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welcome to watchmojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 20
scariest moments in games for kids
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for this list we'll be looking at the
most disturbing elements found in games
that were typically geared towards
youngsters or were rated e for everyone
did any of these moments permanently
scar you share your experiences in the
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number 20 bogmeyer luigi's mansion
the first entry in luigi's spooktacular
adventures played things pretty lightly
with most boss ghosts resembling people
however the one who doesn't is by far
the game's creepiest bogmeyer who is
said to be the manifestation of the
haunted mansion's fear and despair lives
up to his reputation you'll find the
purple ghoul in the graveyard where
he'll spring from his grave as lightning
strikes it he'll summon to colored
copies of himself to inch closer towards
you each one arriving with another clash
of lightning it's enough to make a kid a
bit jumpy while he isn't that hard to
defeat he did a good job of putting us
in luigi's trembling shoes
number 19 the clock tower epic mickey
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one would expect a game starring
disney's mascot to be pretty bright and
cheerful but that's not necessarily the
case here epic mickey hits the ground
running with its first boss the clock
tower found in gremlin village an
already unsettling place that perfectly
sets the tone the clock tower will at
first appear with a happy sunshiny face
that quickly morphs into something from
our childhood nightmares going pale and
spreading a wide sadistic grin across
its face it'll start the battle by
sprouting arms and trying to smush poor
mickey avoiding its attacks isn't too
difficult as long as you don't keep
looking at its terrifying face
number 18 clanker banjo-kazooie
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banjo-kazooie is a saturday morning
cartoon as a video game with silly humor
and even sillier characters however one
character who is not the least bit silly
is clanker a massive whale-like
mechanical beast whose cavern you
explore as the third world swimming
through a tight tunnel you'd find this
gigantic sharp teeth greeting you at the
other end we were definitely taken aback
when we came across him the first time
thankfully clanker is very friendly and
only wants to breathe some fresh air but
his appearance which is actually
partially organic is certainly
disturbing it's even worse going inside
him as there are plenty of deadly traps
waiting for you
number 17 sinistar sinistar
while this arcade game obviously
released before the esrb existed games
of the era were all fairly family
friendly which means there's likely a
ton of kids that were creeped the hell
out whenever its villain appeared on
screen sinistar is a space shoot-em-up
where you collect crystals by shooting
planetoids while enemy ships fly around
trying to steal them the crystals you
collect become bombs for the boss but
the crystals your enemies collect are
used to build him sinistar's appearance
as a demonic skull would have been
enough but he also likes to wail and say
things like beware i live and run coward
as he barrels your way
needless to say it's pretty intense
number 16 the fountain zach and wiki
quest for barbarossa's treasure
capcom's delightful cel-shaded adventure
follows the young pirate zach and his
monkey companion wiki as they search for
captain barbaros's last riches the duo
solves puzzles throughout varied
locations eventually making it to
barbarossa's own castle turns out he
likes things pretty spooky at the top of
the tower of requiem the finished puzzle
will cause the giant bell to ring out
the statue attached to the fountain
underneath will then open its eyes let
out a chilling screech and cry purple
liquid good on zach for reaching into
the strange fluid to collect the
moonstone because if it were us we'd be
running the opposite direction
number 15 creepy hidden message sonic cd
faces on animal bodies will always give
us the heebie-jeebies in sonic cd it's
possible to reach a sound test screen by
entering a button combination on the
title screen then upon entering the
numbers 46 12 and 25 you'd find quite
the disturbing easter egg a screen full
of sonics with human-like faces wagging
their fingers like you did something
wrong was accompanied by japanese text
it loosely translates to fun is infinite
with sega enterprises with a sign off
for majin in japanese majin means demon
majin is also the nickname of masado
nishimara a landscape designer and the
voice of sonic in the game but not
knowing this it seemed like a pretty
evil thing to stumble upon
number 14 level 14 lemmings
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the premise of lemmings is simple enough
you're responsible for helping a certain
percentage of these little critters
reach the exit of various environments
while some of the puzzles will certainly
make you scratch your head the 14th
level gives you pause for entirely
different reasons i mean just look at it
it's basically hell there's blood
dripping from the ceiling and a massive
snake protruding from the eye of horn
skull and this was ported to pretty much
every platform known to man we were the
ones meant to be in charge of the
helpless lemmings guiding them to safety
but as kids how were we meant to do that
while surrounded by so much distressing
imagery
number 13 andros star fox 64.
