/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1240871]

Anyone as a kid used to get really scared of something random in a retro game?

As pictured, the Spring Yard Zone boss used to scare the shit out of me for some reason and I would always reset the Megadrive and just start from the start again. It was terrifying when he destroyed the blocks when he came down because I knew that I would run out of blocks and die.

Also I think it was the third level in DOOM, the blue keycard door where behind it was a really claustrophobic maze with the first encounter with Pinky on the lower difficulty levels.

Shit made me panic so hard

[Anonymous No.1240886]

On Road Rash, the cutscenes involving police dogs scared the shit out of me. I had the demo and played the fuck out of the one track that it had, my parents got me the full game for Christmas and after I got caught by the police for the first time I didn't want to play it for ages.

[Anonymous No.1240887]

>>1240871
In Doom II I used to be terrified of the third level because of "fuzzy stuff in the water", aka Spectres.

[Anonymous No.1240916]

The ghosts in Sandopolis scared me.

I was also freaked out pretty bad by Metropolis having a third zone. Shit came outta left field. Then the boss trashed me.

[Anonymous No.1240953]

>>1240871
My friend had Doom II on his computer when I was like 8 or 9. For some reason I'd find that first level really fucking scary. Just the music itself used to freak me out. I remember I was at his house once and he put Doom II and then left the room as soon as he loaded it up. After like ten seconds I followed after him. lel.

It's weird because my aunt had the original Doom on her computer and I'd play it without being scared of it... but she didn't have sound so maybe it was the sound that made me scared.

By the time I was 10 I didn't give a shit though and had beaten both games on my own PC and no fucks were given.

[Anonymous No.1240964]

>>1240953
*More

In Blood the screams of the hooded guys used to make me bad when I was 11. I thought it sounded terrible and actually felt like it was killing my innocence and turning me into a psychopath. Kek.

Same thing with those suffering guys in Quake II. The
>make it stop, make it stop! it hurts
etc.
I hated their painful wails more than anything
>uuuuuaaaaaaauuuuhh

[Anonymous No.1240970]

>>1240871
Well I didn't like that boss too. I still beat him.

What really pissed me off were the sewer levels from Shadows of the Empire.

Those fucking octopus alien things.
>THAT FUCKING BOSS

[Anonymous No.1241004]

>>1240916
Metropolis Zone is a deviously designed stage. It was a total 90 degree upshot in difficulty after so many "easy but somewhat challenging" stages, and wrecked havoc with Super Sonic if you thought you'd just breeze through it like every other level.

Nope. You're just gonna have to ___git gud___

[Anonymous No.1241043]

>>1241004
I wish underage users would feck off back to /v/ or /b/

[Anonymous No.1241187]

In the first Pajama Sam game, I would hide in the closet of the room I played in at the beginning scene where Sam's ankle is grabbed by the evil trees and his stuff is stolen. Once it ended I would go back and play.

[Anonymous No.1241474]

This shit used to scare me when I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.1241649]

>>1241004
The only parts of Sonic 2 that wrecked Super Sonics shit were Death Egg, where you can't transform, Wing Fortress, where you had to platform over emptiness for a bit, and the pit in Mystic Cave.

[fooo 0275-8333-6724 snover and(...) No.1241661]

>>1241649

[Smile No.1241679]

[Anonymous No.1241887]

>>1240916
OP here, yea those ghosts scared me too.

Another scary thing I remember was the bit in Marble Zone where you dropped down and the lava chased you.

Also the music when you're drowning. Why did Sonic cause me so much stress <.<

[Anonymous No.1241918]

>>1241474
>brofist.jpg
Same here.

[Anonymous No.1241948]

>The mario 64 eel
>When Mario runs out of oxygen
>the newslady from Total Carnage
>pretty much any game that was 3D, i was already used to 2D being the standard format, then all of a sudden there's all these 3D games/systems with the labels "IN 3D!!" coming out and they all looked terrible. same for cartoons, and that's why i didnt give a shit about Beast Wars

[Anonymous No.1241954]

[Anonymous No.1241970]

The ghost at the end of the hallway behind the first key door in Super Mario 64.

[Anonymous No.1242062]

The whole thing with sonic drowning, with the fast music and all still makes my heart race a bit. It used to scare me quite a bit when I was younger.

Port Town on F-zero scared me a bit too. I think it was the music, and because I usually played at night.

Oh, and the scissors-man in Clock Tower. Fuck him.

[Anonymous No.1242175]

This isn't that weird, but the fucking Moblins when you go into the forest temple as an adult scared the ever loving shit out of me. I still have nightmares about that shit...

[Anonymous No.1242176]

>Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy
I don't even know.

