Time for me to sneak off to bed, but not without sharing our latest GoNintendo/GameDaily feature. Hopefully you’re willing to get in on the Halloween spirit with us. If not, you can always check out the delightful Rinry. She’s not scary at all, I promise! See you all in a few, short hours. It’s time to take a break from the console-specific top 10 lists that we’ve been putting together with GameDaily. In honor of Halloween being right around the corner, we decided to put together a list of the scariest games that ever hit Nintendo consoles. When looking back over the generations of platforms, be they portable or console, you sure do have a lot to choose from! Needless to say, this was one of the hardest lists to put together. I just want to make this clear before we jump into the list. This feature focuses on titles that both GoNintendo and GameDaily picked as titles that scared the crap out of us. They may have made us jump out of our seats, sit uneasily as we played through, or just made us uncomfortable from start to finish. There may be some games that you’ll be surprised to see on the list, so by all means, feel free to tell us why we’re totally wrong! GoNintendo and GameDaily worked on the list together, but here we’ll be showing off spots 10 through 6. Please click over to GameDaily to see our collaborative choices for spots 5 through 1. Number 10 -Out of This World To this very day, Out of This World creeps me out. While the game’s first intentions may not be to scare you, it definitely creates an atmosphere that makes you feel vulnerable and unsafe at all times. You can literally die within the first 5 seconds of the game if you aren’t paying attention. It’s this game world that is constantly out to get you that makes you sweat. To this very day, I can remember freaking myself out while playing this game at night. The graphics were top-notch for the time, and they really helped to pull you into the title. Working even more for the fright factor is the minimal amount of sounds. There’s barely a hint of ambient noise in some portions, which makes for a quiet intensity unlike any other game. Damn, just thinking about rolling through the air vents is giving me goosebumps! Number 9 - Shadow Man Back in the days of the N64, I was truly looking forward to Shadow Man. It seemed like it was going to be one hell of an adventure. Luckily, the game did indeed turn out to be fantastic. Little did I know that the world of Michael LeRoi would be so scarily evil. Here’s an element of scary games that we haven’t even touched on yet…voodoo. It’s hard to think of many games that use voodoo in a scary way, instead of a comedic nature. Shadow Man played on the voodoo theme heavily, by showing you the very dark side of this dark art of the bayou. Mix this in with tortured memories of your brother, and a setting that seemed like it was right out of a nightmare, and you’ll find yourself hiding under the covers at bedtime. Quick note - Shadow Man was the very first game Mom Brain saw me play back in the day. It scared the hell out of her! Why in the world did she stick with me?! Number 8 - Dead Rising Being trapped in a mall with thousands of zombies. Sure, that seems like a great idea for a game, but it wouldn’t be too great if you were in that situation in real life! Thankfully Frank West has his wits about him for this situation…as well as a plethora of tools and weapons from the local mall. Dead Rising played heavily on the zombie fascination that gamers have, and puts you right in the middle of an absolutely enormous outbreak. It’s literally kill or be killed, as you can be swarmed by the living dead at any turn. Throw in some psychotic zombie bosses such as Adam the Clown, and you can nearly get me to wet my pants. Go ahead, try to tell me that a zombie clown juggling chainsaws isn’t scary! Number 7 - Dementium: The Ward Who knew that you could make a portable game that was scary as hell?! I surely didn’t expect to see anything of the sort, but that’s long before I knew that Renegade Kid was going to push portable gaming to its limits with this all-out freak fest. Not only does Dementium truly pump some awesome horsepower out of the DS, it also makes you want to shrivel up in a corner and die! When you’re talking about a portable horror title, you have to make sure you pop on the headphones. Once you do that, you’re surrounded by all sorts of scares and atmosphere that only makes the gameplay that much more intense. Shuffling about through a hospital with enemies waiting to pounce you at every corner…try to tell me that’s not scary?! This is one of those situations that’s only considered fun when you know it’s only a game! Number 6 - House of the Dead: Overkill I’ve never really considered the House of the Dead series to be scary. I’d say that campy/cheesy comes to mind for most. That all changed with House of the Dead: Overkill. While the game definitely played up the B-movie style of the previous titles, it was the characters and on-rails nature that took you for a thrill ride. Mind you, House of the Dead: Overkill isn’t going to make you jump out of your skin, or make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up…but it’s still a freakish adventure. You’re pushed through corridor after corridor, peeking in on some of the grossest settings you’ll ever see. If you don’t think this title is scary, then I don’t think you’ve made it to the final level. Trust me, when you see the thing you’re fighting, and then witness the end cutscene…you’re going to get that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach. Too scary to even think about in real life! Once again, click here to check out the rest of GoNintendo/GameDaily’s list, which features spots 5 through 1

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GoNintendo ‘End of Day’ thought - GoNintendo & GameDaily’s top 10 scariest games to grace Nintendo platforms

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