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.

[Flashback2012]

Haunted House on the 2600 I think had to be one of the first games to scare me. :ass:

The 7th Guest on PC had a scene that had me jump out of my seat. I was playing it at a friend's house at 6am and blurted out a "JESUS!" at one part that I woke up his entire family. :oops:

The infamous hallway in RE1 had me jump when I played a demo of it at a game store. My friend who was working there got a good laugh.

I remember playing Revelations: Persona and being unnerved by the loading screen and some of the fights. :|

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

Sometimes I think video games are not designed for children under 8, well the older ones anyway. These spoiled post-1995 birth kids don't have to deal with scary logos on their consoles/games!

On a side note, imagine a 5 year old goes to plug up their Atari Jaguar and gets this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9VtZVvJHvU

Yeah, the Jag red screen of death... terrorized a few unlucky tykes!

[JSoup]

Sometimes I think video games are not designed for children under 8, well the older ones anyway. These spoiled post-1995 birth kids don't have to deal with scary logos on their consoles/games!

I don't know, I always found the nearly blank screen and echoing air blowing sound effect in the PS2 loader to be rather unsettling. That counts I guess.

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

I don't know, I always found the nearly blank screen and echoing air blowing sound effect in the PS2 loader to be rather unsettling. That counts I guess.

Well if that's all they have to worry about, they're pretty lucky in my book! At least they don't get those old Midway logos that, combined with living in a trailer with a dark green decor, can almost give a little six year old boy a nightmare :P

[Steven]

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.


It works best if you play it in the middle of the night with no lights on, home alone.

I first played CT in 2010 and yes, it is genuinely frightening. Never thought I'd ever say that about an SNES game!

[JSoup]

Oh, here's a good one. Remember Disney's Aladdin on the Genesis? Damn awesome game, right? Try losing all your lives. Screen goes black, cute animation and then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8bCqvgCm5w

Now, as off putting as that is, I played this game when it was new on a much older TV, which scaled up everything, including sound. So that face was full fucking screen, eyes taking up a large portion of the center, with a high pitch laugh in the background.

@_@

I worked hard to get better at that game so I wouldn't ever have to see that screen again.

[Wraith Storm]

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

I FREAKING LOVE Enemy Zero (and just about every Warp game)!!! It was a VERY intense experience.

I remember the first time I played it and everything was going smooth and then I heard "PING"! My heart skipped a beat. "PING PING" My hands started sweating. "PING PING PING" My heart was racing and I started to run away but got disoriented and lost in a maze of crates, boxes, shelves and the like.

The save/load and weapons system as well as the enemies only being detectable by audio made for a very scary game.

But the first game to ever make me jump would be D. Imagine that... another Warp game. :) My buddy bought it new with his Saturn and along with me and another friend, we crammed in front of the TV. The lights were off and we were the only ones home. Then we opened the door on the staircase (Yeah... that door) and all 3 of us jumped and shouted.

[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)

[megasdkirby]

The first game to ever scare me was Halloween for thr 2600. Even though I tried my best to prepare myself, the game turned out totally different and I ended up being extremely terrified of the game. I was around 10 or so at the time. Ironicalle, I ended up liking the game alot and getting a very high score that even surpassed that of what was listed in the 2600 Connedtion.

The second game to trully terrify me was "Uninvited" for the NES. I was 14 at the time and I recall my parents left me home alone that day (during the night). I was extremely terrified, not only because of the game, but because the house we used to live in was very spooky and always felt there was something bad in the house. Putting those two together freaked me out so bad that night that I as literally paralized in my living room, with only one light working while the rest of the house was pitch black.

And the scary, red skull in the game didn't help matters either.

[starchildskiss78]

I was going to say Police Quest VGA for the PC when the bikers beat you up and you get the skull on the game over screen, but I remembered an earlier gem: Friday the 13th for NES.

I remember OWNING that "wonderful" game *looks over his shoulder* and it would scare the hell out of me every time Jason popped up out of nowhere. The end screen is pretty harsh: "You and your friends are dead. Game over." Lovely, huh?

