Great video Pete! Definitely some traumatizing moments in there, lol. For me, it would have to be the final cutscene in Final Fantasy VIII where the characters start phasing in and out of blackness. Something about that scene where Rinoa turns around without a face... Also, the eel in Mario 64 was always pretty scary to see swimming around. Even though the draw distance wasn't that great, just seeing the shadow in the distance was pretty scary for me as a kid. Anyways, great video!
Beautiful memories there. The underwater eel in Mario 64 stands out for me, as does doing a 180 turn in Goldeneye 007 and seeing a soldier's face right close up! Special mention also goes to the old woman who calls for the soldier in the village in A Link To The Past
In Sonic when you start running out of air in the water levels the music always made me panic and freak out as a kid. Also didn't like playing Resident Evil 2 at night.
I was almost going to include GoldenEye! I am glad I am not the only one that got a bit freaked out by the enemies in that game, jump scares behind doors!
That fucking eel in Super Mario 64 scared me shitless when I was little. I got the game for Christmas along with my N64 and I remember playing the game that morning, going to Jolly Roger Bay, swimming through the water, listening to calming music and suddenly that eel pops up and scares the piss outta me.
When I was 8 years old, I made it to the last Bowser on Super Mario 64 and what was scary about that part was how Bowser looked like, how the music in there sounded like, and how Bowser charged at you when your far away from him and that scared the crap out of me when I was 8. I never went back there again until I was 11 years old, I face my fear and defeated the last Bowser and saw the ending. I felt really confident afterwards that I will never forget that moment in my life.
Video games and things that used to scare me: -The dragons and dark mazes from Adventure (Atari 2600) -The Hallmonsters from Venture (Atari 2600) -Demons to Diamonds used to scare me for some reason (Atari 2600) -Hover Force also used to scare me for some reason (Intellivision) -The robots from Night Stalker (Intellivision) -Andor Genesis from Xevious (Arcade) -Sandopolis Act 2 from Sonic & Knuckles because of the ghosts, the timed puzzles and the fact that you have to constantly light up the level or else it will become dark and the ghosts will appear (Megadrive) -The gallery room from Luigi Mansion because sometime you can hear weird machine noises and that used to scare me... (Gamecube) -Half-Life 2, In Highway 17, at the Bridge Point, there's a big house and a poison zombie at the second floor. That zombie used to scare the crap out of me. (PC) I think that's it!
I can totally get the Sonic scare! Wow, that really brings it back...and you have rekindled my love for all things Sonic!! Crash kinda took over but I want to revisit again now.
I hate being chased too. What I really hate in games is when the enemy chasing you is programmed in such a way that makes it impossible to hide. In Super Mario Sunshine,the manta ray creeps me out because you THINK you can hide away from it in water,but you get chased in the water too. In Super Mario Galaxy,the Shark in Bonefin Galaxy is a special kind of creepy. You carry on riding the Koopa shell,but you're not sure if he's behind you or not,sometimes you crash into him. It's hard to hit him.
I think one of the defining scary moments is dealing with sonic drowning. The timer when that happens is so intense, and you get so scared of it because your rushing for a way to get an air bubble or make it out of the water. To this day my wife can't handle watching characters drown regardless if its in movies or video games. I also remember super Metroid giving me the chills especially because of its ambient but yet terrifying music and when you arrive on the planet, its so empty.
When I was I believe 5 years old, I was on the forest temple and the huge skulltula's would always scare me when they would drop down when I didn't know it.
I got scared of the first boss in Ocarina of Time and never played it again for years until I finished Twilight Princess and felt guilty for not playing OoT thinking back Super Smash Bros, Pokemon and Kirby 64 were the only N64 games that didn't scare me as a kid. I was also scared by Banjo Tooie, Turok, a game made by Rare with a blue hared boy and girl and they fought giant bugs.... sigh...
One of the Castlevania 64 games had a hedge maze where a frankenstein guy chased you around and he was impossible to kill. it was pretty intense as a kid
The sewer level in Shadows Of The Empire for Nintendo 64 when I first fell in the water and saw the dianogas for the first time, which water levels have always made me cautious since then. Also PS2's Haunting Ground is an extremely scary game at night.
