The First Game That Truly Scared Me
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- Twenty years ago a game scared me for the very first time. Lemme tell ya 'bout it.
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what scares me is that a puppet has more language experience then every teen titans go character.
I love this comment
TAITUNS! GAWH! *Terrible song plays*
He's a game reviewer he's supposed to have a good vocabulary, teen titans go is a kids cartoon, they don't need good vocabulary. It's not that hard
Slug Doom It's a joke.
Like, a joke. Humor.
Metal Weeb I agree but at the same time it's a kids show it doesn't need to have a good vocabulary either
When I first played Mario 64, I was 6 or so. This and the chain chomp were traumatizing.
Lockstin / Gnoggin Oh hi there Lockstin. Funny seeing you here! Lol
gryz 00 arlo and locksin are firends tho
oreki houtarou Yeah I know, but it's just weird to see a somewhat famous TH-camr in a comment section of another channel.
gryz 00 I seen it many times not werid for me tho
I do not like Gnoggin at all
As a kid honestly most of nintendo water levels scared me. I can't deal with fish or bug type creatures
Kyle Smith Same I just couldn’t take the spider boss in mario galaxy
I have a separate fear for water in video games. Of course, the limiting factors of your abilities while in water is a factor...but mostly things like in games, for example, jak and daxter, there's things very willing to kill you the moment you touch it.
I don't think I'll play subnautica, thanks.
Yep, I can't play Subnautica too. Uninstalled and refunded the game just after I saw a fish. Damn ichthyophobia.
The jellyfish from galaxy
same, wait your profile picture is a skeleton, I don't understand
In super mario galaxy 2 I was literally crying because of a goomba
Mystico Max wimp
What goomba was this???
lmao
kinda late but it was the little green goomba besides yoshi’s house
When I was very very young, I was scared of the 1st goomba in Super Mario 3D World.
I used to get scared from the bowser laugh from super Mario 64 when you check a locked door
+Lewis PRICE-KELLY I used to turn off the volume playing...
Oh man, yes. When you first entered the castle and heard Bowser laugh always scared me. I also turned off the sound.
Yeah. that and the evil sounding music right before. Terrifying.
The Fail Productions Same here!
And the never-ending staircase and its horrifying music.
The first things to ever scare me in a game when i was a kid were the moblins in Ocarina of Time, when i walked out into the corridors and i heard their battle cry as they charged towards me i immediately threw the controller on the ground and made my dad get through it for me.
My gosh, those scared the POOBLIES out of me!!!
Arlo Did it really? Its not scary
Oh god those were terrifying.
I was too young to really do anything in the game so my mother did most of the progress, I just spent my time in the towns. In order to visit the forest or the zoras as an adult I had to make it past the moblins everytime. I had the TV remote right next to me so I could quickly turn off the TV incase I failed a jump.
DoubleEXP I have ocarina of time on my 3ds and those moblins still scare me
it's also a bit fun getting past them I get this metal gear solid kind of feeling
still they freak me out 😕
Moblins ? They are nothing compared to what you can witness in the well and the Temple of Shadows....
Everything about this game gave me a bad feeling in my stomach. When I played this level I was too scared to even go into the water. Other things in the game that scared me include:
Boos
Chain chomps
The noise that bowser makes if you don’t have the key for the next area
Everything about the haunted mansion world
Eels
Those weird spider things
The poisonous gas
Quicksand
Mario death noise
The slide
Power up timers
Piranha plants
Rated E for everyone huh
Don’t forget about those purple things that chase you!
Yeah chain chomps sucked omg
That giant fish in Tiny Huge Island...
dexty right? Everything is terrifying!!
When I was younger, seeing my neighbor play what I think now was fnaf 4, was the first time I honestly ever felt true fear. I was traumatized for about 3 years by that game...
I'm surprised no ones talking about when Link put on the Desu Scrub mask for the first time. Him screaming just gave me chills.
*deku
です scrub ?
It only got worse from there. Look at the Zora Mask Transformation. *shudders*
That was disturbing the first time I played the game, but Legend of Zelda was definitely not my first game.
My first time being scared in a game was the moon in majora's mask.
ok that's golden xD
That's goofy looking.
linky pete Agreed.
linky pete Mine was Dead Hand... It was scary AND disgusting!
It put me in a corner, crying in the fetal position... 😰
GOLD 1515 that was my second one. (I played majora's mask first)
Arlo, you REALLY should tell more stories like this. The level of detail and immersion in your storytelling is amazing!
I don't really know the first game that scared me, but when I watched my brother play OoT3D and go to the castle town as an adult, I mentally pissed myself when I saw the redead and it's scream.
My first scare has to be those skeleton things (sorry, forgot the name) that appear at night in Ocarina of Time. I was just exploring the world, when all of a sudden the city gates closed and it became night time. I was like "Okay, this is fine, it's just dark!" Then all of a sudden, these skeleton things appear one by one and start to kill me. I was like "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, GET IT AWAY, GET IT AWAY, AAAHHHH"
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IN ALL CAPS if the stalfos skeletons didn't scare me, then the redeads did.
My first scare was tails doll. Now, When it scared me I was like 9 so you can't blame me, but that thing kept me up until late at night for months. 6 months to be exact. It's probably because I didn't realise creepypastas were fake then.
They're called Stalfos
IN ALL CAPS They're called Stalchildren.
Who else is thinking about what kid Arlo looked like? Probably the exact same now that I think about it, muppets don't really grow...
