23. That’s normal
Animal Crossing for the GameCube. There was a thing that let you visit a friend’s town by sticking their memory card in the other slot. When you visited it was really aggressive about warning you not to turn off the game while in the other town.
Yep that happened. It was an accident.
My character when I got the game to boot up again was a changed little villager. Where once was a happy face was two black pits for eyes and a mouth in perpetual scream. And all my money was gone. Turned the game off and cried in fear.
24. Travesty
The first thing that sprung to mind is hotel basement in The Last of Us. Up until that point in the game you had never not had a partner or two, and then suddenly you are alone in a pitch black pit of monsters.
But that aside, the real answer is the entirety of PT. It’s a horror classic and it’s an absolute travesty that it’s no longer available for download.
25. Extensive
I was 8 when I got Ocarina of Time. Those freaking zombies you have to get passed to get the sun song and leave the temple of time as adult link have scarred me to this day.
26. Psych
Eternal Darkness on GameCube.
I’m 17 playing this while home alone on a stormy night. My sanity meter is ratcheting up. My pet cat has a habit of playing with the cables behind the TV.
Enter a new room, and the video drops from the screen, goes black, says “VID 1” in green at the top. “Screw you cat!” Go to look behind the TV to fix things. Lightning. Look behind TV, and the cables are still plugged in. Thunder. Blood curdling scream from TV. I jump, hit my head, and have to get a new pair of pants.
Why? Why make me think there are problems with my hardware? Ohhh to make me drop my guard and absolutely terrify me in ways I never expected to be scared.
27. Espanol
That moment when you queue on US East in Dota 2 and your team spams the chat in Spanish .
28. Always save
40 minutes of skyrim without saving, getting killed by a trap.
29. Piano man
That damn piano in Mario 64.
I can hear it in my head right now, stomping across the floor with its chomping teeth. It pretends to be a normal piano, and even when you know it’s not, it still scares you when it comes alive. I think it’s because I can never quite tell how close I have to get before it happens.
30. “tssssss”
Whenever I hear a “tssssssss” behind me in Minecraft.
31. Hallucinations
Max Payne where he has the hallucination with the baby crying and his wife screaming. Still gives me nightmares.
32. Cut scenes
Any difficult section in a game with unskippable cutscenes before it.
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