What game weirds you out the most?

[Ummon]

What I mean is, while playing it what game gives you the greatest anxiety. Not so much anymore, but one that just used to wig me out was Mr. Do's Wild Ride.

[TelcoLou]

Sinistar. Still. To this day, every time that fang-toothed bastard yells at me, I get the creeps.










Seriously. 

[TOK]

The only game that ever made me feel physically weird after playing it was Robotron. My arms would be tired and I'd feel all jittery. That has kind of gone away after playing it hundreds of times at  home.

I think the game that had the biggest creepiness factor for me graphically was Guwange. Real weird enemies and bosses, like a giant spider with a cats head, and some kind of giant baby. Very surreal and strange.

[somunny]

The "We Don't Go To Ravenholm" level of Half-Life 2 scared the panties off me. 

[pinballwizard79]

Missile Command.

Not because its creepy or scary but because it just stresses me out.

Total torture when the ammo runs out or you miss & then have to watch the destruction helplessly.

Strange topic as I was just telling my buddy the other day how I cant play that game any more.

[DeLuSioNal29]

Are we talking Modern Games or Retro Games?

If modern then the new game called "Left 4 Dead".  It's a zombie game like doom.  It made me jump out of my seat a few times when a zombie screeched from the side and attached.  They are wicked fast in that game, unlike typical zombies.  Great game.

If retro then "Venture" is the game that gave me the creeps.  I'm talking about the Colecovision version.  If you took too long in a room a green baddie would appear at the door (blocking it) and then would come after you.  I remember my hairs standing up when I heard the sound it made and see it while trying to quickly escape.

~ DeLuSioNaL

[EwJ]

This bit from history.dat is interesting.

"Berzerk shares a rather chilling distinction of being the first known game to be blamed for an actual player's death. In January 1981, Jeff Dailey was the first person to die playing a video game, a 19-year old Berzerk player, died of a massive heart attack right after playing his favorite game. His score was 16,660 (a very respectable score but disturbing for obvious reasons). On an equally distressing note, in October 1982 at the 'Friar Tuck Game Room' in Calumet City, Illinois : 18-year old Peter Burkowski, a physically healthy person who was alcohol-free and drug-free, inscribed his initials in Berzerk's top ten list twice in a matter of only fifteen minutes. A few seconds after that, he collapsed and died of a heart attack."
 

[Singapura]

So stupid to blame a game for that. Nobody blames "walking on the beach" or "sleeping" for causing death although statistically more people die during or after doing that then during of after playing a videogame.

As for creepiest game, I don't remember the name anymore. It was an FPS where you could install sentry drones and you would be cahsed by lizards and other monsters. At one point you're in an elevator, minding your own business when a lizard jumps on you from ON TOP of the elevator! Still remember I screamed like a girl 

[DaveMMR]

If retro then "Venture" is the game that gave me the creeps.  I'm talking about the Colecovision version.  If you took too long in a room a green baddie would appear at the door (blocking it) and then would come after you.  I remember my hairs standing up when I heard the sound it made and see it while trying to quickly escape.

Heh, I thought I was the only one petrified by the Hall Monsters.  And yes, the Colecovision version felt like a true nightmare because you're trying to run but the stubby little stick wasn't helping you.

I also was freaked out by those big blobby things that fell from the ceiling towards the end of Adventures of Link (Zelda II).  I honestly can't figure out why (I was young and easily startled I suppose) but it came out of nowhere and was weird looking.

[ghettodish]

Vagina Hero looks creepy. I just saw it at geekologie.com

[Xiaou2]

As for Arcade... Sinistar's bellows did really get me a bit     I just love how those
guys recorded his voice with Distortion.   Even with low volume, the distortion
makes you feel like its screaming... and angered to a demonic level. 
And at normal arcade volumes... it freaked
you out big time.

 
  But the most psychologically impactful games that I played in my youth were both
on the C-64 computer.


 1)  The Last v8

 Top View:

   You drive a car fast as hell thru post nuclear war 'suburban' zones trying to avoid radiation waves, as well a 'soon to land' incoming missile.    The music is creep cool with a
frenzied tempo.  Your car is fast as hell, and needs it, cause you have only seconds
to cut thru the neighborhood streets to get to the underground shelter before
its too late.  Even the most reckless, fast, precise driving skill will barely make it in time...
so your heart nearly jumps out of your chest on every curve!

 As you are driving... you have a radioactive sensor that Blares out loud when you
are in a hot-zone.   Scares the brown right out of you!   I have to say... that
Radiation death is one of the most scary things... because its a threat that you dont
see.   You simply all the sudden have flesh falling off your body.

 Just like real life... you cant see the zones to know where to avoid them.  You simply
have to try a certain path and hope to god its safe enough.   Too much exposure, and
its game over.

 I was really shocked the day I finally beat it.  As there were only 2 levels.   However,
the game was so brutally hard... that I recall it taking like months to get past the
first stage alone.     I fired up a c64 emulator, and found out that even tho I remembered
much of the pattern... I was so rusty that I was no match for the games first level
anymore.   Truly is a cool and freaky game.

