/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1671867]

Games you were scared to play as a kid
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[Anonymous No.1671875]

>>1671867
>walking into a dark room without night vision goggles

[Anonymous No.1671884]

I'm not kidding.

[Anonymous No.1671902]

>>1671884
Dude what

I'm ashamed to admit but here goes

[Anonymous No.1671951]

>>1671902

The falling platforms and the stage moving by their own, anon. It fucking scared me in the past.

[Anonymous No.1671973]

>playing RE1 for the first time
>kind of creepy mansion, nothing spooky going on
>then...

[Anonymous No.1671994]

>>1671973
yep, this got me uneasy. I was playing in my neighbours upstairs, I mean my buddy was playing, I left shortly after that scene, ran really fast downstairs and proceed to have bad dreams all night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6srxp1-9I

[Anonymous No.1672008]

>>1671973
>start resident evil 2
>can't skip the intro cutscene until you see that fucker's face
Thank you Capcom

[Anonymous No.1672016]

>>1671867
The sewer level on Shadows of the Empire (N64). Those things in the water...... o.O

[Anonymous No.1672028]

This motherfucker still haunts my subconscious
dose death screams mixed with the unsettling music mang
fuck that game

[Anonymous No.1672031]

>>1672016
>that giant one at the end of the level

[Anonymous No.1672039]

>>1672016
That scared everybody anon.

[Anonymous No.1672072]

This game made me afraid of a zombie invasion at age 6. Dat music...

[Anonymous No.1672081]

>>1671902
That doesn't look retro.

[Anonymous No.1672086]

>>1671902
why are you ashamed of being scared of a game thats supposed to scare you? also it's not retro.

[Anonymous No.1672095]

>>1671902
Fatal Frame 3 on PS2. Guess it's not really retro, my bad. Still scares the fuck outta me

[Anonymous No.1672098]

>>1672095
that's fatal frame 2 tho. and yeah theyre pretty spooky

[Anonymous No.1672103]

>>1672072
The fucking chainsaw guys used to scare me every time.

You're just walking along the hedge maze and all you hear is the revving noise of the chainsaw and the hedge wall next to you just fucking collapses and hulking chainsaw guy is 3 feet away from you and you die.

Oh and the killer doll toys and giant worms

[Anonymous No.1672403]

Doom 64
>dat Baron of hell screaming sound when he notices you
>dat pain elemental
>dat level architecture

[Anonymous No.1672617]

Slow games like Text adventures and Point and clicks usually had slow puzzle based gameplay and good atmosphere, but these games always had moments when everything would start speeding up uncontrollably.

Like in castle of the winds, which is normally slow as fuck since it waits for you input every time. As soon as you get paralized by a gelatinous glob, the computer takes 50 turns in a row and they all happnen in less than a second and the text just keeps scrolling up and before you know it you have 5 health left It's fucking terrifying.

Not all slow game had moments like these, but it was impossible to know for sure when that wereworlf silhouette was going to just start clawing the fuck out of you while you try to type a comand.

Or the giant fish in Riven. That fucking giant fish. I spent more time on my first playthrough of riven and myst keeping my nerves steady than I did paying attention to the puzzles.
Sure, NOW I know it's fine, but back then I had very little trust. It's like playing a baseball game just outside of a woods w
here a mountain lion was spotted. Yeah, the lion isn't part of the game, but this game isn't in a professional stadium with a good fence. What's stopping it from becoming a game of run faster than the slowest kid?

Even playing shadowgate a few years ago for the first time made me nervous

[Anonymous No.1672637]

HES COMING RIGHT FOR YOU!

the melee in this game used to give 10 year old me heart attacks

[Lucedo No.1672642]

The intro music is what scared me from playing it.

[Anonymous No.1672645]

I guess I was already too old when games gained the ability to be creepy/scary.

[Anonymous No.1672696]

Earthworm Jim

[Anonymous No.1672735]

The 7th Guest

[Anonymous No.1672737]

>>1672696
I didn't even notice this shit until I played EWJ on an emulator.

Hooray for having a fuck awful TV in the 90s!

[Anonymous No.1672754]

[Anonymous No.1672757]

That fucking attic, man. >.<

[Anonymous No.1672772]

>>1671973
>>1671994
>>1672008
HUEH_WHAT IS IT!?

[Anonymous No.1672787]

Rise of the Triad: Oscuro's floating head snake thing. This fucking thing gave me nightmares when I was a kid. First time I ran across it I turned the computer off and couldn't fucking look at the game for a week.

[Anonymous No.1672791]

>>1671973

[Anonymous No.1672803]

>>1672757

I remember the horrible scream of those gargoyles you kill with the mirrors.

[Anonymous No.1672804]

>>1672791

[Anonymous No.1672805]

No joke, I was scared to play OOT because Navi's "HEY" would startle me every time.
Same goes for Banjo-Kazooie where Grunty's speech box would randomly pop up while in the hub world.

[Anonymous No.1672819]

>>1672805
I think you would die if you tried to watch a horror movie.

[Anonymous No.1672852]

>>1672819
I know I said it startled me every time, but it was more the fear of getting jump scared, rather than the "jump scare" itself, that shook me. Whenever I watched horror movies or played games like Resident Evil I just had the normal scared kid reaction.

[Anonymous No.1673021]

>>1671867
This, but i played it anyway.

[Anonymous No.1673050]

>>1672805
speaking of oot, i couldnt even get past the first room in the shadow temple as a kid because that weird face painting thing you have to walk through scared me so bad. what's even weirder is that shit like the dead hand or the redeads didnt scare me at all.

[Anonymous No.1673306]

>>1671867
>as a kid

That game is still scary as fuck to play.

[Anonymous No.1673371]

The end of the level and the horrible, obnoxiously loud

>I'M BAD

would terrify me as a child. I would play the game but run from the room at the end of every completed level. Good times.

[Anonymous No.1673410]

[Anonymous No.1673418]

[Anonymous No.1673423]

>>1672016
>The sewer level
Nigga, the most terrifying thing in that game was the boss fight with this fucker, hands down.

Sewer comes close though, I'll grant you that.

[Anonymous No.1673425]

>>1671867

Oh fuck yeah, me too OP. Truth be told it was mostly scary because it took you half an hour to turn around in that bloody game.

[Anonymous No.1673432]

>That music
>That atmosphere
This shit still spooks me a bit when I try to go play it again.

[Anonymous No.1673439]

>>1673418

The fuck?

Gonna need source on that one.

[Anonymous No.1673447]

Haunted House on the Atari 2600.
Hey, I was a little kid, ok

[Anonymous No.1673450]

>Playing the Elder Scrolls: Arena for the first time
>Wandering aimlessly around 1st dungeon
>"What is that strange noise I keep hearing?"
>Turn around
>Blue-robed wizard appears out of nowhere
>Destroys me with fire attacks
>Shit pants

This happened when I was 25.

[Anonymous No.1673457]

[Anonymous No.1673471]

>>1673021
well this game does look pretty creepy somehow
also this video with this guy with what I think is a german accent makes it even creepier some how
http://youtu.be/VBIzd2UMTgg?t=3m32s

[Anonymous No.1673474]

>>1673450
so are you in your 50s then?

[Anonymous No.1673686]

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

[Anonymous No.1673687]

>>1671884
Reminds of the mecha sonic race in SonicCD

[Anonymous No.1673689]

>>1673686
what the fuck ljn

[Anonymous No.1673719]

This fucker gave me a good scare when I got to him for the first time.

[Anonymous No.1673763]

Kind of embarrassing, but I used to play King's Quest VII a lot when I was younger and got extremely scared by the scorpion in the desert.

[Anonymous No.1673774]

Played it when I was 6-ish. There was something about this game that made me feel soul crushingly alone.

[Anonymous No.1673802]

>>1671867
For a strange reason I had nightmare with the bad guys from abe's oddysee when I was young. I suddenley woke up sreaming at midnight

[Anonymous No.1673826]

I know it doesn't seem much these days but playing Shadowgate as a 7 year old kid was a rather creepy experience.

[Anonymous No.1673869]

>>1671867
me and my brother in law were playing this in the dead of night on a CRT tv, the ps1 graphics really help this games scare factor, parasite eve 2 had some pretty nasty scares to.

[Anonymous No.1673874]

>>1673869
there is a scene in this game of a person screaming in the next room it really shook me up still cut in my brain

[Anonymous No.1673885]

Necrodome

I mean look at that shit. The damn car you are in has skulls on it.

[Anonymous No.1673891]

>>1673439

The Dagger of Amon-Ra, the sequel to The Colonel's Bequest. The first game was scary in its own right.

[Anonymous No.1673905]

Tombs and Treasure for the NES scared the crap out of me as a kid.

[Anonymous No.1673906]

>>1673471
open door

[Anonymous No.1673923]

>>1673447
This.
Especially if you read the back story in the manual. Something about some lonely old man who died alone in this big mansion. That ghost, if I recall, was the ghost of the same old man. Cliché story, but pretty terrifying for a youth.

[Anonymous No.1673926]

I used to get super terrified of the dungeons in The Legend of Zelda. I'd run around the over-world but as soon as that creepy music starts up I'd get my dad to come do the dungeon and boss. Then I'd explore sunny Hyrule again.

[Anonymous No.1673934]

>>1673763
Fuck man, that entire game was nightmare fuel. The previous KQs didn't spook me as bad but this fucking game. Especially that asshole who crawls out of the ground and grabs you. Can't remember what triggers him but I felt like it scared me so many times I couldn't ever relay it

[Anonymous No.1673936]

>>1673774
>stab someone
> bandit guy appears to take your inventory
> scream

[Anonymous No.1673948]

>>1671884
Wat. Seriously, wat. Are you afraid of cats, or something?

This one though, was legitimately scary when I was a 4-year old. At least the cover art is awesome.

[Anonymous No.1673953]

It took every bit of courage I could muster to continue playing Space Quest IV after I ran into this fellow for the first time.

[Anonymous No.1673954]

The Terminator 2 arcade game. Those robots really used to freak me out, and my stupid cousin kept making fun of me because of it.

I couldn't even bear getting close to the machine to play the damn game.

[Anonymous No.1674228]

Maniac Mansion on NES. That part where you drain the pool (and have to fix some wires in the wall or something? Maybe that's a different part), but it always scared me since there's an unseen time limit and if you take too long the house blows up. Always had to have my dad do that part for me. I'm actually amazed he knew what to do since he never played games.

