Bloody Retro Games That Scared us as Kids

In this video, I put together a compilation of some of the bloodiest and most brutal retro video games from multiple platforms.

[@agourd8873]

The girl casually walking a Goro in the background of Judge Dredd. XD

[@DockNinja]

Splatterhouse was the only game I was legit too scared to play as a kid. Mainly because dude looked like Jason and I was already having nightmares of him 😱

[@Yendorhawk]

My brother used to play it and was so good, it'd take him a quarter to beat it, or the old Robocop game. Always took me two quarters. Heh, was jealous.

[@ncapone87]

Great video! No annoying commentary or memes, just gameplay and info. Perfect!

[@antoniostrina82]

This is a bot channel maybe.

[@TheDarkwolf92]

Most of these games I remember, but Chiller. NEVER saw that game, and I'm shocked it even existed back in the 80's. WOW

[@TheTruth-xi1mu]

TIME STAMPS!!!!! We need them badly!!!

[@joe125ful]

Why???

[@Slit518]

I'm surprised Zombies Ate My Neighbors isn't on this list. The Chainsaw Maniacs, the Possessed Dolls, the Werewolves. That game was so tense!

[@pengen_gantinama]

The ants and slime monster in zombies at my neighbor still scared me to this day. Even the giant baby gives some disturbing feeling due to how they move.

[@blackjack9863]

@@pengen_gantinama Bist du ein Weichei oder was?

[@blackjack9863]

Zombies Ate My Neighbors ist leider nicht blutig. Daher gehört es nicht auf die Liste. Hat aber einen Kultstatus, spiele ich heute noch. Meine Kinder (11 und 17 Jahre) spielen das auch gerne, vor allem zusammen.

[@ShaneAbbott-c2c]

Scariest game for me to play as a kid was shadowgate.

[@philipjackson2113]

Wow that brings back a lot of memories. One thing that struck me though was how similar Wild Fang looks to Golden Axe, looks almost identical 🤔 Great video and a good bit of nostalgia 👍

[@WillS724]

Only thing scary about these games is the damage it did to your allowance for being absolute coin guzzlers

[@GhostsQueen85]

That was the real nightmare 😂

[@Rycalla15]

I played Time Killer once as a child...still remember how much it disturbed me.

[@kouvang1265]

Comparing videogames of the past.. tremendously epic, but in the present videogames now era.. something to remind of.. how would the dev going to bring back the greatness in videogame to its loyal old and new fans to experience all over again? Well, in the future, I can not wait to see and experience the excitement of greatness in videogame all over again, too! Peace, love the computer entertainment industry very much!

[@luisvilla799]

Dude metal slug scared me due to how many quarters that game can take

[@marklola12]

No games back then scared me as a kid

[@aliceinmansonland448]

This is a GREAT buncha GAMES!!😁 (I was MORE AFRAID of the Fry Guys from McDoomalds and Snuffaluffagus from Sesame Street than ANYTHING ELSE as a kid... And I was IN LOVE with Freddy Krueger, go figure!😅) YOU GOT A NEW SUBSCRIBER!!

[@baccy81]

As a kid I was genuinely scared by Splatterhouse

[@madrymadry6897]

Me too man it gave me panic attacks

[@BookOfWorms]

It had some really dark cut scenes for the time. As scary as it was, I wanted to play it

[@paumic6366]

I was scared by the music and the scream in the C64 game "Friday the 13th"

[@AdamBarkerThe]

What is that shark intro from?

[@MJ-wq4lf]

Eternal Champions on the Sega CD

[@AdamBarkerThe]

@ thank you very much 🫡

[@joeberryman3563]

Who was scared of Primal Rage?

[@dronescoVKE]

Doom Troopers looks like a remake of the NES contra in which they used assets from DKC 😅

[@SorenMaelstrom]

2:22 - The Video of Smash TV is from Super Smash TV from SNES or Super Famicon. The game came out on many Systems and I saw the graphics of the Arcade, it was higher quality and even more gory. I remember well how fun it was to play the game on SNES and on Arcade. I sadly missed the Image of the Eyeball being shot up in the SNES version, as it was always funny somehow. So maybe some other games were not shots from the arcade and are less resolution as the good original? Any input on which Games might be looking cooler than shown, fellow Nerds?