Arlo really looks like Grover from sesame street, so maybe he would look like baby grover
I think you’ve forgotten the existence of the muppet babies.
9th Doctor, The Cheese God of Cyrodil five words.
He
Is
Not
A
Puppet
I remember that I always used to get scared of caves in Minecraft, even when in creative mode. Until you placed a torch, you never knew what might be in front of you! And the sounds... hearing a zombie but not knowing where it is not a good situation - you keep looking over your shoulder to see if it's coming. These days I'm quick to light caves up and defeating monsters isn't a huge problem, but I'm never reluctant to return to the surface. Underground areas are still not, and likely won't ever be, my comfort zone. :P
Yeah. Definitely kept me on my toes
If you think this is bad mario galaxy's eels was the bane of my existence
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Dude I literally didn’t play the swimming levels because of that eel
I looked it up and thought it was adorable
Look at odyssey's. I mean even as a 14 y old that jumped scared me the first time threw imagine for a 5 y old.
Still is for me
Definitely one of the creepiest things to me in a Mario game is Mimi's transformation in Super Paper Mario.
Something about seeing someone snap their own neck with way too realistic bone crunching sound effects is very unsettling to me.
Underrated comment
And in a Mario game!
*NO, STOP YOU'RE GIVING ME HORRIFYING MEMORIES!*
You should try watching Pamtri or Surreal Entertainment :)
I was playing that game when I was 7 and when she did that I turned off my wii in fear.
The first I can remember is actually Luigi's Mansion. I was pretty young and I had never played a GameCube before. I think this was during a Halloween family get-together, and my cousin had brought it over, as well as a few games. While everyone was busy socializing downstairs, being the youngest by a large margin and not having really anyone to talk to, I was able to sneak upstairs to the room where the GameCube was in. I ran in and didn't even bother turning on the lights, I just powered it up and grabbed the controller. The wind outside was intense, and I think it may have even been raining pretty hard. I had no idea that a "scary" game was inside, I just wanted to play the GameCube for the first time! Then, as the plot unfolded and I learned it was about ghosts, both the mansion and my house creaking in the wind, I felt scared. I pushed on, got to the first real fight, and when the paintings started to shake and talk to me, I was terrified. When the first ghost jumped out at me, I shrieked and shut off the GameCube, running back downstairs and not telling anyone what I had just done, thinking I'd be in trouble.
Love this story.
Same i didn't like it XD I played it again like WAY later just about last year for nostalgia and xD I was not remotely scared of it XD haha
Lurona Coleoi The baby ghost screaming at you was too much for me, and I had to get my parents to fight him for me.
it was a dark and stormy night...
That stage was a pure masterpiece back then! The revealing of the ship was level design awesomeness
Ps2 error disc
JRD MADNESS put a sega cd disc in a CD player
For me, it had to be Luigi's Mansion. I know it's silly, but that game had a legitimately creepy atmosphere! My older brother had to take over in a lot of parts, and then I would nab the controller at the last second to take credit... ah, good times.
Dark Moon was good too, but it was much more comical overall, with a lot of slapstick humor and such. Again, it wasn't bad, but it just wasn't the same.
I agree. Boolossus scared the crap out of me. It was huge and had big glowing yellow eyes. And because I was so terrified I didn't know what to do and I died against it multiple times. Even today it gives me the creeps.
This was the first for me too, with ghosts appearing out of nowhere when I was 6/7 years old. The only game aside from Luigi's Mansion that ever scared me was Undertale due to a certain boss and the build-up to it (if you've played it, you know exactly what I'm talking about). But even horror games have basically no effect on me. Maybe it's because I'm expecting it?
Matthew Perry omg dude yes especially the frickin hallways and those growing ghost that made weird noises in the beginning of the game
Honestly entering this level alone gave me the chills. Something about the dimmer atmosphere and the sudden change in the mood with the music, along with being an underwater level... I know it was supposed to be soothing but it just threw me off as a kid!
Nicholas NRG scary eel
I feel that SM64 just kind of had an eerie atmosphere at times, especially there though, yeah.
Baron Featherstone Agreed. Even Peach's castle was creepy. Albeit brightly colored & inhabited by a few Toads, it had an eerie "Shining" isolated vibe.
#TrueTrue
Earthbound. I do not need to elaborate to anyone who has finished the game or knows much about the final boss.
My first?
Sonic. The drowning music.
Honorable mention has to be the brain in super metroid
You're not alone there Arlo. That eel terrified me as a kid. When I first played Mario 64, I actually shook when I saw that thing. When it came out of the hole and bit at me, I actually screamed. To be fair readers, if it is your first 3D game (considering there was no other games like it before this) then it pokes out and tries to eat you in one shot! Oh god that was terrifying. It still scares me to this day!
James he meant 3d platformers
It used to scare me too but it doesn't anymore
Minos Taurian same here, I’m even scared of the eel in the ds remake, I got the original on virtual console a few months ago, I have not even opened the door for the level
Minos Taurian The piano and all of big boo haunt scared me when i was 8 playing that game
Megaman Legends 1 or as its called on the N64, Megaman 64.
Mario 64: Eel, Sharks, Boss Bass
Banjo Kazooie: Clanker
Donkey Kong 64: Mecha Fish, Kroc
You seem to have a phobia of pixelated aquatic life.
