Short one today, on Gummy Fangs. Candy lip lunch. Gotta run, but here's a discussion topic: scary video games/video game moments. Name some of your faves.
Yep, Friday the 13th was scary and i was always totally cheesed every time I played that game. Stupid Jason… And super Metroid had its moments of spooky. Does anyone remember this bubble gum that had gooey juicy stuff in the center? and if ya do, What the hick were they called??
Chestnuts roasted by BettieBoo @ 09/29/2004 8:52 AM
Instead of a favorable moment NES, I’ll mention of the odder Sega Genesis moments. I was had just beaten Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, and I was awaiting some some sort of ending payoff, that justified the 6 hours I spent playing it. Suddenly, a disfigured face popped on the screen, and mumbled the phrase "You Chose Wisely" in the best Floyd The Barber voice I had ever heard. To this day, I still taunt my sister with that voice.
Chestnuts roasted by Dude McGuy @ 09/29/2004 9:40 AM
Scary video game moments, eh? I’ve got two…
The first is from one of the greatest games of all time… System Shock 2. This one scared the crap out of me. There isn’t any one thing that scared me about the game, but the whole damn this was a shock to MY system.
Probably the single most scary moment in the game is when you walk into a deserted bar/lounge and you have a vision of what happened there. You see a group of happy people sitting around the piano as eery music floats through the air. Then suddenly it stops, the lights go out and you know something icky is in the room with you… phreaky!
The next scary moment was with Clive Barker’s Undying. I’m walking down a hallway looking for trouble… and I see in the distance a howler (nasy dog-like thing with big teeth that bite) the howler notices me and starts running towards me. Instinctively, I turned tail and ran. As I turn I see a second howler leap at me from behind. YIKES!
Chestnuts roasted by Chiablo @ 09/29/2004 10:34 AM
There were several different juice-filled gums, bettieboo. The earliest ones I remember were called "Chewels" and "Tidal Wave", although I’m not sure if Chewels had the radio ad that ended with "Love that Squirt!" Now, I’m just going to have to Google ‘Juice-filled gum’ and see what comes up.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/29/2004 11:26 AM
sorry this is kinda off-topic, but did anyone happen to catch matt’s commercial on nickelodeon? i haven’t seen it and was just wondering if anyone has any comments about it..
Chestnuts roasted by annalalala @ 09/29/2004 11:36 AM
Ok I’m lazy but I have to say that Doom3 and/or the Original Doom was pretty freaky. Doom3 at night though wins for me. I guess you guys and gals are more console players though. So I guess ED wins for me.
Oh and I’m glad I’m not the only one that jumped at the Bathroom Scene in Eternal Darkness
Chestnuts roasted by SmokMnky @ 09/29/2004 1:05 PM
I’m surprised no one mentioned the absolutely most scarifying game ever created…"Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker"
As of this point some of you might be saying to yourselves "This must be a joke, that can’t exist" or "Who is this guy? I’ve never seen him here before". Answering the former question…I’m afraid it does exist, and it’s existence proved there is a satan and he hates us with an intense passion.
The point of moonwalker is to run through various urban levels or graveyards defeating bad guys with either magic moondust or with amazing dance moves. In fact if you power up you can do a super-duper dance move where all the bad guys on the screen come and join you as your back up dancers. Of course this ends fatally for the bad guys since they can’t match Michael Jackson’s skill and they die for even trying.
Now I will get to the most disturbing part (sadly I’m not making any of this up) when you’re walking around the level suddenly bubbles (Michael Jackson’s pet monkey) will pop up on your shoulder and start pointing in some direction, well if you follow his vague directions you will come upon a small child (still not making this up) and the child will yell "Michael!" as you free it and they’ll be magically whisked away to Michael’s love dungeon…or somewhere.
I suggest all of you look this game up, and that all of you experience it at least once. No words can begin to describe the surreal horror within this game. I belive H.P. Lovecraft once referred to it in one of his lesser known stories.
"And at last I spied through the darkness a graying cartridge not much bigger than my fist. Upon fitting this cartridge within my gaming system I was filled with a sense of dread and fear, what horror could possibly lie within?. The answer is why I am in this instituion for those who have been driven mad…I’m not mad though…I don’t belong with this lunatic fringe…I merely player Moonwalker…alas…Moonwalker."
Chestnuts roasted by Myrtle @ 09/29/2004 1:08 PM
okay, the first time i ever got really creeped out was playing the original doom at night with all the lights out. doom is really too action-packed to be creepy, but the satanic pentagrams on the wall really did it for me.
the only game that creeps me out now is "peasant’s quest". for some reason, every time i step onto the screens where the Kerrek is, i get that DUN DUN DUN DUNNNN and i jump every stupid time.
shoot me.
