Honorable mention: when you were playing with a REALLY scratched Wii disc and the console made that god awful noise that sounds like a heart monitor flatline
Ah yeah, that one - yikes. I had a Wii growing up. It never made that noise with me, but I've gotten "disk can't be read" errors on terribly scratched disks.
The true anxiety in these errors is the fact that you don't know if your console is broken or not, but let's be real, the hardest times we went through our childhood is our consoles breaking.
I literally thought my wii broke because my wii couldn’t recognize my awfully scratched mario kart wii disk, made me abandon it for 4 years only to find it again and try to play it, before realizing that this situation made my wii collect dust for so long it no longer worked. I still have fears of going in to the room where the wii used to be because of that one time. And i have broken 2 computers and 1 ipad since. Ouch.
On christmas my family got me a Wii U, but the gamepad was faulty and would randomly disconnect all the time. We had to get a refund and get another one. Overall not too bad, service was rather fast, but it sucks having no console for the week, just as you were starting to get excited
The most 2 scary errors I had was on my ps4 and ps5 the first was my ps4 overheating and the second was my ps5 repairing system storage it happened the second time yesterday and my ps4 only overheated once for now
One time I had a Wii u and the adapter got struck by lightning freezing it at the loading screen but I found a cheap replacement and my only problem is that when I try to play Wii play motion it says "an error has occurred" I think it's a download error
Thank goodness I didn’t get that message as a pre teen 😂 I can just picture it now I’d be sat in the living room (probably Xmas morning for this) putting in a new game with my family gathered around chatting to each other while booting up as they were often curious about the games I was into (pikmin for example as it’s cutesy and a problem solver, very family oriented in that way) and I’d be paying more attention to the conversation whilst it went through the box animation only to inevitably shit my parents at that messages blooming jump scare style Audio 😅 who made that screen, Alfred Hitchcock 🤷🏻♀️😅
for me the most uncanny one was the sega cd error because there is just something unsettling about video games/consoles telling you to turn it off immediately
Sonic: hey buddy! This is a sega dreamcast disc, not a music cd! Track 1 contains confidential information and if you play them, Eggman might get them! So save us the hassle and put us back in the sega Dreamcrast!
The creepiness from these is mostly from the fact that we experienced these errors at night where, as a child, we spent most of our time playing games. It was just us, the late night crickets, and nothing else but the brightness of our CRT TVs. Those were great, and sometimes eerie, times.
Man, I was a child that would do that at night, even during the weekends. Sometimes I would just go to my computer to play roller coaster tycoon 2 at night simply because I didn't want school or the next day to come so soon, so I would play these games as much as possible before I end up going to school feeling tired or exhausted.
Fun fact about the Sega CD: it was reported that continuously listening to the eerie audio would actually damage your player's speakers, due to the harsh guitar rifts.
@@godismyjudge4964 true, as much as the simple click of the switch is still iconic in its on way it’s got nothing on the GameCubes rolling logo nor ps1 or ps2. And I just grin like a Cheshire Cat when I hear the gameboy advance chime…
For me, the PS1 red screen is the least creepiest for me, the console is basically saying, “hey that disc don’t work, please try another disc so we can continue playing!” But the ps2 on the other hand is like “HEY YOU CAN’T USE THAT DISC IN HERE! CHANGE IT RIGHT NOW!”
It does hang on those notes a bit too long so it's more the unsettling audio than the visual. Though I guess a hard cut to a red screen with text would be like something straight out of a horror movie.
When I was maybe 8 years old, I remember waking up to hearing Xbox ambient noises(after leaving it on too long) and being too scared to move. I finally gathered enough baby courage to launch myself across the living room to turn it off it was almost worse because nothing is louder for a child than pitch black, open, and empty room... I ran the fastest I could, while in tears and it was from *nothing*. It makes me laugh at myself now, but I promise you that those lil noises still remind me of that one night lol.
For me, it was this feeling of either hearing noises, or basically something was standing in the dark, not making any kind of sound and you look into the pitch black void, and you feel like you're seeing something that's not quite there, but you see it anyway and it terrifies you to the core.
14:04 the sounds that play for the Xbox here are actually an Easter egg. Microsoft took clips of astronauts in space to make the console sound futuristic and spacey, which is the theme of the animation that will play when starting the Xbox! :)
As a kid who had a pirated Playstation, it was a economic relief. But it wasn't so much for me. Game discs were labed something as close to what a creepypasta can with badly written names in English I couldn't understood. Sometimes they could or not work and that bloody Bios screen always scared me, it looked like alien diahrrea and a secret menu that wasn't very pleasing in the eyes. So I always stuck with good ol' Crash games. Crash Bash had a weird screen to select region: NTSC or PAL a weird music and a monochrome background. Crash 1 and 2 were normal. But bloody Crash 3, upon starting it showed a text in Japanese, a circle in red and a black background. No music, nothing. Game never started. After that, I was scared of even touching the console. Got rid of the old Crash 3 disc and bought the right NTSC copy that worked perfectly.
That was the "console may have been modified" error, it's meant to stop piracy but since you were playing a game that was not for your console's region it probably thought that you pirated the game
@@moister3727 Lol I grew up with emulators because we couldn't even buy the real consoles and I remember crying whenever a graphical error happened during emulation, little 6 yo me thought the family PC was cursed despite every attempt of my parents and brother to tell otherwise, but I still kept playing because the games were fun.
10:03 Not all variations of RROD rings mean that the console had reached the end of it's life. 2 rings would only mean that the console was overheating and needed to cool down. 4 rings was the best type of RROD you could encounter, and it meant you forgot to plug the video cables in. Hope this is helpful.
@@incrediboxgamer wrong, 4 rings was actually the least serious issue out of all of them. 3 rings was the one that meant the console was completely done for.
Ps1 fearful harmony explained (from my poor knowledge); the Fearful harmony (Im gonna call it FH) is caused by the system not being able to read a disk in time or properly, thus slowing down the system, as it tries and tries, it keeps on failing, and since it keeps trying, it is lagging out the system, the audio is also lagging, creating FH, it can be caused by a few things, the most notable being damaged/pirated/incorrect (improper region, format, or if it’s supposed to be used in a different system) disks, and no, it’s not an anti-piracy method, so if I got anything wrong, feel free to correct me
As a kid i would play the start up menu to animal crossing wild world next to my bed to fall asleep to. Imagine the fear i felt when in my sleep my game froze and did that gad awful “REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” noise and woke me up
When I was like 4 and playing pokemon on my brother's gba, I was in Lavender Town and my brother told me about the music being suppossedly cursed because I put the console on my ear to listen to it (I liked the song), I shit you not a few seconds later the game crashed and I didn't touch that particular pokemon game for years after.