Clanker is freaking terrifying
I was like "Sloowly... not near his mouth... He's gonna eat me any second now"
Clanker probably would be more terrifying if he was actually bad and I do think he was supposed to be but he betrayed Grunty because she stuck him to a chain so he could no longer have fresh air. Not to mention the job of grinding garbage is probably one of the worst jobs one could have. No wonder his teeth started to rot. The scariest thing in Banjo Kazooie 1 that is an actual enemy is Snacker. This somewhat rare enemy basically shows up in certain bodies of water and actively chases after Banjo hoping to get a bite out of his hide. He has the habit of warping in out of nowhere to begin his pursuit and his song is a scare cord similar to something you would hear off of Jaws. Not to mention Snackers have Lakitu syndrome meaning only one attacks you at a time but if you take one of them out the breather is only temporary and another one will come in and take the place of his fallen comrade. One thing that Rare was known for in the past was challenge and Banjo Kazooie was no exception. You would think for the water based world that is Treasure Trove Cove you would have nothing to worry about going for a swim only for a shark to start chasing you the instant you set foot in the water. Also Banjo Tooie has the Stomponadon the namesake of the appropriately named Stomping Plains. The Stomponadon is supposedly a large T-Rex that is so big all you can see of him is his large foot stepping down on you. One hit from him will reduce your energy to one and it doesn't help that you have to split up and take each character through the plains. Banjo at least can recover with his Nap Pack move but Kazooie has nothing to rely on but her quick feet meaning precise timing is needed to get through. Heck he even gets an intro similar to a boss and he is not even a boss. He's just a very large enemy.
Eel from SMG was scary too.
What about that one freaky boss from Super Mario Sunshine that you fight underwater and it shoots this purple slime out of it's eyes that drain your oxygen and if you get close it swallows you. What's creepy about it is it has 4 eyes with 2 male eyes and 2 female eyes. That means this thing is both genders. 0_0
I have two answers for this.
1. My fist video game was Toy Story 2 for the PS1, and when I first encountered the Green Slime boss, it gave me dread when I had to re-fight it due to me sucking at gaming.
2. Final Fantasy VII, Emerald Weapon. While TS2 was mainly dread, this was true fear. I knew that EW existed in the waters, and I hated going under. This was amplified when I had a close encounter with the beast. I got in the sub near Junon, and I submerged... at least two feet away was Emerald when the screen faded in. A second later and I would've have died if I hadn't gone back up in time.
Man.. watching this video now just makes me love Arlo even more.
These videos just give me a lot of comfort inside. Thanks, Arlo.
Mario falling into a black hole in galaxy gave me so many nightmares.
I always thought it was an 'evil pipe.'
I used to call it "eraser"
Waddle Dees United
The Dark Matter was worse.
+Tyler Falcon (Mariotron) oh yeah, I forgot about that, I used to have nightmares about me slowly drowning in it.
SAAAMMME!! :l
The ghosts in Sandopolis Zone Act 2 from Sonic & Knuckles. They start off small, cute, and harmless, but get progressively bigger, menacing and even murderous the darker it gets. That combined with scary shift in tone in the music when compared to Act 1, and the stress inducing light mechanics... I was terrified of that stage.
Stonewall3000 i would give a huge reaction but i already wastedit on another comment. But yeah, agreed
Stonewall3000 You are not alone.
I know this vid is a year old and almost 2 but I'm gonna' tell u the first thing that scared me that I remembered!
I was replaying a level that my dad beaten in Super Mario Galaxy with my first baby-sitter I remember I had.... I didn't watch my dad beating the level so I didn't know what to expect from it.... But when I was on Bowser's air ship and I had to beat a boss on their I thought I had to beat Bowser and when I was younger I was terrified of loud sounds and noises so I thought Bowser was gonna' come and yell at me.
Yes that's what I was afraid of.
So I ran into my room saying "Bowser's gonna' yell!" But then my baby-sitter said that Bowser doesn't do that anymore so then I finished the boss.
And the boss was Kamella not Bowser but I thought it was gonna' be Bowser.
The three earliest gaming terrors for me were:
1. The bowser laugh and music in Mario 64 if you went to a locked door
2. Dry Dry Ruins in Paper Mario
3. The freaking Bottom of the Well from Ocarina of Time
A number of things in this game scared me. The eel, chain chomp, but the scariest for me was the painting that turned into bowser when you got closer before dropping you into a hole while you hear his menacing laugh.
I'd have to say what scared me the most was a boss from Pikmin 2 and it was the Water Wraith. I remember him coming out of nowhere in the cave and being able to do nothing to fight it off or even slow it down (you do beat him at the end but that's after 4 previous floors of horror). In the end he caused me to reset the game multiple times.
Dear goodness, I still have nightmares about that thing.
It was slender
I know I hate that thing
It definitely makes for one of the greatest "payback's a bitch!" moments in video game history by the time you reach the last floor :D
epicKumaXD that scared me to but only because I never let my pickmin die
Amazing channel! There is one and sometimes two people behind the scenes that share a similar job that I had for Disney a zillion years ago. And I have to say that your 'behind the scenes people' are *incredibly* talented. I don't want to go into specifics or knock any numbered walls down, but *seriously* top notch. Editing is great, too! Thank you all for the love and care you clearly put into your productions.
this video reminds me of the days when I was young and unaware of such things as enemy AI and pre set behavioral patterns. as an adult games aren't really able to scare me because I'm all cynical and smart. at least smart enough to find the patterns and such. I will say though the n64 was the birthplace of game fear. seeing Mario literally drown to death or watching banjo fall from great heights, flailing as he screams. or even more simply falling into lava and just... dying. plus my first M rated game, Nightmare Creatures! it helped me feel less uneasy about graphic content when your character is more than capable of fighting back.
oh, and mortal Kombat mythologies sub zero. I got squished by the falling ceiling and that just stuck with me.
