History VideoGame / NightmareNed

* RecursiveReality: 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.

* VillainSong: The game had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uizhgr6pZFQ The Mouse Song]]". Definitely constitutes an EarWorm. The Rats explain in their song that their motive for tormenting you is, essentially, ForTheEvulz.

* StrappedToAnOperatingTable

* RecursiveReality: 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 screen 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.

* LosingYourHead: Happens on occasion.

** The game has the art class segment which is reminiscent to fighting games, namely MortalKombat and the use of its phrase, "FINISH HIM!".

*** 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]]
** Doctor Shots, who will stab Ned clean through with giant needles if he gets caught when the Mouth closes on him, one additional piece of his outfit changing from white to a tooth-decay mix of browns each time. If the decay spreads to his coat, you're ejected from the level.

* {{Not Afraid of You Anymore}}: Ned when he conquers all five nightmare worlds. [[spoiler: at least in the Good Ending.]]

* SceneryPorn/ SceneryGorn: In the game. The 2D artwork and animation STILL looks beautiful even years later.
* {{Shoutout}}:

** In the School stage, the principal makes an accidental phonecall to “the happiest place on earth” when trying to reach Neds parents.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: A zombie girlscout, zombie dad, and Ned's zombie parents.

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

* RodentsOfUnusualSize: The mouse/ rat civilizations, and on a larger scale, an ''enormous'' realistic-looking rat[[note]]([[{{WMG}} Which some gamers believed to be the]] [[KingOfBeasts progenitor of them all]])[[/note]] can be found in one of the cutscenes.

** [[spoiler:[[{{WMG}} Some have speculated that the little girl Sally may actually be Mrs. Needlemeyer herself as a child]].]]

* MultipleEndings: More specifically, a GoodEnding and a BadEnding.

* 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 cartoonic manor.

* {{Fireballs}}: The living furnace spews out balls of flame.

* RedHerring: A toilet labeled "The Worst Toilet in Ned's Nightmare" which Ned chooses to outright avoid by leaping down into a chasm.

A PC game released in 1997 by Disney Interactive and developed by Creative Capers Entertainment and Window Painters Ltd which 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.

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* {{Not Afraid of You Anymore}}: Ned when he conquers all five nightmare worlds.

* ArcSymbol: The five Shadows are represented by five distinct symbols.

* CatsAreMean: Two black cats in Attic, Basement, and Beyond which injure Ned with shards from broken mirrors.

* ClosedCircle: The nightmare worlds.

* {{Cyclops}}: The Gum Monster from in the Mouth and Cyco (Toilet-Paper Cyclops) from the Bathroom Nightmare.

* {{Homage}}: The game has the art class segment which is reminiscent to fighting games, namely MortalKombat and the use of its phrase, "FINISH HIM!".

* MadDoctor/ DepravedDentist: The Medical Shadow is shown to be the most insane and sadistic of the bunch.

* {{Mooks}}: The countless Attic, Basement, and Beyond mice are this to a fire-spitting furnace who repeatedly fries them, and also the Electro-Beavers in the Bathroom Nightmare are this to the rat overlords.

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

* {{Shoutout}}: 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.

* TheUnsolvedMystery: [[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.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: Trick-or-Treater carrying a [[StealthPun paper bag holding a cat]] wearing a mask disguised as a dog.

* CoolCar: Supernatural, 70s-style car that morphs into a rocket? Hell yeah.

* MindScrew: A door that when Ned enters he is spat out of the phonograph.

* SchmuckBait: A box that reads "DANGER DON'T TOUCH".

* TheWallsHaveEyes: The Dark Woods area.

* {{Not Afraid of You Anymore}}: Ned when he conquers all five nightmare worlds. [[spoiler: at least in the Good Ending.]]

* {{Not Afraid of You Anymore}}: Ned when he conquers all five nightmare worlds.

** Ned's silhouette shakes hands with none other than Mickey Mouse.

** Ned's silhouette shakes hands with non other than Mickey Mouse.

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

** Ned's silhouette shakes hands with that of MickeyMouse from the Disney World, along with another cartoonish figure.

* SceneryPorn/ SceneryGorn: In the game. The 2D artwork and animation STILL looks beautiful even 14 years later.

* TheRenaissance: The first area of the Attic, Basement, and Beyond Nightmare features some real world Renaissance-style art.

* MoodDissonance: The Uvula song being performed in a bloody, diseased [[EldritchLocation Eldritch Mouth]].