"...the music that starts is one of the scariest things in any video game." - TV Tropes

criminalscum

Obā-san

i'm fucking shitting myself oh no

Imipolex G

well it's not like video games are very scary

Salix Babylonika

dogs on a train

Obā-san

Pillows said:

well it's not like video games are very scary

tru

lee4hmz

That might have bothered me a little when I was quite little, but we got an NES when I was 11 and I can think of several games on that which were scarier. :P

To wit: This fuckin' thing:

Viani

Now that I'm older I can't get scared of video games anymore

I hate it

Bee

god dammit warn us before you post shit like that song

now I have to change my pants

Vriska

(well, it creeped me out when I was little?)

Odradek

Does anyone remember the episode when Evil Jimmy tricks Jimmy into thinking he's good, and creates a new world that's sapping reality from earth? Jimmy proceeds to reverse the process, killing every one of the billions of evil humans. He killed a species. That's xenocide.

Odradek

• In the episode "Revenge Of The Chip" there's a scene where Arthur's mom is on the phone and at one point her head turns into a giant pair of lips. Talk about Body Horror!

Odradek

• The fact that in the very first minutes in the game, Bowser practically kills Mario. If the Star Spirit didn't hear him or if his body wasn't found...

Odradek

• The terrifying-ness of SpongeBob SquarePants is lampshaded in 30 Rock, where after Kenneth gets cable TV for the first time, he remarks "Is SpongeBob SquarePants SUPPOSED to be so terrifying?"

Miss Miko Mayonegg

Pillows said:

well it's not like video games are very scary

Not even Yume Nikki or Off or Dangan Ronpa? ^_^

Obā-san

Off was about as scary as a bowl of broccoli

it was fun, but still

Tachyon

Yume Nikki didn't scare me

it was fun tho

Odradek

Off was about as scary as a bowl of broccoli

it was fun, but still

• BROCCOLI! Motherfuckin' broccoli. Think about it: they look like tiny trees. So what the hell happened to those trees to make them so tiny. This troper can't stop imagining eating screaming little elves when he eats broccoli. His aversion to broccoli is so strong, he has panic attacks around any leafy green vegetable.

Tachyon

haha, tropers

Obā-san

fuck

Obā-san

seriously that had to have been written by an 8 year old

Tachyon

Odradek

tbh I made that up.

There's probably equally stupid stuff to be afraid of in the real life Nightmare Fuel section though.

Misery

lol

Imipolex G

Miko said:

Pillows said:

well it's not like video games are very scary

Not even Yume Nikki or Off or Dangan Ronpa? ^_^

Yume Nikki has an agreeably dark and creepy vibe. But not really scary, per se.

Imipolex G

except for the FACE

Viani

i donre te

Misery

video games are funny

Viani

i get it now

but its still not f

Alduin

Odradek said:

• The terrifying-ness of SpongeBob SquarePants is lampshaded in 30 Rock, where after Kenneth gets cable TV for the first time, he remarks "Is SpongeBob SquarePants SUPPOSED to be so terrifying?"

That's not made up. I'm pretty sure I saw that one time.

Tachyon

i think they're all genuine apart from the broccoli one

Alduin

N's Room. Oh man, N's room. Picture this: you walk through two huge, grandiose doors, and suddenly you hear an extremely creepy music box. Cut to inside the room, you find that it's the kind of room a baby would have. The room is brightly decorated with cloud designs, there's a basketball court, a skating ramp, a train set, a bed, etc. All of them are practically rainbow-colored, and the room belongs to someone clearly no older than at least his late teens.

Imipolex G

I had a good time reading the Nightmare Fuel pages back in the day

Alduin

I honestly don't find any Pokemon game scary. The Lavender Town theme that was so dreaded by other people was just completely grating to me.

It's kinda hard to get scared of a game that has an electric rodent as its mascot, I mean.

Obā-san

Acererak said:

I honestly don't find any Pokemon game scary. The Lavender Town theme that was so dreaded by other people was just completely grating to me.

It's kinda hard to get scared of a game that has an electric rodent as its mascot, I mean.

i'd agree

that said, i did find the lavender town theme eerie and somber. which is what i think it was supposed to be

Tachyon

Acererak said:

I honestly don't find any Pokemon game scary.

wow, you!  i'm flabbergasted

for serious, tho, i do like the Lavender Town theme

it's not scary but i think it creates the right atmosphere for the level

Alduin

• Gorebyss: despite its beautiful looks, "it consumes its prey by sucking out the victim's body fluids". Or to quote Gorebyss's Pokédex entry from Emerald, "Its light pink body color turns vivid when it finishes feeding." Its name is a portmanteau of the words "gore" and "abyss".
• Golbat. From the Pokédex, we learn that Golbat "feasts upon the blood of both people and Pokémon and does not stop until it is full", and Golbat is 1.6m tall and weighs 55 kilograms (5 feet, 3 inches, and 121 pounds). In caves and at night, they can be found everywhere.

Misery

Nightmare Fuel? More like LOLmare Fuel.

Alduin

I don't get it. 

Shouldn't that be expected of Pokemon? I mean they literally have magic powers. And a lot of real-life creatures are deadly already. Wouldn't even deadlier Pokemon be a logical extension?

Tachyon

bloodsucking is still creepy

that and pokémon are generally thought of as cute i guess

Alduin

Golbat isn't cute? ;_;

Tachyon

i'm not saying golbat's scary, i'm just saying people might reasonably not expect pokémon to suck blood and might find that creepy

criminalscum

The glitch Pokemon scared me as a kid, but that has less to do with the Pokemon themselves and more to do with how they can fuck up your save file and/or cartridge.

Alduin

I never encountered MissingNO, but yeah it's kind of a bitch when a save file dies.

I was this far into FFV...

Viani

The weirdest thing was when I was dicking around on an Emerald romhack I found a glitched pokemon which was a giant question mark that made a slowpoke noise. I captured it and crashed the VBA trying to check it's stats, then, when I quit and try to play skyrim, all of my skyrim saves were corrupted.

Still pretty sure that I did something dumb with my HDD, but still..

criminalscum

Did it look like this?

Aliroz

There is one thing that does scare me in video games.

The Sonic The Hedgehog drowning music in Sonic games.

But, then again, I have a deeply-ingrained fear of drowning.

Fossilmaiden

From the Pokémon Y Pokédex entry for Gourgeist: "It enwraps its prey in its hairlike arms. It sings joyfully as it observes the suffering of its prey."

Obā-san

From the Pokémon Y Pokédex entry for Gourgeist: "It enwraps its prey in its hairlike arms. It sings joyfully as it observes the suffering of its prey."

Kinky

criminalscum

Pangur Bán said:

These key collectors threaten any attackers by fiercely jingling their keys at them.

I..need to go lie down. I would never have expected such high octane nightmare fuel in a children's game.

Viani

criminalscum said:

Did it look like this?

yup

Alduin

Fossilmaiden said:

From the Pokémon Y Pokédex entry for Gourgeist: "It enwraps its prey in its hairlike arms. It sings joyfully as it observes the suffering of its prey."

People who own body pillows are Pokemon now?