I remember falling for that, until I recently learned more about it Edit: To be honest I actually put a Wii disk into my PlayStation 2 to try and get it to happen, but I don't know if I didn't have the right model of PlayStation 2 or what, because all my console did was show me "Disk Could Not Be Read" in front of the Browser menu (but still, now that I know it won't brick my system, I do kinda want to see it on the actual hardware)
For some reason my PS2 just stopped playing “long” games and I would always get the red screen. I was only able to play fighting and sports games. I was almost done with MGS2 and Spider-Man 2 when it somehow just gave up 😩
@@IShy2 It's mostly a misaligned laser error, the red disc warning. AFAIK it actually only does it with PS2 or PS1 discs, not anything else. If you wanna see it on hardware, your best luck is with an early PS2 slim that didn't have its reading lens or laser readjusted, and one of the large data games (not Okami, for some reason that disc is god-tier at managing to be readable even if it has deep scratches, it prefers to crash on affected area load attempts). IIRC I've had mine occur once, with Final Fantasy 12, after a prolonged lid-opening cheating on FF8 for a low-level speedrun fishing for Selphie's The End limit break.
If I’m correct, if on the og 360, and you see all quarters of the circle ⭕️ red, it means you haven’t plugged in the av cable. Imagine all the people freaking out at the full ring not knowing that they didn’t plug in their console
They werent creepy honestly, only fearful harmony, but what really scared me when i was a kid was the troubleshooting Wii error, mostly because i used to be scared of the LG screen without any signal
You know what makes the "please insurt the right kind of disk" screens on consoles REALLY scary? When you put in the correct kind of disk but the machine can’t read it because either the disk is damaged or the console is.
1/10 for the ps2 red screen of death????? bro that literally looks like suddenly your console opened a portal to an unknown entity, and the "waves" sound more like screams than anything.
it also causes a mini heart attack when you don't know about the PS2 read lens wear issues and one of your beloved HARD TO FIND game disc sets that one off, usually you think it's the disc and not the lens that's the issue and when the game is now more expensive than the console...
@@d3adman404 it’s because the Xbox discs used a dvd format which the ps2 could play so Xbox could a message on it that could be played on other dvd players.
I remember the Gamecube little girl laugh. If you hold the Z button down and turn on the console you get a creepy little girl giggling. It scared the crap out of me, because I was expecting the normal start up sound, but the Z button was damaged and I didn't know about the giggling little girl. It still gives me chills just thinking about it!!!
The Future for the OG Xbox is actually extremely common audio and is not an error at all. I even tested it with my 4 OG Xboxes and got it within 5 minutes on all 4 of them. In fact one of them got it immediately upon startup. 1/10 scare factor
honestly people are overreacting on personified fear like it's just a weird startup glitch what's actually scary is the fearful and dreadful harmony glitches if your talking about the ps1 edit: yeah its scary if it's like night time and that black screen happens except of the game but like on its own the harmonies are definitely worse
I thought I was a pitifully sensitive child who could be scared by anything. Then I found out there were people horrified by console error screens. Five-year-old me would have felt like a beast with this information.
In my opinion, none of these were really scary, or even creepy. They'd really only be creepy if the person seeing them were young and in the dark. Leaving and coming back to a different soundtrack wouldn't really be all that creepy either, maybe a bit if you didn't know that song or those sounds were in the Xbox, but the fear would quickly leave. The RRoD wouldn't be scary or creepy at all, more angering and/or frustrating. And "Personified Fear" is just the PS1 startup sound played in reverse. The creepiest in my opinion is the Jaguar Red Screen just because it flashed red more suddenly than the other RS entries, didn't have any error text and left you on a black screen with no sound. But that'd just be a four if you ask me. The best console error that's actually scary, as others have stated, is the Wii error. It occurs mid-game, not when you start the console and plays a long, shrill sound which will definitely startle you since you were focused on the game, not the console.
I dunno I could have seen myself being caught out by that game cube one as an unexpected jump scare (wouldn’t have frightened me long term mind, just a similar jump as some one jumping out and saying boo in the dark 😅)
I miss being 10 years old and feeling the youth and joy. But now I'm 20 and playing games and what not hasn't felt like it used to. Man I'm getting old
And as you get older and older you'll lose more and more joy throughout the years, mine got noticeable in my mid 30s. Just hold on to what you've got while you've got it .
I remember my Xbox 360. It died in around 2021-2023, after being there for as long as I can remember up to now. It didn't red ring, it didn't overheat, (as far as I know) or anything like that. I simply got up one day to replay Minecraft Story Mode, (as I couldn't get the full second part, I was stuck with episodes 1-8, but I didn't mind, as episode 7 was my favourite) and it just didn't turn on. No creepy little error screen, no nothing, just (and sorry for the bit of personification here) died peacefully on it's own. Still miss playing MCSM tho. Sucks that it got discontinued.
NES flashing blue screen with Mario Bros./Duck Hunt intro constantly looping. That's actually the only error I've ever gotten on a console. Also, props to the video author for featuring Crash Bandicoot as this video's mascot. Because it's about crashes. Get it? I got it.
Ngl I found the GameCube “red screen” to be charismatically scary; oddly fitting for the era. It sounds like as if the console is angry at you for trying something like using an empty gameboy player when it’s not plugged in. GameCube: *slams piano* “WTF ARE YOU DOING, KID!? YOU SERIOUSLY THINK THATS GONNA WORK WHEN NOT PLUGGED IN!?”
The Jaguar one looks like something ripped out of a bad creepypasta. The Sega CD one also kinda feels like a bad creepypasta bit, especially the "please stop playing this disc immediately". The last one didn't seem spooky at all tho.
Commenting during the Sega CD entry. I remember running into this with a disc my dad attempted to copy for a Sega Saturn game (to preserve the original disc's condition). My brother thought it was a regular burned CD with music on it, and boy did we have the shit scared out of us.
21:41 I remember hearing this from another video (although I could be wrong so don't take this as 100% fact) but I'm pretty sure it's the loud unsettling guitar rifts that ended up damaging CD players instead of the CD Roms. (Also imagine trying to play Sonic CD on a CD player and then hearing this.) (Yikes.)
Yeah, the sheer unpredictably of what could happen when the CD player tries to play the data was the scary part. Sometimes it was just some scratchiness, sometimes the squeal could blow out your speakers if they were turned up loudly. You could never tell with some games.
im pretty sure the breaking would only occur if you actually tried to go to the second 'song' which had the actual game data, it'd be weird for the preventative message to damage the cd player
Just gonna put this here: the Fearful Harmony error, much like the Forbidden Image error, is *not* possible to achieve on stock hardware. Fearful Harmony only occurs in the instance of an improperly installed modchip, or if a disc is heavily scratched or unreadable. On a stock PS1, you will simply get the RSOD.
I love videos like this. They're so nostalgic. I had both the PS1 & PS2 and I definitely remember that "Red Screen of Death". I would jump up off my bed and restart the game so I wouldn't have to see it😭ahh, good times. Whatta blessing it was to have been a child during this era😌🩷
The scary part about the PS2 Console Error, this can actually happen to the early PS2 discs (blue discs rather than the standard DVD disc a bit later on) as well. I did happen to have this happen when I did try to load up the first release version of Crash: Wrath of Cortex and it gave me an error. 11 year old me damn near jumped out of my socks upon seeing that and had to clean the disc before trying again (which worked).