The Level "Catacombs of the Talion" in Tomb Raider 2 had one particulary scary section. Fans must remember, you were in a dark hall, there was almost nothing to see, you heard just those awful screams from the yetis. It was intense.
Don't worry Pete, you're not the only one that was scared of the lava in Sonic! My heart used to beat a mile a minute when that part came up! Great video, funny stuff.
A lot of scary stuff showed up in Zelda Majora's mask for me as a kid. A lot of things scared me there such as the redeads, the cursed father in closet, practically everything in Ikana is filled with nightmares when you're a kid.
Metroid freaked me out. Somehow it really conveyed a sense of being completely alone in a hostile environment. Most of the enemies are passive, but then you encounter the Metroids and they attack you relentlessly. Having to escape the planet while the timer runs down always got my heart racing.
The areas in Ico where you're high on the castle walls outside used to scare me. They'd give me vertigo, and my stomach felt like I was on a carnival ride the whole while.
I was about 12 years old when Sonic the Hedgehog came out and I always got scared in the Labyrinth Zone when I couldn't find an air bubble. I've always been scared of drowning, and if I couldn't see an air bubble on the screen and that panic music started to play it terrified me. When Sonic actually drowned it only confirmed my fears of going into the deep end of swimming pools and lakes.
The controller rumbling when Nemesis was about to chase me , then continuing after I left the room. Resident Evil 4 where I started hearing the chainsaws
Great video Pete, love the camera angle for some reason haha. One game that creeped me out as a kid was Perfect Dark. Just something about the aliens and conspiracies really scared me as a child. Especially the shit about Area 51. I still played it and loved it though. Happy Halloween!
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on PS2/Xbox. There was a moment when you were traveling through Fangorn Forest, it was completely silent, and a Beserker would rise out of the ground/leaves and start swinging his sword thing like a baseball bat. Still scares the living daylights out of me. Not to mention he's brutal to take down! Really fun video, Pete! Thanks for sharing!
Scariest video game moment for me growing up was the dead ghost kong in Donkey Kong 64, the music that would play and the screams and laughter and the face when you opened that door... I used to get nightmares for weeks
Eels particularly were one of my worst fears. From super mario 64, on jolly roger bay, with the giant eel, and on Banjo-Tooie, Jolly Roger's Lagoon/Atlantis, with electric eels that sting you. That was enhanced by the fact that underwater levels scared me because I was afraid I would run out of air, and being freaked out by the drowning music in sonic.
Sonic 2- Chemical Plant Zone- When I was younger, I could never get past the platforms above the water. When the drowning song came out; the panic that hits you as a kid is terrifying!
Ill admit Twilight Princess when youre in the water temple, the first time playing it I nearly freaked sinking down the boss area. Ive always been afraid of deep dark water though..
One moment that was disturbing as a kid wasn't completely in the game. I was at a dentist's office or something that had an n64 with Mario 64 in it, but there were no controllers plugged into the console because the controller ports were covered in teeth marks. And I just remember Mario's severed head spinning around and looking depressed and I thought that he was like that because the ports were messed up, like he knew somehow.
Monster Party on the NES! I think it was the intro cut scene that used to freak me out, although watching it now, it's not at all like I remember it. Weird.
I was also afraid of hyrule at night in ocarina. Whats worse is when you know its about to turn into night and your running for the town and they lift up the bridge and trap you outside until morning. As a kid I would get so scared. Another thing that scared me in ocarina was when you walk out of the temple of time, and those mummy looking zombie things would be sitting there. Then they would screech and then grab ahold of link. Omg I use to be afraid to leave the temple, when i was younger.
If you play The Sims, when you hear that Burglar music for the 1st time it's just so scary. When I was younger, my sims were at work and out of nowhere a Burglar arrived. I almost crapped my pants and had to mute the game after that.
Whoa! That sonic moment is really similar to this bit in The Lion King on SNES in the graveyard level where you have to jump all the way up this massive cliff and there's this acid fountain that's slowly also creeping up the cliff - PURE TERROR.
