Can I just say, I am LOVING these discussion videos you guys have been doing this year! It’s fun kicking back and listening to you guys shoot the breeze about games!
34:04 I think a game that deserves a mention is A Hat in Time. The mission “Queen Vanessa’s Manor” definitely has potential to scare the crap out of some kids, in an otherwise incredibly cutesy looking game
Metroid Prime really scared me, it was my first shooter game, remember playing it when I was about 10 or 11. The whole atmosphere of the game terrified me
Creating the snow man in animal crossing GameCube and him telling me that I made him wrong really messed me up as a kid. Creating a life just to watch him curse his own creation was really dark
For me, one of the scariest/creepiest gaming moments in my childhood was the weird laughing/crying sound in the music for Magus' Castle in Chrono Trigger for the SNES.
I had a nostalgia trip when they were talking about Lavender Town. I played through Gen 1 at least 50 times as a kid and 100% that town always creeped me out. That music it the top of the pokemon tower was so intense for young me especially playing at night before bed.
For me when I was around 2, I was scared of Bowser in Mario Party 4. Landing on the Bowser space always made me leave the room hoping Koppa Kid appears instead.
When I was 3 or 4 I was playing Mario Party 2 or 3 alone up stairs in our loft and landed on a Bowser space. I got so nervous and scared that I started running downstairs to get my dad, fell down, and tumbled down like 20 curved stairs lol I wasn't allowed to play Mario Party games by myself after that
Im so glad you guys got into the creepy pasta part of it!! Ben drowned and lavender town were like the biggest ones for me when I was younger. So much nastalgia watching this! On a side note I always was creeped out by Luigis mansion and would play ut with all the lights off. But it was a fun creepy
The enemy from Ocarina of Time that y'all were talking about is called Dead Hand and yes he is the creepiest thing I ever saw in a video game as a kid.
Someone brought up the ghost girl to Mr Masuda and he said "We would never put anything like that In our games" Then someone showed him a video of It and he went "Oooooo"
It's not really scary but seeing the option to send away a Chao in sonic adventure 2 made me feel so bad, I cried randomly later on and didnt know how to explain to my mom that the thought of sending a chao away in my video game made me cry on the front porch
So true story, I discovered Ben Drowned after getting married. My wife and I were in a one bedroom apartment and I remember reading through it after work, in my room, when the sun had gone down. I told my friend about it afterward and we were so into it, thought it was intended to be a true story at first. Then a few days later, I could hear music from Ocarina of time through the vents. And I thought I was going crazy. My wife thought I was lying, but I swear it was the music. I heard the title screen, the save and menu sounds, etc. i thought maybe it was just a gamer upstairs or something, but when we met my upstairs neighbor, it was an older woman with no visible gaming system. So I’m still not entirely sure what happened.
When I was 6 or 7, I was playing Legend of Zelda OoT, and I remember that I got scarred in the Deku Tree. The giant Skulltula's terrified me, and I don't think I was able to complete that dungeon until much later. Thankfully, I was much older when I finally got to the really scary stuff, like the Bottom of the Well and the Shadow Temple. If I had run into those as a 6 year old, I can not imaging the trauma that would have caused....
All I remember is that as a young child, any game that required stealth induced so much anxiety that I needed to turn console off. Didn’t matter whether it was silent hill or the beginning to the windwaker
So I'm little bit older than these guys. But two games that scared me so much as a kid were Monster in My Pocket, especially the character select screen. And Metroid, especially the original. Funny thing is my brother convinced our mom that Castlevania would be tol scary for me to play (when really he just didnt want me touch his game), and I played it at a friend's house and laughed at it. But Metroid legit gave me nightmares. Still today it makes me feel uneasy, though it's a plus now.
I was just about to comment on X and Y's ghost girl! I love how there is so little explanation for it all. (by the way, I believe the ghost girl in ORAS is separate from the XY ghost).
I remember playing through Wind Waker when I was around 6. I got to the part when it is raining and you first encounter the sharks, I was so scared that I shut my GameCube off and didn’t play for a while 😅 the other moment was the end of the jungle level in Sonic Heroes with the Giant Crocodile that chases you, freaked me out!
For everyone that enjoyed this topic with those scary moments in more non-horror games, I highly recommend whoisthisgit's channel. They made a bunch of videos that include moments in games you would find terryfying as a child.
I loved the Silent Hill games when I was a teen. And recently, last few months, I tried playing Little Nightmares 2 and the teacher with the extendo-neck made me physically ill. I wasn't particularly scared, but it made me sick so I had to stop playing the game.
You guys mention the eels in Odyssey, but kids are probably traumatized by the T-Rex under the wooded kingdom. I also think the E.M.M.I has probably already messed some kids up. I don't think these are too scary but for kids they're a good introduction into horror
Not games exactly but the menus for all the 6th generation consoles were genuinely unsettling to me as a kid, I know some people find them strangely comforting but even to this day if it's late at night the menu screens of those systems just make me feel uneasy. The most notable one being PS2's disc error red screen that was just straight up horrifying, I absolutely dreaded that screen with all of my being because one of my game discs were super scratched up. The Xbox's distorted NASA sounds also deserve a mention, their goal was to make the system seem like otherworldly technology and they definitely succeeded. Although it freaked me out I wish the follow ups to the Xbox had some notable quirks to their menus but nowadays they all kind of just blend together unfortunately.
Lavender Town has the best music in the game because it sets the mood for what's to come in there. That area creeped me out too with the ghosts you can't fight when I first entered, and the music really helped bring you into that. Normally acary areas didn't stick with me as much from other games, but Lavender Town is burned into my memory forever.
