/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2810317]

ITT: stuff that scared you as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2810332]

>>2810317

[Anonymous No.2810345]

yeah, getting reminded that you are playing a video game and taken out of the immersion is pretty scary.

[Anonymous No.2810347]

>>2810317
Star Wars trilogy arcade was nerve wracking as a kid
>You can fail each and every level
>Wampas in your face
Pic related was intense as fuck. The game starts with you shooting tie fighters, then Darth Fucking Vader is trying to strike your ass down in first person view.

[Anonymous No.2810357]

>>2810345
I was almost convinced I was a gorilla then out of nowhere comes this game over screen.

[Anonymous No.2810369]

>>2810317
When I was 5-6 yrs old, the red crocodile in frogger that would pop up in the lilipad

The "Shadow" thing in Shamus

Tried playing Police Quest 2 when I was 10; after I was out of the police station and alone, I just went 'nope-nope-nope', especially the part where you're scuba diving to find a dead body

[Anonymous No.2810379]

the entirety of yoshi's story

[Anonymous No.2810381]

>play Resident Evil 1 for the first time
>game starts
>walk to front door and open it
>mfw

[Anonymous No.2810392]

>>2810379
My friend used to think that when a Yoshi lost a life, he got carted away and decapitated in Bowser's castle.

[Anonymous No.2810405]

>>2810347
the demo fight would give me nightmares

[Anonymous No.2810425]

[Anonymous No.2810448]

I AM SINISTAR

[Anonymous No.2810453]

>>2810425
Woah.

[Anonymous No.2810456]

>>2810317
GET OUT!

maybe not scurry, but I still remember feeling real tension when that voice drops in in dk64

[Anonymous No.2810460]

I can't remember but in FF7 there was some monster in a swamp or something who's shadow followed you.

It may have been FF8.

[Anonymous No.2810470]

[Anonymous No.2810476]

>>2810357
kek

[Anonymous No.2810495]

>>2810317
The fucking Dead Hand in OoT. Literally, I just walk to the chest Under the Well, then out come this fucking undead shit that wants to repeatedly molest me with its fucking hands. I literally jumped out of my seat when I saw this fucker (I was 8 at the time). Pic verry related

[Anonymous No.2810505]

>>2810495

floortulas? walltulas? whatever the name of that fucking monster who drops from the ceiling on you, god damn I hated that thing.

also

>that creepy sound while the shadow is closing in

[Anonymous No.2810506]

>>2810495
At twenty six, doing a first time run of OoT, that still scared me. That's some uncomfortable shit.

[Anonymous No.2810512]

I remember my Dad inviting me to play MGS when I was younger. Started a new game and I got caught by the first few guards, started panicking so hard because all you could do was punch and get shot or run and hide. Didn't dare go back to MGS for years.

[Anonymous No.2810515]

>>2810495
Even creepier, look at the textures.

they're skulls. A shit ton of them, all over the floor and walls.

[Anonymous No.2810518]

Playing (more like "playing", probably) mortal kombat II on the snes with my dad when I was 3 or 4 or so, and these fucking trees in the background keep stretching their faces and making these terrible yells.

As an adult they're more funny than anything but the shit gave me nightmares when I was still a toddler

[Anonymous No.2810519]

>>2810505
Wallmasters.

For my scare? When I was 10, RE2 intro as well as the zombies coming out of the fire made me shit myself at least twice.

As well as invaded my nightmares similar to the Terminator coming out of the fire in the first movie.

Pic very related

[Anonymous No.2810541]

>>2810317

To this day..

[Anonymous No.2811009]

Pic related - runner up was Dirk the Daring's rotting corpse turning into a skeleton.

[Anonymous No.2811014]

triggered

[Anonymous No.2811045]

The first AvP game. I was 11 when I played it.

It was so scary at the time, they actually sold underwear with the game.

http://m.ign.com/articles/1999/03/03/a-game-so-scary-were-giving-you-a-free-pair-of-underwear

[Anonymous No.2811120]

>>2810448
My nigga

[Anonymous No.2811128]

those fucking golems from hexen 2. those loud stomping noises they made, made me terrified around them.

[Anonymous No.2811130]

Inb4 some faggot was scared of the piano in Mario 64

[Anonymous No.2811138]

>>2810541
my nigga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6srxp1-9I

[Anonymous No.2811212]

This shit right here. Bandits themselves were so scary, the red screen, the music, everything was frightening to me to the point I couldn't play the game.

[Anonymous No.2811215]

These bitches with PC speaker

[Anonymous No.2811221]

>>2810460
Midgar Zolom?

My answer is the original Alone in the Dark. Every time I played it as a 6-7 year old kid, I would have incredibly vivid nightmares and wake up screaming the house down. Seems silly now.

[Anonymous No.2811292]

>>2810317

THORG HUNGRY! THORG WANT EAT!

He made me run back all to the beginning of the level.

[Anonymous No.2811319]

>>2810515
I have noticed that before, good gravy.

[Anonymous No.2811356]

>>2810495

Everything about The Well. I swear I'm the only one who found Bottom of the Well even fucking scarier then the Shadow Temple proper. Imagine it-

You're climbing down....Down....Down yet further still...Then the masonry begins to change....It looks strange and somehow abnormally lit from within...You hit bottom. The light of the sun is failing you. You see a passage. All along the passage are piles of...Something....Rotting on the floor. The stench is increasingly god-awful. How the fuck could the villagers be getting their _water_ from such a foul place? At last you come to a wall. There's distressingly large amounts of blood splashed on it...No wait....It's bleeding. The fucking wall is bleeding blood...

