Has a video game ever scared you when you were a kid? Whether it be level, music, character, or anything else

The weirdly smooth animation of his pulsing fingers combined with the fact that a glitch lets him one-hit kill you even if you have rings / are Super Sonic

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Mingy Jongo
When he zapped me I got scared and instantly turned the console off.

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Mario 64 stairs and bowser

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I watched my father play Silent Hill 2 when I was only 6 or 7. It gave me nightmares that stayed with me all of my life. I've since fallen in love with the series by watching other people play it. Right after I finish my Res 2 playthrough I'll be playing SH2 for the first time and I can't wait.

Also, yeah. Games scare me pretty frequently. It really doesn't take much to spook me. Great sound direction and the fear of the unknown are a games best tools. After a playthrough or 2 the game loses its spook factor a bit though. I know that some people claim to never be scared by games, but I just can't help but feel they aren't immersed enough. If I use game logic then it isn't scary anymore and that's not what I want.

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Here's a bad end that made me cry as a kid.

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I was more a teenager than a kid but this place still fucking shook me really hard for some reason

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Small personal story:

>used to love going to the arcade as a kid
>was really into fighting games, especially MvC2
>also absolutely terrified of zombie shit at that age
>local arcade puts the House of the Dead 2 machine right next to the MvC2 machine so I always have zombies in my periphery when I'm playing MvC2

I eventually manned up and played HotD 2 to get over my zombie fear, but I was gripped with fear every time I went to the arcade for a while

A friend let me borrow REmake when we were kids and I thought my parents wouldn't let me play so I got up in the dead of night to play it in the dark.

I got to the second zombie and shut the game off and returned it the next day. That shit was too much for me to handle
Finally finished it last year actually, really solid

the bionicle game. i don't know why

Torvus Bog in Metroid Prime 2, the light world version wasn't so bad until you reach the underwater part with the giant fish swarming at you. The Dark version, I couldn't play no further because of how unnerving it was back when I was a kid.

Definitely the last chase sequence in the Spider-Man game for the PS1. That scream that Carnage/doc-ock has gave my nightmares.

The mani mani statue in Earthbound among a few other things. While I still like the game, the uneasiness of that and other parts of it still keep me from ever wanting to replay.

Half-Life's underwater sections were unplayable for me at first and I had to skip them with cheats. I have a phobia of deep water from nearly drowning as a child. Fortunately I have gotten over it and can now play the whole story without issue.

The sequel though has those poison headcrabs that look like spiders, and I can't go anywhere near those things. I've yet to do a full uninterrupted playthrough of Half-Life 2.

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Some of these Army Men scenes
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The black hole level in star fox was always eerie for me not just because of the theme of the level but also because of the backstory involving James. The music and the visuals didn't help.

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I remember being very weary around windows after watching my older brother play RE1

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This part got me in the remake. I really want to give the original a try some day. I wonder if it has what it take to spook me. SH1 managed to really get to me, but SH is known for the god-tier sound direction that really pushes the fear element.

Tenchu the manji cult level. The music was scary and the atmosphere was so erie

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I used to be terrified of playing the first Monster Hunter game on the PS2 because of the egg gathering mission, where Rathalos chases after you when you steal his eggs, which made me drop the game despite how cool the whole thing was.
It was only later in high school that I got over it when I played MHFU on the PSP,

It's interesting how in Remake 2 Zombies can't grab you from the windows. I wonder why they did that.

pretty much most of the phazon mines in MP1. also the part in phendrana drifts when you get the thermal visor, the lights go out and youre assaulted by shadow pirates

Evil Crash in Twinsanity scared me. The thought of being trapped in a fucked up parallel universe plus the general lack of polish in those later cutscenes because the game was rushed all built up.

Mega Man X4 - Sigma head boss. Looked creepy

Jet Force Gemini - The zombie planet's OST. Sounds creepy as fuck
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Shadow Man N64 - That entire game was creepy.

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likelikes and wallmasters from ocarina of time fucked with me hard. I would scream at the TV loud enough to alert the house. And sometimes when i was home alone i would get scared a wallmaster would grab me if i stood still in one place for too long. I would cry running from room to room just to not get grabbed.

>Having to go down the fucking catacombs on Tawfret to find tribals
>Find one of the Floyd pieces down there
>Grabbing it causes a loud as fuck fucking jingle to play oh god
>mfw launching into the goddamn ceiling from shitting myself so hard

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boomp

I once got this screen when I was like 7, didnt knew what it mean but it scared the shit out of me. My safe file went blank after it, not sure what triggered, since both the game and the console were official products, I just remember thinking that maybe the game or the SNES got a "virus".

