/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4913918]

What was some stupid shit that terrified you as a child?

[Anonymous No.4914739]

Oh, many stupid things. The reaper in Kid Icarus. Anything that would chase me around the level and kill me if I wasn't careful (for instance, that pouncer in warioland at one of the early stages, or the lava in act two of Marble Zone in Sonic), ReDeads, of course...

[Anonymous No.4914752]

>>4913918
idk if it's stupid but in the beginning of majoras mask there's that section right before you get the "you've met a terrible fate" speech which is just under the clock tower. there's a short bridge which crosses a dark stream of fast running water. that bit of water scared the hell out of me as a kid cause it's so dark and appears to be deep. like what if I was there instead of link and I fell in? surely I would drown.

[Anonymous No.4914789]

>>4914739
>Anything that would chase me around the level and kill me
those masks in Mario 2 were terrifying. To this day I still can feel my heart racing whenever they show up in the game.

[Anonymous No.4914795]

The Quick Man stage in Mega Man 2. Those yellow bars terrified me, and I'd often just beat the other 7 robots and then turn the game off.
Sometimes I'd use the passcode to get straight to Wily's castle, in which case the dragon boss also terrified me and I'd turn the game off right before reaching his room.

[Anonymous No.4914796]

Dead Hands from OoT, they still spook me

[Anonymous No.4914804]

I played Alien: Resurrection on PS1 when I was 8. I played it for 5 minutes and never played it again because the cover and gameplay of walking down a dark hallway made me piss myself (not literally)

[Anonymous No.4914806]

Dying in Alex Kidd freaked me out

[Anonymous No.4914809]

>>4913918
Resident Evil's zombie dogs and being too clumsy to not drown in Sonic 2

[Anonymous No.4914831]

That moment in Dino Crisis when the T-Rex bursts through the window. My brother and I jumped 5ft. in the air and I ended up behind the couch.

[Anonymous No.4916687]

>>4913918
Looks like I'm not the only one
Also the fish from the underwater level in Serious Sam First Encounter
Shit still gives me the creeps

[Anonymous No.4916690]

Ripper roo's laugh in crash team racing

[Anonymous No.4916695]

>>4913918
Mine isn’t vidjya but the swimming pool monster from “are you afraid or the dark?”

[Anonymous No.4916696]

Storms in the Sega version of Uncharted Waters: New Horizons will never not be terrifying to me. Also the random monster encounters and the game over screen are still unnerving.

[Anonymous No.4916701]

>>4916695
Wait I just thought of one that is vidjya, the ooze on Genesis, I was too scared to play the game more than once.

[Anonymous No.4916712]

Altered Beast. The dead rise, all sorts of spooky shit is happening... Blew my 7 year old mind

[Anonymous No.4916714]

>>4916701
You better fix that, it's a good game. Analog stick recommended, it works so much better with one.

[Anonymous No.4916718]

>>4913918
Ickies are never stupid

[Anonymous No.4916720]

>>4913918
I'd say the escape sequences in Air Fortresses, except they terrify me now too.
>No countdown or any indication of how much time you have, just less and less
>Flashing and shaking effects make it feel like the entire world is crumbling
>Can't tell if you took a wrong turn or if the exit is right around the corner

[Anonymous No.4917191]

I had a nightmare about it and it stuck with me

[Anonymous No.4917208]

When I was five.

[Anonymous No.4917265]

This thing scared me more than Clanker ever did

[Anonymous No.4917687]

I used to have one of the eralier retail releases of Blood, where you could not throw off the hand if it started choking you.
basically it was signed death if this thing reached you

[Anonymous No.4917718]

>BIG APPLE, 3AM

[Anonymous No.4917738]

>>4917687
...Until you realize that you get this thing off by spamming the use button.

[Anonymous No.4917756]

>>4916695
bruh, this zombie from The Return of the Living Dead fucked with my head as a kid. I can relat.

[Anonymous No.4917794]

Falling off cliffs in King's Quest 3
Getting past the first part of the game was nearly impossible for a long time

[Anonymous No.4917958]

This motherfucker right here.