I'll leave my personal opinions about the errors discussed in the video, as well as add in the one error a lot of y'all brought up in the comments (the Wii error SFX) PS1 RSoD: 0/10 (Really not scary. Just an oopsie, forgot to put the PS1 disc where it goes kinda thing.) PS2 RSoD: 6/10 (Due to only error I actually did have happen out of everything on this list, and even with the correct discs. If your ears are good, you can faintly hear a heartbeat in this error with the waves. A correction I do want to give, like others have said, here is that if you do decide to put an OG XBox disc in there, a short video will play out with it saying that the disc can only be played on XBox.) Jaguar RSoD: 2/10 (Certainly raised an eyebrow for me, but not really that scary.) PS1 Forbidden Image: 1/10 (Again, not that scary, though this seems to happen to modded PS1s.) Gamecube RSoC: 4/10 (Talk about a piano coming out of nowhere. This might have gotten 11 year old me, but for current me, just an oh.) XBox 360 RRoD: 7/10 (This actually made me stay far away from XBox for good, if the controller gripe wasn't enough, just from hearing the stories about it. Though if the ring is complete, just replug in the AV cable, should be fine. There are actually people I have seen restore these XBox 360s, to be fair and holy shit, some of the yucky shit that can get caught in the computer boards is yikes.) The Future OG XBox: 2/10 (This honestly seems more like if you leave it idle too long, never heard of this tbh. Then again, I never messed with an OG XBox. I honestly find what happened to Maximillion Dood's XBox to be scarier, tbh. Look up the video on that one, since it essentially got bricked.) PS1 Fearful Harmony: 8/10 (Never encountered this error, but oh god, I had to pull my headphones off temporarily. If my console did that, I would never want to be anywhere near that console again. Brrr, that was unsettling and I had damn near screamed in chat with some friends that night.) PS1 Dreadful Harmony: 5/10 (I think the fact that the chimes are quieter and while it is almost identical to Fearful Harmony, minus the fact that it is a black screen with text now. Unsettling, but a teeny bit scary.) SEGA CD CD Player Warning: 7/10 (The fact that the lady is speaking to you in a tone that best describes a self destruct sequence is unsettling, but I only rank this down a few more points due to the fact be glad that this is just a warning to not play this on a CD player. Castlevania Symphony of the Night (PS1) also had a similar warning (via Alucard's English VA speaking in character to please take the disc out of the player to place in the PS1) as well.) PS1 Personified Fear: 3/10 (I don't see what the point of it being that scary, minus the hangup on the Sony Computer Entertainment screen and the SFX for the second screen being played backwards. The harmonies are far scarier compared to this, in my opinion.) For the one error everyone talked about in comments: Wii Disc Read Error SFX: 9/10 (I did hear this when my boyfriend and I were playing a modded Smash Bros Brawl. My eyes went wide when I heard that and I had to cover my ears (auditory overload for me). About as yikes as this can get for me.) EDIT: One thing I forgot to mention. If memory serves, the PS2 Console Error did show up on TV Tropes for Nightmare Fuel for a little while before that page got taken down. Wouldn't shock me if some of the rest of the errors did show up on there as well.
The PS2 Red Screen Of Death may appear, if you have a scratched disc which won't have the normal "Disc cannot be read" screen or smth. My PlayStation 2 always pretended to start Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 and instead of starting or returning to the PS2 main menu, the red screen of death appears
Coincidentally, original Xbox discs have a DVD video track that plays in any DVD player (including PS2s), so in that case, the RSOD wouldn't occur. It would occur with things like PC discs, imports, or unrecognizably dirty discs. That being said, the PS2 red screen probably was the culprit of my first ever heart attack, back when I was 8.
1. Personified Fear 2. Sega CD Warning 3. Fearful Harmony 4. Dreadful Harmony 5. Red Screen of Death (Atari Jaguar) 6. Forbidden Image 7. Red Ring of Death 8. Red Screen of Death (PlayStation 2) 9. The Future 10. Red Screen of Creepiness 11. Red Screen of Death (PSone) (This is all my opinion :) )
I really like the Sega discs warning messages. It’s cool that the 1st party Sega games on Dreamcast started having unique warning messages for certain games
Heck Im honestly still scarred for life from the ps2 startup sound and not just the Red screen of death on it. Whenever I started up the ps2, it was set up in the basement and I would run back upstairs and then go back down when it was on. I definitely made sure after the first time to keep the lights on.
PS2 red screen freaked me out as a kid. I remember putting in a really scratched disc that it couldnt read and that happening. It was the music that got me I think. I remember being frozen in place as a cold chill went down my back
@@derpkipper UGH i remember that happening to me and k was around 16, but idk why the first rime it just froze me out... Now here i am with 33 and i have a love-hate going through checking for these errors n stuff. I swear i have a weird thing with severe glitches/errors
Man really ranked my Childhood Nightmare Paralysis demon (I literally had nightmares about the PS2 RSoD where I felt myself freeze up and couldn't move or yell) a 1/10.☠
I remember as a kid that when I got the red ring of death on the 360 I was scared as hell that I broke it cuz I played it like 24/7 💀💀 but still it gave me PTSD
Something about error messages on older consoles or devices and seeing them in modern day or just in general feels so uncanny in the fact you don’t remember them being that scary when you were a kid but because that sort of retro style has had so much exposure and has been an inspiration for horror games and stuff on the internet thats what i think makes them more unsettling because you forget that these errors do exist outside of horror games
i made it to the end because of all the creepy and unsettling eas scenario videos i have watched over the past year or so they have prepared me for stuff like this
For the PlayStation 1 - fearful harmony ( 16:51 ) it seemed more like a glitch as the console might still be trying to use the disc you entered and it’s just a glitch with distorted sound , I think this as the PlayStation logo kept glitching behind and in front of the orange diamond and the logos are all messed up. But that’s what I think, I do not work with Sony or anything like that, it’s just my opinion.
I never was too creeped out by the OG Xbox ambiance as a kid. I actually thought it was cool, and what they were trying to go for really sold it for me. Futuristic and unknown, almost alien. Really cool idea as a kid.
I can see how some of those might have freaked someone out as a kid - but as an adult those aren't really that scary anymore. Aside of maybe the scary thought that there might be something wrong with the console or the discs and how much a repair or replacement will cost, if it even can be repaired or replaced in the first place.
Lmao, the audio repeating at the end caught me as I was looking down at my phone and looking up to see the xenomorph made the back of my neck tingle harshly XD
The PS2 error screen is really eerie, when compared to the first system, especially with the unsettling music. I had a modded playstation up until recently, and other than the eject button being broken, there didn't seem to be any differences with the startup screen, but it was able to play all regions no problem, until recently when the whole spindle came out so it had to be replaced.
