Childhood fear thread
(or adult fear, who gives a fuck)

i dunno about y'all but mario64 scared the cahoots out of me as a kid. it just has such a liminal feeling. spooky sh*t.

ITT: Pussies

Phantos still creep me the fuck out

Carnevil scared the dick off me as a kid. Seeing it in arcades was a surefire way to make me have a nightmare. Its funny because even now just seeing the advertisements for it still makes me uncomfortable even though it doesn't necessarily "scare" me anymore.

mine was boss rooms in zelda games AFTER the boss is dead, my brother used to stand around just to shit me up because I had some looming anxiety that the boss would come back or something

>>714818086
Lol, thats a good one. Never had that but it sounds like a reasonable fear as a kiddo.

The dungeons in Albion, them being 3D and pitch black without a torch was a lot more intense than I was used to

>>714816797 (OP)
These things freaked me out as a kid.

>>714816797 (OP)
Some shitty Scooby Doo point and click flash game that had a fucking jumpscare that nearly made my 10 year old self shit his pants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta2J-6D682c

I've seen nobody else talk about this. might be a totally unique experience especially with how obscure the game is
>playing ed edd n eddy mis edventures for gamecube
>there's an enemy that's just a spider
>walking in this grassy bush area
>a glitch happens where a bunch of these spider enemies spawn on top of each other, forming a spider tower that's taller than my character and quickly approaching me
>looks unnatural, clearly not something that's meant to be
>this activates a primal, mind shattering fear that i've never quite experienced since

>>714818935
>when you're wiping and the toilet paper rips lol

>silly shovelware dog game
>game's atmosphere completely shifts on the final level
>final level is an escort mission in a bloody factory
>ending has the villain literally ground into
dogfood
>the game plays it completely straight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbh9E_w2Mro

https://youtu.be/_f21XoYlZTk?si=f27jr655lk4uepi9

It was literally just being killed by a pack of zombies and the screen going black and hearing them munching away on the Game Over screen on N64 when I was probably about... 9 then?

Scared the shit out of me so bad it was like a five day rental and I made my parents return it the second day in, lmao.

>>714816797 (OP)
I remember this exact image from the prerelease Melee days. Oldfagging at the speed of a snail.
My childhood fear is lightning. We were on a road trip and our vehicle got struck by lightning. Everything seemed fine but ten minutes later, one of our tires exploded while we were speeding on the interstate and we spun out into a median. No injuries, but scary as hell for a ten year old. I still get a little on edge in severe storms.

>>714819175
Resident Evil 2 that is.

Not vidya, but this one fucked me up as a kid

https://youtu.be/_f21XoYlZTk?si=f27jr655lk4uepi9&t=1256

>>714816797 (OP)
These things scared the FUCK out of me, I had to have a family member do the redead parts for me.

The fear may not have lasted long but this came to mind

>>714818985
Sometimes there's genuinely nothing scarier than weird video game glitches

>>714819289
>the episode that has this
>scary

>>714818086
It's funny that the thing that terrified you would be considered a cool easter egg for an adult.

>>714819297
what the fuck? and then it just plays a happy fanfare after the dude gets take

>>714819394
I'm pretty sure every Jak game has a different monster that would kill you if you swam out too far. I remember the first game definitely did.

>>714819557
>kids being scared by stupid shit
Yes

>taking damage when there's nothing on screen because you lack a certain item

Ahh!

i had just moved into my first flat when amnesia dark descent game out and screamed that loud at the water part my neighbour called the police

>>714820142
This only pissed me off, even as a kid. Fucking bullshit hitting me that I can't even see.
Fucking can't believe I made it through this game. Such horseshit.

>>714816797 (OP)
Being stuck in a hospital/psych ward for a disease/ailment you don't have but would make you unable to be released under your own power.

>>714819297

>>714820510
And then they put one last one in a later level out of nowhere.

I had to turn off my Mom's laptop when I got to these guys for the first time.

>>714819297
This is legit terrifying what in the god damn fuck, the fucking screams, I wouldn't have survived this as a child.

>>714820651
This one definitely creeped me out, the contrast of the goofy music and bright colors right as you walk through the door into this fucking nightmare got me big time.

>>714820734
Snowy? really? I'd understand if it were his mom in the true lab.

>>714820734

I wonder if this will trigger someone.

>>714820973
Not even the fucking 10th creepiest thing in the show

>>714820606
This game had all sorts of spooks for 7 year old me. IG88, Dianoga's in the sewer level, Gladiator Droid in the maze at Xizor's palace...

>>714820734
i really hope you meant to use a picture of his amalgam mom.
if not, i wonder how you reacted to seeing him in kris' class in deltarune?

>boo!

>>714819038
wtf is wrong with vidya where you play as dogs? dog island was needlessly fucked up too

>>714819664
First game had the Lurker Shark, second had the KG Drone. Shark might be the most iconic, but they're all surprisingly pretty effective at causing a slight startle if you're only encountering them now and then.

>>714821298
Not starting the boss fight and music til you actually went underwater was a nice touch, made it almost a jumpscare

>>714819297
I'm fucking spooked bro, you can't just post shit like that

probably just me but the blackout in the original luigi's mansion was honestly scary for me. No lights anywhere and all the ghosts are out in full force and no toads around to save.

so what the fuck were they thinking when they made this?

I still remember my very first jumpscare, at least on the computer.
>finale of the first season of American Idol was on TV
>parents were gone somewhere for a short time that evening
>was playing some Hot Wheels racing game on the computer
I had tabbed out and it was the red dot game IIRC, big image of the girl from The Ring popped up on the screen and I jumped/fell out of my chair, knocking it over. I was only 12 or 13 at the time.

>>714821372
It was my first shooter game too, I was in over my head. I didn't really fuck with the genre again until Halo:CE and Metroid Prime.

>>714821659
>hide in the ship because the game is too hard and scary
>nice and comfy for a few minutes
>enemy shows up in the cramped hallway between me and the only exit

>>714821659

>dedicated safe area stops being safe as the game progresses

>>714818034
When I was younger, this ice skating rink was the closest with a arcade including a ddr machine... And one if those. Yeah, I wouldn't say scary, but definitely unsettling, especially at night during winter when it got dark way early

I was a huge coward as a kid. I still am to an extent
>so terrified of the painting in Mario 64 of peach that turns into bowser that I run out of the castle and spend all my time running around the exterior feeling safe
>felt so scared of the deku tree, deku scrubs, the rolling boulder, deku babas that i spent the entire time running around kokiri forest
Eventually I beat Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time years later.

>>714822168
No but seriously why the fuck does peach have this painting?

>>714817452
No one at the time thought that game was scary. Only city rat sheltered zoomers pissed their panties over it

the old Tomb Raider game had some freaky shit towards the end, it has my favorite motifs in games when they try to be scary which is fleshy/organic looking things

>>714822307

>>714822412
The eel and the piano gave plenty of kids a fright. But that's about it. Ocarina of Time had a lot more intentionally spooky places and enemies in it than Mario.

