Pointless update

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Man, you know what I found? Well, those of you who read my lame comic journal already saw it, but for the rest of you, 3-D Dinosaur Adventure gave me a phobia of dinosaurs that has stuck with me to this day. Any time I'm, say, playing a video game and a dinosaur or a dinosaur-like monster pops up, I get super jittery and can barely even control the characters because I'm SO AFRAID OMG and it's actually caused me to get REALLY stuck in certain games, just because I'm too scared to get past it and am so violently opposed to it that I don't even want to TRY to get past it. It's actually kind of hilarious.

Anyway, because I'm a masochist, I decided to look up 3-D Dinosaur Adventure on YouTube and see what came up, and lo and behold, I found the exact intro that I was talking about (though whoever posted it added their own music, which is kind of a bummer). I-it's even creepier than I remember D: Same with this. I'm sure you guys are looking at those and loling at how I could ever be afraid of them, but imagine being, like, three, and watching these completely unprepared for anything remotely scary and IN 3-D. I think I actually burst into tears when I first watched that intro.

ANYWAY, what's sorta funny is that there was a thread goin' on a few days ago about "repressed video game memories" or something, and I decided to bring up 3-D Dinosaur Adventure. And y'know what? I actually wound up getting tons of replies from people saying the exact same thing--that the intro was surprisingly freaky, the maze creeped them out, that the whole game had this eerie atmosphere, etc--and when I posted the intro, people agreed that it still scared the crap out of them. I-I'M NOT ALONE ;_; All this time and I thought no one else but me and maybe two other people even PLAYED that game, man. And the real kicker is that now I actually really want to play it again just to creep myself out. I'm never going to learn, am I

... so I guess I just wanted to share that! WHAT ARE YOUR VIDEO GAME FEARS, F-LIST?

And, um, I always feel kind of attention whore-ish doing these, but I'm kind of curious with this one. :> If you secretly think I'm obnoxious and weird then now is the time to let me know!
THEANONYMOUSMEME

Edit: D-dangit, that anon meme reached its comment limit. JUST POST WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO SAY HERE, THEN, I GUESS

Comments

[zarla.livejournal.com]

OH 3-D DINOSAUR ADVENTURE i wish i knew where my disk for that was :O
THAT MAZE WAS CREEPY IF I RECALL i can totally see how that intro could screw a little kid up

I WAS TERRIFIED OF PHANTASMAGORIA FOR THE LONGEST TIME until i played and beat it again when i was older :B same with It.
I also recall being somewhat creeped out by an old FMV game called Under a Killing Moon, if I remember right, but god that's so old. I barely remember anything about it.
OH YEAH AND THE 7TH GUEST although playing through that again recently killed that dead almost immediately, since the acting in that is atrociously hilarious beyond belief.

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

I FOUND MINE BUT IT DOESN'T WORK FOR XP and now i'm actually trying to find a torrent of it to see if anyone somehow converted it GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME
I remember being so freaked out by the maze D: I REMEMBER BEING FREAKED OUT BY EVERYTHING IN THAT GAME ADUFIGHD

MAN I'M STILL KIND OF SCARED OF PHANTASMAGORIA
FREAKING CHASE SCENE AGH
And darn I've heard of the rest of those but I haven't played them myself :O THOUGH YOU'VE GOT ME CURIOUS ABOUT 7TH GUEST

[zarla.livejournal.com]

DOES IT HAVE A DOS INSTALLATION OPTION OR IS IT ONLY WINDOWS CAPABLE? DID YOU SET IT TO RUN IN WIN95 MODE IN THE PREFERENCES? :O

THE MUSIC FREAKED ME OUT IN THAT SO BAD

7th Guest is just insanely frustrating. The puzzles in that are so stupidly hard its unbelievable. BUT THE STUPID CUTSCENES ARE WORTH IT check out some of them on youtube for example 8D

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

I RAN IT THROUGH DOSBOX AND THAT GOT IT TO WORK FOR SOME REASON WOO