[Anonymous No.1242194]

When I was a younger, my brother had Ultima 8 on the comp. I would randomly watch him play and be all, "Wow, that's so cool!" So one day, I loaded up his save file and fucked around. I wandered around all over the woods, followed a dirt trail, and heart zombies. Tried to run from zombies, panicked, shut off the monitor, still heard zombie groans, ran from the room.

[Anonymous No.1242201]

That western-themed light gun game for NES. Bandits were really scary for me.
Twisted Metal 2 had really creepy atmostphere.

[Anonymous No.1242274]

>9 or something
>playing NCAA basketball on snes late at night for some reason
>midway through the 4th quarter the CPU calls timeout
>seconds later the game freezes

[Anonymous No.1242286]

>Get Dark Forces for PC
>Love level 1 & 2.
>Get to sewer level with dianogas
>Get eaten

I only progressed years later when skipping that one level, then had the pleasure of fighting the Dark Troopers.

T'was not fun.

[Anonymous No.1242301]

>>1242274
that's some unsportsmanlike conduct

[Anonymous No.1242319]

>>1242274
Reminds me of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlIomDS6_ms

[Anonymous No.1242357]

This asshole terrified me when I was a kid. You were just swimming along, minding your own business when BAM! Big Blue out of fucking nowhere! I quit playing Ecco because of him.

[Anonymous No.1242368]

Hm, this one is a bit tricky for me. The only things I can think of are drowning in Sonic and some of the random places and feels in Myst and Riven. I remember getting really freaked out by a comic book about Hell as a kid though, was probably a bit too mature for me at the age I was at.

Recently though, I was reading about different bootleg carts and found Somari. I looked up a video of Spring Yard Zone on Youtube and it made me feel like I was in a bad trip. It's just strange to think that some guys in Taiwan or wherever sat down in the 90's and built such a shitty game, and kids actually played through it and didn't even think twice because they knew nothing different.

[Anonymous No.1242446]

>>1241887
I distinctly can still remember a very short nightmare I had when I was probably 5-7, where images of doing things with my family in weird places I'd never seen mixed with a flat underwater Sonic 2 level with a spike wall advancing from the left; all the while the drowing music was playing with the countdown overlaid on top of everything. That and three other dreams are the only ones that I can clearly pick out.

[Anonymous No.1242479]

Pretty much any sort of glitch that shows garbage graphics, messes up the sound or otherwise makes the games glitchy and unexpected still freaks me out. When I tried the Glitch City trick on Pokemon Yellow I turned that shit off in a second.

also in non-/vr/ I pulled the cartridge out during a battle on Pokemon Sapphire. That fucking noise still haunts me when games glitch out
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W545DP8CmWQ

[Anonymous No.1242486]

>>1242368
Judging by video, game looks quite fun.

[Anonymous No.1242572]

>>1242479
Thanks, man. I almost forgot about Vinny, gonna watch him again.

[Anonymous No.1242615]

System Shock 2. Just running out of ammo caused me to nope outta the game when I was young.

[Anonymous No.1242634]

Pretty much most things in the Tomb Raider series

I guess... that breaks the random meaning of the thread

[Anonymous No.1242679]

I was scared of the big black car cheat in Age of Empires 2

[Anonymous No.1242689]

this fucking stage and music

[Anonymous No.1242806]

first time I was ever scared of a game was when I was around 8, so back in 1993.
the original gameboy was my first console (well, handheld, but still) and I got a few games with it.
wizards & warriors gave me a hard time, but I eventually got good at it. I was playing, this one morning, sitting at the kitchen table with my younger brother watching. it was the first time I got this far, and we were all excited to see what was coming next.
I got to this boss, several stages into the game. and as soon as I walked to the right and the big skull boss scrolls in, me and my brother both let out a loud scream and I immediately turned the thing off.
I think it was months before I played that game again..

[Anonymous No.1242861]

>>1242286
Oh god, that sewer level. I still found it a bit creepy when I returned to the game this year, but I never played through it as a kid.

[Anonymous No.1242876]

The playable character's poorly sampled scream in the Master System version of Altered Beast.

I used to be scared shitless of it when I was only a four year old.

[Anonymous No.1242893]

>>1240871
I was like 10 playing Home Alone for the Game Boy.
I just gathered everything I needed to go into the basement.
I told my older cousin and he said "oh yeah, I remember that. I went down there and got killed by a skinhead".
I didn't know what a skinhead was, but my head filled with visions of a horrible, boneless, eyeless face flapping in the air before swooping down to devour Macaulay Culkin.

I didn't go into that basement until like months later. Then mom told me what a skinhead was.

[Anonymous No.1242983]

>>1242201
Wild Gunmen?

[Anonymous No.1243642]

>>1242983
Yep, that one.
Also, Home Alone 2 for NEW was quite weird game.

