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The 10 Most Terrifying Video Game Enemies of All Time

Since the Golden Age of Atari, there have been video game enemies who are so unpleasant that they made us question the existence of a higher power. We at Cracked pay tribute to the rogues' galleries of yesteryear with this list of the 10 most trouser-soiling bad guys in gaming history.

Some of these foes may not seem scary by today's standards, but in their heyday, all of them taught us how to swear, hit the reset button, and, most importantly, cry.
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Published: 594 days 14 hours ago | Article | Gaming
 
 

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decapitator - 594 days 14 hours ago
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Pfff, everything in doom was freaking scary. With that said, I can't wait for Doom 4.
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Tempist - 594 days 13 hours ago
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Doom was scary... for the first three levels, then it became old hat.

I'm shocked nothing from Stalker made it onto that list. But Otto the murder is a good one.
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Agent-X - 594 days 14 hours ago
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yea doom 4 will take place on earth it will be a good game :)
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decapitator - 594 days 14 hours ago
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I wish they would release moooooaaaaarrrrr info... Can't wait.. :D
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Icy - 594 days 14 hours ago
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where is the conehead from silent hill? surely that should be in top 10.
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iiprotocolii - 594 days 14 hours ago
3.1 - I agree.
Where are monsters from Silent Hill? Are you kidding? Even the little ghost/shadod-kid-things from Silent Hill 1 were scary. Jeez.
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liquidsnake - 594 days 13 hours ago
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conehead should really make the list. One scary son of a b****
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VaeVictus - 594 days 12 hours ago
3.3 - The Red Pyramid (not conehead) ;)
should be 1st. He was disturbing @ best.
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SlyGuy - 594 days 11 hours ago
3.4 - Where is...
...the first Zombie you meet in Resident Evil 1 (PS1)???

EVERYONE remembers the dude chomping down on some corpse, then he turns around and watches you with blood all over his snarling mouth.

OMG! I know this friend of a friend (who am I fooling) who turned off the game at that point, turned on all the lights and sat there feeling scared sh*tless.
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paul_war - 594 days 14 hours ago
4 - The nemesis
The nemesis from Resident Evil, I was young when I was playing that and it really got me & made me panic whenever it burst through a wall or anything.
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BeaArthur - 594 days 14 hours ago
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Even when I would replay the game and knew it was coming, it would still freak me out.
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nbnt - 594 days 14 hours ago
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well

i have to admit

me too paul_war me too
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kwicksandz - 594 days 14 hours ago
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Doom 3 did have its moments. The Cherubs and the spiders gave me a jolt. Cherubs where fast and did very good damage to you, and the spiders attacked en masse.

But no system shock 2 references? No hybrids, no iron maidens and none of those "helpful" robots that blew up in your face? For shame! SS2 is the spookiest game ive played and ive played all the console survival horror games.
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j4gs14 - 594 days 13 hours ago
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totally agree! and what abwt those darn monkeys? they p!ssd me off. btw that article is kinda crap.
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Rob4Vendetta - 594 days 13 hours ago
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the dog from paper boy = epic fail
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Reibooi - 594 days 13 hours ago
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Ok that was a retarded list Pyramid Head from Silent Hill should be on that list. Not to mention the fact that you could make a top 10 list with nothing but Silent Hill monsters.
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White-Sharingan - 594 days 12 hours ago
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jaja I remember I would get scared when I heard the sonic noise when I ws underwater

I was 4 you know lol
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raptor302 - 594 days 11 hours ago
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what about those Regenerators from resisdent evil 4, those were some scary zombies
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kydrice - 594 days 9 hours ago
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What a bad list..No Pyramid head? No undead babies from SH1? Oh and the monsters from Doom2 were much scarier than anything from Doom3. I can still remember the first time encountering the Cyberdemon and just hearing his roars and his footstomps but not knowing where he was just freaked the hell out of me. Also the pure fact that the bastard still wouldn't die after 50 or so rockets to the face. Also the shrieker zombies were much scarier than the poison headcrabs I mean the headcrabs couldn't kill you if it was by itself but those shriekers...damn them!!
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Tetsuryu - 594 days 2 hours ago
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Personally hardly any of those creatures are considered terrifying (in terms of design) in my opinion.

This creature is one of them on my personal top 5 list (movie clip).
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King2008 - 594 days 1 hour ago
13 - I have to agree...
with the few above me with Nemesis...not the loser from the movies but the mofo from the game that smashed through walls and saids STARS repeatedly....that guy was crazy.
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spunnups - 593 days 22 hours ago
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The Needle guys from "The Suffering, and also the guys that popped out of the ground near the end.
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Deee187 - 593 days 15 hours ago
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Regenerators and Nemesis from Resident Evil and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill are better than anything on that list.
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Snarko - 593 days 14 hours ago
16 - Err..
The t-rex in Tomb Raider 1!?
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