[Anonymous No.1674974]

Adventure Island

[Anonymous No.1674981]

[Anonymous No.1675014]

Couldn't play this even on a sunny day, can't listen to the music today.

[Anonymous No.1675015]

>>1673953
Oh good grief, the noise my soundblaster made when he appeared...

[Anonymous No.1675167]

Quake I

By the end I was so scared I just closed my eyes everytime I had to go through a portal and sighed in relief when nothing was in it.

[Anonymous No.1675171]

>>1675015
>soundblaster

Sierra games were designed to be played with an MT-32 synthesizer, anon

most of them sound like shit with MIDI

[Anonymous No.1675201]

>>1675171
>implying the MT-32 didn't use MIDI

[Anonymous No.1675262]

I literally got traumatized by looking at that picture and felt a horrible nostalgic feeling. I think that I was six when my older brother was playing this game that he borrowed from a friend.Oh that cutscene.

[Anonymous No.1675291]

>>1671867
I played this when i was like 6 and i lost it in this one blacked out building when there were like 2 of those Dilos and a Raptor. Hit the power button and fucked off.

[Anonymous No.1675323]

Those gruesome death animations were too much for me.

[Anonymous No.1675336]

>>1671867
Okay I only ever played OoT once when I was like 5 and I remembered being scared to shit of some skeleton enemies walking around in some creepy graveyard. Never touched the game since.

[Anonymous No.1675869]

>>1672016
Shit like this is why I hate any water levels in 3d games, the low draw distance and monsterous deep ones.

[Anonymous No.1675910]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hTuW-rW2hBE#t=1981

[Anonymous No.1675941]

JP: Rampage Edition, cuz this cunt. Had to hide behind chair or get someone else to press start.

[Anonymous No.1675953]

>>1675323
omg, still can't believe i beat it without any walkthrough in my childhood

[SM No.1675962]

Corridor 7
I lived in an old house at the time.
Had nightmares for months. still creeps me out to think of it.

[Anonymous No.1675979]

This is embarrassing but I always had to get my brother to beat Well of Wishes in Keen 4 because I was scared of the Dopefish.

[Anonymous No.1676009]

>>1671867
Still scared when the Tyrannosaurus was comming behind you and it's music started to play...

[Anonymous No.1676014]

>>1673774
I thought I was the only one........

[Anonymous No.1676046]

I was a wee lad when I played Ocarina of Time.

I used to hate turning into adult like because you had to run through a desecrated Hyrule town with screaming (what I thought to be zombies at the time) reDeads everywhere.
Whenever I heard their moaning, I got freaked the fuck out

Also, I always found the forest temple to be way creepier than the other ones, even the shadow temple. It seemed to be much subtler about its creepiness, it wasn't too over the top like the shadow temple was, and that music still makes my heart go faster.

But lastly, this fucker.
He's not that scary in appearance, but the more you think about him, the more disturbing he becomes.

[Anonymous No.1676059]

>>1671902
>bought game because I liked horror games, and also because the twins were fucking cute and I have a twins fetish
>scared shitless by entire game, also annoyed that you only have two speeds: Slow as fuck, and even fucking slower

Great game though. but still not retro

[Anonymous No.1677175]

[Anonymous No.1677212]

It still creeps me out.
http://youtu.be/pilO7GQLF9Q?t=32m19s

[Anonymous No.1677225]

don't tell me you never had a nightmare about this creepy fucker

[Anonymous No.1677279]

There were some pretty fucked up things in OoT for me at the age of 6-7, but if anything I could NOT handle the ceiling masters in the Forest Temple.

I sorta remembered the first time it happened,

>Walk into twisting corridor
>wtf is this shit
>Kill enemys and move into the next room and just stand there
>SPOILER ALERT: BIG FUCKING MISTAKE
>Hear a weird noise, dont notice my shadow growing in size.
>WHEN SUDDENLY HEADCRAB
>Lifts me into the air, and all that was left of the powerful and heroic Zelda (I was 6-7 and didn't read shit, fuck you) was the final scream he gave off when he disappeared into nothingness

I was literally scared of this room for months and I just couldn't even walk back in there for months.

[Anonymous No.1677284]

>>1677279
I need to take the time and proof read some of my posts.

>scared of this room for months and I just couldn't even walk back in there for months.

[Anonymous No.1677312]

>>1673423
IG88 never scared me, my uncle has a lot of star wars merchandise and comics, so i already knew about the bounty hunters and i found them pretty cool.
Seeing the giant dianoga at the end of the sewers was pretty scary, giant monsters and deep murky water are some of the worst things you can mix.

[Anonymous No.1677379]

>>1677279

Goddamn i've read this post like three times and lost my shit

>just stand there
>SPOILER ALERT: BIG FUCKING MISTAKE

my sides

[Anonymous No.1677429]

Posting the obvious

[Anonymous No.1677542]

[Anonymous No.1677575]

Played the ds version a while back and noticed how cuter they made him look and how the water wasn't too murky to see the bottom anymore. It's like they knew they caused nightmares for a whole generation of kids.

[Anonymous No.1678064]

>>1674981
Now that is some scary shit.

[Anonymous No.1678065]

>>1677575
*ANYTHING* that involving sea monsters has always done it for me, for as long as I can remember...I'm guessing I'm not alone there since they aren't more common in games or in general.

[Anonymous No.1678071]

>>1673774
Fuck, the death by drowning theme's now playin in my head.

[Anonymous No.1678078]

>>1678065
-that

[Anonymous No.1678937]

>>1671867
This game still creeps me out too much to play it.

[Anonymous No.1679545]

>>1677575
this would have scared me if that magical-tier music wasn't playing in the background

[Anonymous No.1679704]

>>1671867
I was 6/7 when I was playing hexen 2 as a kid. I never had the full game back in 1997. I had a special demo that contained all of blackmarsh and ended after defeating famine. Those stone golems scared me the most. I would panic every time I heard those loud stomping noises they made.

[Anonymous No.1680267]

>>1673471
Apparently there was an NES version in development but it got cancelled.

[Anonymous No.1681342]

I loved the soundtrack, but could only play for a minute until resetting it because of how scared I was to play it.
I was 4.

[Anonymous No.1681347]

>>1681342

[Anonymous No.1681435]

Don't ask why

[Anonymous No.1681440]

>>1681435
why?

[Anonymous No.1681442]

>>1681435
let me guess. you had some nasty fights with friends thanks to this game and the memories are painful. right?

[Anonymous No.1681447]

>>1681435
Were you molested while playing that game?

[Anonymous No.1681574]

>>1678937

Dude I have been looking for that game for some time! Not actively, but still. Man, I felt so dumb as a kid when I spent weeks trying to get out of that first cave. I didn't realize you had to go DOWN from the room with those doors that wouldn't open. It was like the2nd or 3rd room of the game. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.1681652]

The first Drakan. Those large troll things that could insta-kill you scared the shit out of me.

[Anonymous No.1681663]

Fucking Alien Trilogy for PS1. It really scared the fuck out of me, but I actually played it a lot - It was my favorite game growing up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1rZzKeqdWw

[Anonymous No.1681668]

>>1681652
Fuck, I'd totally forgotten about Drakan. Awesome game. I remember my stepdad actually downloaded some nude-mod for Drakan, and young as I was i got pissed of at him.

[Anonymous No.1681674]

I was scared of the last King's Quest game. My memories of it are fuzzy, but I remember it being very eerie, mysterious and lonely when it wasn't outright terrifying.

[Anonymous No.1681675]

>>1681674
Actually, scratch that, I was scared of all the King's Quest games.

[Anonymous No.1682242]

>>1673021

[Anonymous No.1682287]

>>1673948

Seeing this thread I realize that I was a very coward child and the console which scared me most was the Master System. ;_; It's serious. My problems with Tom and Jerry were the falling platforms and the screen moving by its own sometimes, I was used with going on my own pace in the games. Also, Altered Beast, Ghouls and Ghosts, Strider and this motherfucker in pic related from Sega Chess made me shit bricks back then, all them on SMS.

[Anonymous No.1682290]

>>1672735

>Back for more? HEEEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

[Anonymous No.1682298]

>>1673763

This but especially the zombie in the Halloween area who popped up if you stayed on the same screen for too long.

[Anonymous No.1682332]

Shadow President, especially when you drop a nuke to some poor country for no reason. No cutesy bullshit, no "FUCK YEAH" macho bullshit, just plain numbers, cold statistics, and harsh reality. You'd think you would feel great for accomplishing something, but then you see the big red text "DEATH TOLL" and the rising number of dead you really start to feel really uncomfortable.
You will probably get assassinated after doing that, so that's pretty fucking creepy too. You don't see or hear the assassins coming, you just hear loud bangs and the screen fills with blood and bullet holes. The game theme song is really creepy too.

[Anonymous No.1682341]

Still scared...

[Anonymous No.1683357]

>>1673869
That game still freaks the shit out of me. While it's not retro, Silent Hill 3 my first exposure to the series, and I was 13. It scared the everloving shit out of me just watching the fucking trailer. I must have some kind of psychological stigma because even to this day it scares me the most out of those fucking games.

SH1 though... the hospital level (and subsequently Nowhere) still unnerve the shit out of me.

[Anonymous No.1684228]

The concept of fighting terrorist and killing other "realistic" people instead of aliens or demons was just too scary for me.
Funny how nowadays a realistic FPS is one of the first things that comes to mind when you think video game for kids.

[Anonymous No.1684303]

>>1671867
I was disappointed to find this game so awful when I became a bit older

>>1675336
>OoT
>skeletons in a graveyard
5 days late, but I think that was actually Majoras Mask. There were no skeletons in the OoT graveyard...

[Anonymous No.1684320]

REMEMBER ME FUCKER?

[Anonymous No.1684383]

[Anonymous No.1684534]

>>1673423
>running around looking for him in the junkyard
>suddenly machine noises behind me
>spin around just in time to get raped by a pulse rifle

God dammit. He wasn't even that hard as the bosses went but it was so easy to lose that spindly motherfucker in the scrap piles. Then he'd bounce out at you with that oddly slow moon-jump and come at you like a deranged marionette. Seeing him just collapse onto his face in the cutscene after killing him was the most satisfying damn thing.

[Anonymous No.1685343]

Believe it or not, this one. I always thought my dad would get pissed with me for playing violent games, so I was filled with tension the whole time.

[Anonymous No.1685368]

I don't know if it was the warning from William Sessions or the characters slowly falling apart every time you got hit, but this game really freaked me out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWVwWVDB6M

[Anonymous No.1685551]

>>1685368
>actually tried to play this when I was 5
>couldn't even see the screen

[Anonymous No.1685589]

clock tower

[Anonymous No.1685809]

Not exactly /vr/ but jesus christ this game was terrifying when I was <12.

