History VideoGame / NightmareNed

* VideoGameLives: Ned gets eight hours to conquer his nightmares, shown on a giant alarm clock each time he loses one. If all of them are lost, the clock is destroyed except for the hands, and while the game continues on, it leads to the [[DownerEnding bad ending]].

This article now has a [[Characters/NightmareNed character sheet]]. And there is, [[TheWikiRule of course]], [[http://nightmarened.wikia.com/wiki/Nightmare_Ned_Wiki Nightmare Ned Wiki]] for more information.

A high-quality walkthrough of the game in its entirety including extras can be found [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OdVfEyvmKKg&t=4632s here.]]

A written walkthrough of the game can also be found [[http://www.gameboomers.com/wtcheats/pcNn/NightmareNed.htm here.]]

%%* {{Your Worst Nightmare}}

* CluckingFunny: Another one of Ned's opponents in The Locker is a giant, paper-mâché chicken who [[{{Cliche}} begins to crow "when the sun comes up."]]

A [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] game released in 1997 by Disney Interactive and developed by Creative Capers Entertainment and Window Painters Ltd. It centers around a young boy, named Ned Needlemeyer, who is sent in a world of nightmares where he must face his fears to get out.

A high quality walkthrough of the game in its entirety including extras can be found [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OdVfEyvmKKg&t=4632s here.]]

** The patching and the sickly green color of Quilt usually appears whenever something bad is about to happen.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: During use of the game's menu, Ned will talk to the player.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The game has lost much of the cartoonic and silly nature from the show. Even the music is eerier.

* HorrifyingTheHorror: [[spoiler:As the game continues and [[BodyHorror the Shadows begin to reveal]], [[NightmareFuel their expressions become increasing chilled and terrified themselves]].]]

** [[spoiler:Also, at the end, ''if'' Ned is able to beat the Shadows and conquer his fears, the Shadows are shown to be still hiding in his closet. They contemplate of what to do now that Ned has won, and the Medical Shadow suggests that [[VillainousValour "We could perform hideous, painful medical procedures on ''each other!''"]]]]
*** Subverted when it is shown that she was [[spoiler:actually friendly and it just the child in Ned that made him fear doctors so badly.]]

* MediumBlending: Artwork of both the background and some of the character mixes with technicolor, RealLife artistry, etc.

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Ned when he conquers all five nightmare worlds. [[spoiler: at least in the Good Ending.]]

** There is a vampire bat in the Chalkboard stage of the Alcatraz Elementary spelled out with chalk and plaque vampire bats in The Mouth.

* ThrowTheBookAtThem: An angry librarian squishes Ned between a book in Alcatraz Elementary as does the skeleton man in the Graveyard Nightmare if Ned disturbs him. The latter had actually crushed some other poor people the same way, and stuffed them into his bookshelf.

** [[spoiler:The true nature of the Attic, Basement, and Beyond Nightmare, its connection, if any, to the real world, and Sally the little girl's connection to Ned was never learned.]]

* SpearCarrier: The enormous pair of clawed monster hands--a likely EldritchAbomination--that casts Ned into the Shadows' Nightmare World does not appear again [[spoiler:unless the player ends with the good ending to which it brings him to the final battle]]. It is also seen on the game cover, but portrayed as more slender and presented in a much less cartoonish manor.

* KillTheCutie: The little boy wearing a party hat who helps Ned escape from the Jar get eaten by the Jack-in-the-Box monster immediately after.

* NightmareFace: The Green Ghosts do this to each other, though none of them really find it scary.
* OffWithHisHead: A scissor demon and GrimReaper who jump out of the background and cut Ned's head off only for it to reappear seconds later.

* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: One that is essentially a beating heart, needle-clawed hands, and cadaver-esque head attached to a long spine. When beaten, it explodes, leaving a deflated heart hanging from its spine.

* BenevolentArchitecture: In the Mouth stage, dental brace can be used both as trampolines to jump over obstacles and as a sort of tightrope that Ned can use to climb across dangerous/ impassable areas. Also, [[{{Squick}} bloody veins]] can be used to climb up to secret areas.

** [[TheElevatorFromIpanema Muzak]] being played in a dark waiting room, alongside a chair that either takes the form of a gurney with clamps, or a dentist chair that ''eats'' anyone that sits in it.

* UmbrellaDrink: Rotted tooth-men can be seen drinking from these during the Uvula Song.
* WombLevel: One half of the medical nightmare in the video game takes place in a giant mouth.

* CluckingFunny: Another one of Ned's opponents in The Locker is a giant, papier-mâché chicken who [[{{Cliche}} begins to crow "when the sun comes up."]]

** TheAllegedCar: In addition to missing the side door, the car appears completely non-functioning, [[spoiler:that is, until a key is found.]]

** [[spoiler:Subverted when it [[RedHerring turns out to be an oversized and morbid, yet harmless, insect, or simply nothing]].]]

* {{Rule of Scary}}

** The Attic, Basement, and Beyond stage in the game has a likely reference to Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Birds'' in which a flock of birds swarm in through a window and viciously peck at Ned. This only happens after you've knocked a fake bird out of its cage.

* SuddenAnatomy

* TheUnintelligible

* {{Your Worst Nightmare}}

* BookcasePassage
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}

* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: ...[[spoiler:OrWasItADream]]

* [[spoiler:PocketDimension: [[EpilepticTrees A possibility]], for it somehow had some sort of connection to the real world, according to Sally.]]

* UnwinnableByMistake: On newer systems, the Rat Ladder puzzle and [[HospitalGurneyScene Gurney arcade sequence]] can be harder to complete due to processor speed making the associated animations much faster than normal.

* DodgeballIsHell: The passage to the Medical nightmare results in Ned getting clobbered in the head several times by this, with a bump on his head for good measure.

* RealityAlteringMiniature: One puzzle in the Graveyard Nightmare shows an ant farm where multiple ants are shoveling dirt into a cave that looks like the room Ned is in. Then suddenly the real room gets filled with dirt and [[InterfaceScrew plasters Ned against the screen]], which squeaks as he moves side to side. Pushing a lever with his yo-yo removes the dirt and solves the puzzle.