Every time people bring up the N64 Redeads, I remember the Wind Waker Redeads. They looked pretty silly and cartoony, but they had more animation and an even scarier scream when they attacked, so I always got really scared when I got caught by them. I have some childhood "scary" games. World of Goo was definitely very creepy to me thanks to the art style and the music. It was very well done, but every time I went to the Tower of Goo area after the corporation was destroyed, I felt very unnerved. It's been a long time since I have sat down and played the game, but the eerie vibe still lingers with me. Then there is The Neverhood. It's a very silly, cartoony game with weird music and an awesome claymation art style, but there's just this creepy vibe everywhere that doesn't fit with the silliness of the rest of the game. When you go outside, everything is completely silent. There aren't any other people and - as far as you know - there aren't any monsters, but there's just this creepy ambient noise that plays when you walk around under the black void that is the sky. The main villain of the game, Klogg, was also very frightening to me, too. I made sure I knew every cutscene that had him in it so that every time I played through the game with my family, I could run away from the computer and not have to see him. Now I look back on that and find it silly because Klogg isn't that scary at all to me anymore.
I remember when I was 7 or 8, I was playing Luigis Mansion Dark Moon. When I encountered the ghost mummies I got so damned scared by it that I deleted my save file.
Not Nintendo, but Draynor Manor in RuneScape scared the shit out of me as a kid. Just a little 8 year old in 2007 stumbling onto this creepy looking abandoned mansion, and as I approached it, the trees started *attacking* me! But I still kept going, and noticed that things were moving, chairs were stalking me, and it was such a big and confusing mansion that I got lost in there, and I couldn't figure out how to get back to the exit. And then I found my way to the basement. I saw the coffin, and I knew enough about vampires to know what was in there. So I booked it out of that room and ended up either Home Teleporting to Lumbridge or eventually found my way out, and I gave Draynor Manor a wide berth for years after. Even today, though it doesn't scare me at all, whenever I think about or see it, I always remember my first ever experience in that mansion, and it still makes me wary of the creepy little manor even though it doesn't have the same effect on me anymore.
I remember playing Psychonauts 1 as a kid and finding the art style rather unsettling. A lot of children at the summer camp have large bulging eyes or wacky physical proportions. Also, If you venture out of the campgrounds and into the woods you will find a floating bear that can use Telekinesis to attack you from a distance . As a kid I was used to enemies being relegated to stages of the campaign and not just in the overworld. I never ventured too far out of camp unless I needed to. Kind of crazy how that has stayed with me now for about 15 years.
I had the weirdest fear of Shadow Mario from Mario Sunshine. I either didn't know he was actually that little shit Bowser Jr, or I maybe didn't believe it because I didn't really understand it. That whole game is full of scary memories for me. The Manta Storm and that whole Sirena Beach area was just so scary, I always got this impression that something not quite right was happening in that area because of the music and all the ghosts and how empty it all was
I always loved the original luigi's mansion, not really a scary game unless you play In the dark with headphones on and the ghosts pop up In the darkness for some reason I still have nightmares of waking up trapped In a dark room only lit by lightining flashes and the moonlight outside
A Hat in Time has a handful of moments that scared me! Mostly in the haunted manor level where you are chased by a ghost! And to a lesser degree, the creepy hidden messages you get by manipulating the camera feature in the main hub.
Look, the reason I think majora's mask is the best game of all time isn't because it's "edgy". It's because even with the world dying, the moon falling, and so much loss occurring, there is still happiness and joy in termina. There is still a bit of joy, wackiness, and love (anju and kafei) there
I remember DK64 being so unsettling for me. There was a point in the level Angry Aztec where a deep voice would say "GET OUT", a timer would appear, and a crosshair would appear on your Kong. Not only that, but then there was a whole area that was horror-themed and I was terrified watching my mom and aunt play it.
The redead zombies and hands that hung on the ceiling in Ocarina of Time freaked me out for sure lol. I'm not sure about scary, but Majoras Mask gave me so much anxiety as a kid with the timed aspect of the Moon that I made my parents return it Lol.
Majora’s Mask, and I’m a little bit older than you guys, has always been a conceptually difficult game to get through. Even though I love it as a game. It takes everything that you loved about your childhood and turns it on its ear.
My scariest childhood game is monster hunter 3 ultimate. If you’ve played it, you definitely know what I mean. One of the first quests puts you underwater to gather some items, eventually forcing you into an area of complete ocean with nowhere to run. This is where you encounter lagiacrus for the first time, and my god it is terrifying. The snarling noises that it makes, the limiting environment of the water, and the reactions of the villagers will put you over the edge, and even more so if RNG is against you and you’re forced to be around the beast more than you should. Eventually you get the opportunity to kill it, and it’s such a great feeling to see how far you’ve come. However, not long after you’re thrown back to the bottom in high rank where you encounter deviljho. This thing is essentially lagiacrus on steroids. It can spawn literally ANYWHERE, and will kill EVERYTHING, including both you and the monsters that you’re fighting. It will even go as far at eating it’s own tail to appease the slighting but of hunger. It’s not until the post game when you get the chance to actually kill him, which honestly feels like one of the greatest achievements of any game I’ve ever played.
I have a honorable mention, Nightmare Creatures on the N64. Not only was I scared to play it, but even the glowing eyes on the cartridge scared me, more so than the game it self.