For those who don’t know. The PS1 audio logo, after the Sony Computer Entertainment part is read off the disc you have inserted into the console. Which is why these variations exist when playing with modded hardware or emulators. It’s simply an error being played out. It was designed that way by the composer who made it so that if it would not play correctly, you would know something is wrong. This is explained somewhat in the final entry of the video. So when you’re inserting a PS1 disc into a PS2 or PS3, it’s the disc basically telling the console chip to play these sounds of the audio logo in that order and on those levels. I believe the graphic for the logo is also technically on the disc. Which is why the PS1 logo without the Sony Computer Entertainment part plays when playing PS1 discs on later gens.
The scariest part of the Red Rings of Death (Xbox 360) is the fact that everyone knew that if they saw it, their console was likely toast. Those other screens unnerved me as a kid, or even scared me, but I would have been in DESPAIR if I saw an error that was commonly known to mean that my disk wasn't just scratched, but my console fried...
The Xbox was my console growing up (the OG) and honestly I always liked the ambience and the chattering. Honestly, going over to my cousin's house and accidentally triggering the Gameboy Player error screen was more startling than listening to the robot voice chatter.
Time my console scared me the most was when I was playing the PlayStation 3 and Batman Arkham asylum during the section when the joker swaps with Batman for that section the first bit I thought my PlayStation was breaking keep in mind this was during the red ring of death era so anything weird like that really freaked me out
not the creepiest, but the scariest was the wii crashing noise, most times it happens out of nowhere when you're least expecting it with a sudden loud buzzing noise that sounds as if your tv was suddenly set to max volume.
The creepiest from this video for me was the last soundtrack from the Xbox. I don't know why, but that tone just unsettles me to the core. One that wasn't in this video though, has got to be the sound of death that the Wii makes when a game crashes. Just, you're calmly playing a game and out of nowhere: *EEEEEEEE*
Honorable mention: when you were playing with a REALLY scratched Wii disc and the console made that god awful noise that sounds like a heart monitor flatline
Ah yeah, that one - yikes. I had a Wii growing up. It never made that noise with me, but I've gotten "disk can't be read" errors on terribly scratched disks.
Nothin like playing Mario Kart, then EEEEEEEEE
I don't think I've heard this one, and now I'm really curious..
@@jadeaavia One time I destroyed just one block of glass in a Super Mario-textured Minecraft world on a Wii U, then it crashed.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The true anxiety in these errors is the fact that you don't know if your console is broken or not, but let's be real, the hardest times we went through our childhood is our consoles breaking.
I literally thought my wii broke because my wii couldn’t recognize my awfully scratched mario kart wii disk, made me abandon it for 4 years only to find it again and try to play it, before realizing that this situation made my wii collect dust for so long it no longer worked. I still have fears of going in to the room where the wii used to be because of that one time. And i have broken 2 computers and 1 ipad since. Ouch.
On christmas my family got me a Wii U, but the gamepad was faulty and would randomly disconnect all the time. We had to get a refund and get another one. Overall not too bad, service was rather fast, but it sucks having no console for the week, just as you were starting to get excited
or a cat thats been with you since you were 4 passing away
The most 2 scary errors I had was on my ps4 and ps5 the first was my ps4 overheating and the second was my ps5 repairing system storage it happened the second time yesterday and my ps4 only overheated once for now
One time I had a Wii u and the adapter got struck by lightning freezing it at the loading screen but I found a cheap replacement and my only problem is that when I try to play Wii play motion it says "an error has occurred" I think it's a download error
8:42 oh, you didnt connect the gameboy player?
*drops a whole fucking piano on your head*
Hey where did you get that piano?
The sudden sound of the piano makes the error goofy AF imo.
Dammit, this ain't Looney Tunes.
Thank goodness I didn’t get that message as a pre teen 😂 I can just picture it now I’d be sat in the living room (probably Xmas morning for this) putting in a new game with my family gathered around chatting to each other while booting up as they were often curious about the games I was into (pikmin for example as it’s cutesy and a problem solver, very family oriented in that way) and I’d be paying more attention to the conversation whilst it went through the box animation only to inevitably shit my parents at that messages blooming jump scare style Audio 😅 who made that screen, Alfred Hitchcock 🤷🏻♀️😅
WHOS IDEA WAS DIS?
for me the most uncanny one was the sega cd error because there is just something unsettling about video games/consoles telling you to turn it off immediately
That gets me too
its🔥
Sonic: hey buddy! This is a sega dreamcast disc, not a music cd! Track 1 contains confidential information and if you play them, Eggman might get them! So save us the hassle and put us back in the sega Dreamcrast!
And those loud guitar riffs can damage the cd
@@thetickler85 That would have been really kewl
The creepiness from these is mostly from the fact that we experienced these errors at night where, as a child, we spent most of our time playing games. It was just us, the late night crickets, and nothing else but the brightness of our CRT TVs. Those were great, and sometimes eerie, times.
Man, I was a child that would do that at night, even during the weekends. Sometimes I would just go to my computer to play roller coaster tycoon 2 at night simply because I didn't want school or the next day to come so soon, so I would play these games as much as possible before I end up going to school feeling tired or exhausted.
Fun fact about the Sega CD: it was reported that continuously listening to the eerie audio would actually damage your player's speakers, due to the harsh guitar rifts.
No it was actually because the first track had game data and if you played it, it would damage your speakers.
@@TheHorror415 the game data: *screams in guitar rift*
@@TheHorror415 it was both which damaged speakers
No ur mom damage the speakers
it's the sounds of the game file that's high pitched sounds of probably your gameplay that plays after the warning, not the guitar
You know, this video made me realize something. Modern consoles have screwed us out of iconic console intros.
@@godismyjudge4964 true, as much as the simple click of the switch is still iconic in its on way it’s got nothing on the GameCubes rolling logo nor ps1 or ps2. And I just grin like a Cheshire Cat when I hear the gameboy advance chime…
For me, the PS1 red screen is the least creepiest for me, the console is basically saying, “hey that disc don’t work, please try another disc so we can continue playing!” But the ps2 on the other hand is like “HEY YOU CAN’T USE THAT DISC IN HERE! CHANGE IT RIGHT NOW!”
That demanding message is not just the PS2, but mainly the Sega CD Error
Came here to say that the PS2 red screen absolutely made me lose my shit
As child I thought the ps2 one was hell ngl I was scared everytime it popped up
What made it even worse was the big ass hole in the basement of the apartment where it was living
It does hang on those notes a bit too long so it's more the unsettling audio than the visual. Though I guess a hard cut to a red screen with text would be like something straight out of a horror movie.
When I was maybe 8 years old, I remember waking up to hearing Xbox ambient noises(after leaving it on too long) and being too scared to move. I finally gathered enough baby courage to launch myself across the living room to turn it off it was almost worse because nothing is louder for a child than pitch black, open, and empty room... I ran the fastest I could, while in tears and it was from *nothing*.
