The 10 Most Terrifying Video Game Enemies of All Time
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Baron von Blubba from Bubble Bobble
The biggest bastard in Bubble Bobble was an albino whale named Baron von Blubba. Back in 1988, this white whale reduced even the most hardened Nintendo vet to a weak-bladdered Captain Ahab. Whenever the stage timer ran out, Baron von Blubba emerged to rock our faces with his invincibility and horrifying ability to fly only at 90-degree angles. Thanks to our encounters with the Baron, we now harbor deep-seated phobias of whales, geometry and the Nintendo Entertainment System. #4.
Any Body of Water from Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic's deadliest nemesis was the innocent pool of water. This sounds totally stupid, but remember: You're playing a video game about a neon blue rodent who jogs at Mach 5. You gave up your right to be incredulous a long time ago. Once submerged, our hyper-kinetic hedgehog swam slooowly, as if he was paddling through morphine-infused molasses. If you left Sonic underwater too long, you then heard the most panic-inducing music in video game history. Watch what happens as some sadist happily asphyxiates poor Sonic: We dealt with the water in the most dignified way possible--by screaming and unplugging our Genesis before he drowned. #3.
Sinistar from Sinistar
What do you get when you mix Andrew Dice Clay, a Pog and pure undiluted evil? You get Sinistar, the only video game boss to ever lower our self-esteem.
Playing Sinistar was slightly more enjoyable than being waterboarded. The player first entered his arcade booth, or as we at Cracked call it, the Chamber of Shame. After shooting meteors for a minute or so, you met the star himself, who greeted you with a cheerful "BEWARE, I LIVE!" With formalities dispensed, he quickly turned your life into shit: The fun begins at 0:40. Fighting Sinistar was like a therapy session with Dr. Phil--this chatty SOB knew we had problems and wasn't afraid to go for the jugular. Bullies beating you up at school? "RUN, RUN, RUN!" he'd bark. Marriage failing? "RUN, COWARD!" was his advice. Having an otherwise nice day? Once you heard his "RAAAWRGH!" you knew existence was nothing but pain. #2.
The Poison Head Crabs from Half Life 2
Bar none the freakiest first-person shooter enemy ever, the poison head crabs turned our jeans brown and our khakis even browner. If these jumpy alien turds bit your face, their neurotoxins knocked your health down to one percent, at which point the game would twitter "USER DEATH IMMINENT." These buggers were so scary that even your PC told you to quit. Ouch. Whenever we heard these lil' fuckers ululating in a shadowy corner of the room, we fell back on our default strategy of spinning in circles and shooting at the ceiling. And we weren't the only ones wigging out --the crabs' shrieks were so unpleasant that they reportedly threw Half Life 2 play testers into ammo-wasting paroxysms. But hey, as LeVar Burton famously said, "You don't have to take our word for it:" #1.
Evil Otto from Berzerk
Our number one villain is unstoppable, immortal and can be easily drawn on MS Paint. He's Evil Otto, the scariest face in gaming history.
Evil Otto debuted in '80s Berzerk, a groundbreaking shoot-em-up that nowadays could be programmed by a preschooler. Berzerk's plot was seemingly adapted from a Dadaist stage drama. You are a green man who shoots yellow robots. If the robots shoot you, you die. If the robots touch you, you die. If you touch the walls (which are presumably laced with cyanide), you die. Your goal is to destroy 64,000 rooms worth of jaundiced robots, after which you are awarded 72 virgins in heaven.
It was Otto's job to fly through the poisonous walls and zap you when the timer ran low. Otto was merely a pain, but what makes him truly frightful is the fact that he is possibly the only video game enemy in history to kill players in real-life. Between 1981 and 1982, two teenage Berzerk players died of heart attacks shortly after posting high scores at video arcades. Evil Otto watched them die ... with a smile on his face. For entire games that annoyed us, check out our rundown of The 10 Most Irritatingly Impossible Old-School Video Games. And speaking of old school, remember when the premises used to be about dinosaurs riding giant birds and all other manners of clown shit insanity? Ever wonder why? Find out in Video Game Pitch Meeting (1979). And be sure to read about even more terrifying games in columnist Dan O'Brien's report on the surprisingly dangerous choking game. |
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They never actually mentioned what makes the wallmasters terrifying. The way there's a strange groaning noise. Then a shadow starts to appear below you. Then there's finally a whooshing noise as they drop down from the ceiling, and you have to jump aside at the last second. Worst of all, they never die for good.
