10 Unexpected Times Video Games Creeped You Out
4. Sonic The Hedgehog - Drowning Music
Lots of games have had swimming sections over the years, and lots of those have allowed the character to go under the water.
In fact, this was actually more prevalent before the advent of 3D, when 2D games could simply add an easy swimming section that sees you realistically collecting bubbles so that you don't drown and making your way through the flooded underground cave system that every video game has.
In the Sonic The Hedgehog games though, the addition of what I'm terming "drowning music" adds so much tension that a surprisingly large number of players, my wife included, simply cannot bring themselves to play those sections without feeling they're the ones drowning.
A rising tide of dread covers them as surely as the water has covered the titular blue hedgehog, and they slowly work their way through the caves. The music rises as their air gets low and the panic means they miss the next air bubble. It gets louder and louder, muffled only by their own rising heartbeat and...
And they have to remind themselves through the cold sweat that this is a kid's game.