[Anonymous No.1685897]

Well, maybe because of the flying limbs?

[Anonymous No.1685970]

>>1685809
Fucking howlers, man. Recently played through this again, still a great game.

[Anonymous No.1685985]

>Enter room
>Walk forward
>All the doors shut and the lights go out
>Nothing but darkness and the sound of demons scratching
>Move forward a little bit more
>All literal hell breaks loose and I'm surrounded by demons with nothing but a shotgun and chainsaw to defend myself against their vicious claws and fire balls

Doom was such a rush back then. I blame it for my addiction to fear.

[Anonymous No.1686148]

>>1685897
well looking back now those sprites were at least unsettling.

[Anonymous No.1686179]

[Anonymous No.1686431]

Ashamed to say it but the Nightmare Buzz fight freaked me the fuck out as a kid.

[Anonymous No.1687132]

[Anonymous No.1687149]

>>1687132
Christ, anon, why did you have to show that?

[Anonymous No.1687150]

Nothing you fucking pussies. Ever.

[Anonymous No.1687159]

>Goat Simulator
playing that as a kid and seeing other goats do those things freaked me the fuck out

[Anonymous No.1687165]

anybody else remember looking in a mirror in the Evil Dead game on PSX?

literally the first room and i couldn't even go further than that

[Anonymous No.1687480]

>>1684320
>that last level that had a room to the left from where you start.
>you had to travel all the level only to realize something is missing and then going back all the way.

It's the only thing I remember, and that bloody cactus.

[Anonymous No.1687486]

>>1685343
Yeah, my dad had the same fatherly style, I couldn't play mortal kombat because he would get angry at me.

The constant tension made my stomach go nuts and I start farting like there was no tomorrow, there were a point where my dad only needed to smell a little to know if I was playing something I shouldn't be playing and scold me while everything smelled like fart, I don't have fond memories of those days.

[Anonymous No.1687527]

>>1687486
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.1687551]

>>1677279
I remember not looking at the ceiling in my room for months because of this jerk!

[Anonymous No.1687576]

don't tell me that the original sprite of bowser didn't look fucking demented

[Anonymous No.1687809]

This game scared the bejesus out of me. First, all is calm. Then you hear the gobbling in the distance. Next thing you know, you being charged by a swarm of evil turkeys. These fuckers were aggressive too. Don't even get me started on the giant mutant clones with big deformed heads or the grey aliens towards the end.

[Anonymous No.1687823]

>>1675336
>>1677225
>>1677279

How the hell did you guys manage to not yet mention redead?
>They freeze you at a glance
>They howl an unholy soulless howl when they ensnare you in their paralysis
>They slowly, slowly walk towards you, and you're sitting there wiggling your joystick, mashing every button, praying that you break free
>And then jump on you and rape you

I race OoT every year and I still get the Sun's Song every time and freeze every room that has a redead in it. Yes, I know it's a waste of time, but I just have to.

[Anonymous No.1687847]

>>1671973
My cousin made me watch her play it when I was super young. Traumatized the shit out of me. I slept with the blankets pulled over my head until I was like 12 because I thought the zombies couldn't get me that way. She also made me sit through Steel Harbinger. Anybody remember that piece of shit? Tons of gore, though. There was a scene where someone got impaled by tentacles or something- but it fucked me up.

I was equally horrified of ReDeads- like, to the point where I couldn't bring myself to play Brawl with items on. Once, when I was playing OoT, I got stuck in Hyrule Castle Town and, being a dumb stupid idiot baby- didn't understand that "Save" doesn't save you from the situation. Every time I turned on the N64, I was right back in that spot. Awful.

I remember walking in on another game being played- a body was stuffed in a washing machine or something. I wanna say it was like Blood 2 or something, but that gave me so many chills- I couldn't play games with gore in them for a loooooong time.

Sorry for the tl;dr, just get super autist about my babby memories with games that really aren't that scary in retrospect. I'm a lot less of a chickenshit now. More importantly, I think my cousin had a baby like super young so revenge I guess.

[Anonymous No.1687870]

>>1671867
For me it was House of the Dead 2. Shit scared me when I was little. Now it's hilarious with their awful voice-acting. Played the shit out of it when I grew up.

[Anonymous No.1687874]

>>1687823
>And then jump on you and rape you

Which, to a 9 year old, is incredibly funny, completely removing any factor that may have scared a kid at that time.

[Anonymous No.1687882]

>be 4 year old me in 1998
>older cousin gets resident evil 2
>scares shit out of me
>I'm crying like a little bitch but still engrossed in him fighting these disgusting bosses
>I leave and go home
>come back next week
>mfw I'm taking a nap
>wake up
>pic related is standing in front of my face
>I literally shit my pants and start crying

[Anonymous No.1687923]

[Anonymous No.1688238]

Can't let you do that, Avatar!

Ultima 7 wasn't scary per se, except for this motherfucker. This shit is even scarier when you don't have voice acting on. Every time the Guardian would say something, instead of hearing his disembodied voice, his head pops up on screen to say what he's going to say. And as a kid my age, it was the scariest shit ever. Seriously gave me a few nightmares.

[Anonymous No.1688406]

dungeon level in last ninja, mainly because of the music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shLboPmbibM

[Anonymous No.1688851]

>>1687150
dis guy

[Anonymous No.1688858]

>>1688851
>he's un-FAWKIN'-buhleevabul

[Anonymous No.1689049]

>>1671867

[Anonymous No.1689693]

>>1672791
scared the ever-living crap out of me.
Me and my friend played till the next typewriter and continued about 2 days later.

[Anonymous No.1689798]

>>1673948

Man, I was getting scared from the transformation scene alone.

[Anonymous No.1689809]

>>1672028
The theme song kicked ass, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNPxwnppU0

[Anonymous No.1690161]

I was absolutely TERRIFIED of this room.

I have no idea why. It was probably because of the combination of the texture and the water. It just looked so terrifying to me.

As a result I never entered hazy mazy cave and never beat Mario 64.

[Anonymous No.1690638]

>>1687809
My wife hates birds because of this game alone
Somehow the turkeys scared her enough to just hate all birds

[Anonymous No.1690676]

>playing silent hill 1 for the first time
Hmmm. Seems like a pretty cool supernatural/mystery game.
>suddenly this
U WOT MATE?

[Anonymous No.1690740]

Myst. Probably because even as a kid I was conditioned that video games use nothingness as a way of lulling the player so they can be startled by something jumping out at them. I was paranoid as hell when I first played it and kept expecting something to happen.

[Anonymous No.1690779]

>>1690161
Never? Do it now.

[Anonymous No.1693254]

>>1687823
>7 years old
>at cousins house, they have OoT
>never played a Zelda game before
>playing on cousin's save
>roaming around some desert killing crabs
>happen upon a cave
>go inside because adventure
>see this fucker
>fearlessly go to kill it
>it SCREAMS at me
>I can't move
>it hops on top of me and humps me to death
>turn off console and cry
To this day one of the most horrifying experiences I've ever had in a game.

[Anonymous No.1693346]

>be 6
>dad and uncle introduce me to Doom 2
>this fucker shows up for the first time

[small child No.1693364]

>>1693254
i could see that being pretty traumatic to a youngster. i was about 5 when we first got an NES, and I remember I had a nightmare that I was playing one of the night levels like 3-2. And there were little bolts of lightning coming down, and i just remember it being really vivid, or like i was practically standing inside the screen and the game was this huge world in front of me.

i can't imagine what i'd be thinking if a fucking zombie just scream-raped me to death in a filthy dungeon.

[Corvo No.1693481]

>>1673763
Goddamit that fucking scorpion! I think I was fucking 7 when I got that game. walking into that place, not knowing what to do then seeing that fucking thing, crawling around then just picking you up and stinging you to death.
Fuck, man.

[Dani No.1693538]

To This day I cant play The first resident evil an I flat out refuse to play any Silent hill game.
PERIOD

>>1687847
Sweet christ! now I don't feel like such a loser for being scared of Steel Harbinger as a kid. A friends stepdad played this one afternoon and that shit scared me for life.

[Anonymous No.1693543]

How hasn't anyone mentioned Friday the 13th for NES yet?

[Anonymous No.1693646]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwcDCkK_les&feature=player_detailpage#t=185

This particular scene in RE2 scared the fuck out of me so much when I was younger I was in tears. If the link didn't work right, fast forward to 3 minutes in. Another game that scared me was Diablo. I could not handle the atmosphere from that game for some reason and would chicken out every time I tried to play. Lastly, Armored Core 1. Not the whole game, but some segments, like pic related, creeped me the fuck out because I didn't know what would come out at me from the darkness. The lack of music during these parts didn't help, either.

[Anonymous No.1695875]

Hey guys remember when there was no rating system for games and you'd be 7 years old playing a funzany adventure game from the guys that brought you monkey island... and someone would have their fleshed ripped apart with actual 256color gore?

[Anonymous No.1695878]

>>1695875
That smile

[Anonymous No.1695906]

>>1693646
I remember exploring the old base that was flooded with an acidic, armor eating compound on AC1, it was dead silent except for the bots that attack you and the doors you open. It was fairly creepy because you had to be quick before you died from too much damage, and you weren't really sure what was in there.

[Anonymous No.1695916]

In "Adventures in the Magic Kingdom" if you jump immediately when the Haunted Mansion starts, you jump higher than should be allowed, causing you to hit the spectre.
If this happens, instead of Mickey Mouse telling you to try again, you'll get a detailed sprite of the Master Spectre.

This sprite appears nowhere else in the game.
I found it by accident and it scared the living shit out of me.

[Anonymous No.1696013]

>>1672805
I couldn't even get through the Deku tree when I was a lad. I was spooked. I felt so cool when I finally go to Hyrule Field I promptly ran up to the nearest Peahat, and screamed when it emerged from the ground and shut off my N64.

[Anonymous No.1696023]

>n64, as a lad
>activate cranky kong mode

[Anonymous No.1696032]

>>1695878
That one's from Loom right?

Can anyone please upload a pic of Bobbin's face? I read in many places that you can see it if you play the game on expert mode, but I never managed to find it.

[Anonymous No.1696040]

>>1696032
I'll look tomorrow. Not sure. Might have been in a later mo key island game. Maybe a weird version. I o Ly played through cga all the the way

[Anonymous No.1696041]

Fuck those dogs. I was too scared to play it after that... ended up just watching my older brother play the game.

