What game weirds you out the most?

[Texasmame]

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.

None of the classics give me the willies but Star Castle gets pretty intense for me at times.  My personal best of 20K took all I had in me as a gamer.

The only game to ever give me chills the first time I saw a particular baddie was Doom 3 - those damn little flying babies.  Their "crying" is just soooooo wrong.   

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[Ummon]

I could never get into Consoles like I did arcade, especially home computer games. Certainly good in their market, but not good enough for me to like them. The music on Scarabaeus is interesting, though. Especially the number of simultaneous parts.

Anyways, this thread has been taken waaay out of context. I meant retro, and I meant anxiety from trying to miss getting hit by something, or from running out of time (if the game has a fast timer). Not being scared or anything. I'm not dissing those other things, just not at all what I had in mind. Bubbles is another example, particularly in later sinks where there's a lot of baddies, or one full of razor blades.

[SithMaster]

I always had trouble with the RC car level of toy story and by always I mean I never made it more than 20 seconds in.  An arcade related one would be when I get boxed in a maze game by baddies and have to wait for them to get me.

[Doctor Ugs]

PAC-MAN!

It has GHOSTS!!!!!!!!!!!

On a more serious note, i'd have to go with Sinistar myself. There are great modern games with fantastic atmosphere but somehow "beware I live" still sends chillls up my spine.

[ChadTower]

Ninja Gaiden for the NES. That last level was hell on a console.

[severdhed]

doom creeped me out a few times, especially when it was like 5am and i had been up all night playing it..


Doom 3 had it's moments as well..especialy that area where the woman is whispering "over here'  and you go down that hall way and the screen turns red and blood runs down the walls and she says "they took my baby" ...that creeped me out really bad


also, Condemned: criminal origins was a pretty creepy game, very dark, lots of people jumping out at you in the dark, and you only have a 2x4 or lead pipe to defend yourself

[jerryjanis]

Snacks 'n Jaxson freaks me out pretty badly.

Aztech Challenge for the Commodore 64 was the creepiest game ever.

[Turnarcades]

Anyways, this thread has been taken waaay out of context. I meant retro, and I meant anxiety from trying to miss getting hit by something, or from running out of time (if the game has a fast timer). Not being scared or anything. I'm not dissing those other things, just not at all what I had in mind. Bubbles is another example, particularly in later sinks where there's a lot of baddies, or one full of razor blades.

If it's that kind of stress you're after, check out anything from the video library of the Angry Videogame Nerd. Turtles on NES angered the hell out of me as a kid, yet I had to keep playing. I think I finally got to the end and clocked it once, but I must have been so stunned I can't remember it!

[HaRuMaN]

F.E.A.R. seriously creeped me out...  *shiver*

[Ummon]

Anyways, this thread has been taken waaay out of context. I meant retro, and I meant anxiety from trying to miss getting hit by something, or from running out of time (if the game has a fast timer). Not being scared or anything. I'm not dissing those other things, just not at all what I had in mind. Bubbles is another example, particularly in later sinks where there's a lot of baddies, or one full of razor blades.

If it's that kind of stress you're after, check out anything from the video library of the Angry Videogame Nerd. Turtles on NES angered the hell out of me as a kid, yet I had to keep playing. I think I finally got to the end and clocked it once, but I must have been so stunned I can't remember it!

No. Getting angry for me is when I die because I think the game cheated me. I swear Robotron does this at times. In the Mr. Do's Wild Ride instance, imagine actually being in this place, trying to make each run between ladders, or trying to skip ladders. Especially girder level in DK could be like this, and actually used to be for me.

[fjl]

Shadowman. It was my first intro to creepiness on a video game. The levels where creepy with their dark and moody feel. It certainly gave you the sense of loneliness and despair especially with the background music. Torture chambers with blood all other the place, enemies with hooks for hands that charge at you. A human boss that can crawl on ceilings and runs toward you holding up a knife. That scared the bejezus out of me.