[Anonymous No.4917970]

>>4913918

[Anonymous No.4917985]

>>4917970
>HOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!!!!!

[Anonymous No.4918134]

>>4913918
This guy combined with the music and feeling of being on your own spooked the fuck outta me when I was a kid

Also the fatalities in mk4 made me cry and run away like a fag

[Anonymous No.4918691]

[Anonymous No.4918697]

Arch-vile in doom.

[Dillweed No.4918743]

>About 5 years old
>One morning before school
>Decide to play the NES
>Pop in Thrilla's Surfari
>Actually make it farther in the game than ever before.
>Eventually see this
https://youtu.be/vk_btH-w11Y?t=1m3s
>mfw
>Fuckin' booked it out of the living room with the NES still going.

[Dillweed No.4918747]

>>4918743
Damn it, I guess timestamps don't work in 4chan, as I've never tried it. If you plan to see what I saw, it's exactly 1 minute in.

[Anonymous No.4918820]

The second boss in Shadow Dancer for the Genesis scared the shit out of me as a kid. Made walking near walls a frightening experience.

[Anonymous No.4918841]

I was hyped for Rayman 2 for months as a kid before it came out then I refused to play it when I got it because I was scared of the enemies they showed in the manual

[Anonymous No.4918843]

>>4916695
that was a stand out episode for sure, i used to casually try to check behind the lockers at school for hidden rooms

[Anonymous No.4918936]

>>4913918

I played this with the TV muted for the first week I owned it. I have no idea why

[Anonymous No.4918950]

>>4918743
goddamn that shark is definitely spoopy

[Anonymous No.4919043]

>>4913918
Large predators. Dumb as fuck but deadly. Swarms of killer bees. Can kill you but have a cumulative IQ less than OP.

[Anonymous No.4919093]

>>4918747
Think they just don't work on embedded youtube videos

[Anonymous No.4919110]

That guy, made the skin crawl on my neck. Usually had to save & leave the room.

[Anonymous No.4919124]

This music used to terrify me. I used to have nightmares in which I'd hear the music start playing out of nowhere and immediately know the Edisons were coming for me, always waking up just after one of them burst into the room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttGETmXm2Ao

[Anonymous No.4920253]

>>4918936
FRESH MEAT

[Anonymous No.4920698]

>>4913918
Many, many things. Nemesis from Resident Evil, the times i died on Duke Nukem 3D and troopers would feast on my corpse (or at least i thought so; you know, the fervid imagination of a child)... Or that skeleton that appears before selecting a new game on Medievil. That fucking piece of shit scared the shitty living shit out of me, for some reason. Maybe its polygons, or when he laughed. When he moves his head like a spasm... But anyway, i was so frightened i would always mute the game and go behind the television while pressing X repeatedly in order to skip it. (Yeah, kind of autistic from my side because i could've just close my eyes instead of doing all that bullshit). But then again, countless of nightmare fuel i had back in the day.

[Anonymous No.4920706]

>>4914789
>those masks in Mario 2
fucking nightmare fuel

[Anonymous No.4921261]

>>4913918

[Anonymous No.4921276]

>>4920698
what the fuck, same dude! i remember i'd sometimes impulsively just shut my ps1 off when that skeleton would laugh. going back to it now, i felt like such a pussy.

[Anonymous No.4921284]

that evil laugh on the shinobi game over screen. i'd always try to skip past it as fast as possible so i wouldn't hear it

[Anonymous No.4921463]

The Gnawtys on wheels in DKC 1 that chased you. I had to get my dad to do the levels for me. The Gnawtys themselves didn’t scare me, nor did being chased in and of itself necessarily. Something about the two together coupled with that fast tick-tack sound effect just stressed me the fuck out. I love those levels now.

[Anonymous No.4921484]

>>4916695
I remember the clown episode fucking up a lot of people. That show had some moments.

