First game to ever scare you?

[Collector_Gaming]

Now i am sure some of you will jump in and go "i never had a video game scare me blah blah" well ok fine whatever thats your thing

But for those of us who have felt fear and fright from a video game.
What was your first time?

Mine would have to be believe it or not
Nightmare on Elm Street for the NES
yea i know crappy game to some.
But I loved it cause I was introduced to horror films early on in life so Freddy Kruger was a known icon to me even at a young age.
Only problem was thanks to those same films I also was quite skiddish as a youngin and this game would scare me when I was little playing it in the dark and then having nightmares later that night while sleeping with the whole "FREDDY's COMING"

[SpaceHarrier]

My answer is not terribly original, but Resident Evil. You know which hallway.

[TonyTheTiger]

The first game I remember to ever make me feel genuine anxiety over what will jump out at me (not just because I was afraid to lose) was Castlevania 64. The Villa stage and that damn garden maze with those invincible demon dogs and fucking chainsaw Frankenstein.

The first game to actually make me jump out of my skin was Eternal Darkness. That one scene when you first walk in the bathroom. Yeah...that one.

[JSoup]

I remembering being four or five and running screaming from the room because the little yellow ghosts in NES Ghostbusters were creepy as all hell.

[weirdguy]

I didn't have many games when I was young, so had no chance of having a game scare me then.

I must admit that playing Fatal Frame 2 in the dark scared the shit out of me.

[Steven]

Godzilla NES.

Music was creepy for me as a 5 year old in the '80s.

Also, Gigan f*cker was tough. I used to fire it up, beat just Gezora the giant squid and the robot baddy, then turn it off. Didn't want to face Gigan... he legitimately scared me in that "I have no shot against him" way.

[Doonzmore]

The bugs in Body Harvest really crept me out. I also remember being scared out of playing Weaponlord on the Snes because of the brutal difficulty.

[cityside75]

Doom for the SNES (yeah I know...). I had tried the PC version a few times at a friends house and found it creepy and awesome. All I had was a SNES so I picked it up as soon as it came out. I lived in a small apartment with my wife at the time and would wear headphones when she was sleeping. After half an hour of playing in the dark with headphones on my heart was racing and I had to take a break.

FWIW - Doom3 is probably the only other game to really scare me. My wife despises the sounds of that game if I play it at night.

[369WIERDO369]

Oddly enough, the games that scared me most as a kid were..

Castlevania 64 (had nightmares every time I played that game)
Rampage World Tour (for some reason that scientist lady freaked me out)
Glover N64 (the 'main overworld' at the beginning of the play session was kinda freaky)

[Graham Mitchell]

Hospital deaths depicted in mid-90s games disturbed me so bad I'd just reset the game rather than watch a person croak.

This was a big problem with Microcosm because I couldn't get passwords, so I had to learn to play it through in one sitting. Fast forward to 2011 when I'm playing the amiga cd-32 version at age 32. I inadvertently died enough times to kill Korsby and that scene popped up again. I couldn't take it, I hit reset. Lol!

F-22 interceptor on the Genesis had a similar scene which freaked the hell out of me. Rather inappropriate for a flight sim.

[Robocop2]

That's an easy one, Splatterhouse on the TG16. Now don't get me wrong Stage 1-4 were not anything to terrifying to me but Demon Jen and Hell Chaos (final boss) for some reason scared the ever loving crap out of me as a kid. I had nightmares of both of them and yet I loved the game and kept playing it.

[shawnbo42]

While there were several creepy games prior to this, the first game that actually made me call a friend to come over for backup was Fatal Frame. Playing that game at home alone, at night, with a thunderstorm going on was most definitely a "what was THAT?" experience. Also the sound effects tend to build the creepiness as you play, and it never really lets go.

[kafa111]

banjo kazooie.
scariest game out there, no trollin. That witch makes my heart pound, and most of the levels

[Flack]

The last time we did this topic, I mentioned Friday the 13th. And here is a review of the game I wrote, although the screen shots seem to be missing.

Most of my forum involvement lately just involves adding links to the last time we had all these conversations.

[Robocop2]

Flack: the past master?

[Rob2600]

For me, it's two Atari 2600 games:

Berzerk: when Evil Otto would suddenly appear, bouncing and chasing me with no way to destroy or outsmart him.

Haunted House: very creepy game at the time, especially when a ghost or bat would appear. The screen would flash and there'd be a loud noise.


Also, Metroid on the NES...it wasn't exactly scary, but most of the game gave me a creepy, desolate, lonely feeling.

[ubersaurus]

Mountain King for Atari 2600. Which I actually wrote an article about a couple months ago!

http://infinitelives.net/2011/06/06/...-retrospective

[allyourblood]

I don't remember the first, but Metroid on NES and The Immortal on Genesis both creeped me out pretty good. They're so... lonely.

[Graham Mitchell]

Good to hear someone else appreciates these games. I loved D too, but it was more creepy than scary IMO. D2 was also great, but I think it's more weird/freaky than anything. I wish Warp would come back.

Count me in as a Warp fan. I haven't played Enemy Zero yet,.though. It's on my to-do list.

[skaar]

Lemmings would introduce feelings of absolute horror and panic when a great plan would have a fatal flaw.... And the horde would plummet/die en masse.

Before that was probably Coleco. BC's Quest for Tires (since you were on the run a lot) and Frenzy's .... Whatever his name was.

Friday the 13th for NES also frightened, the desperate fights to drive off Jason...