The first time a video game actually scared you.

[sirhett]

Probably the first time i ran into a labyrinth sage in bloodborne

[Manowar274]

Night time in Deadrising 1 when I was just getting into video games (I was maybe 12 or 13), the game was actually my brothers but I played it when he was gone, even though I was strictly not allowed to. Something about the now glowing eyes of the zombies and the convicts in the jeep with the music. All it combined made me shut off the game and hide under covers in bed.

[WayfinderXIII]

I was afraid of water in Super Mario 64 and still afraid of water, to an extent, in video games. I could not finish Wind Waker due to majority of the time out on sea.

[Esctxsy]

Lol, i dont even play horror games. Just not my type of genre, I think the first onei tried playing was the evil within on xbox one... i never finished it.

[Pain]

What really scared me shitless was finding some of the murder victims in the game Dagger Of Amon Ra. Some Sierra games (e.g. Phantasmagoria later on) were scary as hell, especially when you are in your early teens.

[Inkdipper]

Earliest memory I have is when I needed my Dad to beat the underwater sunken ship level in Super Mario 64. I remember swimming in Turok being jarring at times, but I always managed to push through it. I think it might have been due to having a fear of drowning or some traumatic beach experience, seems so ridiculous to me looking back on it. But on that same note when I played Bioshock for the first time I couldn't make it past the intro of the game. I was damn teenager at the time and could not play that shit with the lights off. It was a year after the release that I would actually go through and play it. Again that fuckin water and how immersive that intro scene was for me at the time. To this day I hate swimming in video game. I may not shy away from them like I use to, but they still poke at that primal fear.

Undying.

I stopped playing the game because I got too scared and didn't like the feeling.

[Doom Video Vault]

Silent Hill was the first game to give me some chills and WTF moments. Also, Dead Space had some good moments in it here and there. Watching people playing Fatal Frame and Fatal Frame 2 on YouTube was legitimately frightening at some points if you read into some of the text in the game.

[DarknessFX]

Alone in the Dark and Dark Seed I remember to keep me anxious through all the playthroughs.
Recently I've got a huge jump scare when someone touch me while I was fighting a boss in Resident Evil 7 PSVR.

[bigmad]

The first Max Payne. During a sleepover at a friend's we played it on his older brother's computer - I was 8-9 years old at the time. Things were fine right up until the point where Max's family gets murdered; being the sensitive and anxious child that I was, I couldn't help but imagine my OWN family dying at the hands of some crazy junkies while I was away at this very sleepover, powerless to do anything. I was on the verge of tears for the rest of the night, and I didn't get a wink of sleep.

The Shadow Temple in Ocarina of Time was pretty scary too.

[K1K86]

Resident Evil 2. The first licker in the Police Station. I never played past that point.

[Wolf]

For me it's less about when it was the first, but rather what I remember.

And I'd have to go to a rather unusual games, namely Operation Flashpoint, the original one.

From Arma it's two situations that really stick out, both from the mission "Montignac must fall".
The first is when you try to capture the village Montignac, and you enter full scale combat, with armor support and an entrenched enemy for the first time.
That one would probably the first time a game did scare me, but it gets worse.

The worse is the latter part of the mission when you and your squad try to retreat, and first you evac helo is shot down by a Hind, and then it hunts you and your squad.

That one really stuck to my mind over all the years, where you're told to run for the forest, and you hear the Hinds rotor whip through the air, getting faster and faster, and louder and louder as it gets closer and closer.
You can't really see it, because it's getting dark, which adds to it being frightening, and you start thinking "I'm never going to make it to the forest!"
At one time I broke formation and just ran pell mell into the forest, which is what saved me.
As when I turned around, I saw my squad, a sudden explosion, and after the explosion cleared the whole squad was gone.

Everyone of them dead on the ground, all those characters that you had joked and fought with, and started to like, gone.

And yes you can die in that mission, if you keep in formation run with your squad, the hind will get you.

I have had some rather frightening moments in IL-2 1946 (or Forgotten Battles/Pacific Fighters then) in the British Malta Campaign, where I was once in a Dogfight on my own against 14 enemy planes*, but that felt not quite as visceral as Montignac must fall.
It was pretty frightening, because surviving superior numbers in a Flightsim is very tough, and like in OPF/Arma the AI is actively trying to kill, and given half a chance, they will, but I had more of a chance than one Rifleman against a Hind without a Stinger.

*Which actually is historically accurate for some of the missions of the Hal Far Fighter Flight.

Combat flight sims will genuinely make you afraid at time, same goes for the Arma series, ironically Arma 2's Nightstalker Namals Crysis Campaign was the first to give me that "I'm the last human alive on earth" feel, where I would've gladly hugged any enemy soldier I met, because it would've meant meeting another human.
But that is a story for another day or topic......

[CuppaJoe]

Probably the first zombie in the original Resident Evil. I played scary games before then, like Alone in the Dark, but i think i was too immature to grasp the horror.

[HC PillarofFire]

My first time a game scared me was the mission 343 Guilty Spark when you first encounter the flood at 3 am.

[Silentxgold]

I do not like to play "ghost" or horror games, however I once played dead space 1, got scared.... quit

Went back to play with trainer, still scared and quit before stage 4 or around when they introduced horror babies

Yet Fear 1,2 or 3 was cake walk