Sonic 2 Chemical Plant Zone Act 2. I would, without fail, always end up really deep underwater with no way out. Whenever I heard that drowning music kick in, I would freak out, jump out of my seat, and reset my Genesis to stop it before Sonic died.
as a kid i was afraid of the zingers from dkc 1 and 2 (maybe still in 64) that did not help the fact that i was scared outta my wit when i first encountered the big bee race in dkc2
In Ocarina of Time, I always hated when you would walk near the Undead and then time would freeze and you would hear that loud scream. It got me everytime!
I dont remember being scared of games as a kid but I do remember one part in Paper Mario: TTYD that scared me. The train part in which you must go into an empty room and use vivian to hide under a shadow and a ghost appears. Made my heart jump a bit as a kid.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that CHOMPING PIANO in Mario 64. That was probably the first time I ever jumped out of my seat and dropped my controller from a video game. Also, the bottom of the well and Shadow Temple from OoT really scared me
Donkey Kong 64. You head into the Aztec temple, it's dark, you're alone. You finally get the Golden Banana and you think you're safe. No, a crosshair lands on you and a voice says "Get out.." You have a minute to get back out. Scarred me for years.
just last year i tried the secret message code in sonic cd, it creeped me the hell out and im 32 yrs old! as a kid the piano in mario 64 scared the hell outta me, abyss mvsc2, the lil babies on zombies were horrifying, mansion of terror double dragon 2, medusa castlevania, grim reapers on paperboy, bowser supermario world, the confession room in castlevania symphony of the night tops all scary moments for me!
what scared me was ocarina of time zombies in castle town as adult link,the water spiders forget the world but in super mario 64 as wel as the boo castle , and donkey country 64 the ocean itself scared me
Pete, you have got big balls for admitting to be scared, even as a kid, from these games. Bravo! The only time as a kid I remember somehow getting scared\"scared" was when I got the first Zombi game (the original by Ubi) in 89-90, but not by that much since I was already just in my early teens. It was mostly the music and I guess the zombies lol.
I was afraid of being chased but also really afraid of drowning. When i was little i always hated water levels with oxygen meters. Ratchet & Clank Blackwater city... my heart beated so fast when you had to escape from drowning.
minecraft at night was always pretty scary for me, especially if I have a lot of stuff on me. I used to physically jump whenever a creeper blew up behind me in game whenever i was first getting into it
Uncharted series can have it's horror moments, normally towards the end of the game. Most of the Tomb Raider games have their creepy moments too, they turned up the horror factor by quite a few notches on the reboot.
When I was really young I always got freaked out by a part in the PC game Freddie the Fish where you had to go around a sunken pirate ship, the skeletons and music were so creepy to me and I would get out of there as fast as I could.
The first time playing through Metal Gear Solid 2, when you have to swim through the flooded level in the B2 Core. When Stillman's body popped out I had to wait days before going back to the game.
Still to this day, the Lurker Shark from "Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy" scares me. Just that heartbeat for whenever it's close makes my heart race.
Dude I used to have like anxiety attacks when I was about to drown in Sonic 1 and 2, like in Chemical Plant in Sonic 2 when the water starts to rise, I would lose my shit haha. Resident Evil 2 when you fight the the Tyrant, Resident Evil 1 fighting the Snake, and Resident Evil Outbreak the leech monster that chases you through the entire level and even Resident Evil 3 anytime the Nemesis appeared and you'd here him moan "Staaaaaaars" . I hated the Pyramid level in Zombies ate my neighbors too, those damn mummies!
Somewhat related. I had that chase fright in warioland for the gameboy where that spikey block chases you. If you didn't have the right power ups it got realy tense.