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This shit
This shit right here.
Scared me shitless as a kid
Fuck this game
I can still hear the screams

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Monster ock was so fucking left field, the fuck was Activision thinking.
now add him in the next Spiderman game so these kids can learn, 4K monster ock

I vaguely remember being absolutely terrified of an enemy in rayman 2.
He’d be standing on the other side of a pit and you had to run behind him to progress. His attack was jumping on rayman several times once he catched you. Scared the shit out of me as a kid.

Back when i played Chrono Trigger i got to the future, and played trough without a problem
Then i got to that Screen where they tell you Lavos just appeared one day from the ground and fucking killed everyone i had this moment of Exsistential Dread and it was the first time i've ever felt it "W-What if there's no hope for humanity...."
after that i got sad when the "and the future refused to change" screen appeared

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Mortal Kombat 2. I still find it creepy today, the audio in particular is unsettling compared to other MK games.
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This will sound odd, but the Training Mode in Smash 64 unnerves me. When you play training, the stage backgrounds are replaced with a giant SSB logo. Planet Zebes and Sector Z has the logo be red on a black background, which combined with the training music:
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Unnerves me to this day. I guess the feeling of floating in a void with nothing but that giant red circle is what does it.

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No. Never because I'm not a pussy like you fags.

Instant (you)

When I was young (we talking 7 years old here), I used to watch my uncle play video games. He was mostly playing sports game (Hockey, Footballm etc.), but he wanted to try something different one day so he bought Resident evil. He was beginning a new game and I watched up until the cinematic to the first zombie. I was terrified and it didn't help that he sucked at the game and got bit like three time before figuring out how the gun works. After he finally killed the zombie. I simply walked off the room since I really could do it before as I was literally paralyzed by fear. My fear of zombie stuck with me until they became mainstream.

Just searching back for the image actually gave me the chill a little bit

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I never knew about they hiding in shadows mechanic as a kid

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The beginning to Revenge of Shinobi scared me enough that I never played the game. I was never afraid of thunderstorms either, so I don't know what it was.

The fucking sewer level in Serious Sam First Encounter. Deep dark water with no end in sight with fucking piranhas zooming around trying to kill you, GOD DAMN.

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Also King Boom Boo.
Glad to see him return in Team Sonic Racing

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Doom - Icon of Sin

what made matters worst, I didn't know about firing a rocket, so the monsters kept spawnings, and the level felt impossible

Unironically Luigi's Mansion 1. I didn't do jump scares well as a kid.

This. The Red Deads still give me chills to this day.

Same, but with my step bro. Was 10. Had the volume turned low and freaked out at first zombie. Shut it off. Nightmare for weeks.

Then played RE2 at launch no problem.

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
>Cave Troll was the original Souls boss
>Fangorn Forest in general
>Berserker Uruk Hai

I still get spooked from minecraft sometimes. I hate the sounds Endermen make. Gives me chills.

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The eel in Mario 64 and the transformation masks scenes in Majora's Mask come to mind.

>water level with big creature
>open level with giant creature
>on high building with giant creature
>giant flying creature

>games given me fear of giants or giant things

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The Unown radio broadcast really creeps me out, even nearly 20 years later. It gets me in a way that nothing else can, not even actual horror games.

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Seeing that stork reminds me of how much I never liked the faux 3D models used in the first Yoshi's Island. Especially the way Yoshi and Baby Mario face the camera, unblinking, for an extended period. Always left me somewhat spooked as a kid.

This has happened to a number of my SNES games. I guess it's a sign of the battery going bad? It was only a matter of time, I suppose.

Wojigairon from Megaman Legends 2. Now, the design isn't what made it scary. It's the fact this HUGE motherfucker was walking around in the level, but you only caught a glimpse of his head through a window. All I can remember thing was " I hope I don't have to fight whatever the fuck that is walking around"

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My parents presented it to me when I was 10, should I ever say how fucking scary it was? I have had nightmares almost for 2 years after, especially after prison level.

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Chemical Plant Zone actually instilled two fears: underwater levels in any video game, I actually still haven't finished Banjo Tooie because of it; and the abyss, or voids if you will. I'll almost never break game boundaries. Even doing something as simple as taking Yoshi underwater in Sunshine I start panicking when I see Mario standing on top of nothing but black abyss. I hate bottomless pits and I hate being stranded in sky boxes while the map is somewhere off in the distance

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You are like a little baby.

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The intro to Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare seriously scared me for some reason. It felt really claustophobic, way heavier than Silent Hill or Resident Evil.