Tons of scary things in Nintendo games. Dead Hand, all the final bosses in Kirby, that PIANO, Masked Man, Giygas, the Shadow Temple, Eternal Darkness (mind you that's Rated M), the Chaos Vortex, Lavender Town, the eel, Aparoid Pigma, everything about Majora's Mask, Death Sword, 3 A.M in Animal Crossing, the background of the Boo galaxy, Master Core, ReDeads, the chilling noises in Splatoon when you beat a boss, and the mysterious things in Shiverburn Galaxy.
The first game that scared me was Super Paper Mario on the Wii. I got to World 6 or 7 or whenever it was and when Count Bleck destroyed that world, I was freaked out seeing that beautiful world turned into dust and nothingness. The funniest part was that my 6 year old mind was so afraid that I put the game down and didn't play the game again for 7 whole years. Lol :p
Yeah that game was dark. If I was younger when I first played I probably would have done the same thing.
Same game but for me it was Mimi's transformation that freaked me out. I didn't have the courage to play the game again for months and it occupied most of my nightmares.
But yeah the nothingness is really unsettling too, in fact Super Paper Mario is a pretty dark game in retrospect.
Honest Slug Oh yeah, that was some exorcist stuff going on there.
really!? thats what scared you about super paper mario
i mean cmon RIVER TWYGS
The eel never really scared me, i did jump when I saw it tho and then I laughed
Omgggggg this Eel really scared me as a child!!!! I would always skip this level!!! Girl I screamed when the eel was free to leave the hole it was in! Now I am okay but it was crazy back then.
the first game that scared me was yoshi's story...
that damn death animation...
No joke, Yoshi's Story was an incredibly hard game for me because I loved the baby Yoshis so much I'd reset any time one of them was carried away to the dungeons crying. Like, these weren't multiple lives you had, EACH ONE was a separate baby Yoshi, and if you kept playing beyond a death, you'd be reminded of the ones you left behind every time you went to the character select screen. So yeah. I never could use the checkpoints like other people did because I was too sentimental about losing to go on if I lost one Yoshi.
I was really confused when I learned the main complaint of that game was that it was "too easy." To me, it was grueling.
try all melons, THAT was fun...
stuff i do because i'm bored I still can't complete even all the chapter 1 levels with just melons.
I am soo glad I am not the only that that hit the reset button upon death. XD I still do that even today; No Yoshi left behind.
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Imagine THIS:
A four year old playing Halo CE, finds elites pretty scary, but after literally a month or so, that fear was overcome, then...
This poor child innocently entered the first flood facility. That cut scene where you see through Jenkins's camera already made me panic. Then the crazy music started, and these zombie-like things busted the doors down and tried to mob me... being lost in what felt like a maze, with flood attacking me at ever corner, feeling so alone.I was fucking shitting my pants. true story.
Wow...
Even though this is weak, the first time my heart was ever pounding during a videogame, was in the kitchen level in Ratatouille the video game. I just thought all the chefs would jump me, and I'd be a goner. I could barely finish the game. But I beat it, with fear of course.
Bonus: I also freaked out during the scene with the dog outside the restaurant. *Has Vietnam Flashback*
lol
Why did you think the chefs would jump you? It’s ratatouille
Windwaker's Ghost Ship was the first thing that actually struck fear into my gamer heart.
I miss spooky shit in first party Nintendo games... Now all we get are translucent toads.
Have you played Super Mario 3D Land? In one level there is a terrifiying ghost, and captain toad can have the same feel as well
Blueberry101 If you're talking about the little easter egg in the corner at the end of the 3d land level, I can't really count that. I mean, they hadda sneak it in. Haven't played Captain Toad, though
Honolulu Joe CT doesn't have many spooky things but that eel, oh! that eel in Mario Galaxy
Blueberry101 Oh that true. Sunshine had a freaky ass eel in it as well. Good trend. Really hope to see nightmare eel in future games.
I feel that the bar for scary stuff for you guys is set too low. For me it starts at the emptiness statue in Majora's Mask.
spongebob's face in Sandy's treedome in battle for the bikini bottom
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For me it was the robo Patrick fight, ugh.
Something about the way they got frozen one by one and made those weird poses just freaked me out so much.
I'd be surprise if people considered that scary if they watched the first season of the show to know that's a thing already.
UltimaKeyMaster That face is NOTHING compared to the game tbh
The first thing that scared me was...
Huniepop
That was a really nice story 👍 Thanks Arlo 🙏
This eel as well as Snacker from Banjo Kazooie and even Clanker just scared the hell outta me. Snacker especially because unlike the eel, he actually DOES chase you WITH music playing and throughout the entire second level.
the thing that scared me when I was little was in twlight princess when those black things fall out of the sky and screech it would send shivers down my spine 😞 guess I was a baby back then
Hey, I was like 19 and they scared the pants off of me! A lot of that game did! (Stalhounds... *shudder*)
Arlo I feel like because you have so much imagination it gets to you but thats what makes you so cool
Arlo phew glad to know I wasn't the only one I replayed it with my little brother and he just thought they were cool he's 10 everything scared me at 10!
Zachary Erickson when I was younger I stopped playing around where you meat zelda I was afraid of everything then even music and the sound that played during there ambush gave me shivers Oh and the light protected especially the lemur one ugh....