[Anonymous No.2811357]

>>2810347
I hated the fact that they kept switching the y-axis throughout that game.

[Anonymous No.2811373]

Any sort of glitch my copy of sonic 2 used to glitch out sometimes and I would have to turn my Mega drive off

[Anonymous No.2811374]

>>2811130
Yeah well fuck you it's the piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjYp5iZpM_g

and the eel, oh how original

[Anonymous No.2811397]

>>2811374

The piano scared the shit out me too, anon.

[Anonymous No.2811412]

>>2811373
I hope you know that's not a glitch.

[Anonymous No.2811442]

>>2810381
>first time I ever played resident evil when I was 6 or 7
>home alone in the dark waiting for parents to bring groceries and pizza
>see this
>turn game off turn every light in the house on and corral our dog and two cats in the same room as me until parents get home

[Anonymous No.2811445]

>>2811442

[Anonymous No.2811454]

>>2810317
this and the shark level from tomb raider 2

[Anonymous No.2811460]

>>2810317
These fuckers! these mission! Holy fuck, the way the game changed genres from space shooter to horror shooter so bruptly shocked me, too bad spoopy segments on the halo series were not tried again with the same effects

[Anonymous No.2811463]

>>2811045
>The first AvP game

[NESfag No.2811470]

Parallax skies in DN3D.
It's like they went on forever, so I was always scared to fall down the edges of levels and keep falling for all eternity.

It didn't help when I started playing usermaps and people used them for floors too some which you could actually fall into... for a LONG time...

[Anonymous No.2811473]

this faggot jumping out behind a corner shrieking at me in his distorted voice

still gives me jumpscares to this day

[Anonymous No.2811478]

>>2811470

That _is_ rather uncanny, when you post it like that. Then again, I recall reading in the Shadow Warrior BUILD guide that for some reason BUILD3D did sky parallaxing "weird", so maybe this is a little taste of what he meant. Certainly some of the skies in The Birth show up weird in-editor.

[Anonymous No.2811479]

[Anonymous No.2811490]

[Anonymous No.2811530]

This shit was unnerving as hell back when I was little.. Still creeps me out, no clue why..

[Anonymous No.2811558]

The fucking butler in Tomb Raider

[Anonymous No.2811637]

If it counts, glitches or bugs where the game code breaks down but keeps running. Like most of the Pokemon Yellow glitches for Missingno that the game just can't handle and you end up with nightmare fuel music such as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykzv6MTe-Qc
or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwYQ0zGj-WU

Even minor things like garbage graphics appearing on sprites if the cart was nudged or that bug in Pokemon Puzzle Challenge where the stack glitches if you swap things too fast (usually happens on Intense difficulty).

I'm interested in them technically but I tend to have to turn the sound off and am on edge throughout

[Anonymous No.2811653]

>>2811637

I know what you mean. It's extremely unsettling when your virtual world starts showing cracks, like a glitch in the Matrix.

[Anonymous No.2811682]

>>2810515
>Even creepier, look at the textures.
Come on, that game is almost 20 years old and it was running on a fucking 64, you seriously cant expect great graphics and amazing nintendo gameplay in the 64 era

[Anonymous No.2811690]

>>2810495
>>2810505
>>2811356
OoT definitely had some scary parts when I first played it. I specifically remember jumping the first time a skulltula dropped down in the Deku Tree. I also think the novelty of it being one of the first 3D adventure games I had ever played added to this scary unknown world (on top of being scared of spiders at the time).

[Anonymous No.2811694]

>>2811682
someone didn't read the spoilers.

[Anonymous No.2811697]

>>2811445
Quiet is cute, CUTE

[Anonymous No.2811736]

>>2810317
Holy fuck these where the reason I was scared to take route 3 in starfox.

[Anonymous No.2811785]

>>2810317
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1rsujJ2CjA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNL8b6Sm3SE
Both transformation scared the shit out of me as a kid.
Also the crying statue of liberty scared me a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqapQbZwqcw&list=PL0BAF62207A67AFA2

[Anonymous No.2811808]

aaaagh

[Anonymous No.2811815]

>>2811736
My dad and I thought these were some sort of secret level unlock and spent a lot of our playthroughs trying to do something to teleport us.

[Anonymous No.2811826]

>>2811815
There was one of them that teleported you to the black hole, it is in the second level of the first route, you had to break the asteroid lines at the last moment and shoot at the faced asteroid

[Anonymous No.2811850]

>>2811826
Yep, that one was the reason we focused so much on the other one that was just an Easter Egg. Fun times.

[Anonymous No.2811869]

>>2811374
Shit man the eel. I hated all the underwater levels. Wet Dry world even had that secret little city that used to scare me because of how mysterious it was. My mind used to come up with these strange scenarios to explain that stuff, like the devs abandoned the idea last minute, but still made it accessible. Same with that Big Nessy in the one world.

But I'll tell you my biggest fear- the secret cave on Lego Island. WHAT WAS BEHIND THE DOOR!!! I still get squirmy thinking about that. And there was a dinosaur game I had on PC long ago that stripped a dino of its skin and muscle to show how they moved, but that music and the skeletal dino made me lose sleep.

