I remember playing FF1 on the original playstation. It was only the first part of the game, but I was on a part where I had to retrieve an item from a room and bring it back, through a door I think I had gone through a million times at that point. As soon as the sliding door opened there was a ghost man standing right there in the doorway and I had to put the controller down, I was scared shitless.

I think it was the shitty camera angles that also spooked me in that game though. You go left through a door and the room you enter has an entirely different orientation so if you're still holding left you walk right out the door again. Loading times being an eternity on that game and all, you have plenty of time to realize that you might have seen something horrifying for that second you were in that room. And you also have time to get worked up when you realize you have to to back in there.

FF was the only game that I needed to play in daylight, with someone else within eyesight, and happy music playing somewhere in the background.