The thing that really scared me in the Wind Waker was the blue mummies that would slowly approach you and do that horrific screech while their eyes glow red and their teeth showing while Link is frozen helpless with fear.
Mine was the final battle of Mario and Luigi partners in time. I was like 6 or 7!
Arlo, I’ve watched a lot of your videos. This has been my favorite.
Wow I was terrified by the eel too but never met anyone else who was. This video made me feel so much better!
Aaron Booth I was too! Played this game when I was real young and it was my first 3D game ever. That thing was terrifying, and so was that freaking piano in Boo's Mansion!
I was easily scared by things as a kid, so literally every "haunted house" themed level gave me the chills. In fact, just the thought of dying in a game made me extremely nervous, so much that I had to stop playing some games for more than a week just to get the courage to try again.
My first video game had like 60% of the levels haunted house themed, and that game was NOT aimed at children, I mean it wasn't gorey or swearing but my dad should not have suggested it to me when I was 3. 100%ed it anyways and enjoyed the challenges of working up such courage. The haunted piano music didn't help either. I'm now immune to haunted house levels.
I guess I was scared easily as a kid too. There are enemies in KIRBY'S EPIC YARN that scared me :/
Mine is kinda embarrassing. I only remember now because of the Halloween event in Club Penguin Rewritten.
Mind you, I was only 4 back then, and only recently discovered CP (a few months or so). I turned on my old windows xp and went onto the Internet, ready for another fun time in Club Penguin (I wasn't even a member). I saw the new Halloween update and was psyched at what new mini-games or costume that I wouldn't be able to buy were in store and I immediately entered a server. I went around in shops, gazing at the cool pumpkins everywhere, looked at the new costumes.
Then I went into the Coffee Shop.
On the screen "Night of the living Sled" was being shown. Seeing the sled come to life horrified me. The fact that the sled kept chasing the 2 poor penguins, the look of terror on their faces as they see the object slowly hopping towards them, and how it didn't display any emotion as it went after them, left me awake 2 hours longer when I went to bed. That night, I was terrified as I thought the chair plopped up next to me would suddenly leap at me. That's the first time I felt truly scared in a video game.
6:57 I remember that! It gave me a stress attack whenever it happened. Lol
The first truly terrifying gaming moment for me was the wallmasters in Ocarina of Time's Forest Temple. That whole dungeon was unsettling, but stepping out of a twisted hallway into a room of moving shadows was too much. Even Navi warned me not to go in there. It took me years to brave that temple.
And then the Shadow Temple did it all over again.
The Forest Temple was one of the freakiest places in any Zelda game. And I love that they did it to the forest dungeon, of all things, when they could have just made it a regular old woodsy place. But nope, they creeped it up like crazy. That music!
This was definitely it for my older brother. It's also increasingly creepy because of the fact that they're HANDS CRAWLING ON THE CEILING THAT WANT TO GRAB YOU!
Arlo Hi arlo, love ur gids!
I have to be honest ... I never finished Ocarina of Time. Why ? The Shadow Temple. It was that scary for me.
My problem with Ocarina of time (among other things) is that pretty much EVERY dungeon, with a few exceptions like the fire temple, had a weird creepy vibe to them. And not intimidating creepy either, aside from the forest dungeon (my favorite), but like...unsettling creepy, something crawling down your spine type of creepy, and after playing later games in the series, I don't feel like EVERY dungeon in a zelda game being lonely and unsettling makes any damn sense. The atmospheres of individual dungeons kind of started to blend together for me, so the creep factor started to run kind of thin.
Except the shadow temple. The hell were they on...
When I was a kid, Animal Crossing and Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat for the GameCube scared the heck out of me.
Ruby Dolphin Animal Crossing scared you? Mind giving more details?
Mr Resetti...
Ruby Dolphin AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!
I didn't know how to save the game, so I always got Mr Resetti to show up, and I made my dad get through it for me.
Ruby Dolphin same man dk jungle beat idek why
That was pretty deep. Good job Arlo!
FREAKING THANK YOU. I’ve seen so many videos mention the piano, this is only the SECOND video I’ve seen that mentions the eel. Not only was it one of my first scares, it forever made under water sections of games freak me out.
I don’t actually remember the name of the first game to scare me, I rented it for the nes when I was really young. It was some sort of rpg, and near the start I wad put in jail. It freaked me out because I didn’t know what to do, and the prison theme was really unsettling.
The only thing that scared me (and scares me now, lol) is.. the sound of Wii games freezing. It comes out like a jumpscare! I always expected a scary picture to pop up at any moment! The thing that terrifies me the most is that you need to walk to the other side of the room (still hearing and seeing the horrifying sight) to turn the Wii off.
And then deep silence comes, making the situation worse...
The Wenn never had that happen to me before. The closest i got was when i tried ton ride down the wood slide with yoshi in galaxy 2
It happened to me a lot when I used to use Super Smash Bros. Brawl mods...
GBA crash sound is even worse iirc 'cause it's the piercing screech out of nowhere. I still vividly remember the sound and it's been years lmao
PKMN 5D's One time I Game Over'd in SMA2 and right as the game over screen popped up it started making those terrible screeching noise...
Matthew28845 I had it happen a lot after discovering game sharks were a thing (because the cheat device was kinda loose in the bottom of the cart, not because the codes themselves ironically enough) I still associate that dreadful sound with gba pokemon lmao
I was heavily terrified by the way Link turned into Wolf Link in the beginning. The fact that a hand grabs him from a wall and pulls him in is really creepy. I guess that was reason why it was rated T+, unlike other Zelda games.
