Dont forget the spedup music in the Super Mario games when the timer is running low.

Mario 64 piano

That thing scared me but Akugi the heartless and SoulReaver creeped me out when I was about 7 or 8.

I remember playing Silent Hill 3, and in the bit in the room full of dummies, I was expecting some freaky shit to go down, because "The Dummies are coming to life!!! OMG!" is a classic horror cliche. After several minutes of nothing happening, I let my guard down, and of course a dummy fell of the shelf and screamed. I completely wasn't expecting it, and almost sprained my wrist diving over to the PS2 to trun it off.

Oh and the Tengen game Toobin' scared the ass out of me because after you play for a while you end up getting sucked into other dimensions and shit by whirlpools.

I think there was just something about the NES and its time era that was just scary... But, if I had to choose what scared the crap out of me the most:

1.) LoZ: Link to the Past, the beginning when you wake up and its all rainy and ominous.. then your dad or whatever is half dead down the well, all like Link you can DO IT!

2.) Shadowgate and Uninvited as already mentioned, just about every part is sketchy.

3.) FF2 SNES: When Edge has to fight his mutated messed up parents and its all sad and creepy...

Goddamn games! Now we're all haunted.

In Wizards and Warriors for the NES, the boss fight music was always a little scary to me.

Plus the end boss, where the wizard guy just flits all around the room, HE WAS EVERYWHERE!1

I remember being terrified of Dragon's Lair when I was a kid (because of the whole turning into a skeleton when you die thing), and Hunt the Wumpus on the old TI/99 was terrifying because if you made a wrong move it would jump to a screen of a pair of jaws closing on you to the tune of the Death March :eek

I was pretty easy to scare back then though, since reading Cave of Time was enough to make me avoid the library altogether for a year or two :(

The bat in Hunt the Wumpus is the most bastard creature ever conceived. It usually dropped me into the slime pits.

oh, definitely. And you never knew when you were gonna wake one up, so going past them was always nerve wracking.

Earthbound Zero is terrifying ;(

I dont know why, but Ecco the Dolphin for Sega used to creep me out and depress me at the same time. Especially the sound it made when you hit a jelly fish

I couldnt play through the school level in the first Silent Hill. It was too scary :(

There was this beginning animation of Ryu standing in the dark and punching at the screen in one of the versions of SF2. I remember it scared me so much i couldnt even look at the screen :(

The sewers in Silent Hill still scare me :(

The whole god damn mansion in Resident Evil
The whole god damn city in Resident Evil 2 & 3
The Hospital and Elementary school areas in Silent Hill

:lol you're such a wuss rongi:lol

I was pretty creeped out by splatterhouse 3 the first time I played it. I was like 8 and I'd rented it right after a hockey tournament so I was so pumped to play it and when some of the creepy parts started to happen I was a bit scared. I remember playing through it but both enjoying and being scared out by some of the stuff.

i really am. when my sister showed me the thriller music video when i was 3 i started crying because michael jackson's cat eyes horrified me

that's a legitimate fear :\

I just downloaded a Half Life mod called "Afraid of Monsters."

If you wanna shit yourself, that's the game to do it with.

The level design's a little shitty, though, so make sure you're ok with wandering around dark hallways for extended periods and seeing the message "HMM, THE LOCK SEEMS TO BE JAMMED. IT'S NOT GOING TO OPEN" repeated to infinity.

While playing Ocarina of Time and after reading on GameFAQs about how most of the pussies there were terrified of the dungeon under the well, I expected some hardcore scary shit. I was disappointed.

Although while I was in the well I hit a dead end, and when I turned around a goddamned skull spider was hanging there taking up my entire TV screen. It startled the shit out of me. :(

I had nightmares about the coin ship from Super Mario 3. :( :(

the ReDeads are the most horrifying thing ever when you're eight years old ;<

Especially if you can't mash buttons fast enough to get them off you and letting one grab you means instant death ;<

I actually don't think I've ever had the nuts to explore past the first floor of the well, but I'm sure I could handle it nowadays.

so what, it rips off of silent hill?

ps http://tatsusoft.diregames.net:8081/wumpus.html has a (basically) 100% replica of the ti wumpus game for fans of not wanting to bother with emulators

No idea, I only saw the movie.

Although it's filled with grimy hospital corridors and zombies with eternally convulsing heads, which the film had a fair amount of.

Also, if you're gonna play it you'll want to open up the console and give yourself infinite flashlight batteries, because there aren't nearly enough pickups for you to be able to go at your own pace.

The last one scared the shit out of me when I was in the mental ward by just following me like a lost puppy for a few minutes and not attacking ;<

I just got out of the Hospital and the game has become incredibly fantastic. All of you, go download it immediately.

I tweaked my top speed to be a little slower because the HL engine's fast running makes me clumsy and takes away from this mod's experience, and I toned the gravity down a notch so any platforming I run into is way easier.

Once you fix it Half Life's engine really isn't that bad ;<