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As a kid, got a mental trauma when this boss has eaten the main hero alive and spat out his bones.

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>Be 5 years old
>Play Sonic 2
>Listen to some tracks in the Sound Test
>This plays
youtu.be/FcR81-nhKk0
>Found literally nowhere else in the game
>Creepy as fuck

That's when I stopped playing video games

This might seem like creepypasta, but I remember playing a bootleg Mario game way back in the early 90s that scared me because when Mario was killed his skeleton slowly ascended into the top of the level while creepy music played. Anyone knows what bootleg was it? I haven't been able to find it since.

Also the fire deaths in the Adventure Island games, they are not scary anymore but to child me they were.

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>Released in 2011
Oh man time is going by so fast

awesome music though
youtu.be/xFcJYjCPSpI

I was scared of the level fish food frenzy in DKC3. For a while i played the game until that point and then reset the save file to start from zero again.

Resident Evil 2 and Majoras Mask gave me nightmares as a kid.

The big frog thing with huge growing fangs in Spyro scared the shit out of me. Same thing with the evil Snail in that one crappy PS2 spongebob game

Also the main menu music. What was Hackurai thinking!?

>Also the fire deaths in the Adventure Island games, they are not scary anymore but to child me they were.

Jesus, this.

When i was a kid(9-10 yo) i had to stop playing Majora's Mask due to the fucking Sea Snakes. A friend of mine had to help me get the stars involving that fucking Eel in M64 too.

This room scared the shit out of me, I would refuse to go into it

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Can't remember exactly which one but it was Turok
The lizard bois scared the shit out me

Anything with random aliens. It could be obvious like in Majora's Mask, or harmless like in Animal Crossing.

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R type 3. You had to fight a bunch of weird bosses.

One of them was a giant pulsating heart with a giant worm thing gliding through the tubes. Yeah.

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If I were a game dev I'd totally put unused tracks in a sound test just to fuck with people

Minecraft
FUCK caves. Especially with that one creepy ambience track.

the alligator from that one level in Sonic Heroes
fuck that

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I was afraid of the dinosaur boss in Yoshi story but to be fair I was 4

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When I was very young, Medievil did, which is kind of funny to think about now.

For some odd reason, the final boss of Kirby’s Dream Land 3 is the only thing that’s ever given me nightmares. I was playing the shit out of the Resident Evil games at the time but Zero’s phase 2 animation is what made little me lose sleep.

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In hindsight I guess he wasn't a boss. Still scared me though

Fuck carnage ock, my heart is speeding up just thinking of that chase mission

fuck sinistar.

i swear as a kid playing that shit and then going in the dark i was going to see that shithead scream

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yes

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This shit right here. The bastards made no sound so when you turn the corner and that bastard is all up in your face I am not ashamed to say that I had nightmares

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>fable 2
>too young to really notice any of the flaws in it
>get to that one part near the end where you're in the dream with your sister
>that one part where she keeps trying to convince you not to go to a certain place
>everything gets a red filter and your sister suddenly screams really loud
it literally made me put the controller down and stop playing. i was so scared i told my little brother not to play it, protectively

Came in here to post this.

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I'm scared of how much I want to fuck a squid

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>mom's friend has two kids I played with
>one day the girl is getting teased about being afraid of pic related
>straight up tell her something like "haha it's just a dolphin game it's not scary"
>"YOU PLAY IT THEN user"
>boot it up
>immediately feel creeped out and an oppressive amount of dread
>never tease her about it again

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accidentally dislodging the cartridge in my snes at 11pm in an otherwise unlit, empty room causing the game to blurt out a shrill 16-bit scream is probably the closest i've come to true terror.

Twisted Metal Black intro

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I absolutely hated this game over screen as a kid, it did it's job way too well. Just the music making you feel so put on the spot with that light passive aggressive tune on top of that nervous sounding violin urging you to make the right decision by hitting that continue button but knowing that ultimately it's your decision to make, then you hit no and the music all of a sudden is so dramatic and disappointed about you giving up

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did shutting down a windows xp computer spook anyone else out

Grabbed By the Ghoulies’ “Trophy” Room always unsettled me, even today

when i was 3 or 4 i was sad as fuck when people died in f zero.
Like could go to a walk to refresh my ideas

Shit, I played this as a kid and had the same feeling when I saw Lavos wreck the planet. It was the first time I can recall thinking about everything I loved dying.

That one level in Drake's Fortune when you find out there are monsters.

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What game?

