Childhood gaming frights! Share your stories!

[flex wood]

There was a game once, I don't remember what it was, but it had a scene with a man on man incest rape and it scared the shit out of me. Ever since then, I have been bothered by rape and it reinforced my dislike of city people. Yeah, because despite what movies may say, there is more incest in cities.

Have you ever seen Deliverance? That movie made me scared of people that don't live in the city.

I remember being scared by most of the fatalities in Eternal Champions being really messed up when I was like 10. That game really needs a remake.

[lisalover1]

Something about the ghost house in Super Mario 64 always left me feeling very unsettled when I was a kid. Getting attacked by possessed pianos and books along with the twisted music that grows louder as you approach the merry-go-round in the basement were completely terrifying to my 7 year old self.

There was a lot of scary stuff in Super Mario 64. The underwater worlds, Jolly Rodger Bay in particular, freaked me out because I am always afraid of running out of air in a game. That big eel that swims near the bottom of the level certainly didn't help. On a related note, in Banjo-Kazooie, I stayed as far away as I could from any body of water in the game for fear of Snacker the Shark.

[dedalusdedalus]

Yeah, because despite what movies may say, there is more incest in cities.

Really? Someone out there compiled statistics comparing per capita incest in urban and rural areas?

[DAAAAA!!]

hate that twisted metal clown!! it didn't scare me when i was little.. buut for reason it does now..

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Am I the only person that used to be irrationally terrified of beginning loading screens? Seriously, when I'd load a PS1 game I'd turn it on and run out of the room.

It probably developed from my first PS1 game, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. At the beginning during the Dreamworks logo the fishing kid would get pulled off the moon by a raptor. I remember that just absolutely scared the crap out of me.

[MrPopo]

Yeah, because despite what movies may say, there is more incest in cities.

Really? Someone out there compiled statistics comparing per capita incest in urban and rural areas?

I am positive such a statistic exists, though I don't know what it is.

[The Last Horseman]

Yeah, because despite what movies may say, there is more incest in cities.

Really? Someone out there compiled statistics comparing per capita incest in urban and rural areas?

I am positive such a statistic exists, though I don't know what it is.

I don't particularly remember where I heard it, but there are more people in cities, so a larger chance, along with the fact that higher up families, in some areas, want to stay 'pure' and end up marrying cousins and the like to stay that way. It happened a lot with royalty in the old days.

There was a game once, I don't remember what it was, but it had a scene with a man on man incest rape and it scared the shit out of me. Ever since then, I have been bothered by rape and it reinforced my dislike of city people. Yeah, because despite what movies may say, there is more incest in cities.

Have you ever seen Deliverance? That movie made me scared of people that don't live in the city.

That movie is why I pointed it out. It causes wrong generalizations that are horribly in favor of those in the city. Seen Southern Comfort? That's a person from the city being an idiot out in the country, causing unneeded death because of his ignorance.

[jfe2]

WTF did this topic turn into?!

[flex wood]

WTF did this topic turn into?!

Don't know why this made my laugh as hard as it did but I'm still laughing.

[dedalusdedalus]

Really? Someone out there compiled statistics comparing per capita incest in urban and rural areas?

I don't particularly remember where I heard it, but there are more people in cities, so a larger chance, along with the fact that higher up families, in some areas, want to stay 'pure' and end up marrying cousins and the like to stay that way. It happened a lot with royalty in the old days.

Assuming all other variables are equal, of course there's "more" incest in urban areas because the population is greater. That's why I specifically said "per capita" incest.

I'm not sure how you define "higher up families" (are they in the top 5 percentile of household wealth? top 1 percentile?), but upper class families by definition have to be a small percentage of the population and are unlikely to significantly impact incest rates in urban areas. And even if there are upper class families in urban areas that marry within their own bloodline--wouldn't rural areas skew towards incest anyhow because with a smaller given population, relatives comprise a greater percentage of eligible partners?

Anyhow, I'm just curious about the source of this statistic you mentioned.