First we have blinky bill and his ghost cave… i was like 3 and was scared by everything even a benign pc game, i actually struggle to remember exactly what it was that I was even afraid of.
Next up was 40 winks cos like its spooky
Next up is soul reaver 2 specifically watching my dad play this section collecting the coloured hearts and having them beating and bleeding all over the floor
Scooby doo classic creep capers on the gba very specifically the shaggy clones genuinely terrfied me. Also this is probably one of the best scooby doo games ever made absolutely recommend playing.
I cant find a single good photo of it somehow cos google search is fucked but silent hill 2 ps2 demo in woodside apartments. Idk how or why i had a demo disc for silent hill 2 but i thought the healing drinks were ketchup bottles and id reboot the console when id hear the static and shuffling from the first enemy and spent half my childhood wondering what was stuck in the trash chute.
Trash chute JPEG living rent free in my head for years
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As a kid, any game that had what TV Tropes calls a “womb level”
I felt indifferent to flesh walls for some reason. I think i developed the fear of being eaten alive later when the peter jackson king kong movie came out with the bug trench scene
Shoutout to the Bottom of the Well in Ocarina of Time.
I didn’t even make it that far. Seeing Hyrule Castle Town destroyed and filled with freaky zombie things was enough to keep me up at night.
I couldn’t finish the Deku Tree for a while. I heard spiders I couldn’t see and I turned the game off.
Yep! Same
I thought “oh my god, is the rest of the game going to be this horrific nightmarescape”? I almost didn’t want to play it anymore after that… I felt so much relief when I walked out to Hyrule field and it brightened up again.
Shadow Temple boat ride, plus the wallmasters in Forest Temple for me.
I was wondering when someone was going to make a playable version of Skinamerink and the answer was 30 years ago
Back in '99 playing Ocarina of Time for the first time the ceiling hands in the Forest Temple scarred the shit out of me
The forest temple scared the crap out of me as a kid, as did the bottom of the well.
I think for the forest temple a big part of it was just the discordant music
Those wallmasters tho
Subnautica scared the shit out of me as an adult in my 30s lol
Only tangentially related to the question, but I always felt like Donkey Kong Country 3 had some sort of…mysterious, haunting vibe to it. Like something in the game world was just…off. I think maybe the music fed into that, but the atmosphere felt a little spooky, even in all the bright happy areas. Never scared me really, but the vibe and mood have stuck with me all these years.
Anyone else get that from the game?
Other than that, a lot of Silent Hill 2 scared me, but I can’t remember any specific parts that jump out in particular. I just remember being scared of it and trying to not play it at night. Made it through the game a few times though growing up. Other people mentioned a few specific points in Ocarina of Time that I agreed with.
Oddly enough, yeah. Something felt “off” about that game as a kid and I couldn’t place it. I’d played through the first two over and over again, especially 2, but I could never get through 3 for that reason. Looking at it today, there’s absolutely nothing I can find that would give it that feeling, but as a kid it definitely felt “wrong”.
Yeah, I really liked the game itself (the DKC platforming games are some of my all time favorites), but…just, something…
yeah, i’ve never sat down and tried to figure out what it is but i know what you mean
I also got those vibes. I know the DKC3 soundtrack was a different composer, so it has it’s own subdued vibe that’s distinct from the first two games. I remember a youtube video, that I of course cannot find now, that talked about this at length.
As an example of what I mean, the overworld themes of the first two games heavily use horns, but the third does not for either its Northern Kremisphere or its submap areas.
Oh and one more is abes oddysee or exodus i cant remember where there was a scene with abe with his eyes and mouth sewn closed and i cant find it but it freaked me the fuck out. Also the screen where you can make him fart didnt please me for some reason.
I remember me and some other kids watching an older kid play through Resident Evil 2 at a friend’s house in 1998 and being scared out of our minds
I used to fuck around with the game genie and the sega genesis. I think my console had a problem but sometimes when I’d boot up Aladdin it’d corrupt the splash sega screen and scare the pants of me. I didn’t touch the console for days after that lmao.
Tomb Raider, the lost valley level scared me as a kid, not because of the allosaurus but because of the pitch black dark skybox with no stars. I thought lara was in hell or something as a kid and gave me the willies, silly, I know.
Ah that reminds me the big wasp things towards the end of tomb raider 3 scared the crap out of me.
And the final boss of TR1 cos ofc it did it was horrid
Don’t forget the final atlantis level in tr 1, the walls are living flesh, god damn
Clone lara was creepy as all hell
Fans call it “Bacon Lara” and I cannot unsee lmao
E.T. Phone home
THOSE RIBS AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Tomb Raider 1 had flesh atlantean mutants that would come alive to fight you, it was pretty scary
Last Half of Darkness. Found it on a shareware CD back in '94 or so. Pretty tame by today’s standards, but they created a lot of atmosphere with a PC beeper, plain text descriptions and a 16 colour palette. 13 year old me hadn’t ever seen a horror movie and wasn’t used to the idea of jumpscares.
If you know, you know.
I watched when my big brother played Silent Hill one night, and the locker poltergeist gave me nightmares for a long time
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I had to get my brother to play the undercity section of KotOR, the rakghouls (space zombies) scared me too much. It doesn’t help that the people living inside the dilapidated outcast village tell you that you’ll get infected by a single bite and transform into a horrible monster if you go outside the walls. Not to mention the fact that several villagers are sick in quarantine, and will transform if you approach them without the cure that you get a while later.
And of course, the first time you approach the village gate you see a villager begging to be let back in as he’s being chased by one of the creatures. You have to choose whether to let him in and fight the rakghouls or let him die (which the gate guard begs you to do, for the safety of the village). They don’t look super intimidating in retrospect, but I literally wouldn’t set one foot outside of the gates until my brother showed me that they don’t actually infect your character with the disease (it’s just a poison DoT in game)
I can’t think of any games but Large Marge in one of the Peewee movies haunted me for years
Metroid Fusion when the clone Samus was around. The first “cutscene” where you see it blast through a wall and then jumpscare you with a close up used to make me shit myself, damn
the Aladdin SNES game scared the fuck out of me as a kid, Jafar’s snake form made me cry
SNES Jurassic Park was also pretty spooky, the first person sections and the T Rex coming out of nowhere
