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I played Phantasmagoria 1 pretty much when it came out, and it scared me so much I couldn’t sleep for 3 days and I even sold my copy it scared me so much. Even now, almost 10 years later I don’t want to play it, though I did think it was a good game. Did anyone else have a similar gaming experience?
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(Re: Am I just a wimp?) I played the original Phantasmagoria years after it first came out. A couple of years ago, I got a beat-up copy from eBay for Halloween one year. I thought it was a good game too, I was just really impressed and inspired by some of the 3D graphics in it (when it was first promoted, and since then I’d wanted to play it). I wasn’t scared… but it just sickened me actually, I’m not so good with gore and violence, so that I stopped playing close to the end of the game when the deaths of the wives were becoming more intense and one right after the other.
I did skip to the last chapter though to try the chase sequence.
And I’m still looking for a sealed copy for my collection. -
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Nope. ;D I was the same way, though not with the first one as much. Now the 2nd one….WOW. Every time I would log on to the computer in the game and the files would change to..uhm..other things… it would scare the heck outta me. If someone put a copy down right now, infront of me, I’m not sure if I would play it….ok..yes I would. ;D
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No, not a wimp at all! I waited with baited breath for Phantas to arrive, I had to get it the DAY it came out. The day it did my new computer came in as well. I remember well the thrill of opening the box and installing the game.
Here is what happened: I played it all night. From 7:00PM until 6:00 AM mainly because I DIDN’T want to go to my bedroom until it was becoming light. The day before my then 6 year old daughter had had a party and one of the balloons had sort of deflated in my bedroom. I had just finished disc 5, figured the light was coming up enough so I could at least sleep a bit, walked into my bedroom, STEPPED on the balloon and in my demented mind it felt like a squished head and I let out a scream that woke my daughter AND the next door neighbors!
No, you aren’t a wimp! Was the best horror I ever played. Truly terrifying. How wonderfully satisfying! (I also would rate the FIRST Shivers up in the category of incredibly eerie as well… the night after playing THAT game I dreamed of ixupi pots!)
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The first Phantasmagoria scared me, along with (dont’ ask) Alone in the Dark 1 and Resident Evil 1 (on the Saturn). Strangely, there are a only a handful of games that scare me (The 7th Guest, and it’s not scary), most of which aren’t scary at all. It usually has something that disgusts me. But the first Phantas . . . oh man . . . it gives me the willies!
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(re: re: Am I just a wimp?) There has been only one game to truly scare me! And that is Alone in the Dark 1. I had just installed AitD and called a friend of mine to come over and play this game. While waiting for him to arrive I read the manual, got some coke and chips and put up the second chair. The bell rang, I opened the door we settled behind the computer cranked up the speakers and booted up the game. After the amazing intro (with truly amazing music) we selected a character and started the game. Remember the beginning? You start at the attic and you have to move a crate or box or something… The next scene scared the living hell out of us both!!! After you move the box , you hear some glass break and a creature flies in the attic which you have to fight. That scene scared us so much that we couldn’t even find the right to to kick the damn thing. Yeah we died… Man, that scene still scares the sh*t out of me!!! Amazing! That game was great! No other game had scared me since that game. There were some scenes in other games that made me jump out of my chair…
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Remember the first time you enter the barn in Phantasmagoria 1? Damn that cat to hell! Yeah there is still a dent in my ceiling… I also jumped another hole in the ceiling when Curtis gets slapped the first time when he’s working behind his computer… There have also been games that didn’t scare me but had a really great and terrifying atmosphere: Heretic and HeXen. These games had amazing music but also an amazing creepy atmosphere. Same goes for Undying. There haven’t been a lot of games that were succesfull in that department…
Ow there was another scene in a game that had me disgusted! Another SPOILER ahead. Anybody remember ACT II of Sanatarium? You have to play hide ‘n seek with the kids there. You find one of them hiding under rotting corpses… After a while you found every kid you met except for one… One guys little sister is no where to be found… Guess what… You have to dig her up! Great game… -
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Fraggin’ Alone in the Dark 1 . . . damn effin’ right about that monster in the window, the dogs in Resident Evil (pick a version), or that giant alligator on the N64 version of RE2 (I assume it’s in all versions).
I used to have nightmares about the bosses in Wolfenstein 3d (the normal looking 3-D FPS), though they’re not scary.
I jumped when Kim Chee shot me in PQ4, though it just unexpected, that’s all. In Lethal Enforcers on SNES, I kept getting scared at something, one of mobsters when he shoots, I haven’t played the game since. Weird.
I’d have to say that Phatasmagoria is up in the top 3 of scary. Gross is some of the stuff in Castlevania (and ugly is the PC version of Castlevania), but never scary. Almost. As a kid (like 6 or 7) I was (still am) scared of those purple zombies that just glide towards the Simon!
And the scene in LSL2 where the KGB captures Larry has always scared me that I play exactly the way Spear’s book suggested. Tragic is Mr. Spear died in ’98. Too bad. He never got to update the Larry Companion for Larry 6 and 7.
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