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So, anything that really creeped you out (or still does) in retro games?

Pic related for me. Ever since seeing the movie when I was a kid, I still kinda cringe at Goro. Just so unnatural, even considering the setting.

>> No.915041

>>915019
Him (and Kintaro) creeper me out because they looked like claymation movie monsters while the other character models were real life people, made it even more unsettling.

>> No.915054
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>> No.915071
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This son of a bitch, doesn't help that it's the most difficult boss in the game for me. Plus those groans he makes..

>> No.915090
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MGS1 Snakes scream from being tortured or dying.

>> No.915126
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915126

i have a fear of deep water games and im 100% it came from playing this as a kid

>> No.915136

>>915126
oh shit I have to pick up Ecco again. I started playing it for the first time the other day but forgot about it.

god damn that shit looks fucking terryfing

>> No.915140

>>915136
dont do it anon. please. shit has scarred me.

>> No.915156
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>>915019
Goro looks like the fucking crypt keeper
>>915054
>nes shadowgate
mah nigga!
That game is awesome and if I had played it as a kid it would probably creep me out.

>> No.915187

Alone in the Dark was scary as fuck.
Although the only actual video game-related nightmare I can remember ever having combined images from Street Fighter 2 and Donkey Kong Country.

>> No.915602

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTicU8jklyI

This fucking music, right here. I ran out of the room a few times just because this freaked me out so much. And the screech of "Sega" at the beginning of nearly every game. I started playing with the TV muted then turned sound back on at the title screen just to avoid it.

Just about anything Sega gives me the creeps at this point. I can't sleep in the same room as the Dreamcast I bought a few months ago. It doesn't feel right.

>> No.915621

>>915602
My sister's the same way with Sega, we were playing the Genesis Collection on PS2 a few weeks ago and everything but Sonic gave her weird vibes.

>> No.915624

>>915602
Set this as your wakeup alarm. Start your day with terror

>> No.915641
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>>915624
He'll never do it he's obviously some kind of pussy.

Scared of Sega in general? Please.

>> No.917447
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>>915126
Same here.

>> No.918070
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>> No.918109
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>> No.918136

>>915126
There is primal terror in the Ecco games man. Primal fucking terror. We left the ocean for a reason.

>> No.918534

>>918070
Why is it Ghostbusters games escaped the licensed video game curse? From 2600 all the way through 7th gen they're all good.

>> No.918564
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>>915126

I'll see you your Vortex Queen, and raise you this.

Oh, and this piece of fucking creepy ass music, for good measure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1uz7zzqLZk

>> No.918583

>>918534
>Ghostbusters games escaped the licensed video game curse

They didn't. GB NES and original GB2 NES were awful.

>> No.918658
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This whole game!

>> No.918673 [SPOILER] 
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You know what this is. But click it anyway if you dare.

>> No.918731

You know that room in Deja Vu where you find the dead body? Yeah.

>> No.918741
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918741

>be 5 y/o me
>had a japanese pirated cart that worked on NA systems
>played NES in dark, concrete basement
>Battle City was my fav game regardless how much I sucked at that age
>get 100,000 points congrats screen after gameover OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE!
>RUN SCREAMING AND SHITTING MYSELF BECAUSE BRIGHT FLASHING AND CREEPY ASS MUSIC

This happen to anyone else? It still gives me the chills to this day...

>> No.918746
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918746

This game always creeped me out when i was young at the arcade. When you can hear the screams over every other game there..

>> No.918747
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918747

My fears were very obvious as a child. Things like Gigays didn't bother me (I think because I really couldn't comprehend it, so my mind just treated him for what he was -- another endboss), but holy shit, I would shit myself over Resident Evil and Silent Hill when they were brand new. I eventually made it through the full RE series without an ounce of fear, but Silent Hill still creeps me out, particularly 1.

>> No.918754

The redeads in Ocarina of Time scared the fuck out of me.

>> No.918802

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TSjq2wMgq8&feature=youtu.be&t=4m

Everything about this stage freaked me the fuck out as a kid.

>> No.918835
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918835

This entire game was unsettling. It scared me as a child and it still creeps me out to this day.

>> No.918875
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918875

>Mega Drive
>first time playing Strider
>press start
>this motherfucker appears
>dat laugh
>OH SHIT MY HEART

>> No.918920

Bump

>> No.918936
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>> No.918942

>>918936

Jesus christ how could I forget about him

Also the brown bastard that was there as you turned the corner on that eerie "fall to your death" level

>> No.918989

>>918747
same here anon, there was a specific part in RE2 that scared me and my friend when i was playing it. it was kinda insignificant but its when you get a key in an empty room with a big mirror and after you get the key a dog monster shit jumps out of the mirror when you are about to leave.
my friend and i who were 10 at the time jumped back and screamed.

>> No.919016
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>When you get attacked by the demons.
HOLY FUCK do they move fast.

>> No.919047
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919047

Pretty much everything in this game, from which Resident Evil stole pretty shamelessly. Especially the dog bursting through the window part.

>later you realize you can push things in front of a lot of windows and trapdoors to save yourself fights

Even the story is genuinely unsettling as it develops, cribbed heavily from Lovecraft as it is.

