Mine was one called "Zombie" on the Amiga/Spectrum/C64:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombi_(video_game)
It was basically a game of Dawn of the Dead (in a shopping mall, you had to move trucks, escape on the helicopter, Hells Angels came at the end) but without any official endorsement.
I remember my terror as the zombies shambled past, noticed you and approached the screen and unleashed a flurry of undead blows at you. I didn't even dare go into the basement because it was dark in there....
What was the first computer game to terrify you?
That link again;
http://tinyurl.com/6kh6at
Demo of Silent Hill
Nothing actually happened at all. You just walked around an empty building. But I'd read it was scary and I was expecting something scary to happen any second.
^
^this so much
it scared me so much my dad said i couldnt play it anymore cos it was giving me nightmares :(
was that the same demo
with the fog and that?
I don't know
It was dark and you could hear doors creaking. There was probably loads of stuff on that demo, but all I could ever do was wander up and down until I found a locked door.
resident evil.... i think.
aye...
the dogs jumping through the window for me. i did NOT see that coming.
Resident Evil 2
The gun shop bit. Christ almighty.
i really want to play
that now
Horrible
Resident Evil 2 was, in my eyes, the absolute pinnacle of horror computer games.
ALSO:
Did anyone ever play the original of Alone In The Dark:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_in_the_Dark_%28video_game%29
Absolutely horrific stuff, especially as there were ways to deter most of the monsters but you often didn't work that out until they were gnawing on your cheeks.
I was about to say alone in the dark.
System Shock too wasn't the first, but definitely the most scary game i have ever played.
I remember the original AITD
the clunkyish controls made it worse too!
The bit with the ballroom dancing ghosts
(may have been AITD2, they blur into one terrifying smudge) was fucking creepy too!
And the bit with the monsters sitting round a table and you had to make a flesh stew to stop them attacking you!
There's a new one out soon isn't there?
It's not a straight remake.. I read some stuff about the game engine being quite interesting. I had I haven't taken it 'TO THE MAX' though and made it silly with too much action and nu-metal, and not enough spookiness.
The fire physics look amazing in the remake
early reports suggest it shouldn't be a corridor-shooter, it's more of a puzzle based survival horror game. Which sounds promising.
+ Wii-remote fun
Exactamundo
RES 2 was the scariest game of all time
I had to run home from school to play it before the sun came down.
When the camera panned up to the ceiling the first time you say the licker and you were like "OH MY FUCKING GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Or when those crows burst in through the window. After they were dead I had to pause the game, close my eyes and bretahe into a bag to prevent a heart attack
fucking definitely this
Res Evil or Silent Hill
there was a shite game
called Night Breed on the Amiga that scared the shit out of me.
Although actually I guess Granny's Garden wins seeings as I once got sent to the headmasters office for refusing to come out from under the computer desk when the bastard witch popped up.
<3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES
There were giant pink alien spiders that completely freaked me out.
resident evil with the big spiders
or silent hill
DOOM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_%28video_game%29
The sound of the Arachnotron and Spider Mastermind moving about was horrible. :'(
the invisible pig dog daemon things from doom 2 :(
The final level of the shareware version
where you trigger something and those demon things (hellknights?) appear and make an evil noise.
^this as well.
It was like a braying trumpet sound. "HUUMMMMUUURRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!"
NEED MORE AMMO.
KATCHUUURM DING!
^Spidermastermind noise, seriously.
The Arachnotron's with their plasma guns though. "GROOOOOOIIIINNKKKK GROOOOOOIIINNNKKKKK!"
i remember the first time i got to the pit on doom2
that was propperly nasty!
I used to love killing those fat chubby monsters
Mancubus?
As they made a funny noise when you killed them.
The Arch-Vile was pretty badass too.
yeah mancubus were right fatsos
Arch-viles were right nasty tricksters, with their telporting and making you jump and such
Nearly every level of Doom 2 is proper nasty!
I had a go at Suburbs on 'Ultra Violence' mode last night. Oh god.
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Suburbs
97 imps. Half of the bastard things teleported in on me when I picked up a keycard. Then the bloody Arch Vile brought most of them back to life. :'( Actually, I think I hate the skeleton-guys more (Revenants.) It's the awful "UUURRAAAAAACCCCKK!" noise they make when they see you.
their kicking action was the best
and their rockets flew so so slowly, it used to make me laugh
the noises they made though....horrific.
I NNED HOMETIME.
Granny's Garden
It's a highly pixellated witch! With bleeping noises! Oh noes!
Seriously, when you're 6 it's a little bit scary.
Apart from that possibly Project Zero 2- that was just too creepy to play. Especially when ghosts with broken bones started crawling out of boxes. Eek.
THE LONG-ARMED MAN!
:'(
you realise
i already called Granny's Garden don't you?
I was typing up my response
whilst you must have posted you plum.
it took you 5 minutes?
what do I pay my council tax for?
I was speaking to a colleague!
the first Quake game had its moments too
anything underwater was scary.
Anything underwater in any game is scary.
Remember the fish-monster in Half Life?
Even James Pond's Aquatic Games put the shits up me a little bit :(
Half-Life fish monster!