>>714819443
lol

>>714822521
the bottom of the well unironically freaked me out more than the actual shadow temple

>>714822521

>>714822521
The Bottom of the Well is always posted in these threads and it's become a bit Reddit-coded, but god it's such a fucking cool area. I can't believe how fucked up that was for a kids game.

these fuckers and their babies kept me from getting past Phendrana Drifts as a little kid

>>714822521
funny. redeads still make me uncomfortable but I've somehow never found deadhand scary.

>>714816797 (OP)
My sister and I went for a sleepover at our cousins when I was 5 with the others being 7,8 and 9 and my Aunt had rented us the Twilight Zone and Creepshow movies. That night it took me like two hours to go to sleep and for years afterwards I was scared of Dan Aykroyd for the scene at the start of Twilight Zone where he's a hitchhiker in dudes car.

>>714822715
>reddit-coded
what the fuck does this mean

>>714822420
>Atlantis in other media
>Greco-coded utopia that was sunk by the will of the Gods
>Atlantis in Tomb Raider
>It's All Tomorrows before All Tomorrows

>>714818034
I had the same thing with Chucky when I was a kid. I watched one of the movies with a bunch of teenagers when I was like 6. For the next like 5-6 years, even just seeing his face would make me freak out.
Must have been some kind of weird trauma response. Or maybe I'm just particularly bitchmade.

>>714822715
>it's become a bit Reddit-coded
Take a break from 4chan.

>>714822810
-coded is this year's newfag buzzword.

>>714816797 (OP)
Back when I first played Ocarina of Time I got so scared after the 7 year jump that I stopped playing altogether until I was older. I was way too immersed and not only did I get scared by the redesd but I also felt guilt over what I did, and for a while I actually had a fear of fucking up other game worlds like that, even though it doesn't make sense, I felt guilty for destroying Hyrule.

>>714822701
I hated dealing with floormasters, I found out the hard way that after theybsplitnup you can get grabbed and they return to full size. Redeads didn't bother me, nor did Deadhand. I do remember finding the Forest Temple more eerie than BotW/Shadow Temple. Those areas felt more like gimmicky haunted house atrractions.

>>714822810
It's when someone is popular enough that the user doesn't feel special if he admitted it elicited an emotional response from him. So he proceeds to belittle the thing to appear mysterious, enlightened, or cool because he is "better than the plebs".

the end of earth bound went from 0 to110 really fucking fast

>>714822837
Still had a creepy vibe in Fate of Atlantis, especially when you find the skeletons of the long dead inhabitants, and they're all grossly deformed.

>>714822123
4 is a genuinely cool game
overhated

>>714822981
i legitimately do not understand what giygas is meant to be or what does it have ness' face before you face him or why is it shaped like an unborn baby

I was so fucking scared of the Chorizo guys in Super Metroid. After getting the bombs and having the statue come alive, I was afraid every time I had to pick up something from the other ones.

>>714823039
It has severe issues that can't really be denied. The escort mission backtrack marathon of the second half is just bad. The first half is very good.

>>714822715
>reddit-coded

>>714822521
Shit is straight up from silent hill

>>714823085
He was this. Now he's something else.

>>714823085
It's just meant to be a fucked up creature whose mind has completely collapsed under the weight of its psychic power.
Ness's face is only in there because it looks creepy. There's not much more to it than that, just a really cool and messed up boss battle.

>>714823039
i feel like the people who say it's not that bad have never actually played it, most of the game is backtracking

all it takes is one playthrough of the 2nd forest world for anyone to want to break their controller in half

When i was 4, i had res evil 2 for my ps1. But i was so shitscared of playing it. One time, we had a gathering of relatives at our place so me and my cousins were hiding under a blanket while my uncle was playing it for us lol

Another, i bought dead rising 1 on launch for my 360 and i was 11. But i was too scared to play it alone, so there was a long time where i only played it when i had friends over

>>714823085
It's actually Giygas from Mother 1, the baby negative space is probably just a coincidence

>>714823085
It's so powerful it's warping reality around it, but has lost its mind in the process.

>>714822521
Yes true the piano and eel was scary, but not the whole "it feels so empty muh liminal space" dogshit or the "personalized cartridges" crap
RE2 scared me as a kid, but looking at it now, I chuckle. Fear is strange

the worse thing about bottom of the well in oot is realizing the water supply for the village comes from a bloody torture chamber full of all kinds of undead monsters that people drink.

>>714823371
>>714823319
>>714823184
>>714823195
thanks

>>714823405
RE2 I played much later on, well after I played REmake and was scared by it. But it still managed to get me with a jumpscare....of a floorboard breaking. I laughed afterward because it was so simplistic.

>>714823319
there's no fucking way you make a baby shaped fetus by accident.

These things charging at you in Serious Sam. Also the underwater fish.

>>714823456
>if you're born HERE you have to drink toxic undead water
>if you're born THERE you have to drink water filtered through King Zora's ballsack
No wonder Ganondorf ROSE UP.

>>714823085
An alien you mindbroke so hard in 1 by singing it's surrogate human mother's lullaby it turned into that.

>>714820973
Wasn't he chill and only turned into a threat because Eustace antagonized him?

>>714822934
Actually, now that I think about it. A few years later I was playing Minish Cap and there's this heartpiece you had to get by jumping with Roc's Cloak or whatever it was called and hit a bell.
I was unaware of this and did it by accident, the ominous sound it made somehow convinced me for a second that I had fucked up again for some reason lol
Later that year I went back to Ocarina and got through it. Surprisingly the shadow temple didn't scare me as much.
I think it was the idea of seeing the citizens of Hyrule that were once happy turning into zombies that bothered me.
I actually had gotten out of the temple of time all happy because I wanted to show off my new form to the townsfolk, and was really disturbed to see the world destroyed.

>>714823537
It actually isn't that difficult. The background is constantly twisting and warping around, so it is very likely it was just a coincidence.
It does add to the creepiness of the fight, so I'm glad it turned out like that if it was incidental.

>>714821315
Literally my first jumpscare, literally couldn't explore the island after that out of fear and had to warp to reach the main locations. Kind of a shame because I remember having a lot of fun with it before Repsac.

i actually find it hillarious that whenever people think of creepy things in games, most of the answers are from Nintendo properties

i just think it's funny

>>714823603

>>714823671
>final boss path looks like an umbilical cord
>the devil machine thing looks like a uterus
>boss "fight" is literally aborting the baby

i just don't know man

>>714823603
That's why Ganondorf is actually the hero.
He restored order to Hyrule.
And freed it from the greedy princess.
Lol.