The worst video game enemy hands down is centaurs from fallout 3. Those things are most pants-shitingly creepy things I have ever seen.
Giygas. Earthbound. No questions asked.
i remember the wallmasters. creepy but not scary.
I didn't have splatterhouse. Sounds scary, though. Too bad no vid.
The paperboy dog was more frustrating than scary. You're just barely going thru the obstacles, and then the dog, which was faster than all of them, would bite your butt. Never got past Monday.
Out of this world ony sold 4 copies? The author had one I guess.
Those Doom babies have creepy cries. A mix of wah wah and rooargh!Makes sense.
Never played Bubble bobble. And it didn't sound that scary.
The sonic water thing definetely agree on. I freaked out everytime at this, and also at the time when Sonice got squished by a boulder and the Dom! sound.
Sinstar sounds sinister. The red eyes and fangs...
The head crabs from Half life didn't seem scary at all. Maybe if they added red eyes and fangs!
Evil Otto shouldn't be number one. I clicked on the link, but I didn't see people dying. Probably some dummies who wanted to see how long they could play and succumbed to death. Bleah.
The yeti from ski free should've been number one. You're just cruisin' then he comes and bites your head off! WTF?!
Those babyface fat sumo guys in Street of Rage. They blew fire and charged at you so fast they blurred!
Those things in RE4 that whimpers and came at you real slowly while making weird noises (regenerators). The parasatic dogs in RE4! And the invisible praying mantis insects things! AND THE CHAIN SAW MANIACS O.O
Link is too an elf. DOn't u see the ears?
I hated the wizzrobes fron any Zelda game, their laugh was so sinister.
!!!!!! What scared me shitless was that Store Keeper from Legend of Zelda, Link's awakening when you stole from him. I did it once, so innocently, and then out of curiousity I came back: ZAPPPPP. All the time he's SCREAMING at you with a manical look on his face as your hearts go down one by one....I literally dropped my gameboy and ran. Who the hell zaps you when you steal their items from their store? !!!!
I'd play RE in the dark before I'd have to live thru that again.
Sinistar himself made me s**t my pants when he first came and attacked me. Me's pretty f*****g scary in that he roars and flies at you at mach 6 and he's harder than hell to avoid.
Giygas, anyone?
if this list was "top 20" it should have had: the hunter or guardians from dead space, the spiders from rayman 2 (they played screechy music and turned invisible), the octopods from medievil 2, and the final boss of tomb raider 1 ...*shudder*
What happened to alma from FEAR?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWj9w9HDApQ
This voice seriously almost made me piss myself when I first played this game.
I'm very surprised it's not on here.
It's up there with your extremely accurate Sonic-water.
where the HELL is the yeti from skifree? It should be number one on the list
The water in Sonic and Sonic 2 made me frustrated to the point of nausea. That music still makes me a little queasy.
I used to love drowning Sonic...and making him fire-walk on lava...and poking holes in his blue ass with spikes. Actually, I think I spent more of my childhood torturing Sonic than playing with him.
Where are any of the "Silent Hill"s?
I'll have to say the scariest enemies for me were the fish from Half-Life, Iron Maidens from RE4, and the headless suicide bombers from Serious Sam....I haven't played that game in 6 years and I still hear those fuckers scream. Oh, and all of Prey. That game was just f*****g wrong, especially watching a possessed child beat up and throw another little kid into a spike.
And Muffles, those were WAMPAS in Shadows of the Empire. Like the yeti-thing from Empire Strikes Back.
If you watch a video on Berzerk you'll notice that when you kill a robot, for like a half second when it's exploding, it shows a smiley face. lulz
In regards to the comment about Splatterhouse, if this were 1990, I most certainly WOULD be 'losing my s**t', as I would be exactly 6 days old.
Facehugger from aliens vs. predator > all. If it got, you, you DIED. And it didnt give any hints of its existence before jumping on your FACE. Game over man, gameover!
They forgot the wookies from Shadows of the Empire. The first time I opened that door and saw the wookie behind it rush at me, I was gripped with a terror so primal it makes me wonder if, perhaps, eons ago, when mankind was young, there were wookies, and they ate people. I've spoken to other people who played it, and they all felt the same fear when that wookie attacked.
Dude, where the hell is the Licker from Resident Evil 2? And Nemesis from Resident Evil 3? What about those damn naked kids that crawled through school in Silent Hill? f**k, those were creepy...
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The little baby monster from Silent Hill??? Those scared the s**t out of me many times. I hate those fuckers!