I like how arlo is the only youtuber I know WHO DOESN"T CONSTANTLY PESTER YOU ABOUT PRESSING THE LIKE BUTTON. A little thing like that goes a long way, keep up the great work :)
I'm younger than most people I've seen in this comments section, so my first console was the Wii.
When I was nine or ten years old, I got my first Zelda game - Skyward Sword. It was fun and immersive. When I swung the Wii remote, Link swung his sword! I felt like I WAS Link. Which is why I was scared of dying in the game. Usually it wouldn't be that big of a deal, say if a Bokoblin or something managed to kill me, I'd just take a deep breath and get payback. I played through the game with no major roadblocks, just a green guy running around saving the world. Then came the second visit to Faron Woods, and the first Silent Realm. Oh boy. When I first got there, it was nice and peaceful, the music was calm, I wasn't too worried about anything, other than the fact that I didn't have my sword. I walked out of my protective circle. Then immediately ran back in, terrified, and didn't try to leave it again for another hour. If you've never played Skyward Sword, let me explain why I was so terrified. Silent realms start blue, peaceful, almost relaxing. But, as soon as you step out of your protective circle, everything turns red. Loud, unsettling music starts blasting through the speakers, and a bunch of giant, invincible, nightmare-fuel monsters start chasing you. And you die in one hit. I think it took me three hours to finally beat that first silent realm.
That's the first time a game scared me.
The first game that scared me was super mario galaxy. Let me paint a picture for you...
I just got the game as a gift from one of my dad's co workers. I was excited, thrilled even. we played as a family the first time, but then we made our own profiles. Then I progressed in the game very fastly and kicked boss butt. Then I made it to King Fin bone... I splashed into the planet eagerly awaiting the boss I knew was coming. The thing is I knew there was going to be a boss cause of the one star. I didn't know the horror that was coming. Then, I saw a bony body swimming towards me, with beams of light for eyes and a large gaping mouth. I quickly turned the level off and went back to the base. I ignored the level, replaying honey hive over and over. Then I realised to progress I had to beat Fin Bone. So I did. I kept telling my self: "It's just a game... A stupid obstacle in a game..." I had to look away every five seconds in the second attempt. I lost, and looked at the horrible thing staring at my dead, Mario body. The third time I beat him, though. But it got more horrible the more it progressed. The horrible cracked body of jumbled up bones looking at me with it's flashlight eyes... Then, on it's last life, I realised it was not that scary... It was just a mess of code and animation ment to stop me from beating the game...
And that's the story of the first game that scared me.
vonsscout *claps*
Wow arlo at least was scared of something that looked scary King Fin bond's design is a big dry bone in the water
zź źn What are you talking about? Kingfin looks scary, and has scary music to make it worse.
When I first played that game, Bowser Jr's robot scared me the most, 2nd thing that scared me in that game were the underwater levels
The vonsscout show : Reviews and analysis Yeah, that level is terrifying. Alright I think that about most dark water levels
6:56 this scared the crap out of me
SuperRobbieWorld SAME OMG THAT *SOUND*
This exact level is what set the stage for myself with experiencing horror in video games. I was unable to start the game for a week as I was too scared of what might happen.
I don't remember the first game to truly unsettle me, but all I know is that I have never felt more helpless than when the first few bars of Big Boo's Haunt began to ring in my ears. This actually wasn't even too long ago, but something about Big Boo's Haunt gives me the heebie-jeebies. It's one of those things where you never know what is going to happen to you next... I hate uncertainty of that kind.
I remember the first game that REALLY scared me as a kid was... Luigi's Mansion. I remember watching my brother play it and I was truly terrified of the entire game. The ghosts, the ghosts when they appeared out of nowhere, the baby boss fight and even the final boss battle with Bowser scared the pants off me. I was so scared by it, by mum banned my brother from playing it and it wasn't until 4 years later he could play it again.
Um I didn't finish that game yet but are you sure you fight Bowser?
CubexGaming Technically, yes. You'll see what I mean when you get to the end.
AwesomeToes Ohh it's that fake version or something right?
CubexGaming Yeah.
AwesomeToes I pity your brother
lavender town. when everything was black and white on my gameboy pocket
I had to scroll down way too far to find this
Just the word lavender gives me chills...
I really appreciate your descriptive script-writing
The first game that truly scared me was Yoshi's Island. I got it back in the Holiday Season in 1995, and I was BLOWN away with how graphically designed it was. Then came Watch Out Below. I literally shat my pants.
I'm just gonna say these 5 words "The Cave of Bad Dreams"
I feel honored that more people know of this terror. i thought I was the only one.
I can relate
Ehh that level had a more "oooooooo spoooooky" vibe to it , though that Jano chase at the end is pretty intense.
The level in Rayman 2 that was scary for me was Tomb of the Ancients. Mainly due to the horrifying music which makes it sound like some Eldritch abomination is out to get you and could jump you any moment.
Oh wow, you're right. I had almost forgotten. Those hands that could grab you and pull you into a dark hole... my poor child self got nightmares, imagining what happened to Rayman if he got pulled in.
Honestly, as a kid I didn't get so scared there cause I knew it was going to be spooky by the name but the spider in the canopy really got me...
When I was a youngster the thing the scared me the most was Clanker from Banjo Kazooie or Lord Woo Fak Fak from Banjo Tooie. Imagine going into a claustrophobic pipe, just to be spit out right in the face of a fish 100x bigger than you, and one of them tries to kill you in a very cramped/dark room.