[Anonymous No.1696191]

>the dining room....

[Anonymous No.1696226]

the piano in mario 64 that chases you and tried to bite you

[Anonymous No.1696302]

>>1687923
>>1672637
Can't even tell what games these are from. Wouldn't mind looking them up for something to play if I could get their names.

[Anonymous No.1696304]

>>1685368
You are not alone. The first time I saw this in the arcade and the shocking reveal that you're not a person but a machine--and then exploding violently upon your death--gave me the creeps. But I was terrified of the Terminator at the time.

..I love the theme to the first level though.

[Anonymous No.1697395]

>>1696032
>>1696040
Couldn't find Bobbin's face.

Jesus christ Chaos though. Fucking > Kefka. The hero doesn't even beat him. The hero grabs his corner of the universe and says 'fuck you all, you deal with him'
AFTER Chaos has killed almost every major NPC, you get a brief tour going back and looking at them all fucked up, blood pooling around their bodies. He rends your aunt apart infront of you, even the most powerful healing spell in the game can't help her. That spell does fucking FINE on a kid that was ripped apart by a dragon. But this? No. Fuck your healing bullshit. I RENT YOUR FUCKING AUNT, AND I CAN REND THIS UNIVERSE.

[Anonymous No.1697404]

>>1697395
>I RENT YOUR FUCKING AUNT

I didn't know she was an escort

[Anonymous No.1697431]

>>1697404
'Rending' is a spell for ripping things apart.
Other people interpret it as 'unmaking' though so that's probably correct, I haven't played the game in ages.

[Anonymous No.1697753]

this shitlord

[Anonymous No.1697961]

This nigga was the only thing I remember really scaring me when I was a kid. Had some kind of phobia of getting eaten. Thank fuck I didn't turn out with a vore fetish.

[Anonymous No.1697974]

>>1697961

Same problem with Jak and Daxter for me. Polite sage for not retro

[Anonymous No.1698230]

>>1671973
And then JILL SANDWICH and IT'S FOREST OH MY COD

[Anonymous No.1698362]

>>1696032
>>1697395

Yeah, it's pretty tough.

I guess I'll just have to play the game myself again on expert difficulty, but seeing that there were multiple versions, the one I have might not have it. And google's a bitch.

Thanks for trying though.

[Anonymous No.1698364]

Don't even remember the name of it anymore, but since it has been some 20-odd years I guess it's understandable.

If I recall correctly it was a first person perspective RPG/action like EOB, LOL, Stonekeep etc, but the one thing that stood out was the death of the player. If you failed the combat you got a gruesome closeup of your head, with even the trachea visible I think. I could put up with any other games that had scary moments, but that one...just nope.

[Anonymous No.1698384]

>>1698364
Yeah, some images just burn into your brain.

[Anonymous No.1698394]

>>1696302
They are Doom 64 and Space Hulk respectively

[Anonymous No.1699798]

"Oh... I'm dying!"

[Anonymous No.1700205]

>>1698362
tvtropes says it's a flash of light. You do get to see Cobb unmade though.

[Anonymous No.1700576]

>>1673948
This. I saw it being played at a rich kid's party on a big screen TV. Shit was intense and way darker than the stuff I was used to at that age, yet I found it compelling as hell despite being spooked. Also, at the same party, I played the Japanese version of Actraiser on his Super Famicom while all the other kids were outside. I'll never forget the way the music that plays on the map screen filling the big empty room while I sat on the fancy ass carpet.

God damn shit was so magical at that age.

[Anonymous No.1700583]

>>1698384
I tried playing Waxworks and that actually got me to nope out of the game even as a grown ass man. That fucking cave level, mang.

[Anonymous No.1700601]

>>1671867
Although I never got to play it as a kid, the intro to Splatterhouse 3 would have likely made me shit my pants, especially the part with the ghosts roaring out of that spinning gemstone. I can only imagine what that would have sounded like coming from the subwoofer of the living room TV I had at the time.

[Anonymous No.1700605]

>>1700601
Also, that scene where you fail to save Jennifer would have made me take sloppy second shit in my pants.

[Anonymous No.1700869]

Heart of Darkness.

[Anonymous No.1700909]

Small Soldiers for the PS1

The whole game is just really creepy and gothic.

[Anonymous No.1701925]

>>1699798
This was gold. After I first saw it, I had dreams about it for years. Still makes me uneasy to think about or play it to this day. Encountered it at just the right age I guess.
It's great for its bleak theme too, visuals aside. That downer ending is great, though it could have done without the last two stages imo. It climaxes at that scene.

[Asa No.1702028]

It's one thing to have intimidating box art, but the size of the box made it even spookier. I semi-wanted to play Earthbound whenever I saw it in the rental stores but either it was already checked out or something else caught my eye more.

[Anonymous No.1702036]

>>1673953
fuck this guy.

[Anonymous No.1702037]

Gabriel Knight

[Anonymous No.1702038]

CONSUMITE
FURAREEEEE

Bom popom

CONSUMITE
FURAREEEEEE

[Anonymous No.1702039]

DuckTales Transylvania stage.

[Anonymous No.1702052]

Alien trilogy. Not just for the visual scare factor of an alien jumping out from nowhere, but the whole atmosphere. Especially the motion tracker beeping away, which caused me a few sleepless nights from hearing it in my head after a few marathon sessions.

[Anonymous No.1702057]

Realm of the Haunting

[Anonymous No.1702076]

>Rent Breath of Fire 2
>Get to this segment of the game on the last day.
>Mother is pressuring me to hurry up and finish so she can take it back.
>Evan walks away and the game freezes.
>Did not realize it was a cue to spam the D-Pad/buttons/whatever
>Think it was an ending
>Get emotionally scarred for ten years.

[Anonymous No.1703067]

>>1697961
Same thing, except for not ending with a vore fetish.

[Anonymous No.1703103]

Fuckin Turok

Didn't help that I plain sucked at the game

[Anonymous No.1705345]

>>1698384
To this day I wonder who the person they used for the death images is.

[Anonymous No.1705449]

>>1684383

[The Black Rabbit No.1705603]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yw5jkAHgME

I don't care what you think, thanks to this game and song, for the longest time I couldn't pick up a controller for this game for years. This gave me nightmares.

[Anonymous No.1705774]

Mario

[Anonymous No.1705792]

>>1705345
I'd imagine one of the devs or their friends/relatives. They would then just draw over a silly pose.

[Anonymous No.1705801]

>>1685809
I was a bit older than that when I played it the first time, but this room is the only time a game has ever made me actually quit the game and pace around a bit.

[Anonymous No.1705803]

>>1685809
>That one hallway with curtains

[Anonymous No.1705804]

>>1687486

[Anonymous No.1705809]

>>1703103
I really like that pistol for some reason.

[Anonymous No.1705835]

These levels man. I literally couldn't play them and walked out while tasking my friend with beating it - and I was like 10 at the time and played quite a bit of Resident Evil and Parasite Eve and other survival/action horror. Nothing quite unsettled and outright scared me as these fucking levels in Gex 3, though. It was probably the sheer surreal contrast with the rest of the "colourful platformer about a mascot with attitude" game, but they fucking chilled me until I started seeing things and walked out. Those fucking pictures on the walls and in the elevator man.

[Anonymous No.1705839]

I was scared to swim down that pit under Clanker in Banjo-Kazooie. It was just so deep and dirty...

Also the Whompas and sewer monsters in Shadows of the Empire.

[Anonymous No.1705840]

>>1677542
MIGHT MAKES LIGHT

[Anonymous No.1705895]

The sun level of SMB3. That fucker scared the wits out of me for some reason and I never got past that level until a few years later.

[Anonymous No.1706205]

[Anonymous No.1706240]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOEF3gDVB38

[Anonymous No.1706247]

>>1705449
as a little kid I absolutely loved that level. that game holds up so well today. controls are a tad bit wonky though.

[Anonymous No.1706250]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCcVpnznG-A

0:07 - 1:30

[Anonymous No.1706256]

FUCK my HEAD

[Anonymous No.1706965]

The last half of this level is the only thing that has ever scared me in any videogame.

[Anonymous No.1707138]

This game was so dark and creepy. The deaths were so fucking cruel man. Not to mention flying shadow demon fuckers. Anyone else?

[Anonymous No.1707146]

[Anonymous No.1707151]

>>1707138
man, that game was like...integral to my childhood. i want to go back and play it again so badly, but i dont wanna ruin the memories

[Anonymous No.1707153]

>>1707146
Oops, posted before writing. The fear of getting caught by the abbot (left dude in black robes) when you were wandering around the abbey at night (you are not allowed to do so) was more than I could handle. And the white eyes of the other monk... He's blind btw.

[Anonymous No.1707186]

Corridor 7. Holy shit. The music was terrifying! And the last boss on Wolfenstein 3D had me shitting my self too.

Also in Ocarina of Time when the citizens of Hyrule become zombies

[Anonymous No.1707201]

>>1671867
OP gets it. I tried to tell people recently that this was scary, but they just couldn't see it that way.

[Anonymous No.1707206]

MURDER MUSIC

http://youtu.be/ttGETmXm2Ao

[Anonymous No.1707207]

>>1707153
This looks sick. What is it?

[Anonymous No.1707248]

>>1707207
La Abadia del Crimen, it's a spanish game based in the name of the rose book for the Amstrad CPC which was also ported to other systems of the time. It's regarded as one of the best (if not the best) spanish game from the 8-bit age, but it's only known in Spain because of the language barrier. There are a bunch of remakes, I don't know if any of them include english language.
You can check it out here (proper game starts around 8:15):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBDAVxwIxo

[Anonymous No.1707850]

I don't know why this game scared me to death and Resident Evil was like a walk in the park on a sunny day.

[Anonymous No.1707868]

>>1671902
I played it recently and got scared by it more than by any other game (and I'm someone who played almost all survival horror games that exist).

You'd have reasons to be ashamed if Fatal Frame 2 wouldn't scare you.

[Anonymous No.1710460]

Never had these games growing up, but they still scare the piss out of me.

Waxworks. Fucking Waxworks. So many ways to die, so much fucking detail in every death. You get stabbed? Oh a gory representation of your limbs being pried off.You look in water? Hows about an animation of an alligator jumping up and dragging you under? Fuck that shit.

Resident Evil 2. Haven't play any other ones, and haven't given this a fair chance either. Saw the introduction, that fucking face showed up. Noped the fuck out of there.

