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Post by The Qu on Nov 11, 2009 21:28:48 GMT -5
'twas Ski Free, my friend. And yes, I've been there too.  |
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Post by Savage Adam on Nov 11, 2009 21:49:22 GMT -5
OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
Way to bring back terrible childhood memories, Qu. >8U
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Post by Da Robot on Nov 11, 2009 22:48:51 GMT -5
Not the yeti!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Post by The Great Gatsby on Nov 11, 2009 23:04:02 GMT -5
'twas Ski Free, my friend. And yes, I've been there too. Well you get the point, right? :P I'm surprised i'm not the only one that knew about that game. Makes me feel just a bit better, knowing i'm not alone. |
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Post by The Qu on Nov 11, 2009 23:52:09 GMT -5
It was a build in for most mid 90s PCs, it seems. I know it came with my 94 Hewlett Packard (Which came with Windows 95!).
So there is a whole generation out there scarred...
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Post by Arcadenik on Nov 12, 2009 0:14:38 GMT -5
LOL I remember that skiing game. I used to play it on the computer in my high school homeroom. I didn't understand the purpose of the game. I thought that all you had to do was keep skiing without stopping and all of a sudden that snow monster chased me down the mountain until I crashed into something and then he ate me! I guess when the snow monster eats you, you technically wins the game... just like that Friday the 13th game on the NES.
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Post by Grandy02 on Nov 12, 2009 7:40:42 GMT -5
Holy hobo! I played this game ages ago, one day at the acquaintance, and didn't get why that snow monster always ate my poor skier! But I couldn't remember its title at all. Thanks for this blast from the past!  On another non-Nintendo PC game, I was scared by the Vorticons in the first Commander Keen as a child. In one level, I always lured the Vorticon to the right so that he would fall off the cliff and I had to see him as little as possible.   Nintendo again, mutated Marx from Kirby's Fun Pak/Kirby Super Star creeped me out the first time I had to fight him. His cackle and the creepy beginning of the music contributed to the situation. I lost and needed some time before I could meet Marx again. |
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Post by 8bitretroshit on Nov 12, 2009 13:15:25 GMT -5
Man those Verticons. Almost twice your size and able to jump. Yeah, I didn't really like the episodes that were loadded with those things. Also another one I remembered (I swear I'm not making these up): those fucking Medusa Heads from Lolo & Lala.  I almost had a heartattack the first time they did that instant kill thing. They're also the reason I couldn't really get into the game. |
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Post by mrmolecule on Nov 12, 2009 16:52:43 GMT -5
Besides some kind of creepy educational/kids games from when I was a youngster, I didn't like:
- The snowman's pedestal in Super Mario 64
- And when Mario dies in SMW. Is his mouth open, or what?
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Post by Manspeed on Nov 12, 2009 18:23:37 GMT -5
Man you just reminded me: when I was little, the Snowmen and Spindrifts in Cool Cool Mountain scared the living shit outta me. I even had a nightmare about them once. Come to think of it, what the hell were the Spindrifts supposed to BE anyway?  |
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Post by nocturnal YL on Nov 12, 2009 23:51:45 GMT -5
Also another one I remembered (I swear I'm not making these up): those fucking Medusa Heads from Lolo & Lala. I almost had a heartattack the first time they did that instant kill thing. They're also the reason I couldn't really get into the game. Same here. From then I'd watch only speedruns of that series because you don't see Lolo losing in speedruns. |
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Post by Shrikeswind on Nov 17, 2009 19:34:17 GMT -5
You're all going to laugh, but back when I was a kid I started playing Donkey Kong Country. So I make it to Temple Tempest and get the crap beaten out of me multiple times. I decide "Eh, I'm going to go grab some lives." So I head down to Funky's Flights and get to the map screen. Wondering where I should go to get some lives, I'm flying around going "I'm sick of Jungle Hijinx. I think I'll try somewhere in the mines." I'm looking around and realize there aren't alot of levels I can try, and I'm like "Okay, maybe I should HOLY CRAP EVIL MUSIC!" (This being like 40 seconds in.) Normally, I'd have been able to simply forget it, but here's what happened. I go to bed one night (may even have been that night, I don't remember,) and I have a dream in which I had left the game on for like a day while in the Barrel Plane. I had come back to it and entered Jungle Hijinx and turned around for the life in the treehouse. When I came out, I was on Winky, this wierd song was playing, and it was raining. All the enemies and Winky were all zombies (as in dead, decomposing, and still moving.) Scared the crap out of me. Never had to worry about me forgetting about a paused game, though. I eventually got over it, but after that damned dream I've never let Funky's song get much past "HI-YAH."
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Post by The Great Gatsby on Nov 18, 2009 23:00:40 GMT -5
lol, that used to startle me. I always did the same thing because it seriously creeped me out.
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Post by The Qu on Nov 25, 2009 1:17:00 GMT -5
Hey guys, look at today's XKCD! ;D  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 9:59:00 GMT -5
The Giant Enemy Crab in Scribblenauts. Shit, that thing came out of nowhere. Sounds just like what it did at Sony's E3 06 presentataion. ;D |
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