As a kid, I was scared of most of the things you listed too (omg @ that level of Zombies, and Doom was maddening)... in addition to some extra irrational stuff. The most embarrassing has to be my first experience with OoT. I had only ever seen Lon Lon Ranch at night when I first started playing it, so I thought it was a haunted mansion that only appears when it's dark. That made me avoid it at all costs. I even started to wonder if that's where the Stalchildren were coming from. A curse on the whole area. I would hide or run instead of fighting them usually, but sometimes I would fight the whole night to see if it would make anything happen -- only to be greeted by one REALLY HUGE Stalchild. I procrastinated confronting the 'mansion' for like three play sessions over a couple of days, doing everything else I could before I realized it was the ranch Malon was talking about. LOL A couple more things that had me freaking in OoT: Redeads, the Gibdos that rose from their coffins, Like Likes, Giant Peahats, Leevers, Wolfos, Bubbles, times early on when big hanging Skulltulas would get the jump on me, Wallmasters, the oppressive atmosphere in the bottom of the Well minidungeon and the descent into Hell that was the Shadow Temple (take a close look at the walls in the crypt area -- and those guillotines omg), but perhaps most of all ... DEAD HAND!! The ghost in Link's Awakening and that graveyard had me on edge, and Majora's Mask had creepy things (or creepy feelings at least) left and right! I also found Super Metroid quite intimidating as a kid, and the desert level in Sonic & Knuckles where you have to keep pulling light switches or be trapped in the dark with a bunch of aggressive ghosts. OH, and the Boo Houses in Super Mario World when I first started playing, as well as the final fight with Bowser! Speaking of Mario ... Mario RPG spooked me pretty well with the atmosphere of a few areas and some of the enemy designs. The pirate ship full of ghosts and skeletons clinging to their tombstones, or the giant Blooper Kraken thing.. And I was too scared to even play Castlevania until I got older. lol :) It's funny, cause after I hit my teens is when I started playing actual horror games, but none of them have really been scary to me (possibly because most of them have distractingly crappy gameplay). Maybe the games you don't expect to scare you catch you more off guard...
Lol I totally get what you mean with Sonic 1. That part used to make me so anxious as a kid. When you're young and new to gaming, still not totally used to using a controllr, it could be pretty difficult and the torrent of lava bearing down on you, could really stress you out.
It used to terrify me when getting the metal Mario cap.. I screamed at my mum when she went to put the cart into the system after I first played that part...
The drowning music scared me in Sonic to the point where I would sometimes turn off the game so I wouldn't have to see Sonic drown. And in Mario 64, the giant drain with the powerful suction in Dire Dire Docks scared me. It doesn't even kill you, but if you get to close, there's nothing that you can do. Mario just swims for his life in the other direction to no avail, and you get sucked into the blackness.
I know exactly how you felt when it came to that section in Sonic, i had the same feelings too! being chased is never nice. Excellent video Pete.
Great video Pete! Definitely some traumatizing moments in there, lol. For me, it would have to be the final cutscene in Final Fantasy VIII where the characters start phasing in and out of blackness. Something about that scene where Rinoa turns around without a face... Also, the eel in Mario 64 was always pretty scary to see swimming around. Even though the draw distance wasn't that great, just seeing the shadow in the distance was pretty scary for me as a kid. Anyways, great video!
Beautiful memories there. The underwater eel in Mario 64 stands out for me, as does doing a 180 turn in Goldeneye 007 and seeing a soldier's face right close up! Special mention also goes to the old woman who calls for the soldier in the village in A Link To The Past
In Sonic when you start running out of air in the water levels the music always made me panic and freak out as a kid. Also didn't like playing Resident Evil 2 at night.
I remember playing the first Harry Potter game on the PS1 and having to go up to Ron's attic to beat this giant troll looking thing, traumatizing
Haunted Chase in Donkey Kong Country 2. It still gives me the shivers
Being out at night in Minecraft still scares me... and I'm 15. lol
I was almost going to include GoldenEye! I am glad I am not the only one that got a bit freaked out by the enemies in that game, jump scares behind doors!
That fucking eel in Super Mario 64 scared me shitless when I was little. I got the game for Christmas along with my N64 and I remember playing the game that morning, going to Jolly Roger Bay, swimming through the water, listening to calming music and suddenly that eel pops up and scares the piss outta me.
Sonic games in the water levels. When the song changes as you need to get back to the surface or get to bubble for oxygen, always made my heart speed.
Funny you mention that, I almost included it in this video but did not want to do 2 sonic games :)
When I was 8 years old, I made it to the last Bowser on Super Mario 64 and what was scary about that part was how Bowser looked like, how the music in there sounded like, and how Bowser charged at you when your far away from him and that scared the crap out of me when I was 8. I never went back there again until I was 11 years old, I face my fear and defeated the last Bowser and saw the ending. I felt really confident afterwards that I will never forget that moment in my life.
things about the first GTA wigged me out! Zelda 64 always had an eerie feel to it and made my stomach feel tied up.awesome video concept man!