The most recent? Clock Tower on the Playstation. It created such an atmosphere, such a fucking atmosphere. No music, just the drone of older computers in the office. Just the footsteps. Just the door. And it didn't fucking help that the game was so predictable. At least, right before you knew it had to inevitably happen. "Could you turn out the lights?" FUCK NO. NO DONT ANSWER THE FUCKING DOOR. STOP KNOCKING NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I really hate that they gave away the enemy on the fucking cover though.

When I was a kid though, no games were detailed enough to really be scary, and I thank the world for that. But on the other hand, my family forced me to watch horror movies which I don't think is any better.

[Anonymous No.1710475]

>>1686431
That boss and the level you had to rescue the alien plushies were nightmare fuel for me.

[Anonymous No.1710649]

>>1671867
Quake 1, because of the zombie moan.

[Anonymous No.1710685]

I accidentally let one of these fuckers out in the second level without noticing. Turned around, and he was swinging his fuckin' fists at me already. Fucking jumped and almost threw my controller.

[Anonymous No.1711506]

>>1673905
I had an unknown urge to make this. Something must have possessed me. Please accept it.

[Anonymous No.1712029]

>>1690676
Did the intro in the alley not kinda clue you into the horror aspects?

[Anonymous No.1712057]

>>1673953

YES

THIS

oh god this

>space quest 3 was so much fun
>then this
>what the fuck, Guys From Andromeda

[Corvo No.1712064]

>>1711506
Accepted and framed on my wall, good work!
>>1710685
scared the hell out of me too but then I'd just open both cages and watch the two duke it out and carefully lead the winner through the halls and watch it lay waste to every poor stormtrooper in its way. Lol'd hard till I was the only thing left for it.
>mfw

[Anonymous No.1712093]

Idk if flash games also count, but this game scarred me. it's a simple short game but it's fucking disturbing.

newgrounds
/portal/view/542658

[Corvo No.1712109]

>>1712093
GAH! WHAT THE FUCK?!

[Anonymous No.1712130]

>>1672403
>dat fucking masterful ambient soundtrack that gets to your head

[Anonymous No.1712158]

>>1712093
Considering it came out in 2010, I'm going to say absolutely not.

It was kind of neat though.

[Anonymous No.1712272]

>>1712093
>/vr/

[Anonymous No.1712382]

>>1699798
how the fuck does a kid get that far in splatterhouse

[Anonymous No.1713136]

>>1685809
>>1685970
>>1705801
>>1705803
I had the demo of that at one point.. First time I saw these guys I noped pretty hard.

[Anonymous No.1714974]

>>1672757
My nigga
I remember not knowing how to attack
>Scare sound
>dat music starts
>Quickly hides behind wardrobe
>Sees zombie wandering
>Shits myself

AITD1 master race

[Anonymous No.1715109]

>>1671867
Jurassic Park SNES was honestly a really good and ambitious game, it's just a shame there's no save feature.

[Anonymous No.1715113]

NOPE

[Anonymous No.1716343]

>>1715113
Fuck, the noise the Phase 1s make was so startling. And they're always fucking waiting for you silently behind corners, unlike the Phase IIs who show up like fucking bodybuilders flexing their muscles for the crowd.

[Anonymous No.1716454]

>>1716343
Phase 1 were also stupidly fast, and didn't really die on the spot.

[Anonymous No.1716474]

Fresh Meat

[Anonymous No.1716484]

>>1716474

[Anonymous No.1717052]

>>1712130
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leUcIpcMZRs

I remember being 16, stoned as hell, and hearing this for the first time.
This game is so underrated.

[Anonymous No.1717128]

The museum in 3D Dinosaur Adventure was eerie was fuck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJQVGjKu1WM

[Anonymous No.1717160]

>>1710685
>that part
GAH

FUCK

ALL OF MY NOPES

[Anonymous No.1717169]

>>1697431
>not getting the post is sarcastically making fun of a spelling error
C'mon now.

[Anonymous No.1717173]

I don't even know how I got my hands on this game, but whenever I turned it on and that first monster grunted, I shit my pants and hastily flipped the N64's power switch. This went on for a couple years until I gladly sold it.

Now that I've played it recently, it's not scary, but it's so hard to play because it's such a shitty game.

[Anonymous No.1717189]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iez2Ks1Pybo

Whenever I was going to lose my last hero/town in HoMM games and those freaking beheading screens were about to come up I would just pull the plug on the computer or at least turn off the monitor and the speakers for a few minutes. Too intense for my younger self

[Anonymous No.1717201]

>>1707850
Because JENOVA and THAT MUSIC.

[Anonymous No.1717205]

Castlevania 64. To this day, that game scares the mother fucking shit out of me for some reason.

[Anonymous No.1717208]

made me cry

[Anonymous No.1717214]

hahaha...this game creeped me the hell out

[Anonymous No.1717217]

ODDWORLD FOR THE PS1. FUCK THAT GAME.

[Anonymous No.1717223]

oh god, my cousins used to make me play Mortal Kombat Trilogy with them and I always hated it. The game scared me in general, but these damn trees just terrified me...

[Anonymous No.1717237]

>>1695875
Shit, man. I remember all too well.

Almost two decades after, I'm still literally having a mild anxiety attack every time I play or see any part of this game now,

[Anonymous No.1717253]

>>1717205
>"for some reason"
>as if hedgemaze levels aren't a universal panic trigger for anyone who played them when they were 7 years old

I can't think of a part in Castlevania 64 that was more terrifying than that sequence...except maybe when you have to GO BACK IN AFTER THAT SEQUENCE TO GET THROUGH THE LEVEL HOLY FUCKING SHIT MAN.

That's saying a lot though, as there were many parts of that game which made me nervous.

[Anonymous No.1717272]

Amongst several other scenes from Myst, this one spooked me the most.

[Anonymous No.1717348]

>>1671973
Agreed, watching my brother and aunt play RE1 and 2 and eventually Code Veronica messedme up so bade I couldn't play 4 until like 2 weeks ago.

I mean I played 5 like almost 4 years ago but that doesn't quite count, especially since it was co-op.

[Anonymous No.1717394]

>>1707146
>that anti piracy measure.

[Anonymous No.1717406]

>Invite your neighbor over cause your older brother has the new Mortal Kombat game for n64.
>Try it out in single player at first
>Lose and see this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zoxWEUlzaI&feature=kp
>Neighbor leaves crying because it was scary as shit.

I remember always trying to quickly press start so I didn't have to see liu kang die.
I still find this screen unsettling.

[Anonymous No.1717416]

>>1717406
I remember my babysitter getting this and letting us play.
Instead of being disturbed or scared I thought it was awesome.

[Anonymous No.1718771]

[Anonymous No.1718792]

[Anonymous No.1718864]

>>1718771
i thought that was badass when i was a kid. its like some weird sonic/batman crossover

[Anonymous No.1719584]

>>1718864
The creepy music combined with the image scared the hell out of me as a kid. It doesn't get to me like it did when I was younger, but the second image is still quite unsettling to me.

[Anonymous No.1720580]

>>1673906
get on the floo

[Anonymous No.1720597]

I was not prepared

[Anonymous No.1720606]

>>1707186
>Also in Ocarina of Time when the citizens of Hyrule become zombies
they didn't actually, the ReDeads were just conjured monsters. Only one guy dies

[Anonymous No.1720634]

Motherfucking Nightmare Creatures man.

[Anonymous No.1720909]

>the golems by the palace
>the octopus-shaped dirt patch in the southeast
>whatever the fuck I've circled
I dunno what was wrong with me but I found this entire desert utterly terrifying, and couldn't enter the second half of the dungeon because of that fucking THING above the entrance

[Anonymous No.1720968]

>>1672757

>all these children who think games that cribbed off this were scary

It's laughably aged now, but back in the day it kept me awake at night I was so scared. It was an atmospheric creepiness too. My first experience with that sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.1721019]

>Mfw I am desensitized
>Mfw I can't really get anything past a jumpscare

[Anonymous No.1721027]

I remember playing Silent Hill 1 and not being scared. I thought the game was freaking cool, especially how they took the PS1 graphics and made it actually spooky. It's literally a piece of art in its own right.

However, there was one part that always scared me.

About 3/4 through the game, you're running around in the streets while it's in nightmare mode and everything is dark and black. You turn around running and a bunch of random monsters starts chasing you. When you're running away you're suddenly greeted by two or three giant rat-like mole people coming at you which you've never seen before.

And then the music starts...

http://youtu.be/I4J2gBFiM0A?t=35m10s

[Anonymous No.1721039]

>>1721027

Start the video at 35minutes and 10 seconds..

Fucking plugins...

[Anonymous No.1721050]

>>1721027
Ah...yes, even if you know the game by memory, that part never fails to be stressful.

That and the fight with the school boss while playing on hard.

[Anonymous No.1721120]

>>1693346
Fuck Archviles with a rake, I play Brutal sometimes just for the chance to hurt them in more creative ways

[Anonymous No.1721153]

When I was around 5 (maybe younger), I was watching my brothers play this game. It was cool, I was really into it. Then that bitch in the rose garden yells at you about getting near her roses. This scared the ever living shit out of me for no reason whatsoever. I hid in a closet and cried. After this, they would play the scene or yell "King's Quest roses!" whenever I pissed them off.

Looking back, that whole thing is fucking hilarious.

[Anonymous No.1721161]

>>1671973
I got nightmares because of this when I was 8

[Anonymous No.1721178]

>>1687809
Most disappointing game of all time. GOBBLEGOBBLEGOBBLEGOBBLEGOBBLEGOBBLEGOBBLEGOBBLE

[Anonymous No.1721197]

>>1721019
Same here

;_;

[Anonymous No.1721243]

First time really played doom 2. House sitting alone in the dark. Big empty house. Got weird after a while. Got right the fuck out of there.

[Anonymous No.1722663]

this scared me pretty bad when i was 6

[tsyhalka !!jm3qmcv6wc9 No.1722781]

> 9 years old me
> 4 AM
> playing Quake II on cousin's place
> everyone's sleeping
> that smell and sound ambient of ps1 in a dark warm room
> get to the level with prisoners
> stuck in a loop in that place
> prisoners screaming one after other nonstop
> don't understand english well
> think they're saying hell
> hell
> helll
> heeeelll
> hell
> they start following you after release
> yelling
> HELL
> cannot kill them
> thrill to a monster suddenly
> av cable pulls out
> screen goes noise
> eyes still tint to red
> see images representing randomly
> paralyze for about half an hour
> leave everything open and flash to bed
> prisoner screams echoing in head
> HELL

ive never had enough balls to play that again.
now i don't want to play, to not to ruin memories

[Anonymous No.1723467]

>>1722781
it's best not to replay it, lest you see how utterly terrible quake 2 is.

