10 Biggest Jump-Scares In Non-Horror Video Games
2. The Piano - Super Mario 64
While traipsing around Big Boo's Haunt in Super Mario 64, you'll have many spine-tingling encounters. The sentient library books. Big Boo facing you on the merry-go-round. The coffins trying to crush you.
Ironically, the scariest part of this spooky mansion isn't the ghosts, the scuttlebugs, or the giant eyeball - it's the piano!
To obtain one Power Stars, you need to collect eight red coins strewn around the level. If you walk into the first door on the left after entering Big Boo's home, you'll spot a solitary red coin in the corner of the room. Because the room is unoccupied, save for an innocuous piano, you dash towards the coin without a care in the world.
Suddenly, the piano starts crawling towards the Italian plumber, opening its lid to reveal its gnashing teeth. Every time this possessed instrument bites down, it makes an ear-splitting clanging sound, making this face-off all the more unsettling.
When you arrived in Big Boo's Haunt, you were ready for spirits, monsters, and creepy-crawlies. But nobody was ready for an evil piano. (Honestly, it would've been weird if you were.)