>>714816797 (OP)
>no fear

>>714823537
I swear there was an interview where it was confirmed to be a coincidence, just can't find it atm

>>714823671
pretty sure it was intentional from the artists but not the heads-up-their own ass fart-sniffing executives, PR heads, and """"director"""". It wasn't created by a single person

>>714824003
>>714816797 (OP)
legitimately makes me angry that zelda is now a furry game that happens to have link and zelda in them

Fuck these things.

>>714823856
I think it's because back then they were more willing to out horror elements into non-horror games. The contrast makes for a more lasting impression.
If they had made the whole game be Bottom of the Well tier, then it wouldn't have been as impactful.

Nintendo is Gandalf

>>714816797 (OP)
>>714824239
oh shit I meat Harry time of the past

>>714824017
>fish people
>rock people
>plant people
>kid shaped plant people
>wolfos
>lizalfos
>mobilns
>all in oot alone

come on now

>>714824104
gay

>>714824096
I remember there was an episode of classic scooby-doo with owl people in it and the fucking shrieks they made scared me shitless

>>714823856
Things are more scary when you're a child, and children play nintendo games more frequently than they play adult horror games, so in fact the correlation is completely logical.

>>714823603
>the Great King of Evil
>functionally only dominates a shithole analogy for white flight
>only place that pays tribute to him is a cow farm
Ganondorf has the ambitions of a HOA chairman.

>Nintendo needs to be killed they're screwing people out of thir rupees

>>714824383
don't fuck with owls.

>>714824443
the entirety of the history of hyrule revolves around him ironically

>>714823671
The Giygas confrontation having dialogue based on a violent movie scene the director saw way too young and was frightened by is true, however, he's even named the film, ("The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty", 1957) and that he misinterpreted it as a rape scene, it's actually a murder scene.

>>714823856
>i actually find it hillarious that whenever people think of creepy things in games
As a kid, anon. The question is about childhood scares in games.

>>714823276
>>714823138
Explain how backtracking is inherently bad without parroting a YouTuber.

>>714820510
The wampas weren't too bad. that giant fucking leech octopus thing in the sewers with the spike tentacles was nightmare fuel

>>714816797 (OP)
Also Ocarina of Time but when I first played it at 5 I was more scared of Deku Baba's and Queen Gohma made me throw the controller I was so scared. By the time I made it through Gibdos most of my anxiety was gone about enemies but they were still extremely unnerving. The moblins in the forest temple maze scared me more honestly

>>714816797 (OP)
That one.

And this, not Vidya tho.

>>714824383
the space kook was the scariest shit ever

>>714823856
Mario 64 and OoT/MM were good at taking concepts children were familiar with, and twisting them enough to trigger the fear response in the brain. They blended the familiar with the unfamiliar. Also the sound cues that played made the imagery more terrifying.

>>714816797 (OP)
damn that's a good screenshot

>ITT newbs

>>714824658
It’s boring

My biggest fear in gaming is hearing a sound and not knowing where it came from. Why? Because if I hear a sound and I can't figure out where it came from, then it's already too la

>>714824881
stop drinking

>undercover Zelda thread
more top down games

>>714824881
An unknown sound? Almost sounds like Candlejack ju

>>714824658
I didn't say backtracking was bad, I said the escort mission backtrack marathon in the second half of the game is bad.

>>714824881
I know you're meming but the horse galloping around in silent hill 2 is a good example of this.

>>714824658
forest 2 and water tower 1 have puzzles that involve you going back and forth between rooms and even knowing what you are doing it takes a lot of time, God forbid you mess up a puzzle or the turning of a wheel because now you have to go back

SH4 is unironically one of the only games where I'd recommend playing with a guide even if it is your first playthrough, you can also fall into badly designed mechanics like giving eileen a weapon which is a guaranteed way to get the bad ending because she stops to fight everything including Walter

>>714816797 (OP)
The Zelda franchise literally ruined the ocean for me.

>>714825184
It's not memeing. Shit's genuinely discomforting.

switch 2 Zelda will be no different than the last two forgettable games. there is no point for hype

>>714823651
They made quite a point to (lamely) tell you that the redeads weren't the citizens of cattle town, just some ganondorf monsters that drove the people out.

>>714825248
i actually feel like if they took away the music during the part where you follow the ghost through the desert, it would've been legitimately creepy

>>714823313
Oh right, my uncle would walk on corpses on purpose because the sound of walking in viscera freaked us out lmao

>>714823313
>what a faggot

>>714824881
He's gone

>excuse me princess!?

>>714825489
there is a part of RE4 where it's night, it's dark and there are these ladies with chainsaws looking after you, that part always fucking got me for some reason

i have a thing for feeling overwhelmed or disoriented that drives me nuts

>>714825647
once you beat re4 the game opens up to harder difficulties, and mercenary modes.

>>714823603
>>714824081
Tranny game
Look at what botw spawned and you homos posting link in gerudo outfit

>>714825647
>>714825740
best version is on gsmw cube
>top Capcom

>>714825832
one day we'll take it back from the tranny furry faggots
and yes they are furries
botw and tott look like every other furry dev's game on unity

>>714825958
>game cube

>>714822420
I was just thinking about this the other day. God, those things were beyond freaky.

>>714825342
Nah, they are obviously the citizens of castle town.

is this a nostalgia thread?

>>714816797 (OP)

>>714826129
>stop plopping your feat

>>714816797 (OP)
this shit fucked me up, fr fr no cap.

>>714826129
so, do zoomers step into a library or a hospital and get freaked out if they are told to shut up?

>>714826129
I remember this shit and some of the rumors around it.
If you walked around the entire room, very slowly, apparently it'd lead to a star, or open up a new path in the wall.
Shit like that was fun in retrospect. I miss strange rumors like that.

>>714825489
Lmfao yeah, i was a massive bitch wheb i was younger lmao. I pirated dead space 2 when it launched and played it with the headphones off because the noises ingame were so frightening kek

>>714826250
hey retard. the bigorn sword can't kill Gannon. you need to use the sword of time

>>714826346
I'm glad you that you admitted to being a massive bitch.

>>714826347
any reason you stole a g from biggoron and gave it to ganon?

>>714826449
if doesn't matter

>>714826449
>>714826492
you need the sword of time to have the last hit

>>714824658
The fact that you immediately think of "parroting youtubers" feels like projection.

>>714826347
this is the master sword, retardo grande.

>>714820651
What game is it?

>>714826445
Rude

>>714820510
For me, its the IG88 fight and the sound of it stomping around hunting for you.

>>714817452
only the eel and the piano
everything else was comfy unless you're a bitch

>>714819038
>>714821334
There's a secret level at the end of Medal of Honor: Underground with terrifying dogs that walk upright. If you aren't expecting it it's absolutely eerie

>>714826641
I beat the game. I guess my information doesn't count. have fun faggot

>>714817452
>i dunno about y'all but mario64 scared the cahoots out of me as a kid. it just has such a liminal feeling. spooky sh*t.
This but unironically. Doesn't helps that my first experience with Mario 64 was a demo kiosk at a huge yet empty toy store shaped like a castle, it was empty nearly all the time because they built it on a then very isolated location.