[Anonymous No.1723709]

>>1722781

>quake 2
>ps1

There's a big part of your problem right there.

[Anonymous No.1723715]

>>1723709

It was pretty good for a console port.

[Anonymous No.1724697]

oooooooooooooooooRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

[Anonymous No.1726546]

I had a demo of Prisoner of Ice.

This guy gave me the chills, man.

[Anonymous No.1726567]

>>1726546

>Prisoner of Ice
>gave me chills

booooooooooooooooooooo

[Anonymous No.1727170]

>>1707138
this game was the shit! There's so many ways andy could die: millions of ways of getting crushed, eating alive, burnt into nothing, head decapitated. Where the designers into guro or something. Cool though.

[Anonymous No.1728048]

>>1727170
speaking of ways to die, I always wanted a compilation that showcased every way a lemming could die in all of the lemmings games

[Anonymous No.1729091]

>>1728048
I would also like to see this

[Anonymous No.1732919]

This game scarred me as a kid and I still can't play it to this day.
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=W-LauOdux1E

[Corvo No.1734349]

Anybody else?

[Anonymous No.1734587]

Remember that CD's collection where there was this kind of "hub" that you could explore to acess the contents of the cds? it was a white building, with a lot of non-straight passageways.
Well, there was a CD about felines, and it was also a building to explore. From time to time, lions and things like that would appear, at first I would try to "hunt" them, but then one of them made a weird sound. I never was able to put the CD in my computer again.

[Anonymous No.1734603]

>>1728048
>>1729091
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyZfME5XYY

[Anonymous No.1734615]

>>1734349
OH MY GOD IVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF THIS GAME

[Anonymous No.1734783]

>>1717394
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-4Gub-VBVE
As a kid I would have pissed myself if that had happened to me. I had an original copy of the Amstrad CPC version though.

[Anonymous No.1734804]

Played this as a child. It scarred me for life.

[Anonymous No.1734823]

>>1734804
Bad graphics and your trauma aside, that is one of the best damn Gamecube games ever made.

[Anonymous No.1734892]

>>1697753

[Corvo No.1735171]

>>1734587
>dat glorious intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OD12K1osfI
>mfw

[Anonymous No.1735245]

>>1717205
played the game about a year ago for the first time. When the chainsaw guy starts coming after you is what made me lose it. Scared me so bad

[Anonymous No.1735279]

>>1673869
>be on first floor of nowhere
>go through door
>suddenly on second floor

God someone make it stop ;_;
Fucking game was a masterpiece

[Anonymous No.1735347]

>>1724697
FUCK YOU

THIS ASSHOLE INTRODUCED ME TO THE RESIDENT EVIL SERIES

[Anonymous No.1735394]

>>1720909
>the octopus-shaped dirt patch in the southeast

Holy shit, so it is.

[Anonymous No.1735618]

Chex Quest. Not even foolin'.

>Cartoony as fuck visuals.
>haha my dad plays FPSes too look im running around and shooting my zorchie
>open up door to chaingun room
>"BLUWAAAAAAH"
>GAH FUCK SHOOT IT SHOOT IT SHOOT IT
>okay that was just one I can handle just one
>Shoot another frightenedly
>Okay I have the big fastzorcher thing so now I guess I'll go to the... big room
>open big room
>sometimes there are enemies behind you
>sometimes they're to the left or right of you
>in any way young me has trouble comprehending fighting effectively in 3D space
>frightened at what I can't see
>Can never even try to finish the first level
>Love the game to death watching my brother though

[Corvo No.1735762]

>>1735618
Damn, and I thought I was the only one.

[Anonymous No.1735771]

>>1713136
>Dat fucking huff from the war cannon during tense moments
>Especially right after getting it, where you get to use it against those shadowy tentacly serpent dudes
That did not need to be there. It did not. But I guess there has to be a price to pay for saving ammo.

[Anonymous No.1735774]

>>1672757
>That shitstorm when you disturb that sitting ghost

[Anonymous No.1735780]

>>1717205
Despite all its problems, that game had fucking great atmosphere. Compelling enough to keep me playing to the end. The sparse music, the ambient sounds, that feeling of isolation, and the surreal-ness once you get into the castle proper, it all adds up.

[Anonymous No.1735791]

>>1717223
This. It didn't scare me all that much, but some of the more hellish setpieces felt really disturbing. The acid pool one is creepy too for some reason. Something about how stark and quiet it is, coupled with the purpose of the pool and the whole room.

[Anonymous No.1735798]

>>1723467
I had the N64 version of Quake 2. I thought it was pretty cool along with Doom 64. I think it had a similar kind of atmosphere too.

[Anonymous No.1735815]

>>1722781
>Can't kill the prisoners to stop their shit moans on the PSX version
Fucking really?

[Anonymous No.1736251]

>>1673686
THIS on genesis, scared the shit out of me when I was 4

[Anonymous No.1736867]

>>1693254
>7 years old
>at cousins house, they have OoT

Are you me?.

Seriously, fuck these guys.

[Anonymous No.1736878]

Myst.

Fuck that game, the atmosphere is horrible.

[Anonymous No.1736902]

>Don't do that

[Anonymous No.1736908]

>>1736878
Pussy.

The 7th Guest was way creepier.

[Anonymous No.1736913]

I am not ashamed to admit this game scared the hell out of me when I was younger.
I was not prepared for the final lake.

[Anonymous No.1736919]

>>1671973
Played RE1 when I still didn't have a memory card the fear of dying and having to start over made the game unbearably stressful

Later we showed RE to my friend's younger brother.He and his little buddies starting playing it and one little shit freaked out that Hunters are real. He locked himself in the bathroom and didn't come out till his parents came for him.

[Anonymous No.1736932]

>>1678065
I know for a fact this isn't retro, but the water dragon that FUCKING CHASES YOU in Okami still scares me.

[Anonymous No.1737161]

>>1679704
I hated the sounds those necromancers would make

[Anonymous No.1737774]

This fucker prevented me from ever going far in this game when I was a little kid. Think you're ready to get out of the fucking ice caves? Nope.

>that slow drop from the top of the screen
>that fucking murderous laugh as it freezes you

I used to have nightmares about this thing.

[Anonymous No.1738635]

Almost everything from Army Men 2
>cockroaches
>plastic zombies
>the soldier screams
>the plastic objects on the scenario
>losing all your soldiers and being alone

[Anonymous No.1738636]

Almost everything from Army Men 2
>cockroaches
>plastic zombies
>the soldier screams
>the plastic objects on the scenario
>losing all your soldiers and being alone

[Anonymous No.1738839]

>>1673874
I had to power through my first play-through. I wanted to play it a second time til i realised those Golems appear early in the game. Nope, i'm out.

[Anonymous No.1739458]

>>1717214
Are you me?

[Anonymous No.1739710]

>>1737161
I always thought they said "sorcerer" everytime they'd vanish.

>They disappear
>OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT
>Stand still in complete silence for 5 seconds
>all of a sudden loud boom behind me

That was my first nope moment ever.

[Anonymous No.1740556]

I used to be scared of dos prompts when I was 6-ish
also the pc speaker used to scare the shit out of me

[Anonymous No.1740580]

>>1687823
I never knew that you could just walk slowly past them and they wouldn't attack you, as a kid.

One day for shits and giggles I even put on iron boots and stomped around the market, and they didn't give a fuck.

[Anonymous No.1740616]

>>1671867
Nothing 'cause I was never a major fucking pussy like every other 4channer ever.

[Anonymous No.1740641]

>>1717128
Woaaah man, i played that thing way back when i was like 4-5 years old in a really old computer my dad had. Those fucking sounds and graphics were so weird and creppy man.

[Anonymous No.1740658]

This whole level.
For some reason i have always been scared of the deep ocean, and this level was pure darkness and in the end this fucker appears. I had to ask my brother to play the level for me so many times...

[Anonymous No.1740662]

Pretty much any Quake/Quake2 enemy made me shit my shit my pants except the human soldiers.

Pic related, fuck the sound he makes when he spots you, and fuck the fiends/shamblers from the original game.

[Anonymous No.1740676]

>>1740662
pussy fuck

[Anonymous No.1740865]

i don't know if this really counts as being scared but i would get so upset when the little flying things would kidnap baby mario in yoshi's island. like it would legit depress me and i'd have to stop playing so it was actually a pretty intense game for me considering i wasn't very good at it and would get hit a lot.

[Anonymous No.1741002]

>>1740556

>scared of dos prompts

The PC speaker I can understand because of the bizarre sounds that sometimes came out of it. But DOS prompts? What? I always found them very comforting. I hated Windows and still kind of do.

[Anonymous No.1741028]

>>1740662
>That sound where he readies the grenade launcher
>You can't immediately spot him

[Anonymous No.1741029]

>>1741028
Also,
>You hear a Gladiator's railgun whirring up
>You bump into a crate or something and it stops you for that critical split second

[Anonymous No.1741078]

>>1685809
>when the bonds of flesh are broken, image becomes reality!

amazing game, severely underrated

[Anonymous No.1741273]

>>1740556

[Anonymous No.1741279]

>>1741002
Maybe he prefered UNIX?

[Anonymous No.1741689]

>>1740662

Doom has a much better feel than either of the Quake games that are /vr/. In fact, no game, imo, has quite the atmosphere it has. It's about a time and place in our lives for sure, but I think it also exists independently of that.

[Anonymous No.1741748]

>>1737161
>>1739710

necromancers are a playable class in hexen 2. Are you talking about the skull wizard? I hate those ones too. I also hate how they turn into a spider upon death.

[Anonymous No.1742065]

>>1715113
>>1716343
What game is this?

[Anonymous No.1742106]

>>1742065
Star Wars: Dark Forces

[Anonymous No.1742115]

>>1673885
>Necrodome
MY FUCKING NIGGER
I have literally been looking for this game for years, could never remeber the name if your car breaks you roam around with a grenade launcher, and knight is the password for god mode i believe

[Anonymous No.1742270]

>>1742106
If I can find my CD I should rip an ISO.

[Anonymous No.1742324]

>>1742270
I could upload it if you'd like, as I've got a clonecd of it as well as scans of the cd case, cd, and manual

[Anonymous No.1742403]

>>1742324
Yeah but

I have the CD


Like, right here.

Found it in my retro vidya bin.