>hear about Herobrine on Minecraft
>lol silly
>check patch notes
>Removed Herobrine
>What.jpg
>walk in mine
>hear some whispering and breathing sound
>nope the fuck out of there

Yes the piano in mario64. I used to avoid that room in boos mansion like the plague

The water level from tmnt nes scared the f out of me. Never beat that level to this day

343 Guilty Spark.
>the yellow on your radar, mistaking flood for allies
>the dripping green goo from the ventilation
>soldier freaking the fuck out
>eerie music when you walk into the room across the bridge
The buildup to the flood in general is what got me

Sunny Villa from Spyro 3 scared the shit out me when I was 5, there were these big enemies eating drumsticks and I thought they were eating the legs of elder dragons. I couldn't have guessed that giant chickens existed.

I swear kids these days are so fucking gullible, what's more stupid is that the whole fact about herobrine is that it's notch's brother or whatever and notch had to repeatedly explain to 10 years olds he doesn't even have a brother.

I too felt this fear but not to the extent you did.

N64 ReDeads still terrify me to this day

Was an early teenager, but Total Miner: Forge, some Xbox 360 Minecraft knockoff was pretty creepy at times; you're essentially tasked with following creepy riddles and blueprints to the bottom of the map (which is well over 5000 blocks deep), and it plays spooky music and seemingly random times. I think at some point you reach hell, but apparently you can dig past it.

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I don't think the timestamp worked: the monster shows up at 10:50

Played Silent Hill 2 at the age of 10. I learned things that I wasn't ready to learn about.

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Used to think Doom 3 was the scariest game ever made.
It did have some creepy ambience

Doom 3 definitely had its moments here and there.

>trying to 100% lego star wars
>get really excited about what the gold bricks are gonna be
>finally get them all
>build that motherfucker
>EVERYTHING UNLOCKED!!!
>it spouts coins that are now useless
>get a terrifying feeling of existential dread now that there's almost nothing to do in the game
>turn console off ASAP
>get uncomfortable about the game for weeks

When that game came out I played it lights off, headphones on all night.

Scared the bejeezus outta myself every time I saw something out of the corner of my eye.

What part?

For me, it was the part where you were looking for the helicopter pieces and there was whistling in the distance

Lego Island is such a wonderfully weird game

One of the Donkey Kong Country game over screens frightened me to the point where i fled the room and fell down a flight of stairs.

The music in the runescape wilderness scared me when I was at the edge of the map and carrying a lot of valuable loot. My parents weren't home and it was late at night so I was spooked.

Serious Sam, all the screaming and weird monster models were fuckin spooky as a 5 year old

The gore splatter in Jet Force Gemini made me put down the game for a few weeks.

Yeah, when I was 9 I was really scared of playing Grand Theft Auto 4 in the dark, because I was always scared of muggers. Ironically a mugger function wasn't added until GTA 5's online.

Duelist of the Roses
The whole atmosphere gave me boosegumps
Didn't help that I always played in the middle of the night home alone

Was it 3, where Kiddie and Dixie are in a crib

This entire game scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

youtube.com/watch?v=p_h0myFw7NI

Aaaaaa

I was stuck on The Pit in Escape from Butcher Bay for about 3 years because my tight pink ass couldn't handle it

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When I was very young and I didn't know hardly anything about video games I was at some older kid's house and watched him play a little Ocarina of Time. The only thing I remember was Link going into Hyrule Field and it turning to night and those undead guys popping out. That scared the crap out of me

>Liking your new DK game fuck boy?

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Monster House and Barnyard for the GBA

I didn't watch either movie prior to playing, and I was terrifed as a kid playing these games. RIP Ben the Cow

Also Monster house was just hard af when I was younger.

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Might of been, I was really young.

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For some reason I used to be scared of Paratrooper.

The music for that level was eerie

I never see anyone else mention this.
Am I the only one who found this terrifying?

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youtu.be/hFxLW2wLN0A?t=31

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Educational games from the 90s are nightmare fuel.
Everything about the, the visuals, the voices, and the soundtracks.

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Same here, the crying was creepy as hell

The first level of Tomb Raider with the cave and the lions used to scare the ever living SHIT out of me. There's no fucking music, just really eerie sound effects. Damn. They really just throw you in some pitch black cave with lions in the first level. That honestly messed me up as on onlooking toddler.

TR Mansion used to also scare me a lot, I think a lot of people found it a little creepy. I used to find the freezer eerie as shit, and that one dark hole in the wall...

Something about old ps1 games is so unnerving. They feel almost alive to me, like all the music could just stop and some glitch demon could pop out from nowhere. I can't put my finger on it but. Even today some ps1 games give me strange vibes.

And then you realized HoTD 2 is genuinely one of the funniest games ever