Conker's Bad fur day, the zombie level. As a kid I knew conker from Diddy Kong racing, and he was my main, so when I saw a game from him, it was a no brainer, also, I'm from Mexico, so at the time, I didn't know English, neither did my parents, so we didn't read the "not a game for people under 18" label, so my parents just bought it for me and oh damn was i scarred lol, at the first splash of blood I turned it off and was about to throw it to the garbage can, but i didn't. With time I started playing it little by little, mostly with cheat codes to play the it's war level, because there wasn't much blood there, just the fur from the teddies, but this once I played the zombie/mansion level and i can't belive how horrifying that level is, it's still scary today even after finishing multiple resident evil games. The sound the squirrels make and how they're hiding in walls and rush at you as you approach, that still gets me, as of today I still haven't finished that game.
Lavender Town in Pokémon Red, Blue & Yellow really scared me a lot as a kid, especially the Pokémon Tower. The Biolizard in Sonic Adventure 2 also creeped me out a little.
Although the whole game had its moments, the one everyone who’s played it will remember, is the bath tub scene! Yes I’m talking about Eternal Darkness.
That well in Ocarina was so terrifying as a kid (still kind of is...). Also Fragile Dreams scared the crap out of me when I was a little older. For some reason I decided to beat the game at night too.
Biggest games I remember scaring me when I was little were Wind Waker and Luigi’s Mansion. Wind Waker with the first visit to the Forsaken Fortress, it stressed me out so much sneaking by the guards in barrels. Of course now the route I take it doesn’t involve any sneaking until the 2 mandatory sections at the end lol. And with Luigi’s Mansion it was the blackout, when suddenly no room is safe anymore and ghosts are popping up constantly until you capture Uncle Grimmly and switch the breaker on.
Okay, this fear seems pretty stupid now, but in 2018 when I was younger, I got the switch version of Dragon Quest Builders, and I remember being TERRIFIED of leaving my village at night. The normal music just gets creepier and ghosts start appearing, and it just scared me
As a kid, besides the 1980 game “Adventure” on the Atari 2600, my most scary games were Shadowgate (1987 NES) & Clocktower (1996 PS1). Great memories!!!!!!! and now I’m 2021 we have consoles to replay those games these days! Awesome times we are living in now! Grateful to be alive!!!
I found Super Metroid as a 8 year old really tense at the defunct space ship. I also played RE games with my 6 years older brother but I except the jump scares, it didn't effect me much. Zombies never were really scary for me.
I'm probably among the older set of commenters here. One of the first games I played was The NewZealand Story on the Atari ST. I was about 3 years-old. It's a colourful and fun platformer, so it was very inviting, but the first boss absolutely terrified me. It's a frozen whale that swallows you whole. You have to avoid liquid dropping from the roof of its belly. I cried so much I was banned from playing it. Of course, that lead me to wanting to play it more. These days it's one of my favourite Taito games. I still feel sorry for any young kids who might play it though.
You guys have a great dynamic and, having listened to Jon for years, I am just very happy that he has found a group with such a cool vibe. Zion? ABSOLUTE UNIT! Great addition to NL since he first started and what a cool guy, in general. THANKS, YOU GUYS!
I hate bees. To this day at 26 I still have a massive fear of them. So you can imagine the horror of getting stung by a bee in Donkey Kong 64. Sometimes they would drop down from offscreen and I would scream and throw my N64 controller.
the Tyrant in RE2 Remake is the one thing that has scared me most in a video game. Specifically the second playthrough, when being in a safe room doesn't make him go away, and I was just waiting forever for the footsteps to recede, standing alone in that cold office. I eventually realized they were never going to, and I put the game down. No way I was going to fuck with that anymore
Okay. Talk about feeling safe in a children's game and then plummeting into the depths of fear, Queen Veronica's Manor in A Hat in Time. I'm a grown man, but that level scared the piss out of me.
@Zion, regarding kids games nowadays not having scary moments, I got three words for you, A Hat in Time, dude, I’m in my mid 30s yet that haunted mansion level gave me the chills, from the moving statues to the creepy ghost lady chasing you around as you try to sneak out, to the devil himself making a deal over your soul, lol.
I don't really play horror games so my tolerance is REALLY low. -When Uncharted 1 suddenly turned into a survival horror. -The Haunted House level in Persona Q - Creepy door hallway jumpscare in the old witch's manor in Lost Odyssey. - The Last of Us
The ghost threw me off as a kid but the truly creepy thing about Pokemon gen 1 was how glitchy it was. Like when you got free masterballs and the hall of fame was glitched. I had a few weird dreams about Pokemon games or my old computer glitching out in new ways back then.
The shark in the water in the Treasure Trove Cove level of Banjo-Kazooie with the jaws music playing every-time you fell in the water. I remember swimming like mad terrified of the shark coming after me.
The NES Sesame Street games that were made to teach kids ABC's and 123's scared the shit out of me. I was probably 7 or 8 (it was the early 2000's)and we went out of state to visit my grandparents. I can't remember whose it was but they had an NES in a closet so we grabbed it out and started playing. Had a ton of fun with Super Mario Bros, SMB 3, Duck Hunt, etc. There were about 20 games there of varying quality. I popped in the Sesame Street games and there was fucking dead in the eyes Elmo staring back at me with low quality Sesame Street playing in the background. The vibe of everything just created this really creepy atmosphere so I pulled it out and never touched it again. A few years prior my family went on vacation and I had to sleep on the hotel couch since I was the youngest. My parents let me rent a few N64 games from the Lodgenet system in the room. I rented Hydro Thunder and thought it was awesome. Then I decided to rent Majora's Mask as I had OoT at home and loved it. The cutscene that plays at the beginning (where Majora's Mask is in a block void and spins around) scared me so badly. When I went to bed, I was all alone in the main hotel room as my sister's and parents were in their room. I just kept seeing Majora's Mask and hearing a creepy laugh everytime I closed my eyes and I woke up several times from nightmares about it. There aren't really any other games that scared me as a kid but these really scared the shit out of me for some reason lol
The wife would agree with you Jon, When the dogs burst through she put down the controller and never played it again when she was younger. We just recently ran through the Amnesia series, I enjoyed 'em, she didn't, but did 😉😊
28:55 sure I see what you mean; but in my opinion it's the part in the underground corridor when the seemingly invincible reptilian chases you--my heart was going a mile a minute in that part and I was sweating enough to make puddles.
