Flatfoot
2nd Level Orange Feather
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Here were another couple of characters that freaked me out. The first was the level 3 boss in the original Legend of Zelda game on NES. The fear was more from the frustration I had from trying to beat him with my at the time limited 6-year-old dexterity. I hated to enter the room to fight him, and would cover my eyes when my older sister entered the room to fight him.
This next set is another from a TI game from the early 80s, called Hunt the Wumpus. The game was sort of a strategy game involving a stranded hunter going around an unknown map (filling in spaces as you go), looking for the lair of the "wumpus" to kill it. Squares that had red dots represented "blood" and told you the wumpus was within one space of that square. You had to guess where the wumpus was, and fire an arrow either north, south, east, or west to kill the wumpus. If you guessed wrong, the wumpus would eat you, and you'd be graced with a small, 80s computer animation of the wumpus' jaws closing on you, as the funeral march played in the background in all its less than 8-bit glory. Thinking back, I have no idea why this low-quality graphic monster would scare me (Maybe it was the box cover art, which was scarier.), but I had an active enough imagination that I had nightmares about this "wumpus" chasing me. You can see some info about the game here.
This next set is another from a TI game from the early 80s, called Hunt the Wumpus. The game was sort of a strategy game involving a stranded hunter going around an unknown map (filling in spaces as you go), looking for the lair of the "wumpus" to kill it. Squares that had red dots represented "blood" and told you the wumpus was within one space of that square. You had to guess where the wumpus was, and fire an arrow either north, south, east, or west to kill the wumpus. If you guessed wrong, the wumpus would eat you, and you'd be graced with a small, 80s computer animation of the wumpus' jaws closing on you, as the funeral march played in the background in all its less than 8-bit glory. Thinking back, I have no idea why this low-quality graphic monster would scare me (Maybe it was the box cover art, which was scarier.), but I had an active enough imagination that I had nightmares about this "wumpus" chasing me. You can see some info about the game here.