Chestnuts roasted by steve-O @ 09/29/2004 1:52 PM
I had Moonwalker, and I loved that game! I loved the whole dancing killing thing. And he would throw his hat in the Billie Jean stage to kill people. And then in the last stage you would catch the comet and turn him into the robot. Classic.
Chestnuts roasted by Y2JB78 @ 09/29/2004 2:22 PM
When i was really little my mom would play wolfenstein on the computer while my sister and i watched (we were too young to figure out the controls). I remember the dogs jumping out from behind doors and then me screaming and running into my bedroom. Those were the days
Chestnuts roasted by Ally @ 09/29/2004 2:32 PM
I agree with King Chachi and all the others who said it- "Friday the 13th" for original NES is the scariest gaming experience I have ever had….that music…then the darkness comes, and your friends start to die- it is just awful!
Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 09/29/2004 2:35 PM
i wanna hit them gummi teeth from the back
Chestnuts roasted by 1234 @ 09/29/2004 2:43 PM
Oh, other scary game moments.
I remember the first time I played Turok: The Dinosaur Hunter. As I marvelled at the (then) amazingly realistic and lush forest flora and fauna, I spied a prancing deer in the distance. It apparently didn’t see me as it was making straight for me. I equipped the bow and readied an arrow… only to realize much too late that it was a VELOCIRAPTOR AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! One of those great, panic-filled FPS moments
Another moment like that was in the original Medal of Honor… those damn dogs in the sewer level… that made me jump.
The London level from Duke Nukem: Zero Hour was kind of spooky. That game was SO much better than it had any right to be. I’m still looking for a copy…
And how could I have forgotten to mention it? Back in the days of the NES, there were a few games that scared the crap out of me. I couldn’t play Simon’s Quest with the lights off or at night. "What a horrible night to have a curse…" *shudder*
And then there was good ol’ Shadowgate. I remember the first time I beheld the pale face of the Grim Reaper as my final torch burnt out (I was still in the first room)… oh man, it was almost enough to give me nightmares. I had to wait a while to get the courage to try again.
Speaking if scary NES games, any of you who haven’t tried it should grab the rom of Sweet Home (and the translation patch from zophar.net). As the precursor to the Resident Evil series, I have to admit it’s still inexplicably scary, dated graphics not withstanding.
And yeah, Monster Party was the shit. I haven’t played it in forever.
*goes to look for the rom*
Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 09/29/2004 3:48 PM
Does anybody remember a DOS-based shareware game called Last Half of Darkness? Back before I became desensitized to violence (and thus became a full-blooded American), that game scared the CRAP out of me. And even then it looked primitive, like someone had made it in BASIC.
Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 09/29/2004 3:51 PM
Alien creeped me out in the commodor 64. I was 4 years old and remember there was no music, just a rhythmic beep that would increase and get louder as an alien approached until it became a long single note that scared the hell out of me. I knew the alien was near, my ears were being blown to shreds, and i was rotating at high speed (cos it was a 1st person) and then died. The alien had popped up behind me and killed me, as usual. I was glad in a way, cos seeing the things was even worse.
second place was robocop game over screen on the commodor. Seeing murphy bald and with only one arm spazzing out at me was terrifying. He didnt even have legs
Chestnuts roasted by Vyle @ 09/29/2004 3:59 PM
silent hill 2
the underground part, when *spoiler*
the pyramid head starts following you when you get the giant knife *end Über small spoiler*
Chestnuts roasted by bogeyb @ 09/29/2004 7:35 PM
My scariest video game moment was in Space Quest 3. You walk through a pipe, to get some wires, and as soon as you get them and start to walk away, this mutant rat jumps out of the ceiling and steals them without warning. Scaaary stuff, yo.
Anymore details about the commercial? What show does it play during, or did I miss that shit already? I sure as hell hope not. I also don’t want to watch Nick all night…well at least until Rosanne and the Cosby’s are on.
Anyone else think having Fresh Prince on Nick@Nite is stupid. The early shows were cool, but towards the end, they got really sucky.
I need a commercial update, Matt. Help us out a little, eh?
Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 09/29/2004 8:09 PM
Man, that Freddie CD is AWESOME.
Chestnuts roasted by Silkenray @ 09/29/2004 10:37 PM
Oh, I forgot to mention my scariest video game moment…
Eternal Darkness. Especially low-sanity. That game redefines scary video gaming.
Chestnuts roasted by Silkenray @ 09/29/2004 10:43 PM
I’m really surprised no one has mentioned this game yet. Or maybe I’m just a pansy.
