I knew the disc was a goner when the startup screen took more than four seconds to load.

I love how everyone has some sort of traumatic recollection of being a kid and seeing this.

POV: You are a kid, it’s 8pm, you’re home alone in your bedroom with all the house’s lights off, you see the gateway to hell with your own eyes.

It’s not the picture that scares me, it’s the sound that plays

PC crashes: Bluescreen of Death.

It's always the pause that gets me because if you're familiar with how things work when they work, you'll notice how it's taking a second too long, and before you rationalize it you get dragged into the abyss

innocent kid: puts on a disc with tiny scratches

This, along with the THX intro, are the creepiest pieces of media that scared us in the 2000s

If it doesn’t load the game in 4 seconds you know shit is about to go down

Sony would be an absolute troll if they bring the red screen back on PS5

The entire PS2 Bios makes the console feel like it's alive and this screen makes it look like you've made it very angry

Ok sony. Just go ahead and open a gateway to hell when some innocent kid uses a scratched disc.

Wii: Error, cannot read this disc. Please press the eject button.

That is the first thing you see in hell

Seeing this happen in the middle of a silent night, playing when your parents think your asleep, I still feel that primal sense of dread and horror to this day

Disc: has tiny scratches

They better bring this back on the ps5, it’s not fair that only we had to get traumatized as kids lmao

Me as a kid: Terrified