Video games and things that used to scare me:
-The dragons and dark mazes from Adventure (Atari 2600)
-The Hallmonsters from Venture (Atari 2600)
-Demons to Diamonds used to scare me for some reason (Atari 2600)
-Hover Force also used to scare me for some reason (Intellivision)
-The robots from Night Stalker (Intellivision)
-Andor Genesis from Xevious (Arcade)
-Sandopolis Act 2 from Sonic & Knuckles because of the ghosts, the timed puzzles and the fact that you have to constantly light up the level or else it will become dark and the ghosts will appear (Megadrive)
-The gallery room from Luigi Mansion because sometime you can hear weird machine noises and that used to scare me... (Gamecube)
-Half-Life 2, In Highway 17, at the Bridge Point, there's a big house and a poison zombie at the second floor. That zombie used to scare the crap out of me. (PC)
I think that's it!
I use to be afraid of drowning in the Sonic games because of the music
I can totally get the Sonic scare! Wow, that really brings it back...and you have rekindled my love for all things Sonic!! Crash kinda took over but I want to revisit again now.
I'm really surprised there was no mention of Andross from Starfox 64. He was, by far, my scariest boss to fight in my childhood.
I hate being chased too. What I really hate in games is when the enemy chasing you is programmed in such a way that makes it impossible to hide.
In Super Mario Sunshine,the manta ray creeps me out because you THINK you can hide away from it in water,but you get chased in the water too.
In Super Mario Galaxy,the Shark in Bonefin Galaxy is a special kind of creepy. You carry on riding the Koopa shell,but you're not sure if he's behind you or not,sometimes you crash into him. It's hard to hit him.
im glad pete is back uploading faster like the old days
Very reminiscent of some of your earliest videos, Pete. Loved this video.
I think one of the defining scary moments is dealing with sonic drowning. The timer when that happens is so intense, and you get so scared of it because your rushing for a way to get an air bubble or make it out of the water. To this day my wife can't handle watching characters drown regardless if its in movies or video games. I also remember super Metroid giving me the chills especially because of its ambient but yet terrifying music and when you arrive on the planet, its so empty.
i was scared of Majoras Mask music when i was like 5 years old :P
To be fair, it's a really scary game.
God damn, I love your new release schedule Pete.
When I was I believe 5 years old, I was on the forest temple and the huge skulltula's would always scare me when they would drop down when I didn't know it.
I got scared of the first boss in Ocarina of Time and never played it again for years until I finished Twilight Princess and felt guilty for not playing OoT thinking back Super Smash Bros, Pokemon and Kirby 64 were the only N64 games that didn't scare me as a kid. I was also scared by Banjo Tooie, Turok, a game made by Rare with a blue hared boy and girl and they fought giant bugs.... sigh...
Drowning in Sonic was always terrifying to me as a kid, once that music kicks in and slowly speeds up until you finally run out of air.
One of the Castlevania 64 games had a hedge maze where a frankenstein guy chased you around and he was impossible to kill. it was pretty intense as a kid
The sewer level in Shadows Of The Empire for Nintendo 64 when I first fell in the water and saw the dianogas for the first time, which water levels have always made me cautious since then. Also PS2's Haunting Ground is an extremely scary game at night.
I am right with you when you talk about Big Boo's haunt. Being outside of the castle scared me just as much as going inside.
The Level "Catacombs of the Talion" in Tomb Raider 2 had one particulary scary section. Fans must remember, you were in a dark hall, there was almost nothing to see, you heard just those awful screams from the yetis. It was intense.
Don't worry Pete, you're not the only one that was scared of the lava in Sonic! My heart used to beat a mile a minute when that part came up! Great video, funny stuff.
Androse from star fox 64 would terrify me and make me reset the system every time
A lot of scary stuff showed up in Zelda Majora's mask for me as a kid. A lot of things scared me there such as the redeads, the cursed father in closet, practically everything in Ikana is filled with nightmares when you're a kid.
