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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.

The gun shop bit. Christ almighty.

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.

There were giant pink alien spiders that completely freaked me out.

or silent hill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_%28video_game%29

The sound of the Arachnotron and Spider Mastermind moving about was horrible. :'(

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.

anything underwater was scary.

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 only completed it recently. Some of the flashback scenes are pretty horrific.

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.

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

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.

Wolfenstein 3D, but I still completed it :)

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!

on the mega drive. It still scares me. I can't even bring myself to play it anymore.

:S

Headphones at night mean massive shitty stains in my pants.

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.

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 :'(

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 :(

Did anyone ever play Enemy Zero on the Sega Saturn? That was incredibly scary, especially because there was this horrible beeping radar thing that told you when an alien was near - which was incredibly important as the aliens were FUCKING INVISIBLE which made killing them near-impossible. It had a really good soundtrack too, Michael Nyman did it - it's ridiculously minimal, bit of an Eno rip off but still good.

on the PC.

As marine, hearing aliens come from everywhere, only being able to use either night vision OR the motion tracker (but not simultaneously), chucking excessive amounts of flares, trying to spot anything. RIDICULOUS (unpatched version, you couldn't save your game mid level).

Then Silent Hill/Resident Evil for sure - cheesy acting and silence to BROKEN GLASS NOISES. Amazing. Game was less scary once you'd completed it and got the minigun. Tyrant in resi evil 3 was pretty scary too, just bursting through walls whenever he felt like it.

Silent hill had those little kids with knives jabbing your feet combined with the excessive amount of fog meant that i have never ever completed it (even though i hear it has a brilliant story).

the original half life was where it was. if it didnt scare you or at least make you jump / weird out, then you were too old/young/not cool enough

A point and click adventure with like real video and stuff.

When installing it, the game warned you there were scenes of torture in it, which you could turn off. BEing a 14 year old boy, I thought "Fuck yeah, torture". Although it was just electrocuting them, it was horrific.

Then if you didn't manage to recover a nuclear device in the mid game then in an end of game news report the nuke goes off in LA and the newscaster starts bleeding from his eyes :(

Silent Hill ghost baby at this juncture.

Is this the thread where people admit to being scared of computer games? I need somewhere to detonate this wuss bomb...

When the stretchy zombies arrive. You can't kill them unless you use heat-vision goggles to shoot specific bits of them, but I managed to blow the legs off one and was all like phew and everything.
It was crawling towards me across the floor using it's arms when it suddenly leapt at me. It was scary. Yes.

and Resident Evil- Code Veronica at my parents house. I need to dig it out.

the bit where the licker jumps through the one way mirror was just terrifying.

when I was about 7 or 8. I didn't understand what it was about, so really it scares/worries me that I played it retrospectively.

that Yahtzee is right, modern FPSs are shit

Had me jumping like mad.

That bit where you walk through the castle doors the first time and that bowser laugh thing happens.

i.e. the actual beginning of the first video game I played that wasn't Sonic for the mastersystem.