[Anonymous No.2811921]

>>2810495
I rarely see people mention how fucking scary this game is. ReDeads, Dead Hands, Wallmasters, Floormasters... Some of that shit still freaks me out!

[Anonymous No.2812084]

This

[Anonymous No.2812129]

This SoR2 stage really freaked me out as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2812539]

>>2812129
Damn, that is probably my favorite beat 'em up stly game. I remember freaking out when I learned there was a secret "manic" difficulty.

[Anonymous No.2812552]

https://youtu.be/9Yw5jkAHgME

[Anonymous No.2812556]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AmGec9wdys

I don't know why I was ever allowed to play this. Just in case so my parents didn't take it away I always played it at night and that made it worse. I was scared shitless at every boss fight of this game

[Anonymous No.2812583]

>>2812129
the music in this level is fucking intense. it's metal as fuck right before it loops back

[Anonymous No.2812596]

the covers for d1 and d2 were fucking terrifying as a 7yr old

[Anonymous No.2812597]

>>2812556
Dude!
The arcade version was even more intense and fucked up. Try it some time, and be glad you were only playing the TG16 one as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2812654]

>>2811785
>slept over this dudes house in 5th grade
>Woke up in the morning before him and started playing this PE2 in the other room
>Get to the part where the monster is eating that soldier
>Immediately nope the fuck out, turn off the game and go back to bed without sleeping

One of the scariest creatures in video games

[Anonymous No.2812672]

That fucking dog jumping through the window in RE1

[Anonymous No.2812675]

>>2811460
Oh yea, the fucking flood.
That music that went along with them was fucking nerve wracking.

[Anonymous No.2812737]

>>2811221
Hell yes, Alone in the dark. The first room where you are in, fucking around. Suddenly the music kind of changes and you can see some fucker lurking out the window, only for a second or so. If you didn't push a wardrobe closet in front of the door to jam it, that fucker would burst in and slice you to pieces a minute or so later.

[Anonymous No.2813034]

>>2811292
The mummy in the pyramid always made me too scared to even play tour golf level.

[Anonymous No.2813036]

>>2811473
This game holds up surprisingly well today even completely unmodded. The tension and atmosphere is just flawless.

It's a shame that Bioshock is more popular now, because I could honestly see a new System Shock working out pretty well if the team behind ss2 went back to designing it.

[Anonymous No.2813127]

>>2811808
I swear I'm the only one who had this occur, I used to get the occasional "A Fatal Error Has Occurred" in my copy of Harley's Humongous Adventure. The game would hang and the music would also freeze, playing a song note continuously. That scared the shit out of me. I was afraid some Are You Afraid of the Dark shit was about to start happening

[Anonymous No.2813134]

[Anonymous No.2813142]

>>2810448
>BEWARE, I LIVE
Fix'd

[Anonymous No.2814338]

blimp

[Anonymous No.2814397]

[Anonymous No.2814414]

>>2810317
The one from DKC3 was a lot scarier to me than that one. The music was unsettling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0AZUE1Ewi4

[Anonymous No.2814426]

That fucking laugh

[Anonymous No.2814473]

>>2814414
I liked how you could play songs with the controller buttons though. And repeatedly hit one button to make the corresponding block jump way up to the top of the screen

[Anonymous No.2814695]

>>2812556
I've never played this game before. After watching that video I had to download the soundtrack to get the song at 7:48. It's so good.

I also found out the song at 5:23 is the origin of Shotgun Juggle, which seems to have been named after the strat in that same fight.

[Anonymous No.2815857]

>>2814695
That song in particular looks totaly like a accelerated version of one piece of music from one of the Lucio Fulci movies, probably House by the Cemetery. It shouldn't surprise me if it was inspired by or even plagiarized.

[Anonymous No.2815957]

>>2810495
I think I'm alone in finding Dead Hand kind of silly. Look at that stupid smile on his face. And whenever he retreats after taking damage, it looks like he threw out his back.

[Anonymous No.2815962]

>>2814397
Andross never scared me, but the fake one nearly made me piss myself the first time it appeared.

[Anonymous No.2816030]

this screen

[Anonymous No.2816172]

>>2810317
whole Hexen scared me when I was like 5 yrs old
Also Diablo 1

[Anonymous No.2816185]

>>2811473
and let's not forget them creepy cyborg nurses
"Little Ones need lots of meat to grow big and strong"

[Anonymous No.2816190]

>>2810317
never got past these stage cos it was too spooky for my 12 year old self.

[Anonymous No.2816214]

Evil Otto

[Anonymous No.2816225]

>>2810495
When I was 10 I rented Ocarina of Time and the Deku Plants scared me so I never played it again.

I was sort of on the spectrum somewhere though and had no friends so I didn't realize how popular it was so I blame that for how weird I was.

[Anonymous No.2816251]

>>2811530
Came here to post this. My dad had no idea why it scared me and found it infinitely hilarious.
So I'll post a different one:

>11
>Finally get into horror games
>Read online about what games are considered scary
>Hear about Clock Tower on SNES
>"There's no way a SNES game can be scary"
>Download it and start it up in the basement
>Pitch black as the windows are covered in garbage bags to keep the light off of the big screen TV
>Speakers nearly on max, feeling ballsy and home alone
>Start exploring the mansion
>Enter the bedroom
>Broken Sword 2 is one of my favorite games at the time so I'm clicking absolutely everything
>Click the mirror
>NREE NREE NREE NREE NREE NREE NREE NREE blaring out of the speakers
>Hand pops out and strangles me to death
>Frozen in fear partially due to the sheer volume
>Run upstairs, turn on all the lights
>Start blasting music so the house isn't eerily quiet
>Spent an hour sitting on the couch debating to go take a piss
>The next day go across the street to my best friend's house and told him about this SNES game that had me spookt
>He looks at me like I'm brain damaged
>We wait until night and fire it up
>Our fucking faces when Scissorman popped from the ceiling

I will never forget that feeling. RIP bro.

