5 Sounds From Gaming Consoles That Spooked Us As Kids - General

[media]https://youtu.be/XF3GzRiNRGI[/media] Xbox is a fucking nightmare machine

Rebel Assault for Sega CD when put in a CD player would play the Star Wars theme. And really good quality, too

None of those are really creepy, that PS1 sound is just really harsh on the ears. Hell the PS2 RSOD was just heart attack inducing if you were unfortunate to get it. If you want genuine creepy/unsettling audio, go listen to the Portal or HL1 osts.

I always found the ps2 menus and music to have a kind of creepy undertone - kind of like how zone of the Enders made me feel

All 6th gen consoles (except for the Dreamcast) have menus that are really otherworldly and sort of eerie. Sort of miss menu ambiance, but I guess it makes sense not to have it when the console can do more than just play games.

Imagine being 11 years old, you boot up your ps2 on your bedroom with no lights on, then you witness a RSOD for the first time ever :v:

is it just me or is this guy bullshitting pretty hard to make it past 10 minutes? the filler in between sounds was completely pointless and drawn-out

[QUOTE=FlandersNed;52383764]All 6th gen consoles (except for the Dreamcast) have menus that are really otherworldly and sort of eerie. Sort of miss menu ambiance, but I guess it makes sense not to have it when the console can do more than just play games.[/QUOTE] Steam Big Picture's got those sliders: [img]https://my.mixtape.moe/cdimgw.png[/img]

[QUOTE=FlandersNed;52383764]All 6th gen consoles (except for the Dreamcast) have menus that are really otherworldly and sort of eerie. Sort of miss menu ambiance, but I guess it makes sense not to have it when the console can do more than just play games.[/QUOTE] The PS4 still has menu ambience.

The PS1 would actually do some really weird shit if it tried to boot an invalid disk. Here's one trying to boot an Ubuntu live CD. [video]https://youtu.be/CxGAhMq_c78[/video]

I've always been really easily creeped out / scared by such tones. But the only ones on this list that are creepy to me are the Sega CD and Xbox menu sounds. The Xbox sounds terrified me as a kid. Had it hooked up to some speakers, turned up pretty loud. Went to go do something else while it was on the menu and I heard those freaky noises from the other room.

I didn't know they hired Cryochamber for the XBOX system sound effects.

There's so many people recalling such traumatizing experiences I can only shockingly laugh at, sorry, somehow I got lucky to never find these scary, including PS2 RLOD (I was 8-10 though)

I don't know why but I used to be really scared of bowsers laugh in Mario 64...

Huh, I had a PSX and a bunch of pirated games when I was a kid in the mid 90's, never got either error screen once, though I was shown how to use pirated discs properly- insert legit disc first, half way through white bootup screen change to pirated disc, bam, you're playing Magic Carpet wondering who the fuck drugged your Capri Sun. Only game that terrified me as as kid was [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(video_game)"]D[/URL].

the original Xbox was my main console in my youth and i've spent countless hours with it. the thing is, with those sounds he played in the video, you never hear them just straight up and at that volume. those sounds - most notably the weird alien-comm-sounding chatter at the end - are pretty quiet and in the background under the main ambient "hum" of the menu, sort of just adding to the ambience. i guess some might find them still kinda creepy, but i was never really unsettled by it, and trust me i was the type of kid who would have had the shit scared out of them by pretty much everything else on the list.

I really don't like how this guy pronounces pirated. I've never heard anyone say "pie-rated."

[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;52383819]is it just me or is this guy bullshitting pretty hard to make it past 10 minutes? the filler in between sounds was completely pointless and drawn-out[/QUOTE] yea at one point he goes "the cd for sega is not suppose to be played on a radio player" "in other words if you put a sega cd in the radio player it will make a creepy sound"

When I was a kid I actually liked the sounds of the Xbox menu, I would instead get scared if the time it took to save a game was longer than 5 seconds

10 minutes for 5 sounds, 2 minutes a sound, sounds themselves are about 5 seconds-ish a piece. 's a lotta filler. None of these are even that bad. PS2 RSOD was just a "whoops what did I fuck up" kind of moment. It's no Gameboy Printer error or "I was fuckin' with a Gameshark and the game froze with a shrill static loop."

[video=youtube;nyXKuVgcffY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyXKuVgcffY[/video] The "new challenger approaches" messages in Super Smash Brothers Melee used to terrify me as a kid, mostly because they came out of nowhere and I had no idea what triggered them.

Those Xbox sounds were fucking traumatizing when I first heard them. I was getting ready to play it at 3 in the morning when I was home alone one night then I went downstairs to get some snacks then I started hearing that shit because of the house's ventilation and got really freaked out. Eventually I figured out it was coming from the Xbox and I was fine then but daaaaamn that was not a fun time

None of the console creeped me out. But Starcraft sure as hell made me nervous. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WimCPUkQY[/media]

I used to be scared of Bowsers laugh in Mario 64 :v:

[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;52383602] If you want genuine creepy/unsettling audio, go listen to the Portal or HL1 osts.[/QUOTE] I must be insane because I listen to a lot of those to calm me down. [editline]21st June 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Doom14;52384782]10 minutes for 5 sounds, 2 minutes a sound, sounds themselves are about 5 seconds-ish a piece. 's a lotta filler. [/QUOTE] Gotta get that sweet ad revenue.

A lot of games right up to the early GC/PS2 area had strangely creepy undertones to them, and I kind of miss it, actually. Stuff like SSB64's menus and MGS1's pixelated low-detail textures working with their respective soundtracks made things feel unique and a little alien, in a good way.

I always thought the start up sound from the PS1 was incredibly cool and mysterious. Its very nostalgic. [editline]21st June 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Simplemac3;52385292]A lot of games right up to the early GC/PS2 area had strangely creepy undertones to them, and I kind of miss it, actually. Stuff like SSB64's menus and MGS1's pixelated low-detail textures working with their respective soundtracks made things feel unique and a little alien, in a good way.[/QUOTE] I was thinking the same thing. I didn't really know how to describe it but the early days of 3D games had a lot of interesting and eerie stuff to them, right down to the consoles themselves.

I actually didn't even know bios corruptions were a thing but they are and its hilarious and creepy at the same time. [video=youtube;QBFLroKyrEo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBFLroKyrEo[/video] [video=youtube;274t0OHYF1M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=274t0OHYF1M[/video] [video=youtube;Gp6PDrznmAg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp6PDrznmAg[/video]