Was there any game in your childhood that sorta creeped you out?

[toptenmaterial]

@Tricky Dick: Yeah, you can get into a rhythm killing those little blobs and bouncing from enemy to enemy. I love using that move on the second quest when everything is easy.

[Rex Dart]

Yeah sounds real creepy.

[toptenmaterial]

Here is ab Uninvited death scene compilation that I found on youtube, regretfully it doesn't have the original music but you get the jist of things....

 

 

 

[+GameGirl420]

i used to be really scared of Haunted House on 2600..

 

 

also the Norfair level music from Metroid..it's an eerie level too and the enemy creatures in that one are weird....

 

 

 

 

and this song from Metroid..

 

[SRGilbert]

The only games that existed when I was a young kid were board games. I don't remember Candy Land or Chutes and Ladders giving me nightmares.

 

Yeah, well we had board games too, and one of them was a Ouija board! Older brothers and sisters can really mess a kid up with one of those things!

[BDW]

Jurassic Park on the SNES. The game still scares me more than the movie.

[toptenmaterial]

@lushgirl: Metroid is very distopic and fucked up. I definitly get a Zelda II vibe from it. Isolated and scary, Samus always feels like she's a million miles from home.

[DickNixonArisen]

I agree. Not .. Scary, per se, but lonely, isolated, thoroughly alien. All those long, sparse, mazelike corridors and that creative, unsettling, haunting music. Having two huge minibosses randomly tucked away really changed the.. rhythm, too. Like in a standard platformer, you know when to expect a boss fight and why. Those just came out of nowhere, and they were tough (when I was a kid, anyway). Great, great job at evoking a mood; and it was an early title for the console.

[Keatah]

The first time through Doom. Not that it freaked me out or anything, Doom is standard stuff as far as FPS games go. But years before the game came around I dreamed about a bunch of those IMPS milling around in the brown maze in the basement. So when I first got to play Doom, I didn't think anything much of it. Then midway through the game I came across a very similar Deja'vu - like configuration. That was scary. But I was already an old fart when Doom came out.

 

Other than that, gamewise, going back 10 or 15 years before that, It would have to be the somewhat-prison-like environment of Oo-Topos.

 

And perhaps a metal crushing maze with aliens from the movie Aliens. You're stuck on a heavy metal ship (itself which is shrinking) with no place to go and aliens slowly closing in around you. And instead of impregnating you, they stretch you and sometimes take you apart, a little. Now that's the stuff Delirious Tremens are made of.

Edited July 3, 2011 by Keatah

[gdement]

When I was little, Missile Command and Haunted House.

Later, DOOM was scary the first time I played it.

 

I still remember my nephew would ask to play DOOM and Quake, but he always chickened out when given the chance. He just wanted to watch me play, but he insisted he wasn't scared.

[toptenmaterial]

When I was little, Missile Command...

Missle Command has a great death screen! I bet a little kid would find that scary. To go back to an earlier post, the death screen reminds me a bit of Zelda II.

[toptenmaterial]

double post, oops.

Edited July 6, 2011 by toptenmaterial

[Kirbot]

Snake, Rattle & Roll for the Nes used to creep me out like you wouldn't believe.

 

Lol, looking back on it, I haven't got a clue why

[Pureisuteshon Tsu]

I played Silent Hill when I was six or seven at a friends house...

 

Scared the bejeezus outta me.

Edited July 7, 2011 by Pureisuteshon Tsu

[DickNixonArisen]

in terms of actual real-life scaryness, missile command is more likely than RE.

 

By that logic, tax avoiders would probably be the most terrifying game for an adult. Or maybe parenting mama or whatever the hell that freaky japanese baby simulator is.

[toiletunes]

Silent Hill 2, 3, 4, all of them really. Play late at night with the lights out and headphones on.

 

I was at this arcade once when I was young, I had spent all my tokens and was just wandering aimlessly, pushing random buttons on random games. Suddenly, this one game says "Quit gawkin' and start chalkin'!" I ran out of there fast, scariest thing ever.

[flynnz]

As someone else stated. Metroid for the NES freaked me out. Between the music and general design of the game, playing that shit at night was a trip hah.

[BydoEmpire]

Rescue on Fractalus. I did jump out of my seat a few times.

[toptenmaterial]

After recently going through some of my old, dusty, creepy and musty NES games again for the first time in a while, I'd like to revive this thread.

[Gamemoose]

During my childhood I'd have to say Haunted House when the beasties came on the screen and knocked out my match and the storm sounds got louder as they got closer....

 

Brilliant game.

[mbd30]

Games weren't particularly scary when I was a child.

 

Okay. "Rescue on Fractalus" is supposed to have some good jump scares, but I've never played that one.

[SoulBlazer]

Not sure if I posted in this originaly, but the System Shock games for the PC are scary as hell.

[Serious]

No game that I can recall creeping me out, but there is a game that makes me nauseated: Fast Eddie..

 

I got the 2600 version of that game on a Friday when I was a kid and got food poisoning really bad that weekend..

 

Even, today, when I play that game, it makes me feel ill..

[gamecat80]

When I was a kid there were a couple games that kinda creeped me out: the music and animation in Dance Fantasy on the C-64, and the dungeon music in Legend of Zelda on the NES.

[RJ]

...Suddenly, this one game says "Quit gawkin' and start chalkin'!" I ran out of there fast, scariest thing ever.

That's a pinball game called 8-Ball Deluxe.