Abe's oddysee was the one that terrified me. From when I first saw the opening cutscene even. Id never be able to play for even an hour without getting too scared and stopping playing for months. Just such a dark and unsettling setting to be dealing with as a small child
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask I was playing a friend's copy of the game, at their house. They had it setup with stereo system speakers, so the sound fx literally felt like they were around you. The weirdest sounds come out of nowhere, worse I remember it was Halloween. Then one of their friends came back from trick or treating. Scared the bejeezus out of us, including the game combined. RE4: the game overall unsettling. The Respawning experiments in the lab.. wtf. I wore headphones while playing on my GameCube. That was a chill down my spine. Plus a game over screen. I had to take a break. Silent Hill. Any. Yeah I'm uh.. not okay Metroid Prime 2 Aside from tough bosses. Just exploring the opening areas are eerie enough. Seeing the corpses of Federation Troopers... dangling from the ceiling, in the holes made by creatures. The popping, shifting, tones, instilled enough tension, I had to take a deep breath and keep going. Jump scares? Oh yes there were some. But worse, when those dead troopers come back to life, and I forgot to save. Game over. Then Samus goes into cardiac arrest WTF...
I played the first silent hill on the psx when I was 7and the most spooky part was the locker with the cat... even now that I'm 30 it hit me every time
I remember being terrified of the manta ray in Super Mario Sunshine, and of the game over screen too, probably because the audio would get turned up when you ran of lifes.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on the GameCube freaked me out as a kid - the ghosts in the transfiguration trials were terrifying, and the nighttime music and ghosts always scared me
I had Friday the 13th for the NES and I was way too young for that game. I was terrified running round the camp and every time Jason came out and freaked out. I played it for about a few hours and never again after that. I still haven’t watched those movies since it freaked me out so bad as a kid.
In the pink panther game there was an Egypt level, and there there were some hieroglyphics that were trying to catch you. Now I'm 24, and still I'm terrified of hieroglyphics
Banjo Kazooie… Screw the Mecha Megaladon! Just screw him, he’s going to eat me! You want to tell little 8 year old me he isn’t? Because he definitely is! Other than that both The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were ungodly terrifying! Resident Evil 2 & 3 also completely successfully scared the h-e double French fries out of me but not more than BK and BK Tooie and Big Boo’s Haunt in Super Mario 64 as well as quite a few parts of Donkey Kong 64 and Pokemon Red & Blue.
I can relate to passing the controller to your mom at scary parts. I used to make my brother beat bosses in Zelda for me in OoT and MM and the wall masters scared me into my teens. It Wasn’t until playing Wind Waker that I was able to 100% a Zelda game on my own, to this day it’s my favorite game and I bet that’s probably why.
My scariest child game moment comes for the legendary Ecco the Dolphin. I was only able to get through the first few levels. My aunt and I discovered the code system and started punching in random things to see what happened. We managed to get ourselves into the alien section and it absolutely freak the bejesus out of me. To this day I have a fear of deep water along with squids thanks to this moment.
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil. Level 2, Slaughter by the River of Souls, was terror condensed. And unless you've played it yourself, you'd never believe me, but Ecco the Dolphin and Ecco: The Tides of Time were surreal and trippy and terrifying.
Can I just say, I am LOVING these discussion videos you guys have been doing this year! It’s fun kicking back and listening to you guys shoot the breeze about games!
I just want to say Zion's mom sounds like the coolest mom ever
Yes she does 😂
I can't believe Jon is fucking dead.
Jon who?
He got crushed by a videogame shelf :(
34:04 I think a game that deserves a mention is A Hat in Time. The mission “Queen Vanessa’s Manor” definitely has potential to scare the crap out of some kids, in an otherwise incredibly cutesy looking game
Metroid Prime really scared me, it was my first shooter game, remember playing it when I was about 10 or 11. The whole atmosphere of the game terrified me
Oh man, yeah! I would also say Prime 2's Dark Samus is also pretty creepy as well. Shoutout to SA-X too
The chozo ghosts scared me. They appeared so suddenly I thought they were the beginning to a creepy pasta
The title screen gave me goosebumps. Although, I don't have any way of playing it rn.
Mario 64. The never-ending stairs gave me never-ending scares.
Creating the snow man in animal crossing GameCube and him telling me that I made him wrong really messed me up as a kid. Creating a life just to watch him curse his own creation was really dark
A Hat in Time's spooky level caught me waaay off guard.
For me, one of the scariest/creepiest gaming moments in my childhood was the weird laughing/crying sound in the music for Magus' Castle in Chrono Trigger for the SNES.
Mario 64. The eel and the music on that level and the evil piano on one of the levels always got to me 😂😂😂😂.
I had a nostalgia trip when they were talking about Lavender Town. I played through Gen 1 at least 50 times as a kid and 100% that town always creeped me out. That music it the top of the pokemon tower was so intense for young me especially playing at night before bed.
Luigi's mansion scared me a good bit when I was younger but I still enjoyed and played it.