Metroid freaked me out. Somehow it really conveyed a sense of being completely alone in a hostile environment. Most of the enemies are passive, but then you encounter the Metroids and they attack you relentlessly. Having to escape the planet while the timer runs down always got my heart racing.
The areas in Ico where you're high on the castle walls outside used to scare me. They'd give me vertigo, and my stomach felt like I was on a carnival ride the whole while.
The lava in Sonic 1 scared me the same way, Pete. I was always so frightened to approach that particular part.
I'm liking these videos you've been putting out pete, keep the videos going!
I was about 12 years old when Sonic the Hedgehog came out and I always got scared in the Labyrinth Zone when I couldn't find an air bubble. I've always been scared of drowning, and if I couldn't see an air bubble on the screen and that panic music started to play it terrified me. When Sonic actually drowned it only confirmed my fears of going into the deep end of swimming pools and lakes.
The controller rumbling when Nemesis was about to chase me , then continuing after I left the room.
Resident Evil 4 where I started hearing the chainsaws
Great video Pete, love the camera angle for some reason haha. One game that creeped me out as a kid was Perfect Dark. Just something about the aliens and conspiracies really scared me as a child. Especially the shit about Area 51. I still played it and loved it though. Happy Halloween!
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on PS2/Xbox. There was a moment when you were traveling through Fangorn Forest, it was completely silent, and a Beserker would rise out of the ground/leaves and start swinging his sword thing like a baseball bat. Still scares the living daylights out of me. Not to mention he's brutal to take down!
Really fun video, Pete! Thanks for sharing!
Scariest video game moment for me growing up was the dead ghost kong in Donkey Kong 64, the music that would play and the screams and laughter and the face when you opened that door... I used to get nightmares for weeks
Another one was in Diddy Kong Racing when I unlocked Drumstick. He just came out of nowhere and thought I broke the game or something.
Eels particularly were one of my worst fears. From super mario 64, on jolly roger bay, with the giant eel, and on Banjo-Tooie, Jolly Roger's Lagoon/Atlantis, with electric eels that sting you. That was enhanced by the fact that underwater levels scared me because I was afraid I would run out of air, and being freaked out by the drowning music in sonic.
Sonic 2- Chemical Plant Zone- When I was younger, I could never get past the platforms above the water. When the drowning song came out; the panic that hits you as a kid is terrifying!
Ill admit Twilight Princess when youre in the water temple, the first time playing it I nearly freaked sinking down the boss area. Ive always been afraid of deep dark water though..
One moment that was disturbing as a kid wasn't completely in the game. I was at a dentist's office or something that had an n64 with Mario 64 in it, but there were no controllers plugged into the console because the controller ports were covered in teeth marks. And I just remember Mario's severed head spinning around and looking depressed and I thought that he was like that because the ports were messed up, like he knew somehow.
Monster Party on the NES! I think it was the intro cut scene that used to freak me out, although watching it now, it's not at all like I remember it. Weird.
I was also afraid of hyrule at night in ocarina. Whats worse is when you know its about to turn into night and your running for the town and they lift up the bridge and trap you outside until morning. As a kid I would get so scared. Another thing that scared me in ocarina was when you walk out of the temple of time, and those mummy looking zombie things would be sitting there. Then they would screech and then grab ahold of link. Omg I use to be afraid to leave the temple, when i was younger.
If you play The Sims, when you hear that Burglar music for the 1st time it's just so scary. When I was younger, my sims were at work and out of nowhere a Burglar arrived. I almost crapped my pants and had to mute the game after that.
In Kingdom Hearts 1, the part when you had to leave the island and it was storming outside
Whoa! That sonic moment is really similar to this bit in The Lion King on SNES in the graveyard level where you have to jump all the way up this massive cliff and there's this acid fountain that's slowly also creeping up the cliff - PURE TERROR.
I had the exact same experience with Ocarina of Time :)
Great video Pete, it's nice to see more personal stuff like this :)
Sonic 2 Chemical Plant Zone Act 2. I would, without fail, always end up really deep underwater with no way out. Whenever I heard that drowning music kick in, I would freak out, jump out of my seat, and reset my Genesis to stop it before Sonic died.
Same here. I can't explain why it scared me out, but it always has.