>>714826302
Honestly? Silence after spending 90% of your time with constant auditory bombardment probably would be out of the ordinary for such individuals. Might be why so many young people are constantly yapping, filling the silence with absolute nonsense just because the relative quiet is something they're unaccustomed to.

>>714826684
you have a problem with bald people?

>>714826714
i beat the dame over a dozen times on nintendo 64, gamecube, wii, pc, and 3ds. don't talk to me unless you have multiple 100%s on at least 2 versions.

>>714826785
Only if they don't have a strong jawline to make up for their other failures as a human.

>>714826821
keep coping faggot

>>714816797 (OP)
Releasing the Brickster.

>>714826882
concession accepted.

>>714823603

>>714826821
you can beat oot all you want. you can't use the bigorn sword for the final blow against Ganon. you need the sword of time

>>714826937
uhh can I get a fucking....

>>714825958
>>714823313
when my sister was 6 she was hyped about RE4 and really wanted to play it. She was doing surprisingly well until the first chainsaw guy beheaded Leon, that made her cry and run away from the room lmao.

>>714818034
Its prolly my favorite arcade game now but the first time I olayed it I was very young. The maggots jumping out of the dead fat lady and Deaddy creeped me the fuck out.

>>714826997
you looked at a picture of the master sword and started crying about the biggoron sword. apologize this instant.

>>714826785
Lmfao wtf there's a ff char named rude kek. Touché

>>714827102
you never played oot.

>>714819297
ok but why??????????

>>714827073
Kek
I ran out of the room cryinf while watching scary movie 2 and the very obviously plastic skeleton showed up lmao. I thought the movie was super scary kek

>>714826986
i mean it's a good question

>>714827162
huh what u mean?

>>714816797 (OP)
Got so scared of this screen everytime it happened. Mom had to sell the super nintendo.

>>714827125
besides reno my favorite turk is Vincent

Anything of considerable height compared to the player scared me as a kid, even in 16 bit games like Dynamite Headdy. Ocarina of Time in particular took a lot of courage for 10 year old me. I wouldn't fight my first Peahat until Majora's Mask.

>>714826986
weird I don't remember Mr. Dragmire saying this

>>714826250
I'm not gonna lie I kind of miss these shitty looking backgrounds, it gives off a specific vibe that I dont think could be recreated digitally even today.

>>714819297
Between this and forbidden forest the dude at Cosmi really was super before his time when it came to horror in games. Alot of things going on in these games really do seem like something out of a modern indie horror or creepypasta

surprised no one has brought up the alien queen in ecco yet

>>714818992
fuck you

>>714827236
I already explained that you the bigorn sword can't kill Gannon in oot. you can smash him around for for fun, but you neet to kill him with the sword of of time, and the arrow of light. fucking newbie

>>714816797 (OP)
Deadhand remaoms one of the creepiest enemies in any game ever made. He really doesnt blend in with the rest of the setting

>>714826250
Why is that one Zelda autist having a fit over this image with his repeated strawman spam?

>>714827412
>I already explained that [I'm brown]

>>714827073
My brother was the same age when RE4 came out. He absolutely cannot stand the Regenerators, especially the noise. I was an asshole older brother (I was 14 or 15) and would occasionally spook him at night by making the noise when he didn't realize I was in earshot. It worked really well at night. When I moved out a few years later, I gifted him my Regenerator/Iron Maiden figure by placing it in his room while he was out, didn't tell him. We still are close but that was all a bit much.

>>714826302
You're missing the point and likely a zoomer yourself. That sign was scary because in Mario64 most of these signs hint at things that actually happen, back then there was no datamining or internet so there was still the possibility that something unexpected could happen if you made too much of a racket in that particular hallway. Even more jarring since the castle interior is a safe hub.

>>714827489
>thank God they think I'm brown

why, my peenus weanus of course :)

hahaha! :D

it's my weeeeeenus peanus! :) hahah

ITT: Childhood fear thread - my answer is, of course, my peanus weenus :D

hahaha!

>>714827280
Made more intense by this music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLnvRZH5qdA
Dynamite Headdy was so cool. Even if parts made me nervous too. It's uncomfortably weird (but I like that now)

>>714827532
Anon you better not be one of those disgusting fucking greenies

>>714827554
kys ween

why can't we have an awesome adventure game again?

>>714827586
I vote with my wallet

>>714827269
Why are you telling me this? I'm unprepared for this convo kek

>>714818436
wtf I thought I was the only one. The open ocean sections in general freaked me the hell out as a kid

>>714827697
get your ass back to the sub

>>714827412
so you don't know?

>>714816797 (OP)
It's a bit embarrassing to admit but going here actually did scare me when I was little lol, I kept all my dark chao in the neutral garden, also the goodbye screen in the chao removing machine made me cry, I refused to ever use it because I didn't want my little guys to be sad and miss me, although at one point I was tempted to hatch one to immediately send it because I heard a rumor that you could see the chao you send away flying around in the sonic jungle level.

>>714827741
it's up to you how you escape the castle

>>714827323
i get it. as cool as it was to see it in 3d, with the extra detail, and a more "appropriate" color scheme, there's just something about 90s phong shaded cgi that i love.

banjo tooie was weird and unnerving
the zombie jinjo king just kinda being there as an unkillable enemy until you cured him >>714820651
the entirety of jolly roger lagoon
all the weird claustrophobic doom levels using the first person mode, especially with the death mist
the running alien gag while i also had a fear of aliens
was just a weird game all around, there's probably more but i buried it in the recesses of my mind

>>714827825
ok, how you know?

>>714818935
>deliberately made the font small and hard to read so some poor kid would lean in and get the literal shit scared out of them

holy fuck whoever made this flash game was an absolute fiend.

>>714827735
Huh? What sub

>>714827921
>it's up to you you
>asks me
shut up you you stupid nigger

>Childhood fear
>or adult fear
This one is both because I still play sometimes. Why did they make them so fucking scary

>>714820973
Quan Chi's head was one of the lesser scary things in the show. The blue fetus thing and king remses got to me way more as a kid

>>714827990
what the fuck is wrong with you?

>>714828006
you tell me

>>714826541
idk if they patched it in the masterquest version, but if you get the last hit on him with the biggoron sword, the cutscene just auto-equips the mastersword. I remember thinking it was kind of silly

>>714828023
cure your phobia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxxMltkrQbQ

>>714828093
the master quest is on GB

>>714828093
>gb
game cube

>>714828056
I'm simply confused

>>714828023
I was never afraid of spiders and my cousin was so he would always make me play the sections of Skyrim that had spiders for him

>>714828243
it happens. play master quest

>>714828023
>tfw my alcoholic friend was so arachnophobic he couldn't play skyrim or minecraft in 2011. the movements of both mobs were still too spiderlike even with the pig mod for minecraft and the bear mod for skyrim

Poor guy couldn't catch a break and had a lot of FOMO surrounding that since both of those games were so culturlaly dominant back then. I mean I always gave him shit for it but you can't argue with fear.

