silent Hill taking place entirely in Lavender Town and the PkMn tower. I know I'd play it.

[Anonymous No.1099726]

>>1099723
lavender town was just very strage, the rest of the game is innocent for the most part and shit, then suddenly you enter a tiny little town and pokemon DIE, theres demon possesed witches saying they want to suck your blood and weird things like that, vengeful ghost of dead marowak, oh yeah and you killed your rivals raticate.

[Anonymous No.1100094]

>>1099718
You know, I think the game might actually be creepier than the movie, since the movie Sweet Home was pretty much just Japanese Poltergeist.

[Anonymous No.1102468]

>>1099689
>>1099691
>>1099723
>>1099726
Kids, I know retro games are better than the shit most companies make today and even you know that.
But please try to not get in here and say, "Ohh, death is scary!" in games death was important and was included since the begginings of the industry, and that wasn't in 1995.
>tl;dr Creepypastas are shit, if a game was scary it's because it was intended like that, not something satanic.

And if any of the quoted is really intended to be on 4chan, what are you saying???

[Anonymous No.1102486]

>>1102468
>And if any of the quoted is really intended to be on 4chan, what are you saying???

Uhh...
What?

[Anonymous No.1102504]

Jesus fuck Clanker, you're a bro and all but fucking hell you're unsettling to look at.

[Anonymous No.1102513]

>>1099638
Which one is H, the one where you escape with the car?

[Anonymous No.1102518]

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAiSq9A29cU

[Anonymous No.1102519]

THIS FUCKER RIGHT HERE.

[Anonymous No.1102523]

One intimidating fucker, though I never had to deal with the first Echo game when i was younger.

[Anonymous No.1102524]

>>1099661

I thought I was the only person who played Sega Chess

Hated the voice guy

"3D board..Black move"
"Check..Mate"

[Anonymous No.1102531]

>>1102518
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAiSq9A29cU

Still induces panic in me.

[Anonymous No.1102534]

>>1102519
I actually found most of that game to be silly/funny rather than creepy, except for when you pass under the haniwa and the landscape literally turns into Hell.

Come to think of it, I'm sure Monster Party was an inspiration for the designer of Eversion.

[Anonymous No.1102539]

>>1102534

Nowadays I would no doubt say it's silly, but back when I was younger, that thing terrified me.

[Anonymous No.1102559]

Shadowgate was a fucknut.

I had this friend in elementary school, this was back in the 80s.. I used to go to his house on the weekends and spend the night. His family had money, and he always had the latest NES games.

I remember Shadowgate, but I never actually played. He played and I just voiced commands. Try that door! Use the spear on the troll! Drink bottle #2!

So many fucking ways to die in that game. We finally finished it, but god damn it took forever.

I wonder whatever happened to that guy.

[Anonymous No.1102567]

their fucking howling and how they always got me when I was leaving town