Glad you are back making videos mate :)
as a kid i was afraid of the zingers from dkc 1 and 2 (maybe still in 64) that did not help the fact that i was scared outta my wit when i first encountered the big bee race in dkc2
In Ocarina of Time, I always hated when you would walk near the Undead and then time would freeze and you would hear that loud scream. It got me everytime!
Swag Man on the PS1 has always scared me and Several parts from Rayman 2 used to scare me.
I dont remember being scared of games as a kid but I do remember one part in Paper Mario: TTYD that scared me.
The train part in which you must go into an empty room and use vivian to hide under a shadow and a ghost appears. Made my heart jump a bit as a kid.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that CHOMPING PIANO in Mario 64. That was probably the first time I ever jumped out of my seat and dropped my controller from a video game. Also, the bottom of the well and Shadow Temple from OoT really scared me
Donkey Kong 64. You head into the Aztec temple, it's dark, you're alone. You finally get the Golden Banana and you think you're safe. No, a crosshair lands on you and a voice says "Get out.." You have a minute to get back out.
Scarred me for years.
When I was a little kid I used to always get scared by the jack hammer on top of the construction building in toy story 2.
just last year i tried the secret message code in sonic cd, it creeped me the hell out and im 32 yrs old! as a kid the piano in mario 64 scared the hell outta me, abyss mvsc2, the lil babies on zombies were horrifying, mansion of terror double dragon 2, medusa castlevania, grim reapers on paperboy, bowser supermario world, the confession room in castlevania symphony of the night tops all scary moments for me!
what scared me was ocarina of time zombies in castle town as adult link,the water spiders forget the world but in super mario 64 as wel as the boo castle , and donkey country 64 the ocean itself scared me
The redeads you meet as soon as you turn into adult link, scarred me for a few months before picking up OoT again
Pete, you have got big balls for admitting to be scared, even as a kid, from these games. Bravo!
The only time as a kid I remember somehow getting scared\"scared" was when I got the first Zombi game (the original by Ubi) in 89-90, but not by that much since I was already just in my early teens. It was mostly the music and I guess the zombies lol.
Spyro ripto's rage on the PlayStation scared me when i was a little kid about 8 years old. Even now I'm 16 and still scared of that game.
I had ZAMN on SNES when I was younger. Chainsaw Massacre always terrified me. Keep up the good work Pete!
I was afraid of being chased but also really afraid of drowning. When i was little i always hated water levels with oxygen meters. Ratchet & Clank Blackwater city... my heart beated so fast when you had to escape from drowning.
The creepiest thing was the piano in Boo's Mansion in Super Mario 64. Damn.
minecraft at night was always pretty scary for me, especially if I have a lot of stuff on me. I used to physically jump whenever a creeper blew up behind me in game whenever i was first getting into it
Some others that scared me were: The Haunted church from Banjo Kazooie, the Shadow Temple from Ocarina of Time, and Forever Forest from Paper Mario.
The beginning of... The second Fable I believe? If anyone remembers the eerie "flashback" scene with the music box outside of your house.
Uncharted series can have it's horror moments, normally towards the end of the game. Most of the Tomb Raider games have their creepy moments too, they turned up the horror factor by quite a few notches on the reboot.
When I was really young I always got freaked out by a part in the PC game Freddie the Fish where you had to go around a sunken pirate ship, the skeletons and music were so creepy to me and I would get out of there as fast as I could.
For me it was mainly just the old horror games that scared me. Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Clock Tower.
Next year!
The first time playing through Metal Gear Solid 2, when you have to swim through the flooded level in the B2 Core. When Stillman's body popped out I had to wait days before going back to the game.
SA-X from Metroid Fusion was really scary.
I used to get a bit scared playing super metroid back in the day, it has some creepy music. Happy Halloween Pete!
yeah u get that feeling when i play black ops 2 zombies,when like allot of zombies running after me
Still to this day, the Lurker Shark from "Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy" scares me. Just that heartbeat for whenever it's close makes my heart race.