[Anonymous No.1743921]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIA0kaGFIhQ

[Anonymous No.1744052]

When my cousins gave me their copy of OoT as a kid, I once tried playing one of the files they left. I loaded it up, and I was in the Shadow Temple, in the dark corridor with that creepy face staring at me. I figured out how to hookshot across, and followed the corridors into the catacombs of the dungeon, where you get the hover boots.

By the time the pots started flying at me, I had turned off the console.

[Anonymous No.1744689]

>>1743921

>first the DOS prompt, now this

I always thought this was really cool. It was like a ROM check, wasn't it? Wish they hadn't got rid of it.

But I'm not a big brave man or anything. As a kiddywink, this bastard filled my young heart with cold dread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYr5J877tsU

1:20 or so. It was a different time, what can I say?

[Anonymous No.1744876]

>>1744689
>mfw heard alone in the dark was good
>mfw actually seeing it right now
>well that's not too scary for GROWN UP ASS ME but damn those controls make it look like serious tension goes on when that happens
>...like true fear...

Guess I'm downloading Alone In The Dark now.

[Anonymous No.1744902]

>>1744876

It is very, very good.

I find it difficult to go back to though because of how laughably the graphics have aged. Get a strategy guide though, it can be pretty arcane.

[Anonymous No.1745130]

Holy shit, this thread is still alive?

[Anonymous No.1745194]

>>1745130
Its a really good thread.

Also, them lasers in the first part of Knights Chase

[Anonymous No.1745258]

This shit gave me nightmares:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCSoUPqDl4

Also captain blood. It made me think I destroyed a few planets in reality.

[Anonymous No.1745303]

The PS1 version of Final Doom had a... rather interesting soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2MMXXkfptQ

[Anonymous No.1746716]

Those Scrab fuckers from the first Oddworld on the PS1. Not only you are totally defenseless against them but they run faster than you, and chase you on sight with a fucking tribal music. I did the first level again and again as a child because I reseted every time I saw one of them.

[Corvo No.1746829]

>>1742403
Awww shit, motha fucking CHEX QUEST!

[Anonymous No.1746853]

>this whole thread
hahahahahahahahaha PUSSIES

no video game ever scared me because I always had balls, unlike you mega pussy bitch faggots

[Anonymous No.1746867]

>>1677575
Yes. Scared the shit out of me. As an adult I went to the ocean for the first time and instantly wondered if a giant eel was watching me. Jeeze

[Anonymous No.1746870]

>>1697961
the SMB3 version was anxiety provoking

[Anonymous No.1746873]

>>1746853
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.1747474]

>>1746716

Always wanted to play this but never got to. Is it as cool as it looks? I'm a big fan of the 'realistic platformer' subgenre; Blackthorne, Another World, Flashback, and of course Prince of Persia.

Would I like it? And can I get it somewhere for prices that aren't awful?

[Anonymous No.1747476]

>>1746853

What a useful post.

[Anonymous No.1747578]

>>1673874
>>1673869

I loved Parasite Eve as a kid, those mutations man.

I replay it every Christmas. One year my cousin was over and she wanted to play with my PS, she's 8 or 9 at the time but usually pretty good about not wrecking shit so I let her have a go of the thing while I did other stuff.

She picks up PE1 cuz it has Aya on the cover and she wants to play as a girl character and however many minutes later I hear her screaming her lungs out and she comes FLYING INTO THE KITCHEN and behind her mom.

We all go into the room to see what the shit right and the rat mutation freaked her out that much.

You know looking back there where a lot of female protagonists in horror games back in the day, I miss that. Ive always been of the mind that it actually works better with a lady hero, usually anyways I mean it does really come down to execution

[Anonymous No.1747590]

Oh just to finish the story everyone thought it was pretty damn funny, I got a light scolding about letting her play it but it was more along the lines of

why'd you let her play a game where a rat turns into such scary monster

I just told them you should see the dog, and then i loaded up a save near the dog.

Christmas at my house is great

[Anonymous No.1747619]

I was 7 when Resident Evil came out. The first zombie made me cry.

[Anonymous No.1747649]

>>1747578
>>1747590
I'll see you in hell
lel

[Anonymous No.1747654]

>>1743921
>Fucking insane insanity waiting to play a motherfucking game.
It was too much for my 8 years old me.

[Anonymous No.1747745]

>>1671867

[Anonymous No.1747883]

>>1671867

Monkey Island 2, the last part where Lechuck chases you over his base.

[Anonymous No.1747885]

>>1699798
Just looking at these images without the sound is creeping me out still to this day

[Anonymous No.1748025]

[Anonymous No.1748078]

>>1671973
In the original version he drops that guy's severed head when he turns.

[Anonymous No.1748098]

>>1681442
Don't trigger him!

:^)

[Anonymous No.1748109]

>>1687847
>save button doesn't save

That's pretty funny!

[Anonymous No.1748117]

Duke Nukem 64. The lack of music made the game too creepy to play at night.

[Anonymous No.1748167]

For 8 year old me, Tomb Raider was already pretty eerie, but then, on the third level, out of nowhere, a fucking T-rex.

[Anonymous No.1748192]

>>1671867
oh my lawd. This.
I loved the over world Jurassic Park stuff but the second you had to enter a building and go first person my poor childhood frame couldnt do it.

[Anonymous No.1748217]

>>1671973
fukkin Silent Hill is moreso. With that fuckin creepy camera angles, and fog and lot of silence

[Anonymous No.1748445]

>>1747474
It's amazing. You can usually get the whole Oddworld series on Steam for $5.00, but the PC ports are lacking.

If I were you, I'd just emulate the PSX version of Oddysee.

>>1746829
Terribly cheesy FMVs and everything! Ironically, the game is the only thing that DOESN'T work in modern windows.

[Anonymous No.1748454]

>>1747883
I dont remember if it was in MI1 or 2, but the zombiehead closeup was spookie too

[Anonymous No.1748835]

>>1748445
>Ironically, the game is the only thing that DOESN'T work in modern windows.
That's because it's a DOS game isn't it? If so just grab DOSBox or you could get ZDoom, GZDoom, or Chocolate Doom and play Chex Quest on Windows that way.

[Anonymous No.1748934]

>>1748454
That was in 1.

[Anonymous No.1749289]

>>1702052

This.

I remember renting it when I was younger. There was something I saw moving on the wall. I took a closer look without paying attention to my motion tracker, and out of nowhere this takes up my screen.

Fucking a, I didn't want to touch the game after that. Damn things traumitize me. I had a hard time playing Aliens vs. Predator 1999 when those damn things show up.

[Anonymous No.1749316]

>>1747578

I never found it scary, but it's one of my favorites. Trying to beat the last boss in the Chrysler building at the moment.

[Anonymous No.1749410]

>>1748835
Yeah, I knew that. I just found it really weird Chex Quest's FMVs were 32 bit.

[Anonymous No.1749493]

>>1743921
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJGyCIlwfOQ

[Anonymous No.1749576]

I HUNGER

[Anonymous No.1749675]

>>1672072
my childhood, in thus picture

[Anonymous No.1749682]

exploding flesh zombie monsters were so scurry

[Anonymous No.1749713]

I was a horror junkie since childhood but shit my breeches whenever scary things happened. Maybe I'm secretly a masochist, wouldn't be the biggest of surprises tbh.

Commander Keen Armageddon some shit
>The dopefish, I don't fucking know

Silent Hill 1
>everything, I played the franchise so much I stopped giving a shit and just play it for the story and cool monsters nowadays (both of
which are getting shitter by the day)

Sinistar

Clock Tower
>bobby

Not sure if retro but there was this Russian-made horror game where you just dick around a town and need to find food and there's some trains nearby with some shrouded figures
I have no idea what it's called but you get to pick out of three characters with different stories.
Yeah fuck that game.

Wolfenstein, obligatory RoboHitler.

[Anonymous No.1749719]

>>1749713
oh also SANIC WATER LEVEL

[Anonymous No.1749790]

>>1673447
I had so much fun with this game as a kid

[Anonymous No.1749821]

>>1671867
>http://www.gameanyone.com/video/429533

The train level at 11:00 scared me because the music.

[Anonymous No.1751040]

The first time I got poisoned on Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, I thought my Playstation was malfunctioning

[Anonymous No.1751069]

>>1751040
Last Revelation was my first and to this day favourite TR game. I remember playing way before I had internet in my house and being stuck in the level with the lit up floor you need to jump across. The mummies in the level after that and the bull scared the tits off of me.

[Anonymous No.1751078]

The green protozoid slimers from Duke 3D scared the fuck out of me, especially when you went into the egg lairs.

Seeing alien at a young age didn't help either

[Anonymous No.1751080]

>>1751069
I recently found out that people have been making their own levels.
They act like seperate games, with their own exe and everything.

http://www.trle.net/

[Anonymous No.1751132]

>>1735815
You can kill them in the US version. Dunno about PAL, maybe the guy is german.

[Anonymous No.1751136]

>>1746853
lying on the internet won't get you laid anon.....

[Anonymous No.1751224]

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Even England were not this bad

[Anonymous No.1751965]

>>1751224
oookay

[Anonymous No.1752205]

I was scurred and I had my dad get past him.

I was like 6.

[Anonymous No.1752313]

>>1740580
http://zeldawiki.org/ReDead
fuck, it's true???
I never knew either

[Anonymous No.1752520]

>>1684228
Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.1752542]

I'm actually playing through Silent Hill 1 now. I just got to the alternate world in the hospital, and damn does the creepiness still hold up well. I thought it was bad when it happened in the school, but just going down that long hallway on the 4th floor still creeps me out just to think about.

[Anonymous No.1752553]

This scared me as a child, and there's another game that frightened me a lot. I'll post a picture after this one.

But fuck, this bitch is scary. There's also a burning city in the background as well so you know she's not messing around. Other than that, this was a pretty kickass game.

[Anonymous No.1752560]

>>1752553
This is the other picture. It's Goro from the first Mortal Kombat, specifically the introduction part of the game. He would make these scary grunting noises and then hits the Acclaim logo off screen. This shit was scary enough for me to mute the TV and to close my eyes.

Video related as well. I think I was 5-6 when I first played MK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m1pfNhuBso

[Anonymous No.1752568]

[Anonymous No.1754108]

I was scared to play any game at all on one of my computers because it would always freeze

[Anonymous No.1754186]

man a lot of y'all where goddamn pussies

[Anonymous No.1754195]

>>1671867
I was scared of the ocean and deep water, the sheer vastness of the abyss really used to bother me.