Resident Evil 1 did a good job of scaring me later on. Now I stick to games featuring Barbie and fluffy kittens. Much safer that way. :)

[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.

[Lerxstnj]

ET on the 2600. I couldn't believe Atari let this thing come out on their system. I was "scared" that video games were ruined forever!

[kafa111]

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

[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.

[Patney]

The first PSX Clock Tower game. I remember hiding in the closet in that office and then BAM the murderer finds you. And that cabin with that guy watching TV, and you go closer to examine... Oh god, that game was a nightmare for a child.



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.
Haha, I remember playing this in broad daylight with a friend by my side, and I promptly shut off the PS2 when I saw the first ghost. It even was a harmless ghost, the kind you see walking past you in the hallway and you're supposed to take a picture of it for points. Glad I'm not that big of a wuss anymore.

[Darko]

I'd probably have to say Silent Hill (and Silent Hill 2 did the same thing years later). I'm not scared easily but playing either of those at 3am with no lights on by yourself is quite an experience.

[Flack]

The last time we did this topic, I mentioned Friday the 13th (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5956). And here is a review of the game I wrote (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40578), 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?

[alec006]

I don't know, I always found the nearly blank screen and echoing air blowing sound effect in the PS2 loader to be rather unsettling. That counts I guess.

That's actually a nice sound, especially in surround sound, it's like your on the beach.

Ask for a game that scared me, well trying having the surround volume really high up on WWF Smackdown - Just Bring It and having that damn memory card voice...ATTENTION! CAUTION! CAUTION! I swear they put that damn voice in there on purpose.

[Doonzmore]

I played RE 4 for the first time back in December (yeah late to the party, I know) and the part that sent chills down my spine the most was the part where you're in the lab and you see on one of the monitors that creature entire the room. The music suddenly changes. You see the creature a few rooms over start to approach you. It turns liquid like and pours over the windows of shattered glass. He makes a disturbing "heheh" sound. You're supposed to kill the creature using a rifle with an infrared scope, hitting it in select spots. The sight of that thing walking closer while in infrared mode...jesus. Even when you took out its legs it would start to lead up at you. Even thinking about now raises hairs on my back.

[Emperor Megas]

TONS of games have scared me, none more than Silent Hill 2, but Alone in the Dark on the 3DO was the first. I LOVE horror games, and this is the one that started it all for me.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

I recall being more than a bit disturbed by seeing Chiller for the first time in my local arcade. But, once that wore off it wound up being one of my favorite Exidy shooters of that generation.

As far as my first recollection of a home game that was scary ... Beyond Forbidden Forest for the Commodore 64 was amazingly atmospheric considering the limitations of the system.

The music and sounds effects are really chilling and the death sequences are pretty intense all things considered. I'm pretty sure that the first time I ever booted it up I was home alone in the dark by myself and I had to summon some courage to keep playing.

[tritium]

Berserk on the 2600 would make me jump everytime the little guy would die. I was very young. As to actually scare me scare me... I would have to say Metroid NES, it was too weird and the music was scary to me.

[kupomogli]

First, that "scared" me, as in getting me to jump, but not really scared me is Resident Evil 2. With the zombie arms coming out of the wall and you running through and a huge spider pops visible in the sewers. That kind of stuff made me jump, but it was just stuff that jumped out at you, not something that was actually scary.

Parasite Eve(the first one,) is probably the only game that has truly scared me. The games music, atmosphere, etc, is just like other horror games, but then you get to the hospital. The first time I got to the hospital, it was night time. I went and turned on the light because of the hospital is just creepy.

Unfortunately I haven't played too many horror games. Either they were really good, or really bad, except for Silent Hill Origins which was just decent.

[Leo_A]

I guess I'm not so easily scared by videogames (About the only thing I can say that about).

I've felt a bit nervous at times, but I never felt scared.