It makes me laugh at myself now, but I promise you that those lil noises still remind me of that one night lol.
@@Lucian15thekill What sound was it?
For me, it was this feeling of either hearing noises, or basically something was standing in the dark, not making any kind of sound and you look into the pitch black void, and you feel like you're seeing something that's not quite there, but you see it anyway and it terrifies you to the core.
14:04 the sounds that play for the Xbox here are actually an Easter egg. Microsoft took clips of astronauts in space to make the console sound futuristic and spacey, which is the theme of the animation that will play when starting the Xbox! :)
Sounded like the voice synth from qbert when I heard it. Pretty cool that they added that ngl.
Yeah he explained that
When I try to get a word out:
As a kid who had a pirated Playstation, it was a economic relief.
But it wasn't so much for me. Game discs were labed something as close to what a creepypasta can with badly written names in English I couldn't understood.
Sometimes they could or not work and that bloody Bios screen always scared me, it looked like alien diahrrea and a secret menu that wasn't very pleasing in the eyes.
So I always stuck with good ol' Crash games. Crash Bash had a weird screen to select region: NTSC or PAL a weird music and a monochrome background.
Crash 1 and 2 were normal. But bloody Crash 3, upon starting it showed a text in Japanese, a circle in red and a black background. No music, nothing. Game never started.
After that, I was scared of even touching the console. Got rid of the old Crash 3 disc and bought the right NTSC copy that worked perfectly.
That was the "console may have been modified" error, it's meant to stop piracy but since you were playing a game that was not for your console's region it probably thought that you pirated the game
@@pablosolermontano3872 Yeah, at that time I was completely clueless about regional differences
@@moister3727 Lol I grew up with emulators because we couldn't even buy the real consoles and I remember crying whenever a graphical error happened during emulation, little 6 yo me thought the family PC was cursed despite every attempt of my parents and brother to tell otherwise, but I still kept playing because the games were fun.
10:03 Not all variations of RROD rings mean that the console had reached the end of it's life. 2 rings would only mean that the console was overheating and needed to cool down. 4 rings was the best type of RROD you could encounter, and it meant you forgot to plug the video cables in. Hope this is helpful.
3 rings was the only real "oh shit" moment
but if you were really unlucky...4 rings would mean your console is so messed up it cannot boot or do anything forever again
@@incrediboxgamer wrong, 4 rings was actually the least serious issue out of all of them. 3 rings was the one that meant the console was completely done for.
i got that info from a youtube vid so i was expecting that guy to be saying a lie but im dumb so i posted that reply anyway
but if a serious error is detected the xbox 360 will not detect your av cable and give 4 rings, so im not totally wrong
Ps1 fearful harmony explained (from my poor knowledge); the Fearful harmony (Im gonna call it FH) is caused by the system not being able to read a disk in time or properly, thus slowing down the system, as it tries and tries, it keeps on failing, and since it keeps trying, it is lagging out the system, the audio is also lagging, creating FH, it can be caused by a few things, the most notable being damaged/pirated/incorrect (improper region, format, or if it’s supposed to be used in a different system) disks, and no, it’s not an anti-piracy method, so if I got anything wrong, feel free to correct me
the fh noise is the sound of when the game is about to play but extremely slowed down
Honestly, Fearful Harmony sounds peaceful to me
Fearful harmony is when you put an unknown format disk in a modchipped console
Sounds like wind chimes ngl. Harmless to my ears but ominous during a thunderstorm. Though to be fair, an error would be kinda like a thunderstorm
Or the bios is corrupted, It might occure
I love how the regular jingle for the Jaguar is basically just the “Have you played Atari today?” jingle from the 80s, such a nice meta touch.
the gamecube error is just literally piano notes and texts, and it somehow traumatized me for years
For Me The WII Wrong Disk Format was The Scariest and it is still scary tbh
Your profile pic is false from DELTARUNE
@@tbnrfan6965 and cant i still use it be nice that i got out oft my Psychopath picture
It isn't scary just annoying
As a kid i would play the start up menu to animal crossing wild world next to my bed to fall asleep to. Imagine the fear i felt when in my sleep my game froze and did that gad awful “REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” noise and woke me up
that awful “REEEEEEEEEE” noise when a game freezes was awful
When I was like 4 and playing pokemon on my brother's gba, I was in Lavender Town and my brother told me about the music being suppossedly cursed because I put the console on my ear to listen to it (I liked the song), I shit you not a few seconds later the game crashed and I didn't touch that particular pokemon game for years after.
Damn I’d probably cry and freak out if I was you and being little
@@Nameless-ny8nkYou have my sympathies, and I hope you were able to finish the game when you picked it up again. That sounds very startling.
I have been watching this in bed with earbuds and a sleeping mask on because the guy’s voice helps me relax
*_HOW_*
ask him to make asmr
Yea @@dawnbelair1780, that's a great idea
There was this rumor floating around a couple years back that the Red Screen of Death on the PS2 could actually brick your whole console
I remember falling for that, until I recently learned more about it
Edit: To be honest I actually put a Wii disk into my PlayStation 2 to try and get it to happen, but I don't know if I didn't have the right model of PlayStation 2 or what, because all my console did was show me "Disk Could Not Be Read" in front of the Browser menu (but still, now that I know it won't brick my system, I do kinda want to see it on the actual hardware)
@IShy2 try a xbox 360 game I think the wii disc is too big or small for it
I got this error when my laser became obstructed or misaligned on my first ps2 slim
For some reason my PS2 just stopped playing “long” games and I would always get the red screen. I was only able to play fighting and sports games. I was almost done with MGS2 and Spider-Man 2 when it somehow just gave up 😩
@@IShy2 It's mostly a misaligned laser error, the red disc warning. AFAIK it actually only does it with PS2 or PS1 discs, not anything else. If you wanna see it on hardware, your best luck is with an early PS2 slim that didn't have its reading lens or laser readjusted, and one of the large data games (not Okami, for some reason that disc is god-tier at managing to be readable even if it has deep scratches, it prefers to crash on affected area load attempts).
IIRC I've had mine occur once, with Final Fantasy 12, after a prolonged lid-opening cheating on FF8 for a low-level speedrun fishing for Selphie's The End limit break.
The Sega CD warning is very thought about. The woman speak in a quite scary way, and that guitar riff just makes you press the pause button.
If I’m correct, if on the og 360, and you see all quarters of the circle ⭕️ red, it means you haven’t plugged in the av cable. Imagine all the people freaking out at the full ring not knowing that they didn’t plug in their console
But if it appears when ur av cable is in its a serious error
@@Murdoc-m5b So it would’ve been justified
They werent creepy honestly, only fearful harmony, but what really scared me when i was a kid was the troubleshooting Wii error, mostly because i used to be scared of the LG screen without any signal
For me it was annoying not scary,only when it was dark and didn't expect it
same, it was bc i had the tv that just said [NO SIGNAL] teleporting around the screen instead of the rotating cube with the lg logo
You must not have experience the era of TV screen snow
You know what makes the "please insurt the right kind of disk" screens on consoles REALLY scary? When you put in the correct kind of disk but the machine can’t read it because either the disk is damaged or the console is.