>> No.919076

>>919047
I know your feels. We picked this game up when it first came out and even got a sound card to be able to hear it. It scared the shit out of me for over a decade. I had to put myself through the whole game and beat it in hopes of overcoming it. I used to loose sleep fearing that a real demon hound would leap through my window.

>> No.919084
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919084

Gave me nightmares, keep putting in coins just not to see it

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>>918936
>>918942
Holy shit. I had forgotten about this.

Also pic related. Actually the entire sewer level was so much nope.

>> No.919119

Two things, OP:

1) Navigating narrow walkways above bottomless pits/great heights. Whoever first decided to implement that feature should be sodomized with a razor dick.

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MGKBleZTY
Just creepy seeing how he almost got off on it, you know? Of course, then came the rage...

>> No.919142
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The laugh made this particularly scary for me when I was a kid.

>> No.919150

>>915126
Well I got this game and everything to play it in anticipation of being spooked, and it had awesome atmosphere for the intro level, then I got to level 2 and died like 30 times, and now I'm done playing.

>> No.919169

The motherfucking Deathhand in Ocarina of Time. That and the piano in Super Mario 64. What the fuck Nintendo.

>> No.919193

Endless staircase in SM64. Dat music.

>> No.921618 [SPOILER] 
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That video tape

>> No.921634

>>921618
Not /vr/

>> No.921636
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>>921618
oh no...

>> No.921640

>>918936
My sister would let them escape on purpose just to scare me.

>> No.921645

>>921634
close enough I'd say

>> No.921659
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>>918936
>>919107
I'm not sure what made IG-88 so terrifying to young me, but he sure as hell was.

>> No.921678
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921678

THIS

everything about this game scared my sister and I to death when we were kids. One monster would like yell at you as he attacked you and it made me so jumpy and nervous.

>> No.921712

There were parts of the original Metroid that my little brother would leave the room while I was playing because the music was so damn spooky.

>> No.921727

I was, i think 6 years old, when that movie Laberynth came out. i've yet to watch it all the way through. that and muppets used to creep me the fuck out. i know none of that;s videogame related but fuck you i dont care.

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>>921678
Damn I didn't know Hugo went FPS on them monsters. I wanted to play Maniac Mansion back when it would have scared me but I didn't have a computer that would run it and never got a chance at the NES version.

I discovered HHH on a shareware CD I hosted on my BBS and played it some but I was more interested in running the BBS by then.

>> No.921736
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>>921727
There's a Labyrinth video game.

>> No.921751
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>>921727
>>921736

This just in to blow your mind: Barb Lahey from the Trailer Park Boys was the Evil Stepmother.

>> No.921774
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When I was a wee lil tyke. This made me run outta the room crying. I thought he was gonna come out of the tv and kill me.

>> No.921798

>>921659
IG-88 is a scary motherfucker, man.

>> No.922308
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Something off-putting about fighting this mech, as if it were staring at me through the screen. The fight music certainly didn't help either.

>> No.922370
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This mother fucker right here. My blood ran cold. Even now I'll never forget that horrifying sound it would make
HEY LISTEN!

>> No.922413
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922413

>Playing this the very first time..

>> No.922417

>>915054
It didn't scare me but my god it was nerve-wracking knowing that I had -no- idea if I was making the right decision in a room

and then that death screen

>> No.922419
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922419

Rayman 2 as a whole was pretty unsettling.

>> No.922420
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922420

oh its that stupid eel again, i guess ill just swim up to hAHHHHHRRGREGNEKFVSDNKLVSDNKLVDS

>> No.922423
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>>922420
He got pussified in the DS remake.

>> No.922427

>>918989
Parasite Eve you mean

>> No.922437

>>922436

p.s. me and my friend literally did the same thing. and i said "THIS GAME ISNT VERY SCARY" right before the fucking licker jumped through it and scared the shit out of us

>> No.922436

>>922427

no, hes talking about the police station room with the one way mirror that the licker jumps through in RE2

>> No.922443
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Would you even believe me if I said this thing. I was rather young but it scared me shitless for some reason when it started chasing me around.

>> No.922452

>>922443
I'll certainly agree with you there, anon. When I was a kid and this event happened, my pants went from clean to fully blown in a few seconds.

Even those golden orbs that chased you when you held the key scared the shit out of me.

>> No.922457

Snatcher. Almost the entire thing.

>> No.922481

>>922452
Phantos.. yeah I hated those things too. But after so many worlds, you know, you expected it. The first time was scary, but it was your first time seeing a Phanto immobile as well as mobile, so it wasn't too bad, even if they were ruthless.

But the fricking Hawkmouth, you've used those every level up til now, they are the exit, and this one suddenly wants to kick your ass. Terrified me.

>> No.922506

>>918747

>tfw love Silent Hill 1-2 but still fear playing them to this day

>> No.922517

>>918936

Thank you for awakening that horrific memory for me anon. I had forgotten.

Fuck you.

>> No.922523

>>919047
>>919076

My parents forbade me from playing this game because I couldn't get to sleep because of it.

It's amazing; it looks so silly when you play it these days.