[Collector_Gaming]

Berserk on the 2600 would make me jump everytime the little guy would die. I was very young. As to actually scare me scare me... I would have to say Metroid NES, it was too weird and the music was scary to me.

the arcade versions even freakier with the machine talking to you

[understatement]

The game that first scared me like stated earlier isn’t that original (Resident Evil 2) but the “cool story bro” story behind it is.

First I need to tell you about the layout of where I live. I live in the middle of nowhere, at the time (1998) my closest neighbor was about half a mile away. My house is centered on about a five acre plot surrounded by thick woods. Off to the side of the house about a hundred yards away is a fairly large old garage/tool shed that sits by the woods.

Well, in the summer of 98 my house burned down, luckily the house was empty of people and most of my video games at the time. Long story short(er) I ended up staying in the old shed for a few days alone.

So I’m 13 in an old rundown shed (think, the house in Fight Club and you’ll have a pretty accurate depiction of this place) in the middle of nowhere all alone with nothing to do but play video games. I had already beaten RE2 once and I was on my first B scenario at the time, all was good till Mr. X (T-103) showed up. The first time he busted in the wall (cool-aid man style) I had to stop playing. His Michael Myers appearance and attitude mixed with the above conditions scared the shit out of me. I don’t think I slept at all that night.

[outsider]

It was probably Resident Evil. I can't remember ever being scared while playing an NES or SNES game.

[Emperor Megas]

the arcade versions even freakier with the machine talking to youDamn, Evil Otto spoke? I never knew that. That would have freaked me out as well as a kid. I've never seen the arcade version of Berserk.

[Emuaust]

Ive been playing a long time and can't really think of anything pre Silent HIll/Resident Evil, RE had some great jump moments as did RE3 every time you would be walking along, minding your own business and then BAM "STARSSS". Silet Hill, well what nerve racking stuff.

What I find odd though is there has been a lack of those thrills for me sense those games, probably the only modern current gen game Ive been startled and creeped out by is Alan Wake.

[Mr Smith]

Ecco the Dolphin, as a child playing on my own this was the stuff of nightmares.

[JSoup]

That's actually a nice sound, especially in surround sound, it's like your on the beach.


Yeah, but beaches tend to have more than a faint breeze echoing in an endless black void.

[cityside75]

So I’m 13 in an old rundown shed (think, the house in Fight Club and you’ll have a pretty accurate depiction of this place) in the middle of nowhere all alone with nothing to do but play video games.

Can I ask why you would have been all alone in that shed at 13 years old? Where were your parents/guardians?

[Collector_Gaming]

Damn, Evil Otto spoke? I never knew that. That would have freaked me out as well as a kid. I've never seen the arcade version of Berserk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb4gWvqbsYA
*in robot voice* Intruder Alert, The Humanoid Can Not Escape

i played this at fun spot and i was like "holy shit this is pretty crazy!!!" cause i use to play the atari version all the time when i was a kid

[LiquidPolicenaut]

I guess I can also say it was Resident Evil for me specifically "the dogs". Funniest thing, though, is what scared my sister and that was Resident Evil 2. It was like straight out of a cartoon or something. She is sitting there, my brother and I sitting next to her on the couch, playing along then, all of a sudden, that "Mr.X" falls through the ceiling. She literally threw the controller up in the air out of fright and said "I'm outta here!" lol. Oddly enough, she never played games in my room ever again....

[Collector_Gaming]

I guess I can also say it was Resident Evil for me specifically "the dogs". Funniest thing, though, is what scared my sister and that was Resident Evil 2. It was like straight out of a cartoon or something. She is sitting there, my brother and I sitting next to her on the couch, playing along then, all of a sudden, that "Mr.X" falls through the ceiling. She literally threw the controller up in the air out of fright and said "I'm outta here!" lol. Oddly enough, she never played games in my room ever again....

was it complete with small dust cloud and cartoonish "Pow" noise? lol
j/k

[exit]

As a child I think Friday the 13th (NES) was the first game that scared me, mainly because of the "You and Your friends are Dead!" game over screen. At one point I would just goto the cave and kill my last character, since I preferred it over being slaughter by Jason. It still amazes me to this day that the game got past the censors at NOA, whom later censored Maniac Mansion for much much less.