My friend had ecco and we would play it at sleepovers and it always gave me nightmares

[Anonymous No.1754209]

>>1754186
remember, we were kids at the time.

[Anonymous No.1754230]

>Round 1
>trying to break this gross little fucker's bungie cord
>Sees weird eye in pool below
>Noworries.jpg
>Defeat Major Mucus
>Round 2
>Falling and end up right over the eye
>HOLYFUCKINGSHITIGOTBITINHALF!!!!!

Really didn't expect the game to take a violent turn like that.

[Anonymous No.1754231]

This fucking thing. I had no idea what would happen. That chomping sound still gets me.

[Anonymous No.1754282]

Headcrabs used to scare the shit out of me.
Back in the day I only had the Uplink demo, and I just couldn't go forward in it because of them. I just stood tere in the non-scary devoid-of-scary-aliens early part of the map, admiring the THREEDEE graphics all day.

[Anonymous No.1754369]

>>1684383
Half of me wants a HD/special re-release with a new level where you can actually fight this guy. The other half...knows better.

[Anonymous No.1754386]

>>1754282
>, admiring the THREEDEE graphics all day.
To be fair, HL still holds up in that aspect. I don't know how the 1.0 looked since the oldest version I've played is the 1.5, but still.

[Anonymous No.1754427]

>>1754209
>remember, we were kids at the time.

you where pussies.

>>1754231

I mean really? c'mon guy, y'all getting scared of Mario shit

[Anonymous No.1754437]

>>1673457
Ohhhohohoho! I had this on my computer back in the day! That stupid guardian scared me so bad. I had to go get my brother whenever the guardian got to the same floor as me for the longest time.

[Anonymous No.1754446]

I think because it's more action oriented it scares me more than the first one.

Hell, it also had a tense as fuck underwater sequence.

[Anonymous No.1754492]

>>1673948
Shit nigga, the music, the art, and especially the voiceovers were all fucking terrifying in that game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG3pMeaqnqw

[Anonymous No.1754559]

>>1705835
i played gex on the n64(not sure which one) the entire game just had a really creepy vibe to it. the scenery, the way enemies moved. it was just weird

[Anonymous No.1754596]

>>1754446
>Hell, it also had a tense as fuck underwater sequence.

that plesiosaur man

[Anonymous No.1754778]

>>1754186
>>1754427

Internet tough guy time.

[Anonymous No.1755026]

>>1754427
Congratulations! You have won two (2) internet points.

[Anonymous No.1755074]

>>1673826
my nigga

[Anonymous No.1755091]

>>1754386
>half life graphics holding up
nigger please half life's graphics are unsettlingly bad nowadays

[Anonymous No.1755117]

>>1754195
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdRf-IVFeOs

[Anonymous No.1755126]

>>1717052
>This game is so underrated.
False, a lot of people call it the real Doom 3

[Anonymous No.1755139]

>>1755026
>You have won two (2) internet points.

I want to put them into my charisma so I can mack on chicks better

[Anonymous No.1755230]

>>1749576
yes

[Anonymous No.1755448]

I had one of those '1000 games in one' discs as a kid and it had this Bad Toys 3d game on it. It was creepy as fuck back then, had like no music and the smiley face guys were unsettling as hell.

It also had some battleship commander game that played at like fucking lightspeed. It would be open for like 2 seconds, then you'd lose and some horribly drawn MS paint guy with enormous staring eyes would pop up and say "Aye Aye sir" really ear splittingly loud. Then it would ask you to purchase the entire game. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.

[Anonymous No.1755468]

>>1755448
HOLY FUCK BAD TOYS. I remember that shit.

I think I have that same disc. There are so many old games on there that are funny to laugh at. I can't believe some people wanted to sell some of the half-assed junk on there.

[Anonymous No.1755502]

>>1755468
Remember BadToys too on that very disc back in '95. Can anyone sauce a full version of BadToys, particularly the black-and-white version?

[Anonymous No.1755516]

>>1755468

I'm pretty sure I have the disc around here somewhere still. Like every single game on it was Shareware.

It also had a 'Simpson Trivia' game. I was disappointed to find out it was a trivia game about the OJ Simpson trial.

[Anonymous No.1755523]

Darkstone.
Most NPCs were only in the town and the entire world had a very dark vibe to it. Matched with my childish inability to critically think, I spent quite a bit of time exploring completely empty regions of forest.

[Anonymous No.1755585]

>>1755516
>Simpson Trivia
>about OJ Simpson trivia

You must be joking, anon. That's hilarious

[Anonymous No.1755636]

>>1755585

Not in the slightest. I had no idea what the hell was happening on it.

I'll stop going a bit off topic after this, but I am pretty sure this was the game's case so you know, if you recognize it congratulations on surviving the awful shit on it.

[Anonymous No.1755669]

>>1671973
>>1672008
Funny enough his teeth are baring in the RE2 opening as well as other added details. Never understood why they made the changes, i guess they thought he would look more menacing that way.

[Anonymous No.1755671]

>>1755126
It got flak at release for not being like Quake.

[Anonymous No.1755694]

This fucking game

[Anonymous No.1755830]

>>1755694
>Illuminati: The Game

[Anonymous No.1756339]

>>1702038
Nightmares for a couple days

[Anonymous No.1757675]

i think seeing mario drown in mario 64 ruined my innocence.

[Anonymous No.1757765]

>>1671867
Luigis mansion 2 spooky

[Anonymous No.1757780]

>>1690161
All of Mario 64 scared me, even though I loved playing it.

It was so lonely... still spooks me a bit today.

[Anonymous No.1757783]

>>1697961
I turned out with a vore fetish from MIB II

[Anonymous No.1757810]

>>1757780
There really is something about that game that is really subtly unsettling. My absolute favorite retro game, but there's just something about it that I can't put my finger on.

[Anonymous No.1757841]

>>1757810
i think it's how empty the castle is, and the portal theme, along with the early 3d graphics

it's not terrifying, but it's a bit spookier than most video games in a suble, understated way

[Anonymous No.1757884]

>>1749713
Was the last game Pathologic?

[Anonymous No.1758948]

>search thread, nobody posted "The Immortal"

Anyone else get freaked out playing this game?

>fuck that music.

[Anonymous No.1758958]

>>1758948
alt cover

everything about this game gave me the creeps as a kid, its also kinda hard.

[Anonymous No.1759681]

>>1757810
I found it both calming and cartoony in a way. I grew up with a PS1 and this turned out to be my favorite N64 game.

[Anonymous No.1759720]

>all these pussies actually scared by a mario game

[Anonymous No.1759756]

This shit. Exploring rooms, having fun, then BOOM! Huge fucked up monster jumps out of nowhere and pushes me back out into the hall and mauls me to death. Even the creepy music during the room exploring parts made me tense up and expect something to pop out at any minute.

[Anonymous No.1759760]

>>1720634

underrated post

[Anonymous No.1759791]

>>1758958
Kinda? It makes Solstice look like SMW in difficulty.

[Anonymous No.1760374]

>>1759756
did you ever watch the Dr. Chaos-ish movie "house" 1986?

[Anonymous No.1760385]

>>1759756
This is to date the only NES game to get me to jump as a grown-ass man.

[Anonymous No.1760425]

Space Griffon VF-9 for the Playstation. I think it was a launch title. Anyways, this game truly spooked the Jesus out of me as a kid but I managed to push through it. It was basically like playing a horror anime OVA from the 80s except in action adventure/RPG format.

[Anonymous No.1760437]

>>1760425
>Space Griffon VF-9

looks cool, what other games can you compare and contrast it with?

does that mecha have boobs?

[Anonymous No.1760441]

>>1760437
Yes, it would seem it does.

[Anonymous No.1760447]

This might seem ridiculous to some people but Taboo for the NES was terrifying. I grew up in a religious household so fear of the supernatural was a metaphysical reality for my hometown. That being said, it was not just the game and its wicked sprite artwork set against black backgrounds with an aged typeface but also the enormous manual full of warnings and disclaimers regarding supernatural forces and occult behavior that really shook me. Thank you Catholicism.

[Anonymous No.1760468]

>>1760425
>>1760437
>>1760441

I want to play the PC-98 version of it.

for the sex scenes

[Anonymous No.1760507]

>>1760437

It's a remake of a PC-98 game and it's really hard to compare it to anything else because nothing is really quite like it. It was basically a mixture of proto-genres at the time like FPS, survival horror, adventure games, and action RPG, with an enormous emphasis on plot. It takes place with a research and rescue team being sent to investigate the mysterious events that lead to loss of communications on a moon base named Hamlet and, well... you can imagine how that works out if you've watched Aliens. But it makes a new story for itself and even has anime cutscenes and voice acting to go along with it (I think).

http://www.giantbomb.com/space-griffon-vf-9/3030-14666/

[Anonymous No.1760546]

>>1760507
it sounds really neat, but is the game-play good? or is it more about about the "horror atmosphere"

[Anonymous No.1760554]

>>1760447
>Taboo for the NES

I really like the unsettling, almost medieva sounding music.

has a little bit of prog-rock in it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h06Ii_7DIhA

[Anonymous No.1760568]

>>1760554
I particularly like the "star" and "sun" themes near the end, I wish they had been develop into longer arrangements.

[Anonymous No.1760570]

>>1760546

The horror atmosphere is definitely the driving force but the gameplay does match it. Technically it's not high-tier from what I remember being a PS1 launch title by a small developer, but it's entirely playable without a guide and has a competent sense of balance that emphasizes survival to the point where you'll be genuinely worried about your resources every second of the game. It's easy to die just from being poorly equipped and not having the ammunition or equipment needed to get through some of the tougher sections. This adds a lot to the overall vibe though since you'll be using every single thing you pick up and barely making it out of some of the dreadful encounters. I say it's recommended at least for a try but I think the plot is engaging to the point where it will carry you through even the most sloggish parts of the experience and all the way to the bitter conclusion.

[Anonymous No.1760582]

>>1760570
well, you sold me. I'm going to track it down.

what are your thoughts on the dreamcast version? (no English version, right?)

[Anonymous No.1760610]

>>1760582

I watched a lot of the DC version on YouTube, it looks great but unfortunately, yeah, there is no English version for it and so I feel much of the appeal of the game will be lost without understanding Japanese. It does look much better and more importantly looks like it plays a lot better too due to a better control scheme with analog and a higher frame rate, but the reduced fidelity and coarseness of the PS1 title has its own sort of appeal by providing surrealism in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.1761746]

Parasite Eve II