Syd Lexia wrote:

You know, I was going to do - and still might - a list of things in video games that scared the shit out of me when I was younger. Both Baron Von Blubba and Otto are high on that list.

On weekends and during the summertime, I stayed at my grandma's house. Until my uncle got married and moved out, and I took his old bedroom, my NES was hooked up on the old tv upstairs. Upstairs was uninhabited. There were two bedrooms, another room, and a bathroom up there. But because the central heat and air were only downstairs, it got real hot in the summer and cold in the winter. So we had a furnace and a window unit. The best way I can describe it is with a quote from Home Alone. "The third floor? Its scary up there!"

So some of the more creepy games like Friday the 13th or Shadowgate really set the mood after dark when there was no exterior light source. Also, there was no light switch, or chain. It was the kind where you had to screw the bulb in to turn it on and unscrew it slightly to turn it off. Well, if you didn't have it in their real good, sometimes the light would go out. Sometimes it happened late at night while playing a creepy game.

I remember being like nine years old, the lights going out, and flying down the stairs scared shitless.