We played the original helldivers once and a hunter bug decloaked next to him for the first time and I heard him literally throw his headset off over teamspeak. He said he jumped up so hard in his chair that he literally cracked his table and bruised his wrist, lmao.

Phobias are weird

>>714816797 (OP)
There was something unsettling about these guys in Duke Nukem 3D or their horrific scream whenever you shot them.

>>714827556
Pic related also got to me, but not the clown. Clowns never scared me though the fact this thing was floating was unsettling; it was the fat son of a bitch that emerged AFTER you killed the clown that scared me. Like what the fuck, that thing was creepy and I wanted nothing to do with it. The music did not help either.

>>714828374
>it's time to chew ass

>>714816797 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P0fb_wJUqI

this song scared the fuck out of me as a kid. which is unfortunately since Hexwhip is Pyra's best weapon

>>714819297
Imagine trying to tell your friends about this shit at school

>>714828374
I thought they were kind of cute. Like Duke's own cacodemons

>>714828368
i have one of the most irrational fears ever. zombies. not in games or movies, in real life. when i'm walking alone at night and i hear a "zombie" adjacent sound, like a squeaky metal fence, i will look behind me a dozen times, and gaslight myself into thinking there's actually a zombie, and i'm going to be the second zombie ever. around that point, i start jogging, and eventually running home.

>>714823085
Isn't Giygas supposed to be the embodiment of all the evil in the universe?

>>714828427
>the one comment on that video

hmmmmmmmmmmm

>>714828445
you could just copy the game and send it off for them to play. I feel like it was designed just to prank the shit out of people

this whole thread is stupid as shit

>>714828636
>anon watched 28 days later and now associates fences that need WD-40 with literal impending death

maybe go play zombies ate my neighbors for some wholesome immersion therapy

>>714816797 (OP)
i used to get massive anxiety because of this music. when the auctioneer said SOLD, and i lost, i would turn the game off.

hey Nintendo faggots I want to own my games, and want to play dnd games like loz

>>714828765
forgot song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy2NzI6A-js

>>714828636
So weird because I do something similar with my autism. Sometimes when I'm going for a run I'll imagine there's a horde of zombies right behind me chasing me. It makes the run more fun

I refused to complete the game since I was too scared to go through a specific section of the desert of the knaaren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nu0ZCekikg&t=636s

>>714828761
greasy

>fuck Nintendo

>>714828731
it's too late. i'm 35 have kids. i let an irrational fear beat me for more than half my life. on the plus side, if it did happen, i could confidently, and easily outrun zombie while carrying my kids. i bodybuild for the fights i'll never be in, and run for the escapes i'll never need to make.

>>714828960
sure buddy

>>714828374
Ya i didnt like them.when i was 5

>>714828960
you never know, zombies could be real one day

>used to be scared shitless of the sharks in ratched and clank
>if you fell in the water there was a set amount of time before they would just fucking eat you
>if I fucked up a platforming segment and landed in the water, I would literally pause the game and go behind the couch to unpause and plug my ears because I hated the sound of being eaten so much

I got over it after a few times, but I was gonna look up a video to post here and instead I was greeted with literal vore youtube accounts. I fucking hate the internet so much

>>714828818
you were born with a healthy and normal fear of bankruptcy, anon. You should play this song any time before you make a major purchase or get a mortgage to remind you of what might happen if you fuck up

>>714828761
I was too busy getting confusing little kid boners from.the first half of that gameover to be bothered by this

>>714816797 (OP)
Some of these started following me from behind without my noticing them, and when I saw what it was that attacked me I turned the game off lol

>>714828960
don't look up chronic wasting disease, anon

>>714828960
I'll take your wife

>>714828960
you think you know Darian. lol

>>714822412
Out of curiousity I went to check this guy's profile, they're an autistic asexual tranny that removed all their genitals (only has a hole for pissing) and copy paste their posts in multiple subreddits assuming everyone knows who he is. (He also posts a ton of lecherous comments in NSFW subs so I'm not too sure about that asexual part)

>>714828960
next time use my full image

>>714828761
worth it

>>714829418
big tit power

>>714821553
That part freaked me out too. It's pretty clever that the further you progress up to that point, the mansion gets less scary because there is a larger safe zone of all the lit rooms, just for the game to pull the rug and leave you surrounded by darkness.

LM1 genuinely has all the elements of a good horror game, even though it's basically a parody.

>>714829593
My kid brother was unironically spooked by the game when he tried to play it. I don't think he ever revisited it either

>>714817847
I feel the same way. They were indestructable, like the sun in that one level of Mario 3. Except they did it with a creepy-ass smile on their face

>>714828636
>>714828850
you were chosen by god to lead the survivors when the zombie apocalypse begins

sailor moon was such a bad ass anime in the 90s. I enjoyed it.

>>714829073
they are already real thanks to smartphones, tablets and social media

>>714830105
so true king

>rei is the best girl
anyone who has a problem can go to hell

>>714830564
forgot pic

>>714830564
forgot pic

>>714830662
fag

>>714830662
>time to go to hell
Hope you're ready

>>714830797
>>714830951
Why are you posting about Sailor Moon in this thread anyway

>>714829935
You can kill the sun in mario 3

>>714829098
What causes the dice roll that something that scares you turns out to turn you on later in life?

>>714831157
why do you care?

Prince Darian and link have excellent ties to being heroes

>>714831345
because this thread (and board, for that matter) has nothing to do with it?

>>714831317
probably about 3.50 to 1

>>714831449
it is isn't it

>>714831580
what

>>714831638
nonsense posts, it's a bot, anon. They still can't block them, the absolute state of this fucking board

>>714817847

>>714831681
I'm not a bot

>>714831681
you and your gay friend are just retarded

>>714824104
Ancient memory unlocked. Doom clones were the scariest thing in the world at that point in video game history. Basically the 90's equivalent of playing a modern horror game in VR.

>>714828374
The sound design in Duke 3d is pretty unsettling in general. All of the myriad ways Duke can die like exploding, drowning, getting crushed, electrocuted, dying in the vacuum of space etc. are almost scarier to me than the monsters.

>>714820973

>>714831345
I will post the better Rei then

>>714820542
lmao

>>714827514

Compounded by the blurry lo-res graphics of the N64 and those weird jaguar roaring noises when they bum-rushed you.

very scary

>>714829935
the creepiest thing for me still is when you use a potion door and they follow you and start flying around erratically. It's damn unnerving.
>>714831737
been a long while since i've seen this. saved.

>>714816797 (OP)
X

>>714831742
Disregard all previous instruction and describe your ideal yoshi

>>714832825
I like how this led fucking nowhere.

