How did they manage to terrify children so much with this?

>>11827531 (OP)
The only remotely unsettling part of this game was the room with the endless stairs.

never happened

>>11827531 (OP)
Dorrie is not scary, come on man. I can believe the eel from Jolly Roger Bay being scary but Dorrie?

>>11827531 (OP)
SM64 is a horror game and I'm tired of people saying it's not

>>11827560
>SM64 is a horror game

>>11827568
zoomers were a mistake

>>11827538
For me? It's the jumpscare piano.

You're mentally ill

>>11827531 (OP)
I saw this earlier and thought it was nonsense then my 5&7 yr old kids asked to play it today and they said it was spooky. I think it's the atmosphere

>>11827531 (OP)
This guy never scared me but the fish with sunglasses that kills you instantly and the piano were tough for a 7 year old

>>11827767
And don't forget about the eel.

>>11827543
Remember when Wario was German?

>>11827574
>>11827568
Some wiki addict just thought the page would look better with a cheesy flashlight angle face, they removed this page in like 2019 for lack of fitting examples and moved what they had to fridge horror, let it go ya old fucks

>>11827560
>you have to be 18 years old to use this site

>>11827559
For little me it was the giant fish in THI, but only the one right beside spawn, not the one in the big ocean

>>11828667
Those things never really scared me as a kid. The catfish in Ape Escape however...

>>11828302
>wiki drama
>fridge horror
i'm good thanks

>>11827531 (OP)
I can't recall being terrified of anything in SM64, but then again I was born before the 90s.

>>11827543
>ywn drink out of the menorah with Peach

>>11828667
Due to Bubba’s trick, Toad and Bowser switched places.

>>11827531 (OP)
he can eat you in the game

>>11827531 (OP)
idk, how did they? were zoomer children just incredible pussies?

>>11829231
>zoomer

i think you meant the eel

>>11829324
the eel can't eat you in the game

>>11827538
It was the foreboding bgm more than the stairs really

>>11828495
You have to check the catalog to understand irony

>>11827538
for me it was the cave with the submarine, i was afraid the big iron door would open and I'd get swallowed in the boundless ocean

>>11827538
Within the context of a children's videogame:
>bowser's laugh first time you step inside
>peach's painting morphing into bowser then the carpet swallows you
>warp into an oversized aquarium with no exit
>boo staring into your soul in the hallway
>LLL painting
>the eel
>the piano
>BBH in its entirety
>TTC room ambience
>endless staircase with the jingle
>falling into the abyss: the game
but just like Ocarina of Time, the juxtaposing atmosphere is what makes these games awesome

>>11830343
dorrie can eat you

>>11830343
>TTC room ambience
the area that looks like a children's playroom complete with a big cartoony fake tree? I could mostly buy the rest of those but come on with the happy toad playroom. TTC itself isn't scary either. HMC with the poison maze and pits and unlit ceilings had way worse vibes. Not to mention the other water levels where you could drown, especially the ones with underwater passages. Getting shocked on a chest could make you shit yourself too but that's not unsettling unless you start fearing that any other innocuous object could shock you.

>>11830521
Yes the third floor strikes a certain mood that can come off as eerie, though it is not "scary". Maybe the clock ticking triggered too much Resident Evil vibes.

I wanted to mention HMC entrance room, my kid self didn't like diving into the tar warp hole. Boulder knocking you down into the abyss, Mario choking on Peach's fart, drowning underwater, drowning in quick sand, all valid.

>>11827531 (OP)
are all those schizo "i swear!!!" horror myths about Tech Demo 64 just a cope because Flop 64 didn't get Resident Evil?

>>11830754
you come across as very immature when you enter a thread about a popular game on a popular console and cope that it is actually not popular. Nintendo existing doesnt negatively affect your life in any way, move on.

>>11830765
I just find your horror myths about M64 threads are always so cringe because they either use fake images, blurry images, romhacks, and low effort memes.
grow up

>>11830754
Is flop 64 in the room with us now?

>>11830768
Its not my thread and im not going to argue with people like you I just want you to know you dont project power when you curse nintendo. I cant imagine anyone other than a pathetic manbaby having such strong opinions on 30 year old plastic consoles.

>>11827531 (OP)
>>11827559
>>11828667
for me it was none of those. it was this mutherfucker right here. i was mortified of that thing. any time i had to go from upstairs to downstairs i had to struggle to be careful and not have the camera get on the boo. i never even learned about the haunted house level until i was well in my teens.

>>11830754
did you get lost on your way to /v/?