games that seemed scary when you were a kid

mikejmoffitt · Post by **mikejmoffitt** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:32 pm

When I was young the baby grand piano in the Mario 64 ghost house would scare the shit out of me when it begins snapping.

Drew Sebastino · Post by **Drew Sebastino** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:25 pm

mikejmoffitt wrote:When I was young the baby grand piano in the Mario 64 ghost house would scare the shit out of me when it begins snapping.

I think that scared everyone. (I know it scared me!)

Hamtaro126 · Post by **Hamtaro126** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 2:23 am

Treasure island Dizzy for the NES: Music still cringes me to this day, Not as much as the past play-thrus of it, so it came and gone

And yes, the ICOM series: More of the same

drk421 · Post by **drk421** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 11:22 am

Beyond the Forbidden Forest (C64)

Holy crap, that game would scare the hell out of me. I could barely play it, and it was hard as hell too.

Jedi QuestMaster · Post by **Jedi QuestMaster** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 11:32 pm

Metroid easily comes to mind, but I've played the hell out of that game now and now that I pretty much know where everything is, it kind of loses its eery presence.

Friday the 13th is still kinda creepy.

Movax12 wrote:Maniac mansion (Afraid of getting caught.)

I completely forgot about that.

Erockbrox wrote:I saw Doom for the first time on the SNES when I was in 3rd grade. It scared the heck out of me back then.

Same with me! But I never really revisited it. Wasn't there some sort of death room or something?

ShaneM wrote:DKC2 is really a dark-themed game. And there are wayyy too many bones in the game as well as ghosts

I found the "blood water" kind of disturbing.

Also notably creepy is Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival. I mean, look at that! Isn't it some weird shit?

Asaki · Post by **Asaki** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 8:13 am

Jedi QuestMaster wrote:Wasn't there some sort of death room or something?

Every room in DOOM is a "death room".

Jedi QuestMaster · Post by **Jedi QuestMaster** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:47 am

I mean that you couldn't escape from. You had to die.

Post by **tepples** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:55 am

At the end of the first episode ("Knee-Deep in the Dead", E1M8 "Phobos Anomaly"), the final room contains a hurt floor and monsters that will damage you until you run out of HP.

Asaki · Post by **Asaki** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:03 am

Jedi QuestMaster wrote:I mean that you couldn't escape from. You had to die.

Yeah, there's a lot of those. Most of them have lava/slime or some other kind of trap to kill you, though...I wouldn't be surprised if there's one where you're just -stuck-, though. I swore I found one in Heretic, but I may have been cheating...or just plain clueless.

Actually, I forgot we were talking about the SNES port. I don't know too much about that one specifically, I only played it long enough to say "neat".

Jedi QuestMaster · Post by **Jedi QuestMaster** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:21 am

tepples wrote:At the end of the first episode ("Knee-Deep in the Dead", E1M8 "Phobos Anomaly"), the final room contains a hurt floor and monsters that will damage you until you run out of HP.

Yeah, that was probably it. It was from the PC version.

Movax12 · Post by **Movax12** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:35 am

I wasn't a kid when I played it, but I played Doom 3 with the lights out and the sound up.. fun but terrifying!

When I was somewhat young, D on 3do was frightening.

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