Toshiko Ayame thankfully real clanker is actually very friendly
I loved the finding Nemo game when I was a young fellow. So, if you've seen the movie at least, you know the part where Marlin and Dory were in a trench with the anglerfish, and there are two levels in said trench. a level where you play as Dory swimming though the area trying to keep up with Marlin as he searches for the mask that was dropped, and one where you play as marlin, being chased by the anglerfish. in the former, if you go to far up, the angler lunges from the darkness and try's to kill you. THAT THING WAS KINDA TERAFYING OKAY?
LOOK AT IT. WHAT KIND OF KID WOULDN'T SHIT THEMSELVES?!
th-cam.com/video/GNOwp60iYrY/w-d-xo.html
(you can beat the level by going in circles though)
not to mention the MUSIC in the searching level.
th-cam.com/video/-7g5WomcaDo/w-d-xo.html
I just opened the link. Ugh. Every kid would be scared
Oh God I played the game as a kid and I totally remember that fear...
Am I the only person who found chain chomps and this eel hilarious? I never felt scared for a second.
Banjo Kazooie really scared me as a kid. The stage was Clankers Cavern. Not the nicest looking place, but I didn't care. I'm swimming underwater through a cave of all these tentacles wiping around, trying not to get hi, then I get to the end, expecting to be able to swim up and replenish my health. Unfortunately, the first thing I see are the jaws of a giant menacing looking metalic shark named Clanker. I didn't know anything about that level and I just panicked. I was like, oh shit. That thing is going to murder me. I turn around and start swimming through that cave, but it's dangerous and there is no way I won't drown. I panicked, paused the game and turned it off xD One day when I gained the courage to take on that stage again... I find out Clanker is completely harmless and just needs your help xD And I just got a shiver up my spine. Those guys at Rare new what they where doing when they made that beast and get you face to face with it after running so low on oxygen. Now, that wasn't the only thing. The normal sharks scared me too. Just not as badly as Clanker though.
The first game that forced me to drop my controller was when i played resident evil 4 (My first RE game)
Joe Andrews mine was re1 (ds)
the regenerators in RE 4 made me stop playing the game for months
mine was resident evil 2 on n64 and the zombie part in conkers bad fur day
Joe Andrews the chainsaw dude made me not play resdent evil 4 in a long time
RE3 for me.
That is the first game that scared me too Arlo!! Wow I'm not alone!!
This was a beautiful piece of storytelling
It's the Piano isn'-
Gosh dang. I was wrong again.
Hey, I played your Mario Maker level about Hooktail :)
CubexGaming Thanks! I really loved making that level, and all the feedback I've been getting from it is fantastic!
I've now made a couple other Mario RPG boss levels, but now I'm wondering which one I should make next.
I'm thinking of maybe doing the Shadow Siren Battle from PMTTYD, but I want to give love to all the Mario RPG's, and Mario & Luigi Dream Team had several awesome battles.
What battles would you like to see? I'm even working on a earthbound RPG boss, and an entire fanmade Paper Mario series.
Noah & Toad A Doopliss themed level would be awesome for the PM series. I don't play MM that much anymore but if you made that I would jump on my game to try it out ;) But for any other Mario RPG battle, I think it would be awesome to see a Zeekeeper battle. Dream Team was a great game. And maybe Giygas for Earthbound.
The first game ever to scare me was wii sports. I was scared I might break the screen
My tennis skills never ceased to amaze me
Triforce Cuber Lol my friend threw his controller at the ceiling in bowling
ayy
I pretty much recall how real scared I was when I've played Epic Battle Fantasy 3 as a kid and first time got attacked by a cosmic monolith's dark explosion attack. Thank gosh, it had no negative impact on me like that. It was pretty much like Kogasa Tatara.
The yellow hazmat guys in Monsters Inc. for PS2, the shark in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, and the electric catfish in Ape Escape.
Giygas. Freaking. Giygas. Like, I've seen Giygas before I first best Earthbound, but when I was there holding the controller, and I was the one who had to defeat it. It was horrifying. My hands were shaking and sweating, once I got to the section where you pray with Paula, the fear turned into hopefulness as I got closer and closer to finishing it. Such a terrifying monster
Hell yes, I love Giygas
+Metal Weeb What about Omega Flowe-OK I'll stop talking now...
That music during that fight sequence is so completely unsettling, and on top of that the fight itself out in an infinite plane of unending cosmic horror which you'll likely never return? Yeah, it was a bit intense. One of the best moments in gaming for me.
The first time I heard a cave sound in Minecraft. I was like 8, and one of my friends had constantly been talking about this strange creature called "Herobrine". I hadn't placed any torches so I just ran out of the cave, and since then I've been scared of the dark.
Heck, I was eighteen or nineteen when _Minecraft_ came out, and its sound design still got to me.
Yeah the cave sounds to this day still get me
Me too
this and mainly the eels from Majoras Mask were the ones that scared me and maybe even got me scared of the ocean in general
idk either way *N o p e*
Wallmasters from Ocarina of Time and "Get Out" from DK64
Am I the only person who never got scared by the eel?
I just found it annoying and hard to get the star on its tail
same
Same
Yeah out of the millions of people that played the game you're probably the only one
Patrick, no I wasn't scared by it. i noticed it's pattern so I felt a bit safe.
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was what first scared me as a kid. Those ghosts in the knuckles stages...