[@VDiabloV1]

Doom on dos😅😅

[@EjectedStomach]

There's an old DOS game called Time Slaughter that really messed me up as a kid

[@anthonypetruzzi158]

Chiller was a CLASSIC!!!! I remember wasting so many quarters on this game at Eight on the Break in Dunellen, NJ

[@fenitaedita]

beast buster absolute gem in the history

[@MEGABLAMP]

only nightmare I had from a videogame as a kid was Isle of the Dead

[@Occult_Detective]

Chiller, and Tecmo Knight I remember in the wild. Ultra rare.

[@Georgiacatcrimson]

Smash tv and Narc would be tame on 8-bit consoles. Although Kinky Pinky’s knife still frightened me.

[@FURIOUSHEROGAMING]

Smash TV was the furthest thing from being scary

[@machomusprime50]

No Ghouls N Ghosts? Monster Party?

[@russellmary175]

Awesome list--I'm glad TIME KILLERS was on there...loved chopping off limbs in the arcade! Sad ABADOX for the NES wasn't on the list...

[@jonathanvarnado6694]

@@russellmary175 Time Killers was what I played when the line for MK2 was too long

[@rahzeslayallkings6260]

Judge dredd.. a woman walking by with a mini goro😂

[@chillivanasmr6607]

You could have added Duke Nukem 3D and project overkill! Pure GORE

[@jorgeegrojjorge]

Wow, this channel is so promising! 🎉 Many of these titles I didn’t even know about. 🤯 Loved the video, man! 👏

[@thatssoretro3594]

Thanks that means alot.

[@jugandoclasicos]

Smash TV should be well adapted to a movie the game is epic

[@bipolarmidget1558]

You ever seen running Man?

[@bimmyfrizzo3988]

Operation wolf on the nes had a terrifying death scene when you lose. It was the last thing I wanted to see when I'm sleeping. 😅

[@sammylane21]

Beast Busters had zombies with guns?? That's a weird combo. 😂🤣

[@xaviersejour9183]

Zombie Raid Hell I didn’t even know I was fighting zombies The opening section could’ve just been cowboys I mean there’s werewolves And more traditional zombies But for the most part it’s just zombie Cowboys who look exactly like regular Cowboys

[@cheshire_skatkat9093]

Literally none of these games I played scared me.

[@dimviesel]

We used to play $5 per round on primal rage. It wasn’t scary at all. Made a decent amount of money at the arcades back in the days. Good times

[@jasone3962]

Th Strikes Back looks like a mix between Rambo and Goku going around shooting people with Fireballs out of his hands

[@pablovalenzluela84]

Blood warrior, a mk clone scared me when i was a child, specially that character that is like a budist monk

[@kornsin]

Chiller. I played it in the arcade when I was young multiple times. And yes they actually ported it to the NES.

[@agourd8873]

Games good for laughs and lashings of the ultraviolent.

[@jarredkrum9894]

None these scared me as a kid lol

[@jarredkrum9894]

Doomtroopers was fn awesome not scary lmao

[@OdaVenom]

Judging by game selection "we" was kids in the 90's, while Dredd is unfinished prototype of a canceled game, dumped much later as a ROM in 00's. Not many people even know it exist, let alone kids playing it.

[@vitalytravin631]

Judge Dredd? I know 3 different games (16-bit versions, a ps1 rail shooter and FPS). What's the unfinished one?

[@OdaVenom]

@@vitalytravin631 the one featured in the video, obviously.

[@Eyefinitus]

Tattoo Assassins was never released either...

[@jasonbartels1485]

Why the anime girl walking a mini goro. Lol

[@OdaVenom]

@@jasonbartels1485 how would I know? I guess it could've been an inside joke from Midway developers. Dredd was in a work about an year (plus-minus few months) after first Mortal Kombat was released. But also bear in mind that it is an unfinished game, maybe Goro was a placeholder until they would film and render a dog, or some stop-motion mutant equivalent from the future.