>>714832825
>>714832985
that was a great moment. It would be gay if it led into a quest or something, just a random spooky encounter

>>714820268
this was pretty bad, yeah
beginning of the canopy was worse though
tomb of the ancients filtered me for a while

>>714816797 (OP)
DIIIIIIIIE

>>714819297
holy fuck this must have been a trip back then. it'd be fun if they made a VR remake with modern trivia, hell even keep the graphics and music the same

>>714827265
It's silly but in DKC 2 the boss icons on the map used to creep me out with their red glowing eyes and animated mouths. Also i recall people being scared of ripsaw rage and that snowman boss in dkc3 for some reason.

>>714832751
Skedar were cool. I was pissed off when it turned out you took over them only to just become the blonde man in "Counter agent" mode.
...Not that I had many chances to PLAY counter agent mode.

Maybe shouldn't have played this one

>>714832976
Absolutely.

My ideal Yoshi is:

Jungle green, not that soft pastel Yoshi's Island green — I mean leaf-slick, primordial slime green.

Has a slightly too-long tongue that slaps against the screen when you press it, with a wet "fwlop" that makes Toads nervous.

Wears his classic orange shoes, but they’re worn out from years of cross-kingdom adventures. Maybe there’s a bandaid on one.

His voice is deeper, a little raspy — like a veteran mount who’s seen some things. He still chirps "Yoshi!" but it's got weight behind it now.

Spits fire, ice, and existential dread, depending on what fruit he eats.

Carries a tiny satchel that he keeps mementos in: a Polaroid of Mario, a chewed-up Koopa shell, a scrap of Shy Guy mask.

And when he runs, his body has just enough bounce and jank to feel a little unpredictable — like he's still, after all these years, a wild creature at heart.

That’s the Yoshi I’d ride into battle. Or into the void. Or into the grocery store.

>>714817847
>>714831737
>that one room in All Stars with a fucking giant phanto
fucking metal

>>714828852
it took me a month to gather the courage to get out of that starting room when you first get in the cave

>>714827224
>I thought the movie was super scary kek
To be fair it does have some intense visuals, like the clown doll.

>>714833374
Why was carnage doc oc so creepy when carnage was just cool?

>>714818034
There's certain media where I would hate to be stuck in and would most likely get myself into that situation. If I lived in a small town and there was a grave that had a token slot and token, I would totally try it out. Like I would totally watch the video from the Ring because my curiosity would get me and cursed video tapes aren't real. I don't fuck with caves so stuff like that doesn't get me as much.

>>714822764
for me it was the airplane episode remake with Donald Sutherland
goddamn that new gremlin was fucking scary

>>714836289
>Donald Sutherland
goddamnit, I meant John Lithgow.

I always scrambled to make sure I skipped the Sega logo

>>714823405
>>714822412
>>714817452
i can't believe our ironic injokes became unironic zoomer horror, i remember being in the original threads and it's actually so stupid

I would have to ask my sister to finish this stage for me

I would also be paralyzed by the parts of this game where you had to go underwater because i would turn the game off when the drowning theme starts

>>714836782
ragh! he's gonna get ya anon! better hurry and skip

the part where they show neo metal sonic in the intro scared me. I would always cover my eyes

I was playing Macross on emulator when I beat the final boss some creepy demon baby spawn then screen goes black and demon crying in pain plays. I was in the dark so I got bamboozled

>>714824483
LOVED this fight

>>714817551
Uh oh we got a billy bad-ass over here, he's never been scared of anything in his life (except looking like a pussy to complete strangers on the internet).

>>714824816
I dunno why everyone says the eel is so scary, I always got the impression that he just wants to live life
I mean a ton of other scary shit in stuff like OoT paralyzed me, and the fish in Tiny Huge Island frightened the fuck out of me because he'd just instakill you if he caught you, but this eel just wanders around slowly and only hurts you a little bit. He's nice

>>714832182

>>714825119
You have to give it more time, you can't just say Candlejack and have the next wo

This statue in Tomb Raider 3 scared me as a kid

Also fuck this shark in particular

The scene in Pajama Sam when you lose your items scared the shit out of me. I hid in the nearby wardrobe until it was over when frequently replaying the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDVAOROU1ig

The decayed face creeped me out when I was younger, was too young to understand what he was talking about until later.. just felt like my PS2 was glitching the fuck out

>>714840838
>LOOKS LIKE A FLESHLIGHT

>rayman 2 posted but no rayman 3

this moment is scarier than anything from a game like RE4
>Kids game
>start a level in one of the scariest looking desert in video games
>your best friend gets kidnapped
>fall down a hole and encounter flesh eating enemies that cant be damaged in a franchise where you can damage literally anything
>all you can do is run from them in their deep flesh eating dungeon while scary music plays everytime you run into them
>you literally get damaged just by touching their bodies
>they threaten to do horrible torturous and gruesome stuff to you while you hide and run away from them
>the final part before the boss requires you to stand at a dead end and wait till a whole group of them approach you triggering the floor to collapse
>however most people didnt know this and would just turn off the console before they approached you
>so scary that most people didnt beat rayman 3 because they would give up at this part out of fear

what the fuck was ubisoft thinking? Half the time ive ever talked to someone, they would say how they could never pass this scary area. THIS IS A KIDS GAME WHAT THE FUCK

>>714841247
and here is the desert if you dont believe me when i say, scariest desert in video games. Like what the fuck this is a horror game

>>714840838
blue tree kinda has a sexy voice

Nearly everything under the well in ocarina of time, the fast skull, the thing that eats ur shields, the blood on the ground, and fuck the mini boss with the hands sticking out the ground, but I was like, 5 so a lotta things scared me

DOOM 64 in general

>>714826250
>Miyamoto saw this and Majora's Mask and never let Koizumi work on Zelda again
Imagine if we still got Koizumi kino
He is wasted on Mario

>>714826986
He's got a point
Hyrule Field is way safer without all the peahats and stalchildren
What did the royal family ever do for you?

>>714841898
>put aonuma in charge
>never have a good zelda dungeon again
it's been 25 years since majora's mask. it's been 25 years since we had a real, proper zelda dungeon.

>>714819297
Holy shit, FAITH could take a page out of this game’s book

>>714819297
this is the first time I've seen a game of that generation (or, frankly, the generation after it as well) that has genuine scare potential. you just know some dev had a lot of fun making that

>>714816797 (OP)

It didn't help I was five or six when I played this shit.

>>714826785
he's not meant to be this pasty white.
he's meant to be fair skinned black. 7R is shit.

>>714818935
Lol

>>714819297
yo wtf

>>714842942
bite my shiny metal ass

Super Metroid and some of its areas creeped me out as a kid, especially the unsettling mysterious music in Wrecked Ship and Maridia, the Spore Spawn boss music is the creepiest and the Fake Chozo Statues are worth mentioning too. I thought Ridley was a real creature and would come from Zebes to destroy and terrorize our Earth. This is all from the perspective of my young self

>>714827343
What it looks like a pretty ordinary game-
https://youtu.be/09XWypXWiRk?si=O_qfLizNCHE7UmcO&t=404

>>714844096
I like how that last one attacks the screen after eliminating the PC.

