It definitely fucked my shit up. I was so excitedly playing SM64 as like a 6-7 year old. I had just gotten the game and was running through all the levels. I jumped into Jolly Roger Bay and just started swimmin' on in, not prepared at all for what greeted me.
I froze. A cold chill went down my spine and stayed there. I closed my eyes, and felt my way to the power button on the console.
For YEARS I could not deal with water shit in games. I had to get help from my sister or a friend in levels like Jolly Roger, Tiny Big world with the big fish, Dire Dire Docks, and plenty of other games like Clanker's Cavern in Banjo Kazooie. I would straight up turn my back, and instruct her on what to do.
To this day I can still get uncomfortable in certain water situations in games, and certain games that are heavily based underwater such as scuba diving stuff I've generally completely avoided. I'm afraid of mass deep open bodies of water IRL, and wouldn't go scuba diving in the deep ocean for damn near anything. I always wondered if this was the actual source of that or if it was more of a coincidence.
For a long time I thought this was fairly exclusive to me, but it's pretty established now that this thing fucked with a lot of people in similar ways. Did it fuck your shit up?
I froze. A cold chill went down my spine and stayed there. I closed my eyes, and felt my way to the power button on the console.
For YEARS I could not deal with water shit in games. I had to get help from my sister or a friend in levels like Jolly Roger, Tiny Big world with the big fish, Dire Dire Docks, and plenty of other games like Clanker's Cavern in Banjo Kazooie. I would straight up turn my back, and instruct her on what to do.
To this day I can still get uncomfortable in certain water situations in games, and certain games that are heavily based underwater such as scuba diving stuff I've generally completely avoided. I'm afraid of mass deep open bodies of water IRL, and wouldn't go scuba diving in the deep ocean for damn near anything. I always wondered if this was the actual source of that or if it was more of a coincidence.
For a long time I thought this was fairly exclusive to me, but it's pretty established now that this thing fucked with a lot of people in similar ways. Did it fuck your shit up?
Last edited: