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.

[Baloo]

Shining in the Darkness on Sega Genesis. Random encounters with creepy-looking monsters in a claustrophobic and dark dungeon is the stuff nightmares is made of.

[Ballermann2D]

Maniac Mansion: kitchen/Edna scene

i think this and Silent Hill 1 have been the only games which scared me

[Steven]

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.

Refreshing to hear someone speak of SNES Doom without bashing it. This version, along with SNES SF Alpha 2, don't get nearly the credit it deserves for especially considering the hardware limitations. Looked solely as SNES games, they are pretty good IMO.

But yeah, what makes your story more awesome is SNES Doom scared you as an adult. I also will admit when I was going through the SNES version last year there were some tense moments myself. Not scream out loud moments, but you just get that little twitch, and your heart races EVER SO slightly faster than normal.

Good pick, good call.

[dap9984]

When I was 5, I specifically remember running down the hall when my step dad got to the boom-boom in World 2 on SMB3. For some reason it freaked me out. Other than that, me and my buddy got chills playing RE4 when it came out on the Wii.

[Aussie2B]

Jurassic Park on SNES, easily. That shit's still scary, haha. I hate the FPS buildings where dinosaurs appear out of nowhere and pounce you.

Any fear/anxiety I had prior to that game was probably more about feeling like a game was too hard for me.

[Drixxel]

As a wee lad, Wolfenstein 3D on PC was genuinely scary. The first person perspective got to me and really conjured up a sense of paranoia. Then of course there's the ever-bloodying face of poor ol' B.J. Blazkowicz on the status bar.

[j_factor]

No game has ever "truly" scared me, but the closest would be Enemy Zero. The first-person shooter parts get really intense.

[Haoie]

I'll tell you the first game to really give me nightmares: Clock Tower The First Fear

That was about early 2000s. Anyone who doesn't find this gem frightening is lying!

[substantial_snake]

I think for me it was Ghouls and Ghosts on the Sega master system.

The predominance of black everywhere was pretty unsettling along with how fast you could die really creeped me out. The main thing were the bosses that just appeared from the darkness, those on a dark night playing the game for hours as a young kid really freaked me out.

I think the most modern game to really scare me has been Minecraft oddly enough. Spending a huge amount of time in a distant dark cave keeps you on edge anyways from possible enemy attacks...but it only takes one damn creeper spawning above you, hissing, and exploding to freak you out and piss you off. The last time a game has freaked me out as much as that would probably be that damn fish in RE4. lol

[JSoup]

I'll tell you the first game to really give me nightmares: Clock Tower The First Fear

That was about early 2000s. Anyone who doesn't find this gem frightening is lying!

It's strange, I remember reading about it when it was still new and it sounded horrifying. I watched a friend play it a few weeks later and I found it less horrifying and more amusing, although I can't remember specifically why.

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

The old, very dark Midway logo from the late 1990s, on N64 I think?

I was VERY young.

[JSoup]

The old, very dark Midway logo from the late 1990s, on N64 I think?

I was VERY young.

Ick, I know what you mean.

The PS1 loading sounds used to unnerve me a tad. Now I think about it, there are plenty of things that don't qualify as scary that are pretty unnerving. Like Robotnik laughing at you at the end of Sonic 3 if you didn't get all the emeralds.