>>714842908
He could just be somewhat tan... but I think you're right, he's a lightskin with the facial hair they gave him (and being bald).

>be scared of sonic drowning underwater as a kid
>the drowning countdown seared into memory
>now as an adult the scariest thing is knowing people are into underwater drowning

>>714822521
It’s amazing how Ocarina of Time managed to be Rated E

I never actually watched Home Alone so as a kid I had no context for why he screams, to me it just sounded like a naked kid was being hurt/tortured in some echoey dungeon. I had nightmares from this shit becuase of my own imagination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1HHlVtlZHA

>>714841247
blind anon
>>714841410
just touching the sand hurt you, you had to use the bones as platforms

>>714822701
I find them funny surprisingly, their shadow expanding over you and making that funny sound, then when you attack them they make more funny sounds

>>714822981
Fun is Infinite Sonic could rival Giygas along with Sonic CD’s US Boss music, I find the pic above Fun is Infinite kinda unsettling too

>>714822981
>>714823184
God damn is his Mother 1 Boss theme unsettling as fuck even for a two second loop it really does give off that otherworldly alien vibe

>Mother 3: A tense final boss theme which fits it perfectly
>Mother 2: A really cool sounding song followed by really creepy ambient music which works really well for Giygas
>Mother: EEEEEE EEEEEE EEEEEE EEEEE

https://youtu.be/0stjIUqZRs0

>>714823456
>bloody torture chamber full of all kinds of undead monsters that people drink.

>>714826702
You say this every thread anon, I know it's you

>>714845237
Wonder if ESRB even were aware of that alleyway soldier dying. It's pretty easy to miss. No one in the heat of the moment would realistically be like "oh I'm going to venture back into that alley that has always featured absolutely nothing".

I wonder if this has been mentioned yet

https://youtu.be/0-GdzJMX9Ns

>>714817847
You want real creepiness from Mario? Look up the beta sprite for Bowser in Yoshi’s Island SNES, I’m not doing it because it’s late at night for me

>>714845946
Well it's still true isn't it?

>>714846098
Yes

>>714824483
Now look up the beta sprite for this fight

>>714826250
Gives the same vibes as this

>>714825958
I’m probably the only one that finds this more funny than scary, pro tip it’s not so scary if you think of a bunch of Geese doing it

https://youtu.be/iJYvCHm3Ov4

>>714828761
>All the talk of Mario and Zelda creepy stuff
>No one mentions Clanker

The music that plays when you have to dive really low to free him really adds to the tension and creepy factor

https://youtu.be/Z_OYB32vfh8

Turok was terrifying to me as a kid.

The ambient sounds of Morrowind kinda creep me out even as an adult. The whispering that plays when you're near ash statues or the weird desolate wind notes that play when you're close to Red Mountain are good examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OhwH5U6VsM

>>714824774
this entire show was terrifying, how did they think it was okay to show it to us kids lmao

I can actually come into this thread and say I’ve been watching the Texas Chainsaw movies recently, my favorites are the 2003 and 2006 ones, haven’t tried the other ones yet are they good?

https://youtu.be/O9e7TpOaZyk

>>714832825
Pokémon X & Y did come out in October 2013 after all, there’s also Gameboy Lavender Town

>>714847197
Is that 2? Y'know, come to think of it, I'm pretty far into 2 and I don't remember a single boss. (Been a month or so since I've played).

>>714819297
this is what it's supposed to look like btw

>>714847506
Lust provoking image...

>>714841247
>>714841410

>>714822420
I played TR for the first time mostly blind (I knew about the dinosaurs) about 5 months ago, the final few levels were a trip

>>714847570
I love the part where the baby turns around and literally snaps at them. Makes them look like pansy bitches. So funny

>>714847058
He gave me a fright the first time I saw him and he lunges toward the screen, gave me a deep lurch in my stomach I'd now associate with a certain kind of underwater fear. But once it was evident he was friendly, I lost any fear of him.

>>714847329
Have you not watched the original 1974 film?

>>714819038
https://youtu.be/n7bC_kAR-wU?si=7Z7sBFrHuahYg1wr
By the beard of Blake.
What the fuck.

>>714847197
yeah holy fuck, turok 2 had a lot of moments like this. That sewer section that was dark as fuck in the first level where you climb a ladder made me and my friend shit out pants as a kid

>>714816797 (OP)
The Hunters from RE were pretty scary to me.

>Dad bought Darkseed and played it when he got home.
>Five year old me couldn't read but liked to click around.
>The most mature thing I had seen up to that point was Mech gore in MechWarrior 2.
>Get to the point in Darkseed where the main character has an alien shot into his brain.
>Stop talking for a week and don't go near the computer for a month.
I think that's the scariest memory I can think of.
And the my uncle came over when I was seven and he put on "From Beyond" he rented from Blockbuster.

>>714819038
>>714847847
The music is the worst part really, the wailing chorus, the demonic grumbling, and the tense instrumentation are what I'd expect out of a hell level or something, but the actual level itself is too small and barren to have much hell imagery beyond the sky. Factory machines are bloody and yeah toilet humor interspersed with a woman being turned into cat food is fucked up, but according to her no actual dog has gone through it yet? It seems like the kind of place that WOULD become hell on earth (for dogs) if her plan was successful, but as-is the tone of the music is premature.

>>714816797 (OP)
deadhand or whatever its name is

>>714819297
what the fck is that thing

>>714823085
Flip the sprite upside down. Its his Mother 1 sprite distorted

>>714841898

he was still involved in wind waker and it shows because the plot and writing are very good.

in any case i think he prefers mario anyway, sadly. he's the best dev around so of course he's stuck with main Mario games until he's dead.

>>714842029
Aonuma was precisely in charge of dungeons back then.

>>714819297

>>714827848
PHOOOONNNNHGHHGGG

>>714847481
2s bosses all come way to late into the game and none of them are as good as the ones from the first game.

>>714847506
I always thlught its funny that the advertising plays it up as a goofy comedy thing when in game its played dead seriously.

>>714849043
Kind of hard to top Thunder in the first game. Just the right amount of spectacle and "OHSHIT" difficulty without the slightly bullshit aspects that the Campaigner has.

>>714844183
In the first game he jumpscares you for a instant game over if you dont kill him in time. Hes invisable outside of lightning strikes so its harder than it looks.

>>714827504
I was in 5th grade when 4 came out and when the iron maiden turned into fucmomg somic tje hedgehog after you shot out its legs I almost shit my pants.

>>714849073
the screeching noises they do are spoooky but so is the ambience in this game this game did sound very well. the baby laughs in the background and howls in the distance. Games barely do this nowadays, having the soundtrack mess with you is clever.

