I was a really easy to scare child.
I remember being like 6 or 7 and being really afraid to swim to the far end of the pool alone while taking swimming lessons, because this Yu-Gi-Oh card would always pop into my head.
Also, does anyone else remembers this final boss from a shmup called Strikers 1945 2? I recently discovered it was not some weird nightmare I had as a kid.
Grey aliens. That's it. Anytime I'd see them in a movie, TV show, or on a book cover they'd freak me the fuck out so badly I'd have trouble sleeping for weeks. Then I heard on a show (Maybe Unsolved Mysteries?) you'd be especially terrified of the imagery if you'd been abducted before. GAH!
You know that thing when a game crashes and it loops the last 1 second of sound over and over again?
That used to scare the shit out of me as a kidAny sound/audio glitch made me think my computer was possessed LDKDFKKF
I was afraid of ball pits. I was convinced they didn't have a bottom or that it was like 30 feet down or something.
I saw this anime ad back in like 1997 for this anime, that I can't find anything about, of these hero characters with drills and talking animals for penises. Never came close to forgetting it even though i have no idea what it is or have i ever seen it.
ReDeads in Ocarina of Time absolutely fucked me up as a kid. Horrifying.
I remember when I first pulled the Master Sword from its pedestal and thought "Hell yeah, time to kick some ass" and then I went out and the town was destroyed and full of those things. I was scared to play the game after that.
Call me weird but I actually did not get scared by pretty much anything in real life as a kid, online however was a pretty different story
- some flash horror games - a lot of them actually
- Pico games on newgrounds werent all that bad but Pico vs Bear kinda fucked with me
- in kongregate zombie-centered flash games would have bloody zombies in the thumbnail and that would terrify me
- some creepypastas like lavender town syndrome and the image-based ones got to me, I didnt like those
- fnaf wasn't all that scary but it was apart of my childhood
For some reason there was a lot of obsession over blood and gore- but that didnt scare me I just kinda got into blood and gore and thought it was so cool
Needles, but that's kinda normal, apart from that i was terrified of firebugs, ice cream truck music and the Radiohead bear. Two of these is still scaring me at 29 but i'll let you guess which ones.
Considering like 80% of my movie library is gory horror movies now you'd never guess I was insanely scaredy as a child. I used to try to play the original Far Cry on PC but would get scared whenever people shot at me, which in a fucking FPS you can imagine happened somewhat often. I remember playing the This Is Sparta Techno Remix on loop in the background with the game volume off to try to be less scared of gunfire lmao
Zombies and skellingtons in ocarina of time. I'd legit freak out if I didn't make it back to a town when the sun was going down.
Oh shit I made basically the same post. Yeah Ocarina of Time being rated E is insane. The skeletons didn't fuck me up that much, but ReDeads were horrifying. Thank god I never got far enough to deal with the Dead Hand...
Yeah I didn't want to go on but I didn't make it far into adult link either lol
There were YuGiOh cards with creepy art design, spiders, skeletons, zombies and all sorts of monsters. Today's YuGiOh doesn't have that level of creepiness, it's colorful and boring. Old designs kicked ass, things like "Souls of the Forgotten", "The 13th Grave" were, to me, memorable card designs. There were many more, play Forbidden Memories and you will see a fuckton of these old creepy cards.
When I was really young my mom took me to see Aladdin in theaters and the scene where Genie turns all evil and huge made me cry and I had to be removed.
Not long after that my uncle loaned me his SNES and I played his copy Super Metroid. There were active saves so I loaded the first one and checked it out. Didn't realize at the time, but it was right at the end of the game. I got to Mother Brain and panicked and had to turn it off.
What really got me in Super Metroid was Crocomire. Just wandering around Norfair, opened an ordinary-looking super missile door, and suddenly I was trapped in a hall with this giant multi-eyed melty-skinned thing . I had no idea how to defeat this thing, didn't know that charged shots could hurt bosses, so once I ran out of missiles and super missiles, all I could do was watch as it slowly backed me into a spiked wall and crushed me to death.
YES! Super Metroid was the first game I ever played from beginning to end and beat. I was really young and there were were lots of times that the boss fights were just too scary and stressful. Crocomire was one of those bosses that I got stuck on for a couple of days because, like you, I just didn't understand and couldn't aim lol.
I saw Jim Carrey in the Mask in theaters and it frightened me so much I ran outside and cried until my dad took me home
I remember my dad showing me the trailer or something and it freaked me the fuck out (think it was his eyeballs coming out of his head)
For some reason, the scene that broke me was when he tries to kill an alarm clock with a giant mallet in in front of his apartment,
I was scared to death of goosebumps and the skeletons in one of the spy kids movies.