[dmworking247]

Wolf3D (when I first added a soundblaster, with the volume up) used to get my adrenaline going... but I think the game that gave me the creeps the most was

The original ALONE IN THE DARK for PC.

The 'real 3d', the slow silent ambient sounds followed by the sudden sounds of smashing glass and some giant toothy monster rushing towards you when you're relatively unarmed...

My 13 year old son still cant play some of the alone in the dark games.

[Xiaou2]

 Jeez, I forgot about this one...

  I cant recall the name..  But it was for PS1 I think.   A kid at work said to
try it, and loaned it to me.

 You were a Vampire,  and it was a sort of action rpg.

 You went everywhere, and sucked the blood out of people with the sluping noises
and all.

 It was really odd.   After doing this way more times than I wanted to... I just didnt
see the point... as well as felt uneasy/disturbed/sick  about it.   I gave it
back to the kid well unfinished.  I cant believe anyone would find any pleasure
in that game at all.

[Justin Z]

Do you guys remember an Atari 5200 game called Countermeasure?  If you didn't input the deactivation code in time, missiles would strike the United States (they showed on a big map) and then an explosion sound would happen followed by a skull with eyeballs filling up the entire screen.

Yeah I was four the first time I played that game, and needless to say, it scared the ever-loving bejesus out of me.

[Ioargra]

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.

Oddly though, last time I heard a list of hurricane related deaths, it included a bunch of things like a couple dying because they were without power and decided to light candles and place them on gas tanks in a trailer. Or people who died of carbon monoxide from running a generator indoors. I personally don't consider that hurricane caused, and yet those kinda things were the majority of the 10 or so deaths that were attributed to a particular hurricane.

So yeah, ppl blame things for things like that

[fjl]

My brother told me that there was a black out last year where he lives so some people were leaving their BBQ grills on overnight in the house for warmth. The whole family died of carbon monoxide poisoning. 

[Visitor Q]

F.E.A.R. seriously creeped me out...  *shiver*

Awesome Game!

[vputz]

You know, F.E.A.R. didn't really strike me as all that creepy or scary; they tried too hard, so I just found it a bit eye-rolling.

For me, the benchmark "creepy video game event" was not "we don't go to Ravenholm", but this: Shalebridge Cradle, from Thief: Deadly Shadows.  If you played it, you know exactly what I'm talking about--if not, it's worth playing the whole game for.  I think it's the finest single level I've played in my history of gaming, to be honest.

As for retro arcade games weirding me out, none of them ever really got me too much, but I will say that "Sexy Parodius" is one game that has me laughing like a deranged person because it's just so unrelentingly bizarre.  Vicious boss monsters like a giant ear of corn or a penguin with a toilet on his head!  Play characters like a paper airplane, a penguin with weapons, or a girl in bunny suit riding a missile!  It's completely unhinged.  I love it.

[Epyx]

Wolfenstein 3-D was the reason I bought a Soundblaster.

Wolfenstein 3-D was one of two games that actually made me sell my Amiga 500 and join the PC side...the other was Ultima Underworld.

[RayB]

This one weirded me out when I tried it:

http://five-finger-fillet.freeonlinegames.com/

[protokatie]

Wolfenstein 3-D was the reason I bought a Soundblaster.

Wolfenstein 3-D was one of two games that actually made me sell my Amiga 500 and join the PC side...the other was Ultima Underworld.

Blasphemer! I shall bring Jay Miner back to life as a ghost to haunt your for the rest of your natural life! (BTW I still have my amiga 1200 )

[ItchyD]

Alien Vs. Predator 2 nothing else comes close.

Walking around empty rooms as a marine, your tracker is pinging away,  and then suddenly BAM freaking aliens crawling at you on the ceiling. 

Another thing they like to do is leap about 50 feet into your face as you walk around a corner.

Very freaky game.  This is probably the scariest game I've ever played.