[Anonymous No.1243646]

>>1242893

hey romeo-a !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maS68s9jpYo

[Anonymous No.1243661]

>>1240871
I was just scared of dying or losing in games in general, so I would always play "safe" games like Sim City and Mario Paint. When I would play Lode Runner, I'd pretty much only use the stage editor to build my own stages. This probably reflects my crippling fear of rejection that I've had my entire life.

[Anonymous No.1243681]

>>1241661
dat filename

also this >>1242176

[Anonymous No.1243687]

I was always real fucking scared of Arch-Viles, particularly in dark or small enclosures.

Still am. I can fight them now, but their presence makes me real fucking nervous. Something about their appearance and their idle noise, the strange laughter, it's incredibly unnerving. I commend Adrian Carmack and Sandy Petersen for making a really good monster.

Also, the Cyberdemon was always very imposing, with it's loud roar, and heavy stomping. I was always kind of afraid it'd stomp me or grab me as a kid, even if I knew it couldn't.

[Anonymous No.1243689]

>>1243661
>"safe" games like Sim City
>Forget to turn off disasters
>Godzilla

[Anonymous No.1243723]

fuck this puzzle and fuck medusas

[Anonymous No.1243816]

>>1242893
>I didn't know what a skinhead was, but my head filled with visions of a horrible, boneless, eyeless face flapping in the air before swooping down to devour Macaulay Culkin.

Don't know why, but that just put me in fits.

[Anonymous No.1243819]

>>1243687
>I was always real fucking scared of Arch-Viles
>Still am

Same here. One of the best monsters in video game history.

[Anonymous No.1243842]

>>1240871
Also I think it was the third level in DOOM, the blue keycard door where behind it was a really claustrophobic maze with the first encounter with Pinky on the lower difficulty levels.

It was E1M4 you're talking about and OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!
You are exactly like me.
I love that place for that reason.
Now it's just running past all that but at the time I used to stand at the door, opening slightly and closing it again since a pinky stood right in front there.
It was not as easy playing with arrow keys as you did back then compared to the Zdoom experience we have today.

[Anonymous No.1244741]

>>1240871
Holy shit OP! Are you me? I had the exact same reaction to the Spring yard zone boss. Simply couldn't beat it because I just started panicking. I had no tactic whatsoever and there were holes everywhere in which I'd always fall into. Took me months before I pulled myself together and figured out to work my way from one side to the other. Rest of the game was a breeze after that.

[Anonymous No.1244774]

Who decided to make this a background?

[Anonymous No.1244794]

The Ninja Gaiden arcade game over screen used to scare the shit out of me. For some reason whenever I saw it though, I was just mesmerized.

Does anyone have the gif of it actually? I don't have time to google atm.

[Anonymous No.1244797]

>>1244774
I never noticed this until I played on an emulator. My TV was so dark.

[Anonymous No.1245150]

>>1240871
Any water levels. Any timed mission. Fucking sandopolis (that fucking timer)

[Anonymous No.1245167]

>>1245150
>water level
>timed mission
FUCKING SWIMMING PART AFTER THE DAMN DAM IN THE TMNT NES GAME! FUCK THAT LEVEL IN THE ASS WITH A SPLINTERED BROOM

[Anonymous No.1245245]

>>1244774

holy shit that look rad

[Anonymous No.1246260]

I don't know...I was a weird kid.

I guess it just looks so realistic compared to all the cartoony enemies in the game. The only minor validation I get from that assessment is the fact that they drastically changed its design in the DS remake to look like another average Mario character. Plus I think there was some flavor text about it eating you if you go too close to its mouth that creeped me right the fuck out.

The piano was no big deal but fucking Dorrie.

[Anonymous No.1247082]

I remember having access to a 3DO and played Killing Time... The sewers in that game fucking creeped me out!

[Anonymous No.1249849]

bump

[Anonymous No.1250647]

>>1244741
OP here, it just freaked me out hard. My mind was blown when I finally got round to beating it and seeing how much more there was to go haha

[Anonymous No.1250651]

>>1243842
OP again.
It was one of like 3 games my Grandparents had on their computer so I always tried to nut up and do it but always ended up folding.
God damn Pinky

[Anonymous No.1250662]

This boss. The sound it makes when you hit it scared me for years.

[Anonymous No.1250757]

>>1250662
Holy shit that's terrifying

[Anonymous No.1250880]

There was a compilation of Joust and Defender on the original Game Boy and if you lost your final life in Joust by getting pulled into the lava the game over screen would be the hand sticking out from it. Tried looking for a rom of it on Emuparadise but they only have the Game Boy Color version which doesn't have it so here is a drawing from my memory.