When you are up alone in the middle of the night in your room with the lights off, these errors are 100x more scary
1/10 for the ps2 red screen of death????? bro that literally looks like suddenly your console opened a portal to an unknown entity, and the "waves" sound more like screams than anything.
it also causes a mini heart attack when you don't know about the PS2 read lens wear issues and one of your beloved HARD TO FIND game disc sets that one off, usually you think it's the disc and not the lens that's the issue and when the game is now more expensive than the console...
17:13 No joke, I would have ended up smashing my entire setup in fear over that kind of noise.
If I unexpectedly heard that, I would jump.
The sounds before sound like the unused minecraft cave chimes don't they?
actually if you insert a xbox og or 360 disc on a ps2, it will play a little video saying something like "you put the right game on the wrong console"
Correct!
on build v1.983738477 i think. i decompiled it many times and v1.983738477 on gen 1 had the video
Linkie?
@@d3adman404 it’s because the Xbox discs used a dvd format which the ps2 could play so Xbox could a message on it that could be played on other dvd players.
I have to give fearful harmony a 1-10 for how relaxing it is
@blueytj8954Other people who got it had their screen fill up entirely with corruptions as it progresses.
Uhh to me it sounds like speed up minecrsft cave chimes an unused sound
The fact some of these are not seen in BK4's videos is amazing!!
I remember the Gamecube little girl laugh. If you hold the Z button down and turn on the console you get a creepy little girl giggling. It scared the crap out of me, because I was expecting the normal start up sound, but the Z button was damaged and I didn't know about the giggling little girl. It still gives me chills just thinking about it!!!
I looked it up and it wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be.
@@awobbles9404 It's scary as hell when you don't expect it though lol!
thats just an easter egg you can get another one by pressing z on 4 connected controllers and turning the console on
Geez that sounds like something from a horror movie.
@@Pegfoxx Next time try it with four controllers plugged in and hold all Z buttons. It's actually a rather amusing unexpected surprise!
The Future for the OG Xbox is actually extremely common audio and is not an error at all. I even tested it with my 4 OG Xboxes and got it within 5 minutes on all 4 of them. In fact one of them got it immediately upon startup. 1/10 scare factor
Its more the strange sounds and the
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@@Twilor I’m pretty sure the voices were the lines used for Fatal Error (A sonic creepypasta)
@@APGAV_Official Actually, he used a TTS that sounds similar if not identical to the voices.
@@Twilor nah that xbox was spitting bars at the end
@@anothergamingchannel8729 nah if you want an Xbox spitting bars then watch the Bk4 Xbox 360 video and skip the the 3/4 red ring
honestly people are overreacting on personified fear like it's just a weird startup glitch what's actually scary is the fearful and dreadful harmony glitches if your talking about the ps1
edit: yeah its scary if it's like night time and that black screen happens except of the game but like on its own the harmonies are definitely worse
RROD's, failing lasers are the real fear I had as a kid. I'd put them higher on the list tbh. XD
I thought I was a pitifully sensitive child who could be scared by anything. Then I found out there were people horrified by console error screens. Five-year-old me would have felt like a beast with this information.
Tbh that personified fear or whatever wasnt even scarry, but the og xbox one💀
In my opinion, none of these were really scary, or even creepy. They'd really only be creepy if the person seeing them were young and in the dark. Leaving and coming back to a different soundtrack wouldn't really be all that creepy either, maybe a bit if you didn't know that song or those sounds were in the Xbox, but the fear would quickly leave. The RRoD wouldn't be scary or creepy at all, more angering and/or frustrating. And "Personified Fear" is just the PS1 startup sound played in reverse. The creepiest in my opinion is the Jaguar Red Screen just because it flashed red more suddenly than the other RS entries, didn't have any error text and left you on a black screen with no sound. But that'd just be a four if you ask me.
The best console error that's actually scary, as others have stated, is the Wii error. It occurs mid-game, not when you start the console and plays a long, shrill sound which will definitely startle you since you were focused on the game, not the console.
Yeh ….
Your a ton of fun....
Lol
Well yeah that's the point, getting these when you were a kid
I dunno I could have seen myself being caught out by that game cube one as an unexpected jump scare (wouldn’t have frightened me long term mind, just a similar jump as some one jumping out and saying boo in the dark 😅)
Hahaha the Sega CD one just sounds like theres a dude in the background ripping an acid rock solo 🤘🤪
I miss being 10 years old and feeling the youth and joy. But now I'm 20 and playing games and what not hasn't felt like it used to. Man I'm getting old
my dad is 48...
You're still a child dude, 20 is young
20 is not a child@@yotetoob
And as you get older and older you'll lose more and more joy throughout the years, mine got noticeable in my mid 30s. Just hold on to what you've got while you've got it .
It's called not playing good games. Try branching out
I remember my Xbox 360. It died in around 2021-2023, after being there for as long as I can remember up to now. It didn't red ring, it didn't overheat, (as far as I know) or anything like that. I simply got up one day to replay Minecraft Story Mode, (as I couldn't get the full second part, I was stuck with episodes 1-8, but I didn't mind, as episode 7 was my favourite) and it just didn't turn on. No creepy little error screen, no nothing, just (and sorry for the bit of personification here) died peacefully on it's own. Still miss playing MCSM tho. Sucks that it got discontinued.
who the fuck approved of those xbox sounds
how did nobody listen to them and go "these sound like horror game noises not game console ambience"
bro ps2 RSoD looks like that one anti-piracy screen
Can you elaborate?
Just realized the thumbnail is the final boss from PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. Such an underrated fighting game.
Ahh yes the polygon man playstation's failed mascot and a terrible final boss for that game
@@michaelpopowich5095do u mean scares
14:02 xbox be like “UTU UTITI UTU UTITI UTU UTITI UTU UTITI BUYIYI TI BUYIYI!”
DAMN THAT SOUNDS LIKE A SONG
That translation is turning this comment into an ad that’s poorly done and is for nothing, wow
NES flashing blue screen with Mario Bros./Duck Hunt intro constantly looping. That's actually the only error I've ever gotten on a console. Also, props to the video author for featuring Crash Bandicoot as this video's mascot. Because it's about crashes. Get it? I got it.
7:52 that silence was TOO DAMN LOUD. It gave us time to let it sink in😭🙏
He did give it time to sink in tho😭
The fact that PlayStation had that many placements shows how messed up it can be
I love how the red ring of death is actually 4 errors in one. Red ring of death is so awesome.
Ngl I found the GameCube “red screen” to be charismatically scary; oddly fitting for the era.