[@crossbones13]

"Bloody Retro Games That Scared us as Kids" A more accurate title would be "Games with Blood in Them"...

[@firedragon757b5]

Did King of Demons actually launched for SNES or has it been canceled?

[@izayoirokkuu]

It was released in Japan. Its name there is Majyuuou

[@firedragon757b5]

@izayoirokkuu I know now. I wonder how much it's worth, tho?😊

[@leewright415]

I spent a lot of time in the arcades in the mid to late 80's. Never ever did i see the game Chiller. It seems absolute brutal.

[@MegaJasjit]

I understand Splatterhouse, but how other games can scare?

[@FieraMyst]

An interesting montage of games, most of which I did play back when they were new releases, wouldn't say they were scary however, as for the blood/gore aspect of the lot, eh, I saw worse in ridiculous B horror films as a kid.

[@gladsirens9432]

Absolutely stunning. Real gems you got here.

[@Funnyanimals1064-t1m]

Some of these games don't even come close to being scary.

[@KirksCORNER1983]

The GREAT SEGA!

[@TimothyMillerJr-pj8bs]

Revolution X was unintentionally scary and who ever played Home Alone 2 for the Super Nintendo. that game used to scared the bejesus out of me 😧

[@purpleblood1739]

19:34 the only thing scary in this, is how much Johnny Cage cosplay Raiden and Sindel cosplay Skarlet 😅 Man even the finisher is the uppercut 😂

[@xaviersejour9183]

I think when we talk about Battletoads it’s mainly the consul version. I didn’t know there was any blood

[@neutralhail4186]

Eh. I grew up playing the arcade version in the early 2000s. I didnt even know battletoads was on the consoles, cause i didnt grow up on the nes. Im 22

[@CyberAztec]

Can we get a part 2? This was nostalgia

[@scoobymula]

Even now, chiller is heavy

[@LegendaryDarkKnight602]

Pretty sure somebody banned this game somewhere.

[@samanerawatlaobuddhovath699]

15:00 So TH Strikes Back is a take on Lui Kang? Never heard or seen that game, and i was a diehard arcade-kid back in the day. I'd travel to bug cities to find their arades and see if there were games never seen in my small city. Interesting.

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

The continue screen for Final Fight and Ninja Gaiden was more unsettling than anything else.

[@jaredtomlin85]

For me, the scariest game growing up was House of The Dead III when I played it at Startime Arcade.

[@jeffrielly]

I remember seeing Splatterhouse for the first time thinking that you were playing as Jason Vorhese from Friday The 13th.

[@Twisted_One_DIsturbed]

Scared ?????? As kids ??????

[@jonathanvarnado6694]

No CarnEvil?

[@TheLonduzboub]

Lol why the snes version of doom ?

[@jamesmoss3424]

These games don't scare me when I was a kid. 😀👍🎮

[@viola0livido]

In the 1994 I was 10 and I wasn't scared at all

[@xxhardforcorexx1231]

Holy shit! I didn't realize Battletoads was so brutal. I figured it was like a rip of TMNT.

[@DiogenesWasRight90]

Awesome vid.

[@firedragon757b5]

Who played and beat Night Slashers Remake on Very Hard, tho?😊

[@cap350125]

Fucking love splatterhouse! I used to collect quarters and hit the cabinet at the Pizza shop down the street when I was seven, good times man. You should throw biofreaks in for fun 😂

[@JayDee-Plantnosher]

Chiller was one of my favorites. I still have my cartridge.

[@readonly999]

Doom Troopers on the Genesis had really nasty gore. There was also a game that had someone lowered into a well with a rope tied to their hands. Could have been Desert Strike.

[@Wreckhead]

So glad time killers made the list. 😎

[@jiggamanog]

Ah man splatterhouse was the bees knees! The floating crap boss was tough!

