Gaming Nightmare Fuel (or: what keeps you up at night?) [View all]

What are the top things you've seen or experienced in the gaming realm that truly terrifies you, or at least gives you the shivers?

Top Three for me:

#3 - Missingno


I first ran across this thing when I was 9 and playing Red. In retrospect, if I were an adult and saw it, I would've just laughed it off, but something about that thing is just creepy. Maybe it was the amorphous blob of static using Sky Attack on me.

#2 - Cazadores


The giant creepy fuckers of the Mojave Wasteland. These things are the reason I'm irrationally afraid of real life hornets and wasps. Did I mention these are real things that actually exist? Sweet dreams.


#1 - Deathclaws



Yes, these things. Remember the Magic School Bus and that little happy chameleon Ms. Frizzle kept as the class pet? That's what these things used to be. Now, they're 10 foot tall death machines which haunt your nightmares. Oh, and they leap at you. And fucking grin while they do.