It sounds like as if the console is angry at you for trying something like using an empty gameboy player when it’s not plugged in.
GameCube: *slams piano* “WTF ARE YOU DOING, KID!? YOU SERIOUSLY THINK THATS GONNA WORK WHEN NOT PLUGGED IN!?”
The Jaguar one looks like something ripped out of a bad creepypasta.
The Sega CD one also kinda feels like a bad creepypasta bit, especially the "please stop playing this disc immediately".
The last one didn't seem spooky at all tho.
Commenting during the Sega CD entry. I remember running into this with a disc my dad attempted to copy for a Sega Saturn game (to preserve the original disc's condition).
My brother thought it was a regular burned CD with music on it, and boy did we have the shit scared out of us.
The Playstation 2 Red Screen of Death can also happen when a PS2 game disc has been scratched up pretty bad, not just exclusive to a foreign disc
Why did Nintendo think that damning a piano would be good for an error💀
@@Cornmpg_001 Probably made by the same person who made the Mad Piano from SM64
26:33 years later, there’s an easy fix for the red ring of death, but it is kind of scary though
I was about to ask you but than I pressed the time stamp and realized you were joking
21:41
I remember hearing this from another video (although I could be wrong so don't take this as 100% fact) but I'm pretty sure it's the loud unsettling guitar rifts that ended up damaging CD players instead of the CD Roms.
(Also imagine trying to play Sonic CD on a CD player and then hearing this.)
(Yikes.)
Yeah, the sheer unpredictably of what could happen when the CD player tries to play the data was the scary part. Sometimes it was just some scratchiness, sometimes the squeal could blow out your speakers if they were turned up loudly. You could never tell with some games.
im pretty sure the breaking would only occur if you actually tried to go to the second 'song' which had the actual game data, it'd be weird for the preventative message to damage the cd player
The PS1 start up is iconic and i miss it, sould love to see it back again.
Just gonna put this here: the Fearful Harmony error, much like the Forbidden Image error, is *not* possible to achieve on stock hardware. Fearful Harmony only occurs in the instance of an improperly installed modchip, or if a disc is heavily scratched or unreadable. On a stock PS1, you will simply get the RSOD.
the ps1 rsod only happens on 1 model so its not too common
I love videos like this. They're so nostalgic. I had both the PS1 & PS2 and I definitely remember that "Red Screen of Death". I would jump up off my bed and restart the game so I wouldn't have to see it😭ahh, good times. Whatta blessing it was to have been a child during this era😌🩷
Love the newer content! Definitely a good branching out from your previous videos
The scary part about the PS2 Console Error, this can actually happen to the early PS2 discs (blue discs rather than the standard DVD disc a bit later on) as well. I did happen to have this happen when I did try to load up the first release version of Crash: Wrath of Cortex and it gave me an error. 11 year old me damn near jumped out of my socks upon seeing that and had to clean the disc before trying again (which worked).
I'll leave my personal opinions about the errors discussed in the video, as well as add in the one error a lot of y'all brought up in the comments (the Wii error SFX)
PS1 RSoD: 0/10 (Really not scary. Just an oopsie, forgot to put the PS1 disc where it goes kinda thing.)
PS2 RSoD: 6/10 (Due to only error I actually did have happen out of everything on this list, and even with the correct discs. If your ears are good, you can faintly hear a heartbeat in this error with the waves. A correction I do want to give, like others have said, here is that if you do decide to put an OG XBox disc in there, a short video will play out with it saying that the disc can only be played on XBox.)
Jaguar RSoD: 2/10 (Certainly raised an eyebrow for me, but not really that scary.)
PS1 Forbidden Image: 1/10 (Again, not that scary, though this seems to happen to modded PS1s.)
Gamecube RSoC: 4/10 (Talk about a piano coming out of nowhere. This might have gotten 11 year old me, but for current me, just an oh.)
XBox 360 RRoD: 7/10 (This actually made me stay far away from XBox for good, if the controller gripe wasn't enough, just from hearing the stories about it. Though if the ring is complete, just replug in the AV cable, should be fine. There are actually people I have seen restore these XBox 360s, to be fair and holy shit, some of the yucky shit that can get caught in the computer boards is yikes.)
The Future OG XBox: 2/10 (This honestly seems more like if you leave it idle too long, never heard of this tbh. Then again, I never messed with an OG XBox. I honestly find what happened to Maximillion Dood's XBox to be scarier, tbh. Look up the video on that one, since it essentially got bricked.)
PS1 Fearful Harmony: 8/10 (Never encountered this error, but oh god, I had to pull my headphones off temporarily. If my console did that, I would never want to be anywhere near that console again. Brrr, that was unsettling and I had damn near screamed in chat with some friends that night.)
PS1 Dreadful Harmony: 5/10 (I think the fact that the chimes are quieter and while it is almost identical to Fearful Harmony, minus the fact that it is a black screen with text now. Unsettling, but a teeny bit scary.)
SEGA CD CD Player Warning: 7/10 (The fact that the lady is speaking to you in a tone that best describes a self destruct sequence is unsettling, but I only rank this down a few more points due to the fact be glad that this is just a warning to not play this on a CD player. Castlevania Symphony of the Night (PS1) also had a similar warning (via Alucard's English VA speaking in character to please take the disc out of the player to place in the PS1) as well.)
PS1 Personified Fear: 3/10 (I don't see what the point of it being that scary, minus the hangup on the Sony Computer Entertainment screen and the SFX for the second screen being played backwards. The harmonies are far scarier compared to this, in my opinion.)
For the one error everyone talked about in comments:
Wii Disc Read Error SFX: 9/10 (I did hear this when my boyfriend and I were playing a modded Smash Bros Brawl. My eyes went wide when I heard that and I had to cover my ears (auditory overload for me). About as yikes as this can get for me.)
EDIT: One thing I forgot to mention. If memory serves, the PS2 Console Error did show up on TV Tropes for Nightmare Fuel for a little while before that page got taken down. Wouldn't shock me if some of the rest of the errors did show up on there as well.
PS1 RSoD - 35 / 100
PS2 RSoD - 70 / 100
Jaguar RSoD - 45 / 100
Forbidden Image PS1 - 25-50 / 100
RSoC GameCube - 45 / 100
RRoD XBOX 360 - 15-40 / 100
Sounds from OG XBOX - 50 / 100
Fearful Harmony PS1 - 65 / 100
Dreadful Harmony PS1 - 87.5 / 100
Sega CD Disk Warning - 90 / 100
Personified Fear PS1 - 100 / 100
The PS2 Red Screen Of Death may appear, if you have a scratched disc which won't have the normal "Disc cannot be read" screen or smth. My PlayStation 2 always pretended to start Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 and instead of starting or returning to the PS2 main menu, the red screen of death appears
The PS2 red screen is very creepy and it can be a pain in the ass trying to load a PS2 game.