 This guy makes it look way too easy.  Try it and see,  its Robotron level difficult to drive
the way that is shown.  The cars response is more analog than you would think.


 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBi6lboO8MA[/youtube]


 2) Invaders of the Lost Tomb  /    Scarabaeus


 This game Really messed with my head!  Your a lone man who landed his ship
looking for treasure in the strange temple.   You roam in a 3d  FPS  view,
in a maze of walls.    Collecting clues to puzzles from spirits that you must run into.
If thats not freaky enough... you have these giant spiders that chase you.  You have
to lure them away from their niches,  so that you can solve a puzzle that is inside
there.   Of course, as your busy trying to solve the darn thing... a spider could
come back and attack you at any time - scaring the crap out of you in the process.

 What worse.. is that you have a heart rate meter in the game!  I seemed to recall that
if you got poisoned enough, that your heart rate would increase.  Thus, your real
life heart would start to increase!   Strangely enough, I swear the version I had...
used an actual beating heart icon.   I wonder if they had made a few versions?  Or if
my memory really is that bad?

 The music is really errie and captures the feelings and emotions all too well.
Very impactful, even to this day. Just watching this game in action still gives
me the willies!   heh

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjXmwpUPCw[/youtube]

[BASS!]

I kind of agree with ya but my all time weird game would have to be abadox. Play as a astronaut shooting lasers at huge flaming eyeballs, in a land of blood and guts. Totally weird.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLkIBKRIc7Q[/youtube]

Also a ps2 game that is probably my all time favorite trip game (also available on xbox live arcade)

REZ

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJFDHz581ko[/youtube]

[BASS!]

Just found a japanese commercial for it, i think I just exploded

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5qscOsp7Ko[/youtube]

[Franco B]

Its got to be [Chiller].



 

[vidmouse]

Ghosts n' Goblins

I mean, it's one thing to be fighting zombies and ghosts and such in
a graveyard in armor, but then to have it STRIPPED off you so easily
every time you get hit...  they even make you continue in your skivvies

Brrr.....

[Blanka]

We love Katamari. After playing it for a while, I run around the house like this:

[(+_+)]

Sinistar used to send chills up my spine too.

I remember it was late at night and I was stuck on a Wolf 3D level because I couldn't find the secret door. About a good 10 minutes later, I stumbled across a corridor I had not seen before and proceeded down it. Out of nowhere one of those white suited guys pops out of nowhere and yells "SPION". I practically fell out of my chair. Scared the living crap out of me due to the flat footed nature of it. I also remember running for my life while trying to fight the syringe throwing boss.

Take a look at the cheese we used to play and enjoy more than anything else. BTW, I still enjoy the cheese. 

[DaOld Man]

For the PC..

Serious Sam, The Second Encounter

[DaOld Man]

Man, I can remember staying up just about all night long playing Wolfenstein 3D.
I didnt think any game could beat it, then came Doom, which was way better, I thought.

[(+_+)]

Thanks for the Serious Sam Reminder. I completed forgot about the frustration, the fear and anxiety that went along with completing this game. It was almost non stop wave after wave of hordes of monsters. It was a holocaust to say the least.

[DaOld Man]

Yeah, I loved Serious Sam, I may have to start a new game and go through it again.

[javeryh]

The classics have nothing on some of the stuff out right now.  Bioshock and Dead Space were creepy as hell.

[Loafmeister]

Dead Space and Left 4 Dead are awesome.  One Doom level where you were in the dark and all of a sudden a bunch of beasties come at you, I think I swore out loud, wife was wondering what was going on.

But the first game to creep me out the most was Rescue on Fractalus.  Anyone who's played it will know EXACTLY what I'm referring to.  Naturally, it doesn't work as well nowadays because of the tech behind it (it's 24 years old!) but it's not the creature that caused the tension, it's the PAUSE before finding out, is it a pilot, or is it an alien?  That pause is still effective today.

[RayB]

A ton of games had those moments for me... I guess I was a high strung child or something...

C64:
Forbidden Forest: Just the sound of the bees when they got close sent shivers up my spine.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxx6jvOAaJ4[/youtube]

Rescue on Fractalus: Space alien would suddenly appear on the "windshield" with equally jarring sound effects. AHHH!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8opv5u9nf0[/youtube]
 (why did this even make me jump?)

??: There was a space game that seemed inspired by Alien (movie). It was side-view and every now and then this green alien would suddenly chase you down the hall and you had to boot out of there while the music really made it feel even more urgent. I wish i could remember the name of it.

Xiau2: I had Last V8 too. That video looks like he's using one of those "no sprite collisions" cheats (I don't remember being able to cut through building corners in level 2, do you?)

Arcade:
Joust: Our corner store had the game volume nice and loud and I tell ya, when the pteradactyl made it's appearance screeching, I jumped and the hair on the back of my neck went up!

Speaking of, check this out:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdfOf_gaIaA[/youtube]

[protokatie]

Rescue on Fractalus: Space alien would suddenly appear on the "windshield" with equally jarring sound effects. AHHH!

