Scary Game Overs

[kingofdragons]

spoiler here if you haven't played Haunting Ground

 

[ciro64]

It's funny when you're older, but imagine experiencing it as a kid.

What the hell

Like... jesus christ.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

If bootleg games count, one of the most infamous bootleg screens is a scary game over.

While it’s funny in some respect out of context, it takes a different tone when you don’t know it’s coming and happens in a flash after you choose to not continue your game after losing all your lives.

 

[Blamhammer]

Metroid Prime's game over screen is cool and all but it did freak me out when I first saw it.

 

[fishboneKiller]

one that used to really freak me out as a kid was donkey kong 64, i never owned the game but i saw the game over cutscene on youtube and it really got to me for some reason. i think it was k. rool's eyes, i didn't like how cracked out he looked.

another one that stuck with me was one i also saw on youtube, Live-A-Live, specifically the game over in the sci-fi chapter. i watched a video by whoisthisgit about it and something about the screen saying that cube never made it to earth, where cube is smashed to pieces... agh, it always creeped me out.

 

[Kamako]

Dropped into a meat grinder

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

Metroid Prime's game over screen is cool and all but it did freak me out when I first saw it.

OH YEAH! No, the worst is when it comes after a Metroid attack. Something about a creature lunging at your face, even in a video game, causes an extremely visceral reaction from me. Head crabs cause the same problem, but Metroids are worse because they actually attach to your head, so your POV becomes the horrible insides of a life-sucking super jellyfish.

 

[RomaniMajorasMask]

It's the scream that really sells this one.

 

[Gavin_McShooter]

Ohhh I had to diiig deeep into my childhood here:
Tarzan for PS1, still a great game though but man, Kerchak and Clayton do NOT sugar coat it with how badly you failed. And this is from a kids game for crying out loud!

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

This always got me the chills

Such a serious scene that I can never take seriously because “the miracle never happen”

 

[YULEcannon]

still drowns me in anxiety, till this day.

Glad they didn't make 8 bit versions of this scene for the console Gaiden games.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

This was already posted apparently so time to get new material

Like:

Spoiler: Spoilers for Purse Owner 5, I repeat, spoilers for Purse Owner 5

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Fuck, that’s the wrong ending

Spoiler: A real Shin Megoomi Tensay game

 

[Anim8rDude Anim8rDude]

Using Resident Evil 4 seems like a cop-out but Shinji Mikami really has mastered the art of game overs. I like it when they're fast & grotesque. Ah yes one of my favorite game overs of all time...

 

[Viviana Santos]

I can't believe no one here has posted the Game Over screen from Majora's Mask where the moon falls on Termina:

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[Grumpy_Old_Man]

The Nosferatu snes cinematic platformer. just a creepy picture that slightly changes on road to the bad ending.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

The Nosferatu snes cinematic platformer. just a creepy picture that slightly changes on road to the bad ending.
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Oh, wow. This is actually deeply unsettling. I don’t know what it is, but messed up faces are always a big thing that gets me.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Oh, wow. This is actually deeply unsettling. I don’t know what it is, but messed up faces are always a big thing that gets me.

The hollow eyes and those smiles half in between fake and evil, does for me.

 

[Viviana Santos]

The Game Over music from Sonic CD's American soundtrack is downright horrifying for a children's game.

 

[Anim8rDude Anim8rDude]

The Game Over music from Sonic CD's American soundtrack is downright horrifying for a children's game.

What the hell even is this? That's like Mario Party DS's anti piracy screen but twice as worse & actually in the game.
Context:

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

What the hell even is this? That's like Mario Party DS's anti piracy screen but twice as worse & actually in the game.
Context:

US Sonic CD was built different, just listen to those boss themes

 

[Sfjeov]

I remember watching AVGN's review of Hong Kong 97 when I was young and being shocked with the game over screen of what looks like to be an irl dead person I think.

 

[A4lmond]

Whatever this fucking bullshit I was exposed to at the ripe young age of 6 one random afternoon when my dad read one of the SNES games on the rompack list was called “Felix the cat” and told me “Hey I watched that when I was little you should try it!” is:

Would be a fun anecdote if it weren't for the fact that 99% of people I meet don't know anything about romhacks and emulation lol

 

[m3lody]

I guess European developers like their creepy game over screens.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

The Nosferatu snes cinematic platformer. just a creepy picture that slightly changes on road to the bad ending.
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This is a damn good one, and always made me feel deeply unsettled how the picture changes so subtly after 7 continues. Another detail is how after the picture changes, you no longer get the animation of the girlfriend being bitten if you don't continue, as she's already been turned at that point.

 

[thecrow2313]

It's not technically scary but depressing

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I remember playing this game on Steam