Coincidentally, original Xbox discs have a DVD video track that plays in any DVD player (including PS2s), so in that case, the RSOD wouldn't occur. It would occur with things like PC discs, imports, or unrecognizably dirty discs.
That being said, the PS2 red screen probably was the culprit of my first ever heart attack, back when I was 8.
I started panicking when I knew the Ps2 Red Screen of Death was incoming lol
this has gotta be the single most overdramatic video I've ever seen in my life lol
FR. He's really dramatic tbh. Not to be rude or anything.
Agreed lol. I wouldn’t even say these are scary either, because most of these were fixable by simply reading what was on your screen
1. Personified Fear
2. Sega CD Warning
3. Fearful Harmony
4. Dreadful Harmony
5. Red Screen of Death (Atari Jaguar)
6. Forbidden Image
7. Red Ring of Death
8. Red Screen of Death (PlayStation 2)
9. The Future
10. Red Screen of Creepiness
11. Red Screen of Death (PSone)
(This is all my opinion :) )
I really like the Sega discs warning messages. It’s cool that the 1st party Sega games on Dreamcast started having unique warning messages for certain games
Heck Im honestly still scarred for life from the ps2 startup sound and not just the Red screen of death on it. Whenever I started up the ps2, it was set up in the basement and I would run back upstairs and then go back down when it was on. I definitely made sure after the first time to keep the lights on.
Woah, the PS2 sounds along with the ominous silence made me shiver as a kid but woah, I didn't know they could scare someone THIS much
Funny enough if you inserted an og xbox disc into any console, instead of an error, you get this nice little animation
PS2 red screen freaked me out as a kid. I remember putting in a really scratched disc that it couldnt read and that happening. It was the music that got me I think. I remember being frozen in place as a cold chill went down my back
@@derpkipper UGH i remember that happening to me and k was around 16, but idk why the first rime it just froze me out...
Now here i am with 33 and i have a love-hate going through checking for these errors n stuff. I swear i have a weird thing with severe glitches/errors
Man really ranked my Childhood Nightmare Paralysis demon (I literally had nightmares about the PS2 RSoD where I felt myself freeze up and couldn't move or yell) a 1/10.☠
RROD doesn't always mean "ur console ded lol xd lmao" i think
13:10 this feels like you just had been spoted and you need to run NOW
I remember as a kid that when I got the red ring of death on the 360 I was scared as hell that I broke it cuz I played it like 24/7 💀💀 but still it gave me PTSD
Something about error messages on older consoles or devices and seeing them in modern day or just in general feels so uncanny in the fact you don’t remember them being that scary when you were a kid but because that sort of retro style has had so much exposure and has been an inspiration for horror games and stuff on the internet thats what i think makes them more unsettling because you forget that these errors do exist outside of horror games
I *WAS* constipated until Fearful Harmony.
As creepy as the Xbox background sounds are, why is that entry on this list? They have nothing to do with errors.
Was about to say this
honestly they just shouldn’t make those foreign disc screens red lmao
i made it to the end because of all the creepy and unsettling eas scenario videos i have watched over the past year or so they have prepared me for stuff like this
You guys never had that scary random loud crash from little big planet karting when you're trying to creating a track
10:40 he has an HDMI error, the RROD is 3 lights.
The sega cd audio is terrifying
For the PlayStation 1 - fearful harmony ( 16:51 ) it seemed more like a glitch as the console might still be trying to use the disc you entered and it’s just a glitch with distorted sound , I think this as the PlayStation logo kept glitching behind and in front of the orange diamond and the logos are all messed up. But that’s what I think, I do not work with Sony or anything like that, it’s just my opinion.
I really do not know why, but as a kid I was always scared of the PS2 error screen, it still gives me anxiety to this day
None of them really scared me, but it is certainly unpleasant after the two red screens of death from ps1 and ps2
Same
I honestly found the robot voice on the Xbox Original to be funny. It cracked me up the first time I heard it
PS1 when you enter a Xbox disc: It's fine, really :D
Sega CD disc when entered into a audio player: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? D:
What about the PS1 BSOD? For those that had the PS1 SPCH-700x or SCPH-900x
English please
@@yotetoobit’s in english
I never was too creeped out by the OG Xbox ambiance as a kid. I actually thought it was cool, and what they were trying to go for really sold it for me. Futuristic and unknown, almost alien. Really cool idea as a kid.
I can see how some of those might have freaked someone out as a kid - but as an adult those aren't really that scary anymore. Aside of maybe the scary thought that there might be something wrong with the console or the discs and how much a repair or replacement will cost, if it even can be repaired or replaced in the first place.
As someone who played PlayStation 2 as a kid and encountered the red screen multiple times throughout my time with it it was always unsettling to me.
Lmao, the audio repeating at the end caught me as I was looking down at my phone and looking up to see the xenomorph made the back of my neck tingle harshly XD
The PS2 error screen is really eerie, when compared to the first system, especially with the unsettling music. I had a modded playstation up until recently, and other than the eject button being broken, there didn't seem to be any differences with the startup screen, but it was able to play all regions no problem, until recently when the whole spindle came out so it had to be replaced.
For those who don’t know. The PS1 audio logo, after the Sony Computer Entertainment part is read off the disc you have inserted into the console. Which is why these variations exist when playing with modded hardware or emulators. It’s simply an error being played out. It was designed that way by the composer who made it so that if it would not play correctly, you would know something is wrong.
This is explained somewhat in the final entry of the video.
So when you’re inserting a PS1 disc into a PS2 or PS3, it’s the disc basically telling the console chip to play these sounds of the audio logo in that order and on those levels. I believe the graphic for the logo is also technically on the disc. Which is why the PS1 logo without the Sony Computer Entertainment part plays when playing PS1 discs on later gens.
The scariest part of the Red Rings of Death (Xbox 360) is the fact that everyone knew that if they saw it, their console was likely toast. Those other screens unnerved me as a kid, or even scared me, but I would have been in DESPAIR if I saw an error that was commonly known to mean that my disk wasn't just scratched, but my console fried...
The Xbox was my console growing up (the OG) and honestly I always liked the ambience and the chattering. Honestly, going over to my cousin's house and accidentally triggering the Gameboy Player error screen was more startling than listening to the robot voice chatter.
Time my console scared me the most was when I was playing the PlayStation 3 and Batman Arkham asylum during the section when the joker swaps with Batman for that section the first bit I thought my PlayStation was breaking keep in mind this was during the red ring of death era so anything weird like that really freaked me out
not the creepiest, but the scariest was the wii crashing noise, most times it happens out of nowhere when you're least expecting it with a sudden loud buzzing noise that sounds as if your tv was suddenly set to max volume.
The creepiest from this video for me was the last soundtrack from the Xbox. I don't know why, but that tone just unsettles me to the core.
One that wasn't in this video though, has got to be the sound of death that the Wii makes when a game crashes. Just, you're calmly playing a game and out of nowhere: *EEEEEEEE*
The PS2 RSOD never scared me. But the Sega CD warning is the scariest!