[Anonymous No.2816306]

>>2816251
I played it for the first time as an adult. Initially bobby unnerved me, but I got more confident as the game went on and thought nothing would scare me again. And then this happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkcUF1nIWH0#t=9m

[Anonymous No.2816327]

>>2816251

>11
>Having internet

Damn you're making me feel old anon.

[Anonymous No.2816546]

[Anonymous No.2816576]

[Anonymous No.2816614]

>>2810392

Your friend is fucking dark.

[Anonymous No.2816729]

>>2816614
No, that is the death screen of the game. You lose a yoshi each time you die until your favorite color you have been trying to spare is all that remains. Poor Purple.

[Anonymous No.2816750]

Everything in this game scared me when I was little.

Scary tiki men trying to boil your girl alive, crocs, monkeys. Even the boulders scared me.

[Anonymous No.2816773]

This piece of shit, although it was mainly the music. He was even worse in Rusty Bucket Bay.

Fuckin hated when you had to swim underwater to get shit

[Anonymous No.2816916]

>>2816750
I really love this art, but all I can think of is how strong an arm he must have to carry an iron cauldron full of water and a person inside it while swinging on a vine with the other arm.

>>2816773
triggered

[Anonymous No.2816954]

King Galam's face after he's possessed in Shining Force 2. I also find the music during the earthquake and when you lose a save file to be very unsettling.

[Anonymous No.2816974]

And this is why I never went into the individual kong areas in Angry Aztec and Crystal Caves for the longest time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQ_8FI9DHk

[Anonymous No.2817046]

>>2816306
That was the first ending we got. It took us completely off guard, we didn't even know about the multiple endings, let alone the differences that can happen. Him and I must've beaten this game over 2 dozen times, and I only seen the rod spawn once when my ex was playing.

>>2816327
I'm pretty young for this board, but we were poor as hell growing up so I grew up with retro anyway.

[Anonymous No.2817102]

>>2816546
Bottom right, what is it?

Same with top left, it looks like a Disney Duck game though I can't make out which ones

[Anonymous No.2817114]

Fuck this thing. The worst part is that it activates when you least expect it

[Anonymous No.2817128]

THEY LIVE

[Anonymous No.2817129]

>>2810495
Damn that was rough the first time I played it.

I think this was even worse though. The first time I got to this place, I walked forward, saw that first skulltula drop, screamed irl and ran outside and never went inside it again for the entirety of my playthrough, which took me like 3 months (yay for being 5). It's completable without the adult wallet, right?

I honestly don't think I even knew it was where I could get rewards until I revisited the game in my teens or somethin

[Anonymous No.2817138]

Final level of sonic chaos (SMS) the fucking music and the eggman to hard to defeat for a 7y

[Anonymous No.2817156]

>>2817102
A Regenerator from Resident Evil 4
see start of the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTBvJZX7qOc

[Anonymous No.2817169]

That whole level was scary as fuck, but when the boss appeared I noped so hard I never played the game again

[Anonymous No.2817183]

>>2811530
>>2810317

I think the fact that the background is black when your character dies makes it feel like your character is in an empty meaningless void. Which when you think about it is a perfect analogy for actual death.Also it's like looking in a forest at night. You know there are supposed to be trees there but you can't see shit and you don't know what's there so it's scary because you know a predator could be there and kill you, like the character you just got killed.

[SkyFizz No.2817190]

Rayman .. When he laughs, god

[Anonymous No.2817192]

>>2817169

Tomb of the Ancients was scarier at some points, especially the music.

[SkyFizz No.2817197]

>>2811530
God, I still have his cry in my head

[Anonymous No.2817336]

I played Manianc Mansion 1 when I was like six or seven years old. I didn't really know english by then so my big cousin that I played the game with translated shit for me.


I remember the first part. You enter the mansion, and you're in this spooky looking foyer, everything seems like it will fall apart or some shit. That alone seemed a bit creepy. And then you enter the kitchen. Fucking kitchen, man.

Dirty dishes, cobwebs. Worst of all, a fuckign chainsaw mounted on the wall which looked like a whole damn lot of blood plastered on the wall behind it.

>>Okay

And then you go inside the kitchen, nearing the fridge. I swear, when that fridge door closed and you could see Edna, the old hag, coming after you, I fucking screamed.

It would be years later that I found out it was a comedy game more or less. But to this day, I find that first location, that ground floor of the mansion more creepy than humorous.

[Anonymous No.2817358]

>>2817336

Don't feel bad, that part got a lot of people anon.

Maniac Mansion is delightfully creepy despite it's humor.

[Anonymous No.2817682]

>>2817129
Wew

[Anonymous No.2817697]

>>2816773
>>2817114
Both were unnerving as a kid. Here's my contribution, spectral realm always made me anxious and uneasy. I'm 25 now and my dad still pokes fun at me about it.

[Anonymous No.2817710]

[Anonymous No.2817725]

>>2811454
>Oddworld
This. The whole abe series have suprisingly creepy moments for a platform game.