For me when I was around 2, I was scared of Bowser in Mario Party 4. Landing on the Bowser space always made me leave the room hoping Koppa Kid appears instead.
When I was 3 or 4 I was playing Mario Party 2 or 3 alone up stairs in our loft and landed on a Bowser space. I got so nervous and scared that I started running downstairs to get my dad, fell down, and tumbled down like 20 curved stairs lol I wasn't allowed to play Mario Party games by myself after that
Im so glad you guys got into the creepy pasta part of it!! Ben drowned and lavender town were like the biggest ones for me when I was younger. So much nastalgia watching this! On a side note I always was creeped out by Luigis mansion and would play ut with all the lights off. But it was a fun creepy
The enemy from Ocarina of Time that y'all were talking about is called Dead Hand and yes he is the creepiest thing I ever saw in a video game as a kid.
Someone brought up the ghost girl to Mr Masuda and he said "We would never put anything like that In our games"
Then someone showed him a video of It and he went "Oooooo"
Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Pure terror.
Silent Hill 2 and Fatal Frame 2 will always be the MVPs, but being 4 years old and playing ET on Atari will have a special place.
26:56 We don’t talk about this video anymore. It only exists if you talk about it Zion
It's not really scary but seeing the option to send away a Chao in sonic adventure 2 made me feel so bad, I cried randomly later on and didnt know how to explain to my mom that the thought of sending a chao away in my video game made me cry on the front porch
My dad got me Alien ressurection for the PlayStation when i was 5, thanks dad. Never saw blood or scary imagery before, i learned fast what that was
So true story, I discovered Ben Drowned after getting married. My wife and I were in a one bedroom apartment and I remember reading through it after work, in my room, when the sun had gone down. I told my friend about it afterward and we were so into it, thought it was intended to be a true story at first. Then a few days later, I could hear music from Ocarina of time through the vents. And I thought I was going crazy. My wife thought I was lying, but I swear it was the music. I heard the title screen, the save and menu sounds, etc. i thought maybe it was just a gamer upstairs or something, but when we met my upstairs neighbor, it was an older woman with no visible gaming system. So I’m still not entirely sure what happened.
When I was 6 or 7, I was playing Legend of Zelda OoT, and I remember that I got scarred in the Deku Tree. The giant Skulltula's terrified me, and I don't think I was able to complete that dungeon until much later. Thankfully, I was much older when I finally got to the really scary stuff, like the Bottom of the Well and the Shadow Temple. If I had run into those as a 6 year old, I can not imaging the trauma that would have caused....
Toree 3D. A cute and fun platformer and suddenly WHAM.
All I remember is that as a young child, any game that required stealth induced so much anxiety that I needed to turn console off. Didn’t matter whether it was silent hill or the beginning to the windwaker
So I'm little bit older than these guys. But two games that scared me so much as a kid were Monster in My Pocket, especially the character select screen. And Metroid, especially the original. Funny thing is my brother convinced our mom that Castlevania would be tol scary for me to play (when really he just didnt want me touch his game), and I played it at a friend's house and laughed at it. But Metroid legit gave me nightmares. Still today it makes me feel uneasy, though it's a plus now.
The eel level in Super Mario Sunshine terrified me as a kid
In Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, I was afraid to raise my Chao in the Dark Garden because I thought it was legitimate Hell.
The flood level from Halo CE enough said
I was just about to comment on X and Y's ghost girl! I love how there is so little explanation for it all.
(by the way, I believe the ghost girl in ORAS is separate from the XY ghost).
I remember playing through Wind Waker when I was around 6. I got to the part when it is raining and you first encounter the sharks, I was so scared that I shut my GameCube off and didn’t play for a while 😅 the other moment was the end of the jungle level in Sonic Heroes with the Giant Crocodile that chases you, freaked me out!
The giant crocodile section was rather frustrating for me just because of how easy it was to mess up and die
@@GenerationZ313 agreed! That game had many moments of instant death.
Speaking of Wind Waker, I've always found those ReDead's way creepier than the ones in Ocarina.
For everyone that enjoyed this topic with those scary moments in more non-horror games, I highly recommend whoisthisgit's channel. They made a bunch of videos that include moments in games you would find terryfying as a child.
I'm so glad I can read the title to this video to the spooky scary skeletons theme
As a kid, kh1 scared me to death. The beginning is very ominous and the death screen freaked me out
The End of the World in that game is very creepy once you think about what it is.
I loved the Silent Hill games when I was a teen. And recently, last few months, I tried playing Little Nightmares 2 and the teacher with the extendo-neck made me physically ill. I wasn't particularly scared, but it made me sick so I had to stop playing the game.
You guys mention the eels in Odyssey, but kids are probably traumatized by the T-Rex under the wooded kingdom. I also think the E.M.M.I has probably already messed some kids up. I don't think these are too scary but for kids they're a good introduction into horror
Not games exactly but the menus for all the 6th generation consoles were genuinely unsettling to me as a kid, I know some people find them strangely comforting but even to this day if it's late at night the menu screens of those systems just make me feel uneasy. The most notable one being PS2's disc error red screen that was just straight up horrifying, I absolutely dreaded that screen with all of my being because one of my game discs were super scratched up. The Xbox's distorted NASA sounds also deserve a mention, their goal was to make the system seem like otherworldly technology and they definitely succeeded. Although it freaked me out I wish the follow ups to the Xbox had some notable quirks to their menus but nowadays they all kind of just blend together unfortunately.
Lavender Town has the best music in the game because it sets the mood for what's to come in there. That area creeped me out too with the ghosts you can't fight when I first entered, and the music really helped bring you into that. Normally acary areas didn't stick with me as much from other games, but Lavender Town is burned into my memory forever.