[Ummon]

This one weirded me out when I tried it:

http://five-finger-fillet.freeonlinegames.com/

You can cheat at the one, though, because it doesn't make you stab every hole or even every other one.

[Ioargra]

Alien Vs. Predator 2 nothing else comes close.

Walking around empty rooms as a marine, your tracker is pinging away,  and then suddenly BAM freaking aliens crawling at you on the ceiling. 

Another thing they like to do is leap about 50 feet into your face as you walk around a corner.

Very freaky game.  This is probably the scariest game I've ever played.

Yeah!! That was a great game.

And playing as the alien it took you through the lifecycle... remember growing inside the cat and bursting out of him later?

[SnApRoLl]

I used to play Quake 1 and I had my pc running through a 500watt Fisher amp going through a 6.1 surround sound and every now and then I would get a little spooked and look back over my shoulder to make sure nothing was behind me LOL And the sound track from N.I.N was pretty dark as well.

Shawn

[Bluedeath]

Its not an arcade but playng "uninvited" (yes the poor looking pint and click adventure) unleash unstoppable fear on me. I never played again since i was 15 and i saw the skull lady.

[isucamper]

 Jeez, I forgot about this one...

  I cant recall the name..  But it was for PS1 I think.   A kid at work said to
try it, and loaned it to me.

 You were a Vampire,  and it was a sort of action rpg.

 You went everywhere, and sucked the blood out of people with the sluping noises
and all.

 It was really odd.   After doing this way more times than I wanted to... I just didnt
see the point... as well as felt uneasy/disturbed/sick  about it.   I gave it
back to the kid well unfinished.  I cant believe anyone would find any pleasure
in that game at all.

Legacy of Kain:  Blood Omen

You just need to get in touch with you vampyrian side. 

[Todd H]

Alien vs. Predator for the Jaguar was probably the creepiest game I ever played. Captured the feel of the Alien movies perfectly.

[NOP]

i always thought wizard of wor was really creepy.  that organ music is really dark, the weird sound effects and the stress levels that jump when those disappearing SOB's pop up right next to you.
it really tied in with the first alien movie for me, which was one of the scariest movies of all time...

[Crowquill]

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

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

Rez is awesome. This commercial takes on a whole new meaning if you know there's a USB vibrator to go with this game. 

Pretty much anything Williams does it for me, but especially Robotron. I think that's why it's my favorite classic game since there's so much going on at one time that you don't have time to think about every option, you just have to react. Until I built my MAME cab and had twin joysticks to play with, I never understood what everyone saw in that game. I think all the flashing and color cycling in Williams games definitely adds to the anxiety too.

[pmc]

I always thought Rez was a beautiful game, not creepy at all. But that commerical is creepy.

Many of the early arcade games where music, pace, and risk all increased in intensity at the same time used to twig me out (adrenaline rush). Even the last alien in Space Invaders was really intense until I learned that it's all about keeping your cool and making your shot (I was like 10 at the time). I don't get that feeling from any video game anymore. Cool cucumber now.  Shooters actually relax me. 

The suprise monsters on Doom used to make me jump. I never liked that. You could hear the growling before you saw them, then when you opened a door they'd spring out. I hated that. That got worse when I played Half-Life and Resident Evil was the end of that genre for me. I couldn't play it at night. Then again, I don't generally watch horror movies either. Now I stay away from the genre completely. That whole suprise-jump-out-at-you-monster thing is not what attracts me to video games. I'll take Bubble Bobble.

Oh... I love that Vagina Hero controller. Gotta get one.

-pmc

[Ummon]

Heheheheeh, I hadn't watched that rez vid last time, though the caption image was suggestive.

[pmc]

I thought of another creepy game today. Seaman on Dreamcast. Man, that dude was creepy.

-pmc

[tommyinajar]

"Zombies ate my neighbors" The little tots with axes and that haunting evil laugh...