1997 nintendo released star fox 64
showcasing a group of badass
anthropomorphic animals and a
groundbreaking rumble feature at the end
fox mcleod comes face to face with the
man or monkey responsible for his
father's death andros appears as a giant
face with floating hands trying to smack
fox out of the sky or simply inhaling if
you choose the easy route to his
location the second phase will have him
turn robotic okay it's not so bad
however if you choose the harder route
you'll be confronted with the twisting
image of a gigantic brain with wide eyes
attached why because screw your peaceful
sleep that's why
so android you kill your true form
number 12 enderman minecraft
minecraft is a game that encourages
creativity and imagination letting you
build and construct to your heart's
content but you better be careful to not
get overwhelmed by its enemies
especially if you come across any
endermen while the game's simplistic
graphics may make some scoff there's
still a distinct horror you'll feel when
you're met by one of these gangly
shadowy figures if you make eye contact
and look away the enderman will shriek
and give chase and it won't stop until
you or it is dead can even teleport it
will or when it's hit by a ranged attack
which seems pretty unfair to us
number 11 mad jack donkey kong 64.
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jack-in-the-box toys especially those
that take on a clown appearance are a
perfect example of something innocent
becoming scary in donkey kong 64 players
had to fight one of the worst possible
outcomes of this children's toy in mad
jack tiny kong had to face him at the
end of the third world frantic factory
and as soon as he popped his ugly face
out of his box our tiny fragile minds
could hardly take it it's bad enough
that he spends most of the fight hopping
after you narrowly avoiding being
flattened by his box was the most
stressful moments of the game but he
also maniacally cackles as he pursues
you
number 10 vortex queen echo the dolphin
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it seems the makers of echo the dolphin
looked at the xenomorphs and said we
should put that in a kid's game right
well wrong it was horrifying at first
glance this sega game seems serene and
peaceful like a game about a dolphin
should be in actuality echo has to fight
off an alien invasion that culminates
with a fight against their leader of the
vortex queen the enormous green alien
face sticking out of the shadows may
make for a big target but that doesn't
make looking at it any easier luckily
for us staying in the corners of the
arena is the best way to avoid taking
damage we would have spent the whole
fight there anyway
number nine zero kirby's dreamland three
you might be wondering how anything in
the kirby series could possibly be scary
after all it's one of the cutest video
game franchises around but there's a
secret boss at the end of dreamland 3
that made us want to switch off our
super nintendos 0 is a big floating
eyeball which doesn't seem like that
disturbing of a boss design at first as
the fight progresses gashes will open on
zero's body to shoot pools of blood at
you after enough hits the pupil will
tear out of his body in disturbingly
violent fashion before kirby causes it
to pop how was this in a kirby game
number eight haunted piano super mario
64. let's go
one of the most famous scenes in super
mario 64 still makes us jump no matter
how many times we've replayed it big
boo's haunt is unlike most other worlds
in the game that are entered via
painting it's also unlike any other
level as is some truly bone chilling
music featuring boo enemies throughout
it's a pretty great transition into 3d
for the classic houses seen in older
games those also like to toy with you
but the piano jump scare is just plain
mean the piano will spring into action
with viciously sharp teeth as soon as
mario gets near it our first encounter
with it made us want to flee both in
game and in real life
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number seven the sax metroid fusion
out of all of nintendo's franchises
metroid is one of the most likely to
stress you out in metroid fusion samus
has to contend with the sax a parasite
that mimics her appearance and
relentlessly hunts her throughout while
it mostly looks like samus saved for the
unnerving blank white eyes the tension
we felt during each encounter was
downright terrifying most of the time
there's nothing you can do but run when
you do get to fight against it it ends
up mutating into a nightmare-inducing
monstrosity we've taken samus up against
a variety of intimidating aliens over
the years but nothing has been quite as
haunting as the sax