Totally agreed
Every time people bring up the N64 Redeads, I remember the Wind Waker Redeads. They looked pretty silly and cartoony, but they had more animation and an even scarier scream when they attacked, so I always got really scared when I got caught by them.
I have some childhood "scary" games. World of Goo was definitely very creepy to me thanks to the art style and the music. It was very well done, but every time I went to the Tower of Goo area after the corporation was destroyed, I felt very unnerved. It's been a long time since I have sat down and played the game, but the eerie vibe still lingers with me.
Then there is The Neverhood. It's a very silly, cartoony game with weird music and an awesome claymation art style, but there's just this creepy vibe everywhere that doesn't fit with the silliness of the rest of the game. When you go outside, everything is completely silent. There aren't any other people and - as far as you know - there aren't any monsters, but there's just this creepy ambient noise that plays when you walk around under the black void that is the sky. The main villain of the game, Klogg, was also very frightening to me, too. I made sure I knew every cutscene that had him in it so that every time I played through the game with my family, I could run away from the computer and not have to see him. Now I look back on that and find it silly because Klogg isn't that scary at all to me anymore.
The neverhood freaked me out as a kid when I hit the weasel
I love these videos. Do more of this kind of thing. Although its always better when all three of you are involves.
I remember when I was 7 or 8, I was playing Luigis Mansion Dark Moon. When I encountered the ghost mummies I got so damned scared by it that I deleted my save file.
The piano in Mario 64 always jump scare me all the time as a kid.
That chainsaw guy in RE4 definitely got me back then, still can't believe he would just cut your head straight off lol
Not Nintendo, but Draynor Manor in RuneScape scared the shit out of me as a kid. Just a little 8 year old in 2007 stumbling onto this creepy looking abandoned mansion, and as I approached it, the trees started *attacking* me! But I still kept going, and noticed that things were moving, chairs were stalking me, and it was such a big and confusing mansion that I got lost in there, and I couldn't figure out how to get back to the exit. And then I found my way to the basement. I saw the coffin, and I knew enough about vampires to know what was in there. So I booked it out of that room and ended up either Home Teleporting to Lumbridge or eventually found my way out, and I gave Draynor Manor a wide berth for years after. Even today, though it doesn't scare me at all, whenever I think about or see it, I always remember my first ever experience in that mansion, and it still makes me wary of the creepy little manor even though it doesn't have the same effect on me anymore.
I remember playing Psychonauts 1 as a kid and finding the art style rather unsettling. A lot of children at the summer camp have large bulging eyes or wacky physical proportions. Also, If you venture out of the campgrounds and into the woods you will find a floating bear that can use Telekinesis to attack you from a distance . As a kid I was used to enemies being relegated to stages of the campaign and not just in the overworld. I never ventured too far out of camp unless I needed to. Kind of crazy how that has stayed with me now for about 15 years.
The Moblins in the Sacred Forest Meadow seriously freaked me out as a kid, and they still put me well on edge.
I had the weirdest fear of Shadow Mario from Mario Sunshine. I either didn't know he was actually that little shit Bowser Jr, or I maybe didn't believe it because I didn't really understand it. That whole game is full of scary memories for me. The Manta Storm and that whole Sirena Beach area was just so scary, I always got this impression that something not quite right was happening in that area because of the music and all the ghosts and how empty it all was
I always loved the original luigi's mansion, not really a scary game unless you play In the dark with headphones on and the ghosts pop up In the darkness
for some reason I still have nightmares of waking up trapped In a dark room only lit by lightining flashes and the moonlight outside
A Hat in Time has a handful of moments that scared me! Mostly in the haunted manor level where you are chased by a ghost! And to a lesser degree, the creepy hidden messages you get by manipulating the camera feature in the main hub.
Look, the reason I think majora's mask is the best game of all time isn't because it's "edgy". It's because even with the world dying, the moon falling, and so much loss occurring, there is still happiness and joy in termina. There is still a bit of joy, wackiness, and love (anju and kafei) there
I remember DK64 being so unsettling for me. There was a point in the level Angry Aztec where a deep voice would say "GET OUT", a timer would appear, and a crosshair would appear on your Kong. Not only that, but then there was a whole area that was horror-themed and I was terrified watching my mom and aunt play it.
31:21 You're talking about the eels while I'm like "What the fuck is this cursed Diddy Kong Mario"
The redead zombies and hands that hung on the ceiling in Ocarina of Time freaked me out for sure lol. I'm not sure about scary, but Majoras Mask gave me so much anxiety as a kid with the timed aspect of the Moon that I made my parents return it Lol.
Majora’s Mask, and I’m a little bit older than you guys, has always been a conceptually difficult game to get through. Even though I love it as a game. It takes everything that you loved about your childhood and turns it on its ear.
My scariest childhood game is monster hunter 3 ultimate. If you’ve played it, you definitely know what I mean. One of the first quests puts you underwater to gather some items, eventually forcing you into an area of complete ocean with nowhere to run. This is where you encounter lagiacrus for the first time, and my god it is terrifying. The snarling noises that it makes, the limiting environment of the water, and the reactions of the villagers will put you over the edge, and even more so if RNG is against you and you’re forced to be around the beast more than you should. Eventually you get the opportunity to kill it, and it’s such a great feeling to see how far you’ve come.