When you first get the crossbow, and drop into the cage and it falls in the water. Oh god.
Ah, that was a great moment!
Ravenholme in HL2 is totally ace too, especially the bit where you're on the roof with a shotgun.
That bit scared me!
When those 'things' leap at you, I actually jumped out of my seat. I'm so lame. I think I wasted a whole shotgun clip firing into the air/walls/floor in a panic.
Ecco the Dolphin
woooooo!
the fish monster in half life
really fucking scared me. i have a fear of being eaten in the water by something too. the sense of relief when i killed that fucker was incredible.
Championship Manager 3
Tonton Zola injured for 12 months. Scared me, wondered how i'd cope without his striking prowess.
Also, one of the Quest games - the one with Baba Yaga. Super Metroid even had its perilous moments.
I forgot about F.E.A.R.
I only completed it recently. Some of the flashback scenes are pretty horrific.
I played a demo of that.
Really creepy. The corridor bit with the blood, urgh.
Get it!
You can pick it up cheapish now.
It's a good game
the cut-scene graphics/animation annoys me though, for some reason.
arrrr I might.
I did enjoy the slow motion shooting people bit. Has it got online play?
Yes, yes is has.
Alien Trilogy
on the playstation one. was one of the first games i got for it when i was about 12. Scared me senseless so much that i couldn't physically bring myself to play it. Arrgh, the face huggers!
After that it was half-life. scary shit.
ape escape
it was all too human and made me think about war and prejudice in a new and challenging light, and also held up a mirror to my own mortality. It scared me shitless
Playing Phantasmagoria
when I was nine, due to the multiple decapitations, and one particularly memorable death in which a man stabs a muddy gardening trowel into a woman's mouth. Oh and the rape scene wasnt particularly nice either. It was no Custer's Revenge.
That was a great game though
wasn't it marketed as the first game with FMV or am I thinking of something completely different?
Yeah I think so
or at least the first game to use a fully controllable video-based character. I made it to the end and everything, but I think the scars remain. I think I might dig it up and play it again for therapy.
probably
Wolfenstein 3D, but I still completed it :)
^5
think
you can download it for PCs but I can't remember where from!!
I have an urge to play it again!
send me the link if you find it plz.
HANS GROSSE
i have it on floppy somewhere
i've recently been loving the old ID games! (obviously)
I had it on floppy as well! :D
^5
NAZIS!
MECHA-HITLER!
And those things
which fly around on wires! Megalolz!
:D
That was Hitler as well! I think...
OMG:
http://www.3drealms.com/wolf3d/
i remember having a nightmare about episode 6 level 1 of wolfenstein3d
i couldn't do that level for a while, then i dreamt i was in it, and managed to get through it, and it worked the next morning when i tried out my new strategy.
ironically i ended up trapped in episode 1 level 9 once too!
Which one was episode 6 level one?
Episodes 4-6 kind of blur together a bit.
Yeah, after you kill MECHA-HITLER
at the end of level 3, it's a bit meh.
it has some narrow corrodors
with nasty little nazis hiding in boxes on either side
splatterhouse 2
on the mega drive. It still scares me. I can't even bring myself to play it anymore.
:S
played that on emulator
and it wasnt as good as i remember!
Doom 3
Headphones at night mean massive shitty stains in my pants.
Ah, doom 3 is tres creepy.
It's got more atmosphere than the originals, but the weapons don't sound as badass.
my doom 3 STILL hasn't come :(
OH MY GOD
The moment I saw this thread the first thing that came to mind was Zombi! I could only ever play it with my brother, and even then there were too many incidents where we'd have to panic-strickenly turn off the power out of sheer terror.
:D
Hitting the off button out of terror-induced panic is something I'm very familiar (see below).
ADDITIONAL QUESTION:
What's the worst/best response or action that computer game has terrified you into doing?
Whilst playing Resident Evil 2, when the licker monster jumps through the one-way mirror in the police station, I actually dropped the controller and ran out of the room :'(
well sir, you are a pussy!
:)
I know
I'm a bit better now. I still sometimes scream like a girl when playing scary computer games though :(
They were moments in Resident Evil 2
that just froze me. No screaming, no running away, just complete paralysis. Then came the Spaced-esque paranoid hallucinations. I couldn't go out anywhere without thinking "if there was an outbreak right now, where would I go?" for about a month.
This exact same thing happened to me when reading 'World War Z' about two months ago, and I'm ten years older than I was when playing Resident Evil 2!
During that bit I was running around the room screaming
with my controller in my hand still trying to play
I know have an image of you doing that
:D
When I was playing Alien Vs Predator 2
as the marine I was in some room trying to turn the power back on and I heard these noises...the vent in the floor got all smashed up. I stood near it, trigger finger ready...then about 3 aliens burst out of some compartment in the roof and jumped back, smashing my knees into my desk and nearly fell off my chair. CHEERS. Oh yeah, then my character was horrifically mauled to death.
:D
this has made me laugh so much :)
i had a game based on Aliens on the C64 or A500 (i forget which)
where you had each character and could switch between the views, but the game carried on regardless and you'd be using one character and hear another being slaughtered and switch back and their HUD would just be static :(