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Weird title, I know. But after seeing this video: I'm kinda curious: what scared you when you were younger? Maybe you laugh about it now but you wet your pants when you saw it at age 5. I'm mostly talking about TV/movies/video games, but there can be other stuff.

I was a huge pansy when I was little and I was scared of Sesame Street ;-;

I was also scared of The Price is Right (and any game show that has those wheels that make that "doo doo doo doo doo" noise,) vacuum cleaners, and a bunch of other stuff I can't think about right now.

Also the banshee from one of those Scooby Doo movies.

If you wanna talk nightmares, my worst nightmare was giant skeleton walking down the street and burning up stuff D:

If you want to post pictures, please put them in spoilers because some people are more sensitive than others :/

Most of the ones that come to mind are from video games
- pretty much all of Luigi's Mansion
- The piano from Super Mario 64
- First video game I played was Mario Party 4. If you land on a Bowser space in that game, the screen goes dark and Bowser's symbol flashes on the screen, and either Baby Bowser comes down on his balloon or Bowser comes out of nowhere and stomps on your character. Bowser was TERRIFYING.
- the anglerfish from Finding Nemo

In Super Mario 64, the goddamn piano: When I saw that guy in LoZ:OoT for the first time: ...I had nightmares.

Also, these bitches in Silent Hill Origins: And the wrost part is that the nurse is nothing compared to the other monsters.

Probably the god damn ReDeads from Ocarina of Time.

Also Cry of Fear.

Am I one of the few people who wasn't actually freaked by the Mad Piano in SM64? I will admit to compensate for this that the moon in Majora's Mask creeped me right the hell out, though the whole game itself was very eerie to say the least. The other one was the Wulf from SabreWulf on the ZX Spectrum. Once you run into that thing it would relentlessly chase you throughout the maze and the sprite itself is rather creepy-looking.

There was also one thing that was more of a jump scare for me the first time and that was good ol' Ripper Roo from Crash 1. When he first appeared from the top of the waterfall the game froze just before he appeared and then skipped a dozen or so frames forward till he just flashed onto the screen out of thin air and all you saw was his head and those yellow eyes and for some reason the sound clip for his laugh played. That was nearly a "punch the TV" moment....

SMG4 makes the mad piano funny

Turtwig wrote:SMG4 makes the mad piano funny

I saw that not long ago actually and honestly, the Mad Piano definitely loses its creepy cred with SMG4. I can't say I'd ever look at it the same way again after that either.

I was scared shitless of King Ramses from Courage The Cowardly Dog. freaky 3d animation man

That Fairly OddParents episode "Nega Timmy". This taller Timmy with a black cape, two preys, a pointed ear and a forked tongue spooked the shit outta me.

I forgot to mention the tunnel scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory e_0

The welcome song from the more recent version isn't a whole lot better

In the first Harry Potter game for PS1 or so there was a sequence where the troll chased you through some corridors - every time I did that my heart would beat so fast and I'd get so nervous.
Damn those creepy PS1 low-polygon graphics!!

Intellectual-Panda wrote:In the first Harry Potter game for PS1 or so there was a sequence where the troll chased you through some corridors - every time I did that my heart would beat so fast and I'd get so nervous.

Spoiler: show

Damn those creepy PS1 low-polygon graphics!!

Why did I have to open that spoiler D:
brb getting nightmares

Turtwig wrote:I forgot to mention the tunnel scene from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory e_0

I mean that was nightmare fuel to begin with wasn't it?

Intellectual-Panda wrote:In the first Harry Potter game for PS1 or so there was a sequence where the troll chased you through some corridors - every time I did that my heart would beat so fast and I'd get so nervous.

Spoiler: show

Damn those creepy PS1 low-polygon graphics!!

This reminds me of how great the PS1 graphics were for their generation and time.

Intellectual-Panda wrote:In the first Harry Potter game for PS1 or so there was a sequence where the troll chased you through some corridors - every time I did that my heart would beat so fast and I'd get so nervous.

Spoiler: show

Damn those creepy PS1 low-polygon graphics!!

I know they say "it's a face only a mother could love", but I beg to differ on such occasion.

Come to think of another game though, the arcade version for Namco's House of the Dead was something I really couldn't look at. The trailer that plays when the machine is sitting idle was pretty scary back in the day. Now it is only the poor graphics that scare me...

Have another video.

Warning: more jumpscares

re deads FOR FUCK'S SAKE re deads


and the entirety of this fucking stage as a kid

The Spongebob Squarepants Movie scared the shit out of me as a child. Especially towards the end where that guy in the underwater scuba-dive thingy started chasing Spongebob and Patrick.

Also, the angry sun.

Palisade wrote:I was scared shitless of King Ramses from Courage The Cowardly Dog. freaky 3d animation man

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Yeah that one is easily the scariest episode of Courage the Cowarly Dog.

I mean to be fair Courage was some pretty surreal shit anyway. Most of it was nightmare fuel, hence why Nowhere is literally a wasteland.

Zeldamaster12 wrote:

Palisade wrote:I was scared shitless of King Ramses from Courage The Cowardly Dog. freaky 3d animation man

RETURN THE SLAB

Yeah that one is easily the scariest episode of Courage the Cowarly Dog.

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