But either way, Jurassic Park for the SNES. Easily the hardest game I’ve ever played, and it never fails to make me jump, even to this day. You’ll just be walking along through the woods, and a velociraptor will jump out of nowhere and maul you into a featureless pile of meat within no more than two seconds. Every time. And there is no way to stop it.
Basically, as soon as you see it come out of the woods and finish having your minor heart attack, you’re already dead.
I never did beat that game…
Chestnuts roasted by Halconnen45 @ 09/29/2004 11:41 PM
Marble Madness (Nintendo), had a fairly scary moment…. it was those stupid neon-green worm/slinky look-alike things that melt your marble, when you go past them… and theres no way to stop them, because theres magnets or ice or something stupid nearby.
another – in the Friday the 13th video game, (also for Nintendo) you know the one… where theres 3 dudes, and 3 chicks to pick from, and you have to "save the counselors"??…. Jason’s mom’s floating head is pretty frickin scary….and whats worse is that in order to get to her, you have to go through some caves, where wolves and bats chase you….and all you get is a stupid wool sweater… also in that same game, what alwasy made me jump, was when Jason was in one of the cabins, and you entered to try to find him, all of a sudden you would hear some scary music, and he’d be standing there witha machette… and then when you left the house, he’d be on the path, and try to jump you outside….
I never could beat that game, without using Game Genie..
Stupid Jason Voorhies…. I’ll get you yet, without Game Genie!!! Even if it is, the last thing I do!!
Chestnuts roasted by Wicked Nick @ 09/30/2004 2:44 AM
Another one….
Not really "scary"… just kind of amusing? Maybe?
You decide
Those stupid olson twins have a game out, for like… either PS2, or just plain old PS1… I forget… anyhow, theres a section, where you can have them make their own "Dance Video", and you can insert your own CD into the Playstation, and have them dance to your own music, and pick moves for them to do, and then sit back and watch the magic unfold…
well…
one day My friends younger brother (he was probably 7 or 8 back then, and we were 15-16), actually rented that game, simply because of his infatuation for the olson bitches….. well, we walk into the room, and here is his little brother on that "create-a-dance section" and he had stolen his older brothers "Cannibal Corpse" CD, and had the Olson twins rocking out to it, with their own Disney Channel type dance moves..
funny stuff…
Chestnuts roasted by Wicked Nick @ 09/30/2004 3:03 AM
For me, the creepiest videogame moment was in the original Silent Hill. It was when Lisa realized that she was a monster and started to crash like an ebola victim.
The biggest "boo" scare I’ve had in a videogame lately was in Manhunt. It was when Piggsy jumps out and starts to chase you while carrying a chainsaw and sporting a huge boner.
Chestnuts roasted by Captain Skull @ 09/30/2004 5:04 AM
I never understood why BMX XXX couldn’t show titties on PS2, but it was perfectly acceptable to show a naked chainsaw wielding pig man packing that kind of heat in Manhunt.
Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 09/30/2004 8:57 AM
I’ll have to go along with most people and say Resident Evil. That stupid game and all of its incarnations scare the everloving crap out of me! Heck, a friend of mine played only the first few minutes of it and then got disgusted with the gore; and I wasn’t able to sleep for a month! I shudder to think of how messed-up I’d be if I had to sit through it for a longer period of time.
Second spookiest moment is, yes, I have to say the final level in Simpsons Hit & Run… Those zombies. Those darn zombies! It’s weird, my favorite episodes of the Simpsons are the Halloween ghost story specials. You know, when there’ll be three different scary stories with the characters, usually involving some pretty twisted stuff. I can sit through those and laugh my head off and never be bothered with it, but the last level of this game really freaked me out! I think it was just disconcerting to be playing with the bright and pastel world of Springfield with its sort of happy-go-lucky sense of irreverence, and then BAM! you’re smack-dab in this dark-colored alternate Hell version of Springfield where half the town has been zombified and the other half is just waiting for it… (I still felt so creeped out knowing that Ned and the boys were going to get killed. Sure, they’re a little annoying, but they’re good people, darn it!) And the zombies… constantly moaning and growling through the whole level… AAAGH! CURSE YOU, MATT GROENING!
Oh yeah. My brother says that the Shadow Temple and the Haunted Well in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time are the scariest things in videogame history. I don’t know why, but he gets seriously freaked out when he plays through those.
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Yep, Friday the 13th was scary and i was always totally cheesed every time I played that game. Stupid Jason… And super Metroid had its moments of spooky. Does anyone remember this bubble gum that had gooey juicy stuff in the center? and if ya do, What the hick were they called??