Imagine seeing those things pop out quicker than a jumpscare. The controller would vibrate almost as fast as my heart would beat.
I nope'd out of the Drip Drop Galaxy, as well as Bonefin Galaxy as soon as Kingfin appeared. But my very first such experience was actually several years before while playing Lego Island 2, in a diving minigame where the goal is to collect Lego pieces to build a bridge. It was all fine and dandy at first, just swimming around and taking my time, until I got to the deeper area and got a warning that half my air was gone. Hadn't even noticed the meter off to the side. Being easily intimidated and not wanting to drown, I exited out of that minigame pretty much right then.
When I first played 64 when I was like 6, I was horrified of the piano. Imagine, and innocent little 6 year old walking around a ghost filled mansion and then boom. I demon piano comes chomping after me. So horrifying.
List of things that scared me:
*Super Mario 64:*
- The chain chomp (I got used to it eventually)
- The giant eel (Not going back ever again)
- The Boo ghost in the basements narrow hallway (Creepy as fuck)
- The big fish with the sunglasses and it's fat mouth trying to eat me (I hated water at that point)
*The Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon:*
- The Giant Ocean near the snow village (At that point, I hated swimming underwater)
*Glover:*...the whole atmosphere in the game was just...bad to me
- The pink balloon elephant (Especially when it chases you...scares the hell outta me)
*Gex 64 Enter the Gecko:*
- The Bees from the FIRST LEVEL...DAMMIT
I'm surprised someone else in this comment section actually played Enter the Gecko. That was my childhood lmao. Nightmare fuel was everywhere
CubexGaming Yeah, that game was weird as ****!
Uncanny Aura Just to clarify, you played the 3D platformer one right?
CubexGaming Yup, it's the only Gex game I've played.
Uncanny Aura Same. Did you ever play the haunted house levels? Because if you were terrified by the bees idk how you could survive those xD
SuperMarioSunshine...
The MantaRay boss...
manta ray is a reference to a stephen king book
(thank u dykg)
That boss scared the shit out of me as a kid
The first time I was scared was Zelda OOT with the Redead. Their scream was chilling.
The first game that ever scared me as far as I can remember was Rugrats: Search For Reptar, on the PS1.
It seems innocuous at first, and it mostly is, much like Mario 64- but I was terrified of several things in that game.
The robot thing in the pyramid on the golf stage, the 'evil toys' level, the closed toy store level, the level where Spike is lost, the GOOSE, even that... lobster boss? From the supermarket level. But what scared me the most were two things- the shadow ghosts that would go *BOOGABOOGABOOGA* in that one stage, whose name escapes me, and the floating television screen robots from the alien spaceship level.
In retrospect, it was kinda silly, as these things usually are. I think if I ever saw a Chryssalid at that age I'd have a freakout, considering what one mention of "Newfoundland" can do to me even today(though that's mostly the memory of a thrillingly difficult mission and enjoying battling such powerful, freaky opponents).
Other things I remember are the River Twygz from Super Paper Mario, Mimi's transformation as Elsin mentions in this very comment section, and the Old Chateau Pokemon Platinum(although in that case even as a kid I was just enjoyably unnerved and LOVING the spooky atmosphere).
I do also recall playing an Aliens vs. Predators game as a youngun... which is quite self-explanatory, really.
The interrogation droids in Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast also scared me, even though they were rather unthreatening, I think the fact that they were used for torture and were so eerily quiet was enough.
Then, Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy had the sandworm level... Actually, a lot of JK could scare me at times. It's a pretty atmospheric series, and I remember the Artus Mines in 2 being spooky, especially the dark section with the little ankle-biting rock crab things.
I'm right there with you Arlo, SM64 was one of the first scary games for me! Though, for me it was Hazy, Maze Cave that scared the shit out of me as a young kid. Another one that was objectively not scary but I remember creeping me out some how is the Wriggler battle inside the mountain of Tiny Huge Island. Kids' minds are freaking weird...
Paper Mario's 3rd chapter was also another spooky one; I remember it taking forever for me to beat, partly due to my childish incompetence and partly due to just bring scared of the Boos/Forest/Tubba Blubba. Personally, something about 90s music and graphics creates a real emotional connection with me. I guess cuz that's what I grew up with.
Edit: I was also sorta young come TTYD, so that Chapter 4 was also of a certain spoopiness.
Same for me SM64 was surprisingly scary sometimes. I think it's what gave me my fear of water. Jolly Rogers bay and the eel were scary, but what really scared me was the sea monster thing underground that you have to climb on, I always thought it was going to eat me.
OMG thankyou I thought I was the only one, even today going back to Hazy Maze Cave makes me feel uneasy af, hate it xd
Interesting that a non-horror game can have a moment like that. It's too bad I can't say the same, but my first scare as a kid was from a game called "Nightmare Creatures", and it mostly came from... well, everything.
I had a demo for that and it scared the pants off of me! Letting the werewolf out of its cage and knowing it was coming after you but not knowing from where was insanely terrifying.
Arlo it's ok.I was scared of the dark....and turtles.
This description is so good aka the narrating part
It's far from my first gaming scare, but why does nobody talk about the eel from Noki Bay in Super Mario Sunshine? It's like they tried to turn the scariness of 64's eel up to 11!
The fact that swimming underwater worked differently and had you rely on your FLUDD jets while constantly falling... AND the Shine REQUIRED you to fall right down close into the darn thing's massive, gaping mouth!!
That eel is ultimately friendly, and you're just there to clean its teeth, but still... geez!