History NightmareFuel / MacVenture

Despite receiving a release on the family-friendly UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem, this is a series that's not for the faint of heart, and here's why.

* The Hellhound guarding the Platinum Horn. If you make one wrong move or wait too long, it kills you; complete with a GrossUpCloseUp. The Windows version makes things even scarier by adding in [[JumpScare sudden, loud growling sounds when it kills you.]]

* The woman in white in the first hallway. She's the one who generally causes the first death, which means the players get to see her face and likely the red skull for the first time, even though the music when she's present from the back is sweet.

* The NES and Game Boy Color versions go for a simple gravestone as the death screen, but the Famicom version (of the first ''Deja Vu'') has a skull that wouldn't look out of place in ''Uninvited'', while the non-Nintendo versions of ''Deja Vu II'' have TheGrimReaper with a gun that's pretty scary and equal to the one in ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}'' (while the Windows 3.x version has [[https://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/dj-vu-i-ii-the-casebooks-of-ace-harding-/screenshots/gameShotId,362469/ a close-up of Ace Harding's bare feet with his nametag on the toe and a shroud wrapped on his body in the morgue]]). Speaking of which...

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* The butler in some versions looks like he has no eyes.

* The Ruby. You just picked up a seemingly innocent ruby. And as you continued to walk further, [[GameOverMan the red skull that usually serves as the one greeting your death]] suddenly pops up and you continue to slowly feel more and more unwell... until after a few times, turns out the atmosphere of the house corrupts you and you suddenly became zombified. Because you just carry that seemingly innocent Ruby. Or even worse in the Mac version. You enter the house, you're overwhelmed with that cursed aura right from the start. [[TimedMission Better get moving fast.]] And the implication? ''The whole house is a house of nightmares!''

* The NES version goes for a simple gravestone as the death screen, but the Famicom has a skull that wouldn't look out of place in ''Uninvited''. Speaking of which...

* The descriptions of the [[TheManyDeathsOfYou many, many gruesome deaths]] players will likely be met with. One of the involves getting trapped in a cell. You die eventually, but no-one says you get to leave the cell afterwards...

* The Ruby. You just picked up a seemingly innocent ruby. And as you continued to walk further, [[GameOverMan the red skull that usually serves as the one greeting your death]] suddenly pops up and you continue to slowly feel more and more unwell... until after a few times, turns out the atmosphere of the house corrupts you and you suddenly became zombified. Because you just carry that seemingly innocent Ruby. Or even worse in the Mac version. You enter the house, you're overwhelmed with that cursed aura right from the start. [[TimedMission Better get moving fast.]]

* The remake not only steps up the death's descriptions, but also adds frighteningly gruesome sound effects and foley to the mix. Special mention goes to [[spoiler: the hidden deaths in the tower music room (where the air pressure from the soundwaves coming from the instruments becomes high enough that it slowly crushes the player to death (complete with blood being squeezed out of every orifice in their body), culminating in their head exploding), the beast in the mines (who leaps out at the player and slams them repeatedly until every bone in their body is broken), and the enchanted mirror into space (with rather graphic descriptions of the effects of decompression on their organs).]]

* The woman in white in the first hallway.

* The descriptions of the [[TheManyDeathsOfYou many, many gruesome deaths]] players will likely be met with.

* And {{the Grim Reaper}}. The NES version with the red eyes is the most iconic, but the Macintosh one with the smile and lack of color is probably the most terrifying.