However, not long after you’re thrown back to the bottom in high rank where you encounter deviljho. This thing is essentially lagiacrus on steroids. It can spawn literally ANYWHERE, and will kill EVERYTHING, including both you and the monsters that you’re fighting. It will even go as far at eating it’s own tail to appease the slighting but of hunger. It’s not until the post game when you get the chance to actually kill him, which honestly feels like one of the greatest achievements of any game I’ve ever played.
It feels like the things that scared us In games as children that weren't really scary was just the unknown
I have a honorable mention, Nightmare Creatures on the N64. Not only was I scared to play it, but even the glowing eyes on the cartridge scared me, more so than the game it self.
Conker's Bad fur day, the zombie level. As a kid I knew conker from Diddy Kong racing, and he was my main, so when I saw a game from him, it was a no brainer, also, I'm from Mexico, so at the time, I didn't know English, neither did my parents, so we didn't read the "not a game for people under 18" label, so my parents just bought it for me and oh damn was i scarred lol, at the first splash of blood I turned it off and was about to throw it to the garbage can, but i didn't. With time I started playing it little by little, mostly with cheat codes to play the it's war level, because there wasn't much blood there, just the fur from the teddies, but this once I played the zombie/mansion level and i can't belive how horrifying that level is, it's still scary today even after finishing multiple resident evil games. The sound the squirrels make and how they're hiding in walls and rush at you as you approach, that still gets me, as of today I still haven't finished that game.
Lavender Town in Pokémon Red, Blue & Yellow really scared me a lot as a kid, especially the Pokémon Tower. The Biolizard in Sonic Adventure 2 also creeped me out a little.
Although the whole game had its moments, the one everyone who’s played it will remember, is the bath tub scene! Yes I’m talking about Eternal Darkness.
Queen. Vanessa's. Manor.
please keep doing these casual conversation videos! love them.
That well in Ocarina was so terrifying as a kid (still kind of is...). Also Fragile Dreams scared the crap out of me when I was a little older. For some reason I decided to beat the game at night too.
Biggest games I remember scaring me when I was little were Wind Waker and Luigi’s Mansion. Wind Waker with the first visit to the Forsaken Fortress, it stressed me out so much sneaking by the guards in barrels. Of course now the route I take it doesn’t involve any sneaking until the 2 mandatory sections at the end lol. And with Luigi’s Mansion it was the blackout, when suddenly no room is safe anymore and ghosts are popping up constantly until you capture Uncle Grimmly and switch the breaker on.
Okay, this fear seems pretty stupid now, but in 2018 when I was younger, I got the switch version of Dragon Quest Builders, and I remember being TERRIFIED of leaving my village at night. The normal music just gets creepier and ghosts start appearing, and it just scared me
As a kid, besides the 1980 game “Adventure” on the Atari 2600, my most scary games were Shadowgate (1987 NES) & Clocktower (1996 PS1). Great memories!!!!!!! and now I’m 2021 we have consoles to replay those games these days! Awesome times we are living in now! Grateful to be alive!!!
I found Super Metroid as a 8 year old really tense at the defunct space ship. I also played RE games with my 6 years older brother but I except the jump scares, it didn't effect me much. Zombies never were really scary for me.
I'm probably among the older set of commenters here. One of the first games I played was The NewZealand Story on the Atari ST. I was about 3 years-old. It's a colourful and fun platformer, so it was very inviting, but the first boss absolutely terrified me. It's a frozen whale that swallows you whole. You have to avoid liquid dropping from the roof of its belly. I cried so much I was banned from playing it. Of course, that lead me to wanting to play it more. These days it's one of my favourite Taito games. I still feel sorry for any young kids who might play it though.
You guys have a great dynamic and, having listened to Jon for years, I am just very happy that he has found a group with such a cool vibe. Zion? ABSOLUTE UNIT! Great addition to NL since he first started and what a cool guy, in general. THANKS, YOU GUYS!
I hate bees. To this day at 26 I still have a massive fear of them. So you can imagine the horror of getting stung by a bee in Donkey Kong 64. Sometimes they would drop down from offscreen and I would scream and throw my N64 controller.
I hate bees and butterflies I have an episode of SpongeBob the thing for that
the Tyrant in RE2 Remake is the one thing that has scared me most in a video game. Specifically the second playthrough, when being in a safe room doesn't make him go away, and I was just waiting forever for the footsteps to recede, standing alone in that cold office. I eventually realized they were never going to, and I put the game down. No way I was going to fuck with that anymore
Okay. Talk about feeling safe in a children's game and then plummeting into the depths of fear, Queen Veronica's Manor in A Hat in Time. I'm a grown man, but that level scared the piss out of me.
@Zion, regarding kids games nowadays not having scary moments, I got three words for you, A Hat in Time, dude, I’m in my mid 30s yet that haunted mansion level gave me the chills, from the moving statues to the creepy ghost lady chasing you around as you try to sneak out, to the devil himself making a deal over your soul, lol.
I don't really play horror games so my tolerance is REALLY low.
-When Uncharted 1 suddenly turned into a survival horror.
-The Haunted House level in Persona Q
- Creepy door hallway jumpscare in the old witch's manor in Lost Odyssey.
- The Last of Us
The ghost threw me off as a kid but the truly creepy thing about Pokemon gen 1 was how glitchy it was. Like when you got free masterballs and the hall of fame was glitched. I had a few weird dreams about Pokemon games or my old computer glitching out in new ways back then.
The shark in the water in the Treasure Trove Cove level of Banjo-Kazooie with the jaws music playing every-time you fell in the water. I remember swimming like mad terrified of the shark coming after me.