[Anonymous No.2817730]

>>2811479
This game has perfect lovecraftian atmosphere. Great game, too bad they went on with the stupid cliche alien stroggs for the rest of the series.

[Anonymous No.2817746]

I have a fear, for which I'm not sure there is a word. I'm afraid of gigantic open spaces, voids, and sudden drop-offs underwater. It seems like most people who are afraid of the ocean are afraid of sea monsters and such, but I'm afraid of the -scale- of the ocean, the darkness of it.

I first became aware of this fear after playing SM64. This black void in Dire Dire Docks put a feeling of dread over me, and I would do everything in my power not to look directly at it when I played that game.

[Anonymous No.2817767]

>>2817746

[Anonymous No.2817773]

>>2817767
Yep. Even though it scares me, I love it. I like looking up the depths of various lakes and seas and trying to visualize that.

[Anonymous No.2817775]

>>2817746
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia

[Anonymous No.2817778]

>>2817775
Except it's not the water that scares me. I have the same feeling when I read certain things about space.

[Anonymous No.2817848]

OOT Essentials. The last one really unsettled me because it was the first time I actually saw someone die in a game. All while those redeads wait around the corner.

[Anonymous No.2817851]

>>2817682
This, all those fucking distorted sad faces...

>>2817848
Worst part about the redeads in Hyrule Castle Town though, is how when you kill one, they all lose interest in you and form a circle around the dead one, just staring at it. Some fuck actually programmed that?

[Anonymous No.2817858]

>>2817778
That's also covered by thalassophobia. The fear of the vast emptiness of a void.

[Anonymous No.2817886]

>>2817778
Now stare at the depths of the oceans, the height of the mountains and then imagine the Earth in your hand, shrunken down to the size of a baseball.

If done, it would be a smoother and more perfect sphere than anything we have ever made. You could run your fingers over it and not be able to feel even the slightest bump or dent from the highest mountain to the deepest ocean.

[Anonymous No.2817992]

>>2817778
Do you ever look at the sky at night and freak out? Sometimes I have a fear that gravity will reverse itself and I'll just get sucked up into the sky (or into a black hole of some sort).

[Anonymous No.2818645]

>>2817114
CLANK
CLANK
CLANK
CLANK

I was going to post that one, but I'll go with the alternative, fuck this guy and fuck swimming/getting drown

[Anonymous No.2818670]

>>2816214
Is Otto the Smiley face?

[Anonymous No.2818683]

>>2811808
Before I clicked the thumbnail, I thought yours was this:
https://youtu.be/9Yw5jkAHgME

[Anonymous No.2818697]

>>2817992
>gravity will reverse itself

You're retarded.

[Anonymous No.2818705]

>parents buy first PC for the house
>1996ish, I was nine or ten years old
>comes with an absolute metric fuckton of bloatware
>one of them is pic related
>the game would just start randomly without provocation
>you would be on the internet, and Hover would boot up
>typing up a document in Word, and Hover would boot up
>look at the monitor funny, and Hover would boot up

It was creepy as shit. I convinced myself the computer was haunted. It got so bad that I couldn't even use it.

My mom spent hours one day talking to tech support trying to figure out what the fuck was going on. Even all these later and knowing a decent amount about Windows, I still can't explain it and have never experienced anything like it again.

[Anonymous No.2818763]

>>2816251
Nothing has caused me a bigger jump than this game with the bathroom sink. Clock tower has left me such a long lasting impression, I still see dreams of being in a mansion with scissorsguy coming and having to find a hiding place.

But the hiding place doesn't work, like clicking something in the game and nothing happening. He arrives, and I abort sleeping right there.

[Anonymous No.2818807]

>>2818645
This damn thing swallows you whole.

[Anonymous No.2818809]

>>2811808
Never had that happen to me. Is there a way to trigger it, or is it just random?

[Anonymous No.2818934]

>>2816546
Where's the chainsaw Frankenstein in the bottom right from?

[Anonymous No.2818962]

>>2818934
Castlevania on the N64

[Anonymous No.2818963]

>be around 7 or 8
>at aunts home
>she lets me play games on her pc (I didn't have one by that time)
>playing this war planes game
>get killed and this windows pop up
>trumpets playing ad military sounding music
>Voice crying "Game over man, game over"
>Never wanted to play that again.

[Anonymous No.2818978]

>>2818963
I remember this game. It was on the Galaxy of Games shareware CD. The game tends to play at a ridiculous speed if you ran it with faster hardware, so it would Game Over in a second.

[Anonymous No.2818997]

Blood Omen Legacy of Kain creeped me out as a 11 year old.

[Anonymous No.2819010]

I screamed and dropped the controller the first time

[Anonymous No.2819015]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq_xj5lXmO0

[Anonymous No.2819025]

>>2811869
Goddam, same with the underwater city. especially once you notice that the background outside of the level is a huge endless city.

Scariest part of me was the fish with sunglasses in Tiny Huge Island. Hated how they redesigned it for the remake.

[Anonymous No.2819035]

>>2811637
This. Why does it seem like every time a game flips out the music hits one loud obnoxious buzz or garbage static?

[Anonymous No.2819036]

>>2816729
I was more scared of those fucking fish that kill you in one hit in one of the jungle stages.

[Anonymous No.2819037]

>>2817156
I thought that was the alien hidden in New Mexico in one of the Tony Hawk games...

