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Mine is hands down the green alien fart cloud in The Pandora Directive. For three simple reasons:
- I don't like being chased.
- I don't like being on a timer.
- It scares the crap out of me to this day.
I usually panic to the point where I forget everything I need to do, despite having played the game a million times, and I spam the everloving hell out of the hint system.
Runner-up, also from the Tex Murphy series: the GRS "eyeball droid" in Under a Killing Moon. For some reason Access just felt compelled to put one pants-crapping sequence into each of these games...
Those are great tips. When we first got the game we played it on a "laptop"/portable computer my family had hooked up to a lot of music equipment. I believe because it was the only computer with access to a nice SoundBlaster card. Unfortunately, it had an orange monochrome display and a trackball mouse. I learned pretty quickly things were easier with a keyboard.
Off topic, but that reminds me, the first time I got to play SQ4 on a real monitor instead of the laptop. I couldn't believe the portal Roger falls through in the intro was so colorful!!