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number six pretty much everything the
legend of zelda majora's mask
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truthfully there are too many unsettling
elements in majora's mask to pick just
one the plot follows the masked skull
kid who plans to crash the moon into the
land below in just three days just look
at that moon its frightening grin was
immediately burned into our memories
then there's the nature in which link
transforms by using masks screaming in
agony every single time the story places
a heavy focus on mature themes and its
woeful characters will certainly pull on
your heartstrings it reaches peak
creepiness in iconic canyon a land of
the dead with unnerving enemies a song
that spawns entirely petrifying statues
of yourself and a cursed half mummy
scientist with an emotionally wrecked
daughter
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number five monster ock chase spider-man
ask any kid who their favorite superhero
is and chances are good that they'll say
spider-man even before he came to the
big screen this was true in the hero
self-titled playstation game the climax
saw him go up against a foe even he
didn't stand a chance against with doc
ock taken over by the carnage symbiote
the game created one of the most
horrifying entities we had seen in a
marvel game at that point all spidey can
do is run and hope monster ock doesn't
catch him which is exactly what we would
do in that situation too we can still
feel the tension of that moment years
later and we aren't likely to ever
forget its guttural screeches either
getting closer to the surface number
four lavender town pokemon red and blue
pokemon enraptured children everywhere
through a call of adventure and awesome
sometimes adorable creatures with
powerful abilities however that sense of
adventure ran into a brick wall when we
reached lavender town the chilling
nature of the town's music has been well
documented though it never fails to send
shivers down our spines lavender town's
central area is a tower dedicated to
dead pokemon with grieving trainers seen
throughout up until that point we
thought pokemon could only faint but
here were the citizens of lavender town
telling us that no they can in fact
perish this dark corner of an otherwise
light-hearted world was certainly a rude
awakening for kids
number three mimi super paper mario
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okay something is seriously wrong with
this little girl while the river twigs
filled with the tears of sinners is
definite grounds for consideration mimi
is a horror that simply will not go away
as one of the main villains you
encounter her several times throughout
the game however when you first meet her
she just appears as a little girl it's
only after you annoy her enough that she
shows you her true form mimi twists her
head around in circles bones cracking
until she transforms into a giant spider
that is some next level exorcist
inspired terror right there at least the
art style is cute but mimi belongs in
the survival horror genre
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number 2 gigas earthbound
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earthbound follows ness on an adventure
we would have loved to go on as kids but
it ends with something we would give
anything to avoid the final boss gigas
is an evil alien who is the literal
embodiment of evil and out to bring
endless darkness to humanity we would
have been able to deal with that just
fine if he didn't also resemble pure
evil the distorted red image of a face
in pain has been irreversibly seared
into the minds of many as if that wasn't
bad enough his music which is composed
of unplaceable instruments strange
murmurs and static wormed its way into
our brains to give us goosebumps
whenever we hear it
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number one bottom of the well the legend
of zelda ocarina of time
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we may have grown accustomed to the
disturbing imagery throughout majora's
mask but the bottom of the well came out
of nowhere here we were enjoying our
magical quest and saving hyrule when
nintendo decided to throw a monkey
wrench into our happiness beneath
kakariko village is a legit torture
chamber complete with blood-stained
racks false walls and floors and some of
the spookiest enemies the game has to
offer those enemies pale in comparison
though not literally to the dungeon's
mini-boss the dead hand this grotesque
figure loves the taste of flesh and will
trap link with its arms to get a bite or
two never before had we wanted to nope
so quickly out of a supposed e for
everyone game
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