Candid talk: Your darkest/scariest Mario moments

[Aliem]

The first time a hand reached out of the ground and dragged me into a level in Super Mario Bros 3, no question.

[erm2003]

The first time a hand reached out of the ground and dragged me into a level in Super Mario Bros 3, no question.

Ok yes, this. I was having trouble figuring out what mine would be, but this was probably the one thing that got me when I was little.

I do still get some chills when playing some of the haunted house levels in any of the games, especially the newer games with the creepy music and crazy mazes.

[mrz84]

The hands in SMB3 spooked me too, I'll admit, the first few times I saw them. After that I saw them as a mere annoyance when I didn't want to go through one of those levels. Also, it looks kinda like Master/Crazy Hand from Smash Bros (seriously doubt that they used the hand for their model though)

[bigjoe]

This will sound weird, but when I first got to the maze castles in SMB1 and didn't know what they were about I was pretty spooked by them. The level just kept repeating itself and the time slowly went down.

The hawkmouth coming to life in SMB2 takes the cake though. I'm pretty certain I had a nightmare about it that very night.