[@SftSidelines]

Splatter House i never played, but I didn't have the system it was on. Zombies ate my Neighbors, there was this one level that had a huge baby that scared me. Friday the 13th for the NES terrified me too

[@rodgerelledge4151]

Scary games? More gory than anything else. Missing some key titles like Contra, zombies ate my neighbor's, Aliens, Area 51, Terminator 2 arcade, Alien Syndrome, Friday the 13th and Alien vs Predator

[@andrewbobucky4612]

Let's be real here. No one was ever scared by the SNES port of Doom, considering you couldn't even tell what you were shooting at most of the time.

[@claudioadriano5422]

I thought the same! Why they don't put the original from PC on the list? Or Doom 64 or Playstation Doom?

[@PugDrivr77]

The potato quality graphics on the SNES version was by far rhe more traumatic experience.

[@brendandoyle7508]

The song The Demons from Adrian's pen was way scarier and cooler on the SNES, and the final level of E1, the music was way more atmospheric than the PC.

[@Sweettooth1231]

splatterhouse 3 for the genesis truly scared me as a kid. i once made the mistake of playing it a night, when i was like 6-7 yrs old, and the mistake was i had fever... for some reason that twisted my memory of the game, and it made it way worse lol

[@marcoan1987]

Goro in Judge Dredd? 18:15

[@LeeGreeenwell]

Nightbreed on c64 scared me back in the day lol

[@Matucks]

Never heard or seen "Tattoo Assassins", seems like it was inspired by "Mortal Kombat"

[@alexandergonzie1200]

I remember Time Killers being the very first gory video game I've seen, I saw it in a pizzeria in 1993.

[@mflexx3280]

For me Moon Stone for the amiga was scary as hell

[@DanHammonds]

I was about to suggest that. The gore and the sound effects were chilling.

[@mflexx3280]

@@DanHammonds Ye especially the swamp areas, nightmare inducing for a young boy :)

[@DanHammonds]

@@mflexx3280 Yeah, my friends and I always felt really tense during the swamp battles.

[@insrtcowjoke]

Surprised the Aliens arcade game and Contra weren't here.

[@giantlobsterboy644]

Search & Rescue might by using excessive force. I hope he is trained to distinguish between friend & foe!

[@1007Workin]

Growl was my fav

[@atrailofblood]

splatterhouse 2 got me when I was little. had nightmares. but I kept playing anyways

[@RockNPlayForthePeople]

Maybe if you were a complete sis…?

[@Cyberpunk99544]

Super Nintendo doom, not the real doom not the PC doom the real doom

[@ToxicSpinach64]

That Chiller game has no chill..

[@sleepytwiggaming]

Ummm lol some on this list really don’t fit

[@Texasrep]

1st time fighting iron Mike was scary....didnt know what to expect....after so many fights, I finally figured it out...that was in 1989, maybe 90...not sure

[@barbaralandes8028]

Yeah yeah maybe to some of us kids but as a kid I loved the scary violence gory games and movies Ed Gein was my favorite local crazy hero

[@kingarthur83rd]

the only thing scary about doom on the SNES is the frame rate/resolution! 🤣🤣🤣

[@brendandoyle7508]

The Demons from Adrian's pen song was scarier and better than PC and the song from last level on E1 dual Barons, the songs were way more atmospheric than the PC.

[@beave200]

We gonna just gloss over the background lady just casually walking goro on a leash in the background of judge dredd?

[@TwiddleFingersDB]

Some commentary would be nice!

[@jd9799]

The amount of games that was streets of rage but slightly different 😅

[@claudioadriano5422]

You guys were afraid of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs?! I was afraid of computer FPS games, like Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Blood, etc...

[@PatrickIngham21]

robocop vs terminator ? alien trilogy ?

[@Dan-z2c3n]

BattleToads and Double Dragon Scared us as Kids ?! Ooookay 😑

[@jarredkrum9894]

Maybe the weenies it scared lol

[@malhaomalhoa7486]

That's the Arcade Battletoads game.

[@Dan-z2c3n]

@malhaomalhoa7486 What difference does that make ? +That Game is a Work of Art btw .

[@malhaomalhoa7486]

@@Dan-z2c3n The difference is they're two completely different titles.

[@Joseman963]

I thought the game splatterhouse was a messed up game! To gorie!