[Anonymous No.4921753]

>>4913918
All zombies, so HotD1, Carnevil, Resident Evil 1 and 2, those all stick out

[Anonymous No.4921758]

>>4920706
I don't remember these being killed by anything, I think that's why they make me uncomfortable.

[Anonymous No.4921772]

>>4914796
One of the few popular "horrible stuff in kids game" that lives up to the hype, Nintendo just doesn't pull off shit like this anymore.

>>4918743
You know, I've been thinking lately about weird shit in vidya that feels unintentionally weird or creepy, like a young kid drawing something that freaks out everyone, this definetely fits.

[Anonymous No.4921793]

>>4917687
Yeah those screengrabbers from most 90's fps games used to always get me, with protoziod slimers frome Duke3D being the worst (despite doing barely any damage and being easy af to kill, the sounds and visuals makes it terrifying).

[Anonymous No.4921803]

>>4921276
Hahah, ikr? Nice to hear i wasn't the only one, at least.

[Anonymous No.4922598]

>>4917265

The Chompasaurus cutscene was uncanny valley nightmare fuel.
I hated dinosaurs as a kid and that bullshit definitely didn't help.
The stomping plains were just as creepy and surreal to me.

[Anonymous No.4922613]

>>4914809
When i was 6 my older brother got resident evil and scared the living shit out of me. I was already scared of the zombie seen when you first start the game, but
he used to pretend he got attacked by a zombie and chase me around. I know it doesnt sound bad but i was 6 and he used to beat me up regularly and use me as a test dummie for stunts and what not. For some reason the zombie thing i remember the most.

[Anonymous No.4922687]

>>4914809
i never played RE as a kid but i remember seeing art of the zombie dog in a game mag and it scared the shit out of me

[Anonymous No.4922750]

>>4914809
>Sonic 2 drowning
Pretty intense stuff for any Sega kid.

[Anonymous No.4922776]

>>4921803
i think on a crt, it was harder to notice that his eyes were just regular cartoon eyes and not white glowing ones. made him look a lot more menacing as a kid

still feel like a giant pussy either way

[Anonymous No.4922885]

[Anonymous No.4923491]

>>4922885
that's not the house with the singing puppet thing

[Anonymous No.4924021]

>>4914739
>Anything that would chase me around the level

that one boss in Rocket Knight Adventures where you had to outrun that giant robot

[Anonymous No.4924368]

What was that 80s game show game where the loser got taken away by a monster into a room and there was a scream? That fucked up me

[Anonymous No.4924374]

>>4921793
>used to always get me,
They still get to me and I don't know why. I'm a jaded fuck when it comes to anything horror related never get scared don't even get spooked by screamers but if those fuckers from Duke3D show up or a facehugger in AvP then I go in full panic mode.

[Anonymous No.4924409]

>>4924374
Whenever I heard slimers in Duke3D, I switched to third-person mode and held down quick kick until they were gone, or just spam grenades from around a corner in Duke64.
Also, the choking hands in Blood are a lot harder than they ought to be.
https://youtu.be/0mQBr65tZHY

[Anonymous No.4924478]

This enemy is one of the reasons why I never got far in Banjo-Kazooie as a kid.

[Anonymous No.4925783]

>>4924409
you have to spam E to get the hands off of you

[Anonymous No.4925850]

The last two levels of Mysteries of the Sith.

The swamp and temple are insane. The sith statues definitely were scary growing up.

[Anonymous No.4925952]

>>4916696
>Storms in the Sega version of Uncharted Waters: New Horizons will never not be terrifying to me

They fuck you so bad sometimes it's awful. There's a couple NPC's you can recruit to captain your other ships that always mysteriously disappear during different storms.

[Anonymous No.4926449]

this fucking game

[Anonymous No.4926823]

I know, but the hand still takes a good chunk of your health before it gets shaken off.