[Collector_Gaming]

oh i found another game i remember playing when i was little that would scare me believe it or not

"Squeeze Box" for the Atari 2600

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtP6cC0pK5E

Not the game play itself of course. But when ever that damn Devil would dance around at the end. Me being into the paranormal even when i was a lil kid (thanks to me watching horror movies at a young age and such). Playing this game at night in a room alone would just haunt me.

[QuickSciFi]

Resident Evil: Code Veronica

Right from the start, as one exits the prison bunker and turns around the wall into the cemetery. Everything about that first part was a scare.

[Emperor Megas]

oh i found another game i remember playing when i was little that would scare me believe it or not

"Squeeze Box" for the Atari 2600

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtP6cC0pK5E

Not the game play itself of course. But when ever that damn Devil would dance around at the end. Me being into the paranormal even when i was a lil kid (thanks to me watching horror movies at a young age and such). Playing this game at night in a room alone would just haunt me.Christ! I've never heard of this game. That would have scared the shit out of me as well!

[Collector_Gaming]

Christ! I've never heard of this game. That would have scared the shit out of me as well!

never hear about it
But my older cousins had it and they let me borrow their 2600 with game collection when i was a lil kid for a year or 2 and that game was one of those games. Haven't played it since

[Patney]

Can I ask why you would have been all alone in that shed at 13 years old? Where were your parents/guardians?
Oh god this made me laugh for no good reason.

[understatement]

Can I ask why you would have been all alone in that shed at 13 years old? Where were your parents/guardians?

Well it's not like I wasn't used to it I've been taking care of myself sense I was about 10 years old while my mom worked.

It's was just me and my mom, we get back from visiting family to find the house burnt down. We didn't have a cell phone at the time so my mom stayed over at my grand parents a few days (like two days) to get everything ready to fix the house. I stayed at the house to look over it. It wasn't that bad the shed was like a house of it's own with power, refrigerator, AC, a bed, and bathroom. Just not the best looking place.

It's not like I was locked in there and left for good. ROFL

[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.

[Drixxel]

The second game to trully terrify me was "Uninvited" for the NES.

Definitely agreed on Uninvited. The chilling descriptions of what terrible fate has befallen you, combined with whatever horrible image is up on the screen, really do the trick. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1dviCRdJuw

[j_factor]

I FREAKING LOVE Enemy Zero (and just about every Warp game)!!! It was a VERY intense experience.

I remember the first time I played it and everything was going smooth and then I heard "PING"! My heart skipped a beat. "PING PING" My hands started sweating. "PING PING PING" My heart was racing and I started to run away but got disoriented and lost in a maze of crates, boxes, shelves and the like.

The save/load and weapons system as well as the enemies only being detectable by audio made for a very scary game.

But the first game to ever make me jump would be D. Imagine that... another Warp game. :) My buddy bought it new with his Saturn and along with me and another friend, we crammed in front of the TV. The lights were off and we were the only ones home. Then we opened the door on the staircase (Yeah... that door) and all 3 of us jumped and shouted.

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.

[ubersaurus]

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

http://infinitelives.net/2011/06/06/fear-and-shadows-a-mountain-king-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.

[Kevincal]

Doom.

[RPG_Fanatic]

The first Resident Evil. The hallway with the dogs coming through the windows. Opening the door to the hallway and the music get really quiet start walling down the hall and BAM!!! them damn dogs crashing through the window.

[TonyTheTiger]

I probably jumped when the Crocomire did that return of his the first time I played Super Metroid.

[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...

[TonyTheTiger]

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.

There are plenty of those kinds of situations for me. When your stomach knots up over a situation in which failure becomes immediately apparent. I'm trying to separate out those scenarios where what's causing the fear is the fear of defeat. Otherwise pretty much any situation where I'm in the middle of a boss fight and I have one hit left would qualify.

But, yes, Lemmings has done that to me, too. Where all of a sudden you go into panic mode and start frantically placing stoppers.