[Anonymous No.2819039]

>>2817190
Just beat this game for the first time yesterday.
Nothing else to add.

[Anonymous No.2819584]

Any stage with these fucks in.

[Anonymous No.2819607]

>>2818809
In most versions of the game you just have to roll past the screen and keep holding down after hitting the end signpost in Labyrinth Zone Act 1 or 2

[Anonymous No.2819642]

>>2819039
Wow xD GL bru

[Anonymous No.2819686]

when i saw the first boss in oot i got scared and turned the game off

[Anonymous No.2819717]

[Anonymous No.2819782]

>>2817102
Pretty sure you won't read it, but top left is Quackshot for the megadrive

[Anonymous No.2819791]

When I was 12, me and a friend rented RE1 but didn't own a memory card, so we took turns seeing how far we could get before dying. THAT made the game quite scary.

[Anonymous No.2819845]

>>2817336

I'm twenty-five and I played Maniac Mansion for the first time recently and I found it very scary. Very creepy vibe.

[Anonymous No.2819968]

>>2819845
I played it for the first time when I was around 6 I guess. I kept playing because it was one of the first videogames I played so it was a whole novelty to me, but I remember being pretty scared all the time. Game has a great ambient.

[Anonymous No.2819981]

[Anonymous No.2819982]

>>2819782
Thanks man. I knew it was a Disney game but I was unaware of that one.

You the real MVP

[Anonymous No.2819984]

[Anonymous No.2820024]

>>2816190
Is this Tomb Raider?

[Anonymous No.2820104]

[Anonymous No.2820116]

>>2818705
creppy fucking story man, on a side note, i totally forgot about that game haha i had so much fun with it

[Anonymous No.2820121]

>>2820024
Chronicles, yeah.

[Anonymous No.2821302]

>>2816251
>Snip snip snip

[Anonymous No.2821430]

>>2811374
The eel and the fish both got me. Being devoured always gave me chills.
https://youtu.be/jYyZfME5XYY
Was much worse though.

[Anonymous No.2821467]

>>2811014
Frankenstein's Creature taught me that losing limbs is a thing. And those Chucky rip offs you could decapitate and they would keep slashing at you. Ho Lee Fuk. I had forgotten.

[Anonymous No.2821474]

>>2818645
This is was only the tip of the iceberg to why I'm afraid of things that eat you whole in video games.
>be 11
>get Yoshi's Island for GBA at GameStop
>love this game to point of even calling it my all time favorite
>get to world 3-7
>at this point already irritated by the annoying monkey from previous levels
>level is called "Monkey's Favorite Lake"
>begin to question the title of the level
>get to the latter half of level
>sees fish
>motherofgod.jpg
>throws egg at fish, but goes right past it
>carelessly hovers over fish
>pic related
>thing almost ate me whole
>mock fish after narrowly escape getting eaten
>move on after only to find another ugly ass fish staring at me with those bored eyes
>do the same thing as I did with first fish
>accidentally miss platform and land in water
>ohgodno.gif
>immediately get swallowed whole by SJW fish
>mfw I was no longer afraid of Mario 64 and Mario 3 fish (and eel from Mario 64) only to discover the true horror
>mfw I avoided swimming in the ocean for several years due to video game trauma of getting eaten alive by bigger sea creatures

[Anonymous No.2821487]

>>2810317
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz6HFdgp_94

I thought EWJ1 was totally cool but I got this as a kid and I was like "what the fuck am I even doing at this present moment"

[Anonymous No.2822538]

These fucking little shits

[Anonymous No.2823165]

>mom buys it
>play it at night when she came home from work
>all that fucking gore

[Anonymous No.2823383]

>>2819791
RE1 without saves is amazing. I really enjoy those nervous moments of inventory managment before entering a hunter hallway with "caution" status, and the subsequent panicking when the hunter gets you stuck between itself and a wall. Then, either sweet relief from surviving, or the sinking feeling you get when the screen turns white. YOU DIED.

[Anonymous No.2823449]

>>2817128
God damn man these were as annoying as scary, those "EEEEEAAAAAARK EEEEEEEAAAAAARK" yells while they shredded you were a nightmare, and in fact I now remember how the enemy bots also screamed "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH" when they were killed by them while you ran from them to survive. They will allways scare the crap out of me but that level was cool. I wish they made a sequel for that game, it deserves one.

[Anonymous No.2823462]

>>2818645
For some reason I found this more scary than the giant eel or the piano. Maybe it's because it's more posible for something similar like that to exist in real life? I don't know. It reminds me of those drawings of giant deep sea creatures.

[Anonymous No.2823467]

>>2811682
>I'm a fucking moron and don't know how to read

[Anonymous No.2823507]

i had legit nightmares about this cutscene as a kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJc0tOA5WuU

[Anonymous No.2823513]

i had legit nightmares about this cutscene as a kid

https://youtu.be/jJc0tOA5WuU?t=2615

[Anonymous No.2823540]

>>2810317
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQRXZ5sQ-2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8qx-HdY5c

[Anonymous No.2823549]

The 7th Guest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j03NCp1y0c

Actually made me shriek.

Pic related made me jump too. It's that moment when the hand comes out of the computer monitor. Hands man. Hands.

[Anonymous No.2823576]

>>2812084
There was always something very unsettling about this.

[Anonymous No.2823593]

>>2816773
DUN DUN, DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN DUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUDNUDNUND

[Anonymous No.2823596]

>>2823549
The first phantasmagoria sucks. Like. It has aged like fine milk.