[Anonymous No.4926826]

>>4926823
meant for
>>4925783

[Anonymous No.4926882]

>>4926449
REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

[Anonymous No.4926905]

Ecco HANDS DOWN

[Anonymous No.4927110]

>>4916687
because those fuckers FLY AT YOU AND ELECTROCUTE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU SO MUCH DAMAGE GOOD LORD

[Anonymous No.4927116]

>>4917738
i think he is saying that wasn't a feature

[Anonymous No.4927172]

>>4926905
ecco still braindamages me when I play it. It's on the same level as silent hill 2

[Anonymous No.4928931]

>>4917718
lol u nigger, are you fucking me? This shit scared me too loool...

Also, please listen this story
>Be at aunt's house, an apartment.
>Watching her TV, just browsing channels
>This is 1995 btw. Imagine one of those old TV, just like the one AVGN has.
>Be Brazilian, so channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 10 and 13 are the only ones who have a sign
>While changing channels in the knob, my hand slips and it fall on channel '3'
>wait...there's something here in this channel...
>squiggly lines form some sort of an image
>wait...those are buldings...
>wait...was that? a man hole?
>wait...was that fucking Rafael from TMNT?
>WHAT THE FUCK!!! IS THIS A VIDEO GAME BEING PLAYED? BUT HOW?!?!
>Image than just reverts back to static
>I'm completely dumbfounded
>Few seconds later a fucking Man-Fly thing flashes on screen (It's actually the first boss from the game in your pic)
>Freak out and turn off the tv
>Could never forget this event
>Only after emulation (during maybe 2007) did I discovered this was Turtles in Time being played on my tv
>NO IDEA HOW DID THIS HAPPEN TO THIS VERY DAY

Anyone experienced something like this?

[Anonymous No.4928937]

>>4918743
Jesus Christ this was Terrifying

I would've Shit on the floor and get swifty

[Anonymous No.4929092]

>>4913918
I was seven or eight at the time and these guys made me stop playing Dark Forces for months. One pops out of the sewage to chew my guy's face off and I quit to DOS right then and there.

[Anonymous No.4929110]

>>4917970
Hahaha thank you

[Anonymous No.4929223]

>>4925952
Wait they just disappear? Is it if they have a low loyalty value or is it certain characters or can it affect anyone? If Dante Peleira disappeared I'd just start over. Jesus Christ I fucking hate storms. Balms and fancy figureheads for life.

[Anonymous No.4929331]

Can't remember mine, but a friend got so startled by his first zombie in Thief that he turned off the game and just went away.

[Anonymous No.4929490]

>>4928931
Yes. And I'm BR too.

Somehow I could watch what my neighbour playing some NES clone.
It was weird, but at least the games were comfy.

[Anonymous No.4929935]

I was playing Thief 2 without having played 1 when I was like 14 and I got into the basement of the mechanist cathedral on the first mission there and I opened a door and a haunt, a humanoid enemy with a skull face and sped up attack, runs out and I was so scared it killed me basically instantly and I had to turn off the game and was still visibly freaked out days later when I told my friend, who laughed at my stupid ass

it turns out it's really possible to kill haunts as the first game requires it but at the time I thought it was some kind of invincible "you lose" enemy and found it seriously terrifying, I started hearing the chains and moan sounds that indicate them playing it another time and I almost jumped out of the chair

[Anonymous No.4930113]

>>4927116
it litteralley is though are you a moron??

[Anonymous No.4930139]

9 year old me got pretty spooked by the first zombie in Resident Evil.

Even just watching my older brother play it was pulse-pounding.

I was 11 when Resident Evil 2 came out, and the fear was basically gone by that point.

[Anonymous No.4930831]

Iron lich from heretic. Especially in those water themed levels but generally they freaked me the fuck out.

[Anonymous No.4931096]

>>4926882
I remember playing this on a mac, did Bungie make it?

[Anonymous No.4932942]

>>4917756
good old Tarman. I can still hear "brains.." in that voice. He was in a couple of the Living Dead movies if I'm not mistaken. Sort of a fan favorite.

[Anonymous No.4933172]

I hated this fuck. Still do.

[Anonymous No.4933292]

Protozoid slimers in DNF scared the shit out of me.

[Anonymous No.4933296]

>>4933292
From D3D, not DNF. I'm a moron.