Dude I used to have like anxiety attacks when I was about to drown in Sonic 1 and 2, like in Chemical Plant in Sonic 2 when the water starts to rise, I would lose my shit haha. Resident Evil 2 when you fight the the Tyrant, Resident Evil 1 fighting the Snake, and Resident Evil Outbreak the leech monster that chases you through the entire level and even Resident Evil 3 anytime the Nemesis appeared and you'd here him moan "Staaaaaaars" . I hated the Pyramid level in Zombies ate my neighbors too, those damn mummies!
That piano in Boo's Mansion always terrified me. Also, I hate being chased in games too. I know that feel, bro.
Somewhat related. I had that chase fright in warioland for the gameboy where that spikey block chases you. If you didn't have the right power ups it got realy tense.
A game that creeped me out as a kid was Super Mario 3. Specifically World 8, the Koopa castle. Every stage was so dark on that world!
I was 7 when castlevania 2 came out. I would always turn it off when it got dark.
"I don't know what it is, I just don't like being in a maze with a big cyber demon" - PeteDorr, 2013
Also going under water in sonic 2 probably scared me the most. I always started getting so nervous especial when the music kicks in. Pure dread.
As a kid, I was scared of most of the things you listed too (omg @ that level of Zombies, and Doom was maddening)... in addition to some extra irrational stuff.
The most embarrassing has to be my first experience with OoT. I had only ever seen Lon Lon Ranch at night when I first started playing it, so I thought it was a haunted mansion that only appears when it's dark. That made me avoid it at all costs. I even started to wonder if that's where the Stalchildren were coming from. A curse on the whole area. I would hide or run instead of fighting them usually, but sometimes I would fight the whole night to see if it would make anything happen -- only to be greeted by one REALLY HUGE Stalchild.
I procrastinated confronting the 'mansion' for like three play sessions over a couple of days, doing everything else I could before I realized it was the ranch Malon was talking about. LOL
A couple more things that had me freaking in OoT: Redeads, the Gibdos that rose from their coffins, Like Likes, Giant Peahats, Leevers, Wolfos, Bubbles, times early on when big hanging Skulltulas would get the jump on me, Wallmasters, the oppressive atmosphere in the bottom of the Well minidungeon and the descent into Hell that was the Shadow Temple (take a close look at the walls in the crypt area -- and those guillotines omg), but perhaps most of all ... DEAD HAND!!
The ghost in Link's Awakening and that graveyard had me on edge, and Majora's Mask had creepy things (or creepy feelings at least) left and right!
I also found Super Metroid quite intimidating as a kid, and the desert level in Sonic & Knuckles where you have to keep pulling light switches or be trapped in the dark with a bunch of aggressive ghosts. OH, and the Boo Houses in Super Mario World when I first started playing, as well as the final fight with Bowser!
Speaking of Mario ... Mario RPG spooked me pretty well with the atmosphere of a few areas and some of the enemy designs. The pirate ship full of ghosts and skeletons clinging to their tombstones, or the giant Blooper Kraken thing.. And I was too scared to even play Castlevania until I got older. lol :)
It's funny, cause after I hit my teens is when I started playing actual horror games, but none of them have really been scary to me (possibly because most of them have distractingly crappy gameplay). Maybe the games you don't expect to scare you catch you more off guard...
The start up noise for the PS1...... Still haunts me to this day
The screams from the Re-Deads in Oot used to freak me out the most in that game.
Lol I totally get what you mean with Sonic 1. That part used to make me so anxious as a kid. When you're young and new to gaming, still not totally used to using a controllr, it could be pretty difficult and the torrent of lava bearing down on you, could really stress you out.
I used to be terrified of the first Luigi's Mansion, especially when entering a new room with the cutscene of Luigi opening the door
It used to terrify me when getting the metal Mario cap.. I screamed at my mum when she went to put the cart into the system after I first played that part...
The drowning music scared me in Sonic to the point where I would sometimes turn off the game so I wouldn't have to see Sonic drown. And in Mario 64, the giant drain with the powerful suction in Dire Dire Docks scared me. It doesn't even kill you, but if you get to close, there's nothing that you can do. Mario just swims for his life in the other direction to no avail, and you get sucked into the blackness.
As a kid watching the demo reel on Dragon's Lair always scared me, when he gets attacked by the bats.
Diddy's Kong Quest! I couldn't play any stage that had Puftup (the blowfish). His look scared me.
You're spoiling us with all these videos :D