I loved that game back in the day! It never creeped me out tho. It was more of an annoyance...

American McGee's Alice is pretty scary, esp at night. Some stuff will just come out at you totally unexpected. Plus the dark mood of the game didnt help.

[isucamper]

Suprised no one has mentioned it yet, but one of the most notorious creepy videogame serieses is Silent Hill. 

[Visitor Q]

Berzerk 

When I was little I remember having a bad dream about it, I’m pretty sure it was the fact that it talked. Funny I remember parts of that dream still to this day and what is even funnier is I don’t think I have ever played a game of Berzerk in my life.

[Epyx]

Hmmm....


C64

- Saracen

PC

Without a doubt...System Shock...the most underrated game of all time imo...first true 3d pseudo rpg...creepy to the hilt...

[DeLuSioNal29]

Man, I can remember staying up just about all night long playing Wolfenstein 3D.
I didnt think any game could beat it, then came Doom, which was way better, I thought.

Wolfenstein 3-D was the reason I bought a Soundblaster.     You can't play the game without it, it's just not the same.

[DeLuSioNal29]

How about Friday the 13th for the NES?  Remember the "scream"?  And when Jason showed up.  Scared the crap out of me because it would come out of nowhere...

Also, the weird "backwards satan sound" that you heard on the last level of DOOM II.  Creepy.

[DaOld Man]

Wolfenstein 3-D was the reason I bought a Soundblaster.     You can't play the game without it, it's just not the same.

I totally agree. Its the reason I bought a sound blaster too!

Man those were the days!  Packard Bell (POS) 486 SX with 2 meg of ram. Came with no sound card or CD rom. Cost me 1200 bucks.
I remember adding 4 more megs of ram that cost 200 bucks.

Sorry, my mind is wandering again, I dont mean to get off topic here. (Somebody fetch me my blanket and turn the TV to Matlock. And hurry up!)
 

[Mauzy]

Carnevil. I remember when the local skating rink got that game when I was 8. It was brand new and disturbed the crap out of me. I still play it whenever I get a chance.

[SithMaster]

How about Friday the 13th for the NES?  Remember the "scream"?  And when Jason showed up.  Scared the crap out of me because it would come out of nowhere...

Also, the weird "backwards satan sound" that you heard on the last level of DOOM II.  Creepy.

I believe it went "To win the game you must kill me John Romero."  The a horde of pinkies always scared me.

My list would be:
Doom and Doom2
Space Hulk
Aliens Versus Predator
Bioshock
Entrap

[jcoleman]

Polybius

[Chris2]

Sinistar
Robotron 2084

[Turnarcades]

The eerily crackily voice from a floating head on Altered Beast: "Welcome to your Doom-a!".

The obviously messed up baby crying effects on Playstation Doom.

Every Resident Evil. Being chased by Nemesis still gives my missus nightmares.

For weirdness, the excellent Tempest 2000 on Jaguar trips me out in a Polybius kind of way.

There was a strange RPG on C64 that came with an accompanying handbook, featuring a warning on a page about the creepy detailed drawing of evil eyes on the following page, what the hell was the name of it?

And for random measure, Spectrum's Ant Attack gave me a 'planet of the apes' vibe about a world run by animals!

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VtSFHabJMvA&feature=related[/youtube]

[Franco B]

Wolfenstein 3-D was the reason I bought a Soundblaster.     You can't play the game without it, it's just not the same.

I totally agree. Its the reason I bought a sound blaster too!

I remember when my friend had doom for his PC. It was obviously an awesome game but the sound sucked as it didn't have a soundcard and only had the PC speaker bleating out pathetic bleeps. One day his dad bought a soundbaster for the PC and I can remember the first thing we did was to fire up doom and go and find a chainsaw. The sound of it striking up was incredible! The game seemed 100% more intense after that. Happy days

[Mauzy]

Wolfenstein 3-D was the reason I bought a Soundblaster.     You can't play the game without it, it's just not the same.

I totally agree. Its the reason I bought a sound blaster too!

I remember when my friend had doom for his PC. It was obviously an awesome game but the sound sucked as it didn't have a soundcard and only had the PC speaker bleating out pathetic bleeps. One day his dad bought a soundbaster for the PC and I can remember the first thing we did was to fire up doom and go and find a chainsaw. The sound of it striking up was incredible! The game seemed 100% more intense after that. Happy days

My brother did the same thing when we got a sound card. It was a couple years after Doom came out, but he still wanted to hear that chainsaw. I was probably 5 and didn't know what he was gonna do. He called me to the basement to "show me something". As soon as I hit that bottom step, he had the brand new speakers cranked to 11 and fired up that chainsaw. I think I might have run out of my shoes trying to get upstairs...

[ChadTower]

Killing Time, 3dO and PC. 
Still need to build that bartop for this game.  Want want.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSfB2p2oTks[/youtube]


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATT29oAJfR4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM9u1DsSj04[/youtube]

[J.Max]

Sinistar freaks me out the most.  That voice scared me as a kid, and still scares me a bit.



But the creepiest game has to be http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=12696 Boong-Ga Boong-Ga.