The sequel has a lot more creep factors that make it still pretty eery, as well as a lot of funny easter eggs. Like Batman in a psych office

[Anonymous No.2823606]

These fucks.

[Anonymous No.2823936]

>>2821487
Funny. That was my reaction to 'Intestinal Distress' from the first game.

I had an idea of what to expect in the game thanks to a Nintendo Power subscription, then as I'm playing on Genesis I get blindsided by a level I didn't see coming. The music really didn't help things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2Lxwhux2o

Also, the less said about "Who Turned Out the Lights?", the better.

[Anonymous No.2823942]

In donkey kong 64 when you lose a competition to gain a banana there is a voice that tells you to get out and shoots you.

[Anonymous No.2823947]

>>2823606
Oh fuck i hated those

[Anonymous No.2823950]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaNUGYEZ2gY

[Anonymous No.2824282]

[Anonymous No.2824291]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY8xXoSBmlE

[Anonymous No.2824379]

>>2810317
Speaking of Donkey Kong

>Donkey Kong is first game ever
>All previous bosses have been somewhat goofy looking cartoon animals
>Get to this harsh industrial zone
>Not 'he', it, appears
>This time the boss is a version of an unbeatable enemy
>Who has the ability to spawn other enemies
>Whose chosen method of direct attack is crushing you
>No laughing gopher, no squawking bird, no buzzing bee
>Only silence and the sound of an oil drum twice your size trying to crush you to death

Jeez.

[Anonymous No.2825247]

IT'S DONKEY KONG'S HEAD.

I JUST REALIZED THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY ENTIRE LIFE THE OTHER DAY.

WHAT THE FUCK

[Anonymous No.2825276]

>>2824379
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR3mDlJ43_w

[Anonymous No.2825298]

>>2824282
its the only way to die, pretty scary

[Anonymous No.2825330]

>>2825247
woah

[Anonymous No.2826456]

>>2817156
god these graphics looks absolutely ass, glad I played it on gamecube

[Anonymous No.2826460]

>>2818645
which game is this? dont remember this guy in SM64, which level?

[Anonymous No.2826664]

>>2825247
Do you have brain problems? Of course it's his head.

[Anonymous No.2826670]

>>2826460
I think that's Tiny Huge Island or something. The one where depending on which painting you jump into the size of the level is different.

[Anonymous No.2827438]

>>2810518
same here...I was 3 when my uncle and my dad where playing this level and I used to hide and cry when I saw the trees scream.

[Anonymous No.2827445]

>>2811460
When I first saw these flood things the creepy music played. Here comes the flood crawlers. then the elite forms busted the door down and one leaped accross the room at me and when he hit me the game froze with it close up to mw and the music was still playing until I had to reboot the console. Then it never happened again..gave me the spoops

[Anonymous No.2827447]

>>2811697
why boner...

[Anonymous No.2827450]

>>2816576
the tune that played along with it as it echo and faded out...gave me chills

[Anonymous No.2827457]

This creepy fucker who stares into your soul before each race...carmageddon was creepy enough as it was even with the severd hand as the mouse that dripa blood whe you click the mouse then this fucking guy fades up on the loading screen. He even had a creepy laugh when the loading screen appeares in the UK version.

[Anonymous No.2827464]

>>2821474

...but have you played Ecco the Dolphin ON WEED???

[Anonymous No.2827584]

>>2811212
It may have been this game or a related game, but there was this one enemy in this quick-draw nes game where his theme song and face literally made me cry because it was creepy to me.

[Anonymous No.2827641]

>>2810317

[Anonymous No.2827698]

>>2811373

But that's debug...

[Anonymous No.2827719]

>>2810317
I had a worn out nes when I was a kid. I would pop in Ducktales, and if I didn't get a blinking screen of death the title screen graphics would be messed up. The theme song would play for a second before freezing on a loud, ungodly note.

Dun da duUUUUUUUUUURRREEEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.2827725]

>>2811014
hah oh man this fucked me up as a kid. it used to terrify me

[Anonymous No.2827798]

>>2827464
Nope, but I have played it sober.
>mfw that whole cutscene where the aliens take away all your friends
>mfw that music that plays afterwards... eerie af
>the noise Ecco makes everytime you get hurt

[Anonymous No.2828053]

>>2827641

> Not the one with the giant bears

[Anonymous No.2828063]

>>2821467
>>2827725
I used to put down the controller and walk out while my older friends would beat the levels (was like 10-11 at the time). And I remember having a relatively ok time playing shit like Resident Evil or Parasite Eve, or watching slasher movies. But these levels fucking terrified me. I still don't know what it was, probably the sheer contrast with the rest of the game's atmosphere, but I also remember there being some very graphic imagery being on those paintings (but that was probably my imagination making things up)

[Anonymous No.2828074]

>>2816327

I'm 28 and I had dialup internet when I was 7.

[Anonymous No.2828416]

>>2811869
>the secret cave on Lego Island. WHAT WAS BEHIND THE DOOR!!!

The Brickster
It's just there to actually explain where he is when he's not roaming around town, and I believe to remember to hear him laughing while in the cave.

>>2824282
Wish more games would fuck around with the player like that drain hole did

[Anonymous No.2828435]

Postal 1st outro screen.

[Anonymous No.2828628]

>>2828416
The brickster is rotting in his cell unless you let him out.