>> No.922525

Majora's Mask, when Link was forcibly transformed at the beginning of the game. Still gets to me sometimes.

I can't find a good video of it, so have some kittens instead.

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

>> No.922543

Rampage 2 Universal Tour, that big boss monster that you would fight on the alien tours. The corpse it left behind really spooked me out as a lad. Can't find a picture anywhere.

>> No.922541
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Almost all of Abadox. Came into this game as a kid knowing nothing about it. The blood on the logo probably tipped me off, but once I started playing it, BAM. The nightmare fuel began right there. But the second stage gave me chills as a kid. It also helps that the game can get pretty damn hard.

>> No.922547

I just now remembered being pretty freaked out by Super Metroid as a kid. The lonely, deserted setting and creepy monsters got to me a bit. Never played it at night.

>> No.922554

The original Legend of Zelda. Something creeped me out about apparently being one of around 20 human beings in the entire world.

>> No.922575

>>922554

Shit, I never thought of it that way. I guess it is creepy.

>> No.922906

>>922554
And your the only child to boot, the rest are all old men.

>> No.922930
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>> No.922936
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That frog cunt in EVO. the little frogs coming out it's back really bugged me for some reason

>> No.922956

>>921645
eventually it will be /vr/
6th gen isn't /v/ yet its not /vr/ yet so its somewhere in the space between.

>> No.922989

>>922936
"Surinam Toad"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surinam_toad

Look it up and despair.

>> No.922994

>>915019
Movie goro was weird

here's a cool footage about him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVi2klX_feE

>> No.923010

>>921727
I was really disturbed by the scene at the beginning of The Dark Crystal where the Sketsis dies. Now I appreciate it as a great effect. Still haven't watched that movie the whole way through since I find it really boring.

>> No.923894

>>918746
You actually had an arcade that had that game? That game is one of the most fucked up and mean spirited things I've ever seen.

>> No.923913

>>918534
But you know, it aged badly.
Even nostalgia didn't save it.

>> No.923930
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923930

Goro scared me too but it was always this screen. Couldn't be in the same room as at.

>> No.923928

>>921751

You mean at the beginning of the movie? The funny thing is that she's not a stereotypical evil stepmother like in most 80s movies. She's actually quite reasonable with Sarah.

>> No.923938
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923938

Haven't seen this mentioned.

One of my earliest and strongest childhood memories, that laugh. Each time I died (which was often, since I was shit at games as a kid), I knew it was coming closer. I think it even put me off playing.

>> No.923940

>>922413

This. Resident Evil was the first Playstation game I had. I was not ready for the jump from 16 to 32-bit. The only way I was able to finish it at the time was using a Gameshark to get the rocket launcher with infinite ammo.

>> No.923960

>>922994

I love seeing stuff like this and I'm fascinated by what happens to these things after the production is over. Do you think the Goro puppet just got scrapped and recycled for parts or do you think it's stored somewhere?

>> No.923972

>>915041
That's because they were.

>> No.923986
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>> No.924009

Nothing gave me nightmares, ever. You're all a bunch of fucking pussies.

>> No.924007

>>919084
That's still got to be the best continue screen of all time, though.

>> No.924021

>>915054
something about those old school games is just so much eerier than later gen games. Don't know what it is.

>> No.924017
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924017

>this fucking game

>> No.924025

The Skulltula in OoT the first time I played the Deku Tree. I was so scared, I forced my mom to play. Also, anything undead in that game.

The Spider in SimAnt is the reason I never made it to the house.

>> No.924028

>>915126
what is this game? never heard of it. interested. where can I get it? is the gameplay good?

>> No.924032

>>924028

Ecco the Dolphin for the Mega Drive/Genesis

>> No.924036
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>>924017
Also, I used to have nightmares of Paramites spinning me in a web and leaving me to be eaten by their young.

>> No.924046
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I don't need to say any more do I?

>> No.924053
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>>924036
And last but not least, the butterfly bombs from Super Mario 64.
Not sure why but I'm irrationally afraid of black circles that grow bigger because of this.

>> No.924350
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that seaweed, that time limit
i think i ran out of the room whenever i was about to die and wait until it was over

>> No.924565

>>923913
I would play any of those Ghostbusters games (except the NES ones) quite happily for the next eight hours over going to work.

>>924046
>Anything from Horrorsoft

>> No.925170

>>922936

Input the search string 'trypophobia' in Google image search. You may reap great rewards.

>> No.925176

>>923960

It's definitely in a prop house somewhere. They almost always keep shit like that.

>> No.925181

>>924009

I'm really impressed, anon.

'Nightmare Fuel' doesn't literally have to mean it gave you nightmares, just that it disturbed you.

>> No.925193

>>915090
.... they gave me a early sadist boner.

>> No.925206

The genesis was so spooky I loved it, Sub terrania, shado of the beast, the immortal.
Favorite system because it was always a little unsettling

>> No.927358

Sephiroth.

Especially in the Ancient's temple and everywhere the game was taking a screwdriver through my brain.

>> No.928152

>>915071
I don't know if my copy was corrupted but every time you hit him I could have sworn he burped.