The NES Sesame Street games that were made to teach kids ABC's and 123's scared the shit out of me. I was probably 7 or 8 (it was the early 2000's)and we went out of state to visit my grandparents. I can't remember whose it was but they had an NES in a closet so we grabbed it out and started playing. Had a ton of fun with Super Mario Bros, SMB 3, Duck Hunt, etc. There were about 20 games there of varying quality. I popped in the Sesame Street games and there was fucking dead in the eyes Elmo staring back at me with low quality Sesame Street playing in the background. The vibe of everything just created this really creepy atmosphere so I pulled it out and never touched it again.
A few years prior my family went on vacation and I had to sleep on the hotel couch since I was the youngest. My parents let me rent a few N64 games from the Lodgenet system in the room. I rented Hydro Thunder and thought it was awesome. Then I decided to rent Majora's Mask as I had OoT at home and loved it. The cutscene that plays at the beginning (where Majora's Mask is in a block void and spins around) scared me so badly. When I went to bed, I was all alone in the main hotel room as my sister's and parents were in their room. I just kept seeing Majora's Mask and hearing a creepy laugh everytime I closed my eyes and I woke up several times from nightmares about it.
There aren't really any other games that scared me as a kid but these really scared the shit out of me for some reason lol
What scared me as a kid gamer? The ghosts of Sonic & Knuckles Sandopolis pyramid.
The wife would agree with you Jon, When the dogs burst through she put down the controller and never played it again when she was younger. We just recently ran through the Amnesia series, I enjoyed 'em, she didn't, but did 😉😊
28:55 sure I see what you mean; but in my opinion it's the part in the underground corridor when the seemingly invincible reptilian chases you--my heart was going a mile a minute in that part and I was sweating enough to make puddles.
Abe's oddysee was the one that terrified me. From when I first saw the opening cutscene even. Id never be able to play for even an hour without getting too scared and stopping playing for months. Just such a dark and unsettling setting to be dealing with as a small child
I played Resident Evil 4 on the Wii with the Wii jog, where you can only move if you jog on the spot. I had one HELL of a workout.
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
I was playing a friend's copy of the game, at their house. They had it setup with stereo system speakers, so the sound fx literally felt like they were around you. The weirdest sounds come out of nowhere, worse I remember it was Halloween. Then one of their friends came back from trick or treating. Scared the bejeezus out of us, including the game combined.
RE4: the game overall unsettling. The Respawning experiments in the lab.. wtf. I wore headphones while playing on my GameCube. That was a chill down my spine. Plus a game over screen. I had to take a break.
Silent Hill. Any.
Yeah I'm uh.. not okay
Metroid Prime 2
Aside from tough bosses. Just exploring the opening areas are eerie enough. Seeing the corpses of Federation Troopers... dangling from the ceiling, in the holes made by creatures. The popping, shifting, tones, instilled enough tension, I had to take a deep breath and keep going. Jump scares? Oh yes there were some. But worse, when those dead troopers come back to life, and I forgot to save. Game over. Then Samus goes into cardiac arrest
WTF...
DK64 scared me plenty as a kid
That piano-playing hand in Banjo-Kazooie used to scare the crap outta me.
31:00 that spider in one of the later levels of Rayman 2 is pretty scary too.
I played the first silent hill on the psx when I was 7and the most spooky part was the locker with the cat... even now that I'm 30 it hit me every time
I remember being terrified of the manta ray in Super Mario Sunshine, and of the game over screen too, probably because the audio would get turned up when you ran of lifes.
Same. Like it was so hard as a kid and the music was scary too. I am with you.
Man it was great hearing your stories and yes i think its something every child should experience in their life.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on the GameCube freaked me out as a kid - the ghosts in the transfiguration trials were terrifying, and the nighttime music and ghosts always scared me
Of course the Re-Dead’s got to me as well. Bram Stoker’s Dracula on NES had really creepy music and spooked me as a kid.
I had Friday the 13th for the NES and I was way too young for that game. I was terrified running round the camp and every time Jason came out and freaked out. I played it for about a few hours and never again after that. I still haven’t watched those movies since it freaked me out so bad as a kid.
Luigi's Mansion scared the crap out of me when I was a kid
In the pink panther game there was an Egypt level, and there there were some hieroglyphics that were trying to catch you. Now I'm 24, and still I'm terrified of hieroglyphics
Banjo Kazooie… Screw the Mecha Megaladon! Just screw him, he’s going to eat me! You want to tell little 8 year old me he isn’t? Because he definitely is! Other than that both The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask were ungodly terrifying! Resident Evil 2 & 3 also completely successfully scared the h-e double French fries out of me but not more than BK and BK Tooie and Big Boo’s Haunt in Super Mario 64 as well as quite a few parts of Donkey Kong 64 and Pokemon Red & Blue.
I can relate to passing the controller to your mom at scary parts. I used to make my brother beat bosses in Zelda for me in OoT and MM and the wall masters scared me into my teens. It Wasn’t until playing Wind Waker that I was able to 100% a Zelda game on my own, to this day it’s my favorite game and I bet that’s probably why.
The dancing Gibdos in Majora's Mask freaked me out
I genuinely want them to explain the girl who said “No…You’re not the one”, Who is the one?
My scariest child game moment comes for the legendary Ecco the Dolphin. I was only able to get through the first few levels. My aunt and I discovered the code system and started punching in random things to see what happened. We managed to get ourselves into the alien section and it absolutely freak the bejesus out of me. To this day I have a fear of deep water along with squids thanks to this moment.
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil. Level 2, Slaughter by the River of Souls, was terror condensed.
And unless you've played it yourself, you'd never believe me, but Ecco the Dolphin and Ecco: The Tides of Time were surreal and trippy and terrifying.