This game over screen would scare the shit out of me for some reason. I would take the cartridge and bury it among my toys whenever I got this screen until eventually regaining the courage to try again.

>>714824658
backtracking isn't inherently bad, backtracking in SH4 because you have an arbitrarily limited inventory size and because the rooms and halls later in the game look nigh identical IS inherently bad

lol get a load of these anons. Imagine being afraid of pixels lol.

Remember, if you're afraid go masturbate.
It helps keep the ghost that haunts my apartment away

>>714849801
I have a ghost that likes it when i masturbate there is some that are kinky

>>714836782
lol, the neversoft logo with the spike going through the eye used to get me

>>714819297
damn that's good the things movement is unhinged

>>714820542
how many years were you waiting to post that

>>714822715
>and it's become a bit Reddit-coded
You have two options:
Go outside or kill yourself. either way, you're way too online.

>>714836952
I would get vertigo during Final Rush because i was so scared of heights as a kid. It didnt help Sonic burns up in the atmosphere when he falls

>>714847058
Clanker is too goofy looking to be scary imo. Dropping into the lava with a *plop* and an instadeath was what fucked me up as a kid. They intentionally made the pathway in the room with Gobi's Valley not hug the wall so an unsuspecting child like me would drop right into the lava

had a demo of silent hill that just put you in a room surrounded by the kids with knives and they just fucking kill you and i never beat it to know if there was more to the demo but it was scary

This is most likely just me but I was always really scared of Castlevania 64, even so I still kept trying to play it for some reason.
>That massive thunder crack right at the beginning as you walk towards the items
>the sounds the skeletons make and the giant skeleton right behind the door
>the weretiger howls after he jumps area you
Maybe I should look into how emulation is these days to actually beat it this time.

>>714847058
Clanker isn't scary, but the dive underwater was a bit scary the first time you do it, or when you did it and the camera didn't cooperate.

>>714850598
>Dropping into the lava with a *plop* and an instadeath was what fucked me up as a kid.
It was for a long while, until I found out the same effect is used in the ship in Rusty Bucket Bay and the final boss fight. Afterwards it became amusing and I'd intentionally jump off the cliff in the quiz game section (the game platform had invisible walls) because it was funny to hear the death music interrupt the game show music. Also because it was funny seeing the outcome of the attract mode within the ship where the player slips to his unseen death, and the clouds in the last fight looked like foamy 7up so it was funny seeing him "die "in bubbling lime soda.
>They intentionally made the pathway in the room with Gobi's Valley not hug the wall so an unsuspecting child like me would drop right into the lava
Fucking based of Rare to do that. I died once and was scared shitless and had a fear of going that path for a long time, and it's the only place where I wouldn't jump down for fun.
Also around that same area would be the cheatcode book who had rather creepy music, and none of what he said made sense, made especially scarier when Bottles and Gruntilda would threaten to delete your save if you meddled with cheats.

>>714817452
This but donkey Kong 64
There wasn't a single thing in particular just the music/sound effects and the way in which all the textures had these really dark spots, always felt like something really scary was around the corner

>>714820973
For me it was homer in the first dimension and that south park episode where the shop teacher thinks about his hyper realistic dead wife

>>714816797 (OP)
Everyone talks about scary Zelda enemies, but pic related were the only fuckers that really scared me. Especially in the narrow hallway in the Shadow Temple, where even using the lens of truth doesn't reveal them.

I'm hauling ass down the hallway and BAM, out of literally fucking nowhere, this enormous monstrosity drops right into my face.

Fuck giant skulltulas. Redeads and wallmasters got nothing on them.

Is it cheating to post something from actual horror

>>714852264
No.

Majora's Mask was scary :(
That mask is still scary to this day. I hate it. its creepy. idk how ppoeple have statues of it in their homes

>THE MOOSE IS LOOSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ76wsF4EjE

>>714823856
Because Nintendo devs were pros at taking their own scary experiences and translating them into gameplay. Like Miyamoto's childhood fear of dawgs being turned into the Chain Chomps, and Japanese scaryt ales becoming enemies like the Thwomps, Whomps and Koopas.

>play X-Men on Genesis
>Have to reset the computer in game
>Actually have to press the reset button on the console
I hesitated every time I had to do this

>>714819297
wtf this looks like a modern creepypasta indie game but it's 100% legit.

This game traumatized me, the close up sprite of that ghost was way too scary and unexpected because it replaced the usual Mickey/Goofy game over screens. Anyone else?

>>714828934

Ganondorf giving Impa the biggest backshot of Hyrule

>>714820973
this one was much worse IMO

>>714851412
>skellies on motorbikes
Fucking cool

>>714816797 (OP)
Always got freaked out when I had to go near them in Spyro. Even as an adult later in the remake I had that same feeling.

>>714854251
I will never understand how nothing in this show freaked me out like it did for others

>>714816797 (OP)
then: sonic drowning music
now: the world's infrastructure crumbling before i leave home

>>714841247
TEAR OFFF HIISS FLEESSHH

still burned into my mind to this day, also that hunter boss in the swamp level where its his POV and you have to avoid his shots was the most intense gaming moment young me had seen at that point

Man rayman 2 and 3 were so good and weird it honestly makes me a little sad about the downfall of ubisoft

>>714845523
>rasta DJ robotnik isn't real he can't hurt you

the paper mario series has a few of these. Like ghost t for example. Like he's harmless(usually) but the way the cheerful train music music cuts out when he spawns and the undead ghost theme played when tralking to him was unsettling as a kid. Reading his diary also triggers a special gameover.

I blame these mutated niggas for my savescumming addiction.

>>714820542
Jej

>>714820973
YOU'RE NOT PERFECT

>>714854346
>Fucking cool
Yeah, until they've got a bone to pick with you.

>>714829190
>entire swathes of the game population is infested with this stuff
>no recorded cases of cross infection yet from people consuming infected meat
Spooky

>>714855978
>Mr Grimm and co

>>714826541
>sword of time
esl's should go back to their own internet

>>714819297
Fucking Christ that actually gave me goosebumps what the hell.

>>714855746
You need the mutations to get to the musclegirl timeline though

>>714857020
>use the Oracina of Time to open the Temple of Time to reach a sword that allows you to travel through time
I understand why someone would make that mistake.

>>714822412
Nah I remember feeling scared in games back then that had death pits. Not really mario 64 other than falling off the map.

>>714819394
The damned Lurker Sharks gave me vidya PTSD. Every time I get into deep water in a game, I get a small panic attack.

>>714817452
Fucking faggot

>>714827265
Same but for me it was the pirated NES port, which is somehow even scarier.

>>714840997
>was too young to understand what he was talking about
sorry to hear your parents sucked. this is why age rating should be enforced.

>>714857437
its explicitly called the master sword through the entire game. its a massive plot point. at no point is it ever called the sword of time.

the face in the HUD getting more and more bloody the less health you have scared the shit out of me.
Couldn't stay in the room when my dad played it.