[Anonymous No.2828645]

>>2823165
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaNUGYEZ2gY

[Anonymous No.2828716]

>>2810495
That game is the definition of fear

[Anonymous No.2828731]

>>2811292
Woah! I totally forgot about that. This terrified me as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2829023]

Fucking gangly space zombies
https://youtu.be/dghJXvcTFGg?t=5m42s

Totally goofy and awesome game BTW

[Anonymous No.2829663]

>>2825247
holy shit, i just noticed this

[Anonymous No.2829729]

Zingers still wig me out. Specifically the buzzing.

I only recently unmuted them for DKC2, but i still can't for 1 and 64.

[Anonymous No.2829816]

>>2818963
I can't believe someone else played this game. When I was 9 my mom bought a Packard bell pc and it came with a 1000 games in 1 disk I used to play the shit out of this and nitemare 3D which was basically a wolfenstein rip off

[Anonymous No.2830661]

>>2827464
ecco's weird enough sober

weed does weirdly compliment a lot of genesis games though

[Anonymous No.2830662]

>>2810317
this fucking song in that Zombie town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5rCY2thg0g

[Anonymous No.2830723]

Mortal Kombat II arcade. I think it was more the digitized actors that creeped me out more so than the gore, which I knew was cartoon-ish even as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2831005]

>>2810495
What is Dead Hand again? Some lady who fell in the well?

[Anonymous No.2831125]

>>2816546
Yes that SA-X from Metroid Fusion got me sooo bad every moment with it was just tense as a kid, the entire beginning of the game got me too.

[Anonymous No.2831286]

>>2810317
Anything that was challenging to me. I hate to admit it, but I had no patience as a child, if it was too hard I'd get upset. i.e. Spyro the Dragon speedways, the Indiana Jones levels from Crash...

But the actual pants shitting scariest thing to me was the Reaverbots from MML1

[Anonymous No.2831356]

>>2831005
No one knows. You can only guess by the lore given to you upon its presentation. Given its appearance it could have been a thief or murderer who was hanged.

Or given its appearing at the shadow temple (which used to be the torture area of the royal family), it could have been a traitor or an enemy of the state.

[Anonymous No.2831359]

>>2812084
This and

[Anonymous No.2831364]

this shit, used to make my dad do that level and wouldn't even watch him do it.

[Anonymous No.2831379]

Nothing ever scared me more as a kid. I think this honestly fucked me up for the long run. I was home alone when this happened and it was night time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTQan-O3lNM

[Anonymous No.2831418]

>>2811460
What game is this? It looks fun.

[Anonymous No.2831439]

>be 6
>watch older brother and friend play shadow gate in the basement in the dark.
>brother dies quickly, that music and the grim reaper face.
>terrified and frozen in fear. Can't even say anything or scream.

Every time I came up from the basement I ran upstairs as fast as I could after shutting the lights off.

[Anonymous No.2831476]

>>2831418
Halo 1

[Anonymous No.2831501]

Everything in this game freaked me the fuck out when I was little, and gave me horrible night terrors.

[Anonymous No.2831515]

>>2810317
>stuff that scared you as a kid
Large cougars and bears. Nothing in a game.
>inb4 kids google "large cougars" and find a pic of their mom

[Anonymous No.2831603]

>>2820104
she's not scary, she's just a cunt

[Anonymous No.2831695]

>>2811460

>The Flood
>Scary
>Not shooting off their arms so they follow you around aimlessly, incapable of attacking you

I call them Flood buddies.

[Anonymous No.2832673]

[Anonymous No.2832692]

>>2831364
Is Max Payne retro by the board rules? Amazing game though, an absolute gem and delight. The nightmares in the game really bothered me the first time I played it.

[Anonymous No.2833087]

>>2831439
Why does this and Uninvited have a same interface?
What scared me was Uninvited though.

[Anonymous No.2833147]

>>2831515
Actually anon when I googled "large cougars" the was literally the first result

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yti2UY5D0zw

[Anonymous No.2833186]

CLANK CLANK CLANK CLANK

[Anonymous No.2833387]

[Anonymous No.2833394]

Everything about this game creeped me out as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2833986]

>>2833394
it was also fucking impossible

[Anonymous No.2833996]

>>2833986
Let me guess, did avgn make an episode on that game?

[Anonymous No.2834031]

>>2833387
I've had the DKC3 version of this pop up on me, yet it's an official copy...At least I'm pretty sure it is. It's pretty beat up and doesn't play a good 1/4th of the times it's put in, but I wonder if there's a chance of jostling it to get this screen or if it is some sort of weird reproduction cart.

[Anonymous No.2834053]

>>2833996
just don't post you paranoid little cunt

[Anonymous No.2834081]

>>2810317
2 spooky
4 me
https://youtu.be/6IlKt9ZqOQ4?t=6s

[Anonymous No.2834113]

>>2828628
You can't get into the cave unless he's out

When he's out you still can't get into the cave until he stops roaming

When he stops roaming, he goes into the cave that has a door and he's not in the cave or anywhere else on the island

[Anonymous No.2834123]

>>2828645

[Anonymous No.2834151]

>>2834113
What are you talking about? You can go into the cave at any time without doing the Brickster mission thing.
There's a pirate voice that tells you secrets and shit.

[Anonymous No.2834158]

>>2819584
My god this shit was the worst.

[Anonymous No.2834451]

>>2833087
Because DeJa Vu