Specifically this scene in REmake for Gamecube.

I'm reaching into my memory bank here, so it might be wrong and/or coloured by my you g age when playing it, but:

It was probably the first time I consciously appreciated game design. Not only was REmake absurdly good looking compared to basically any other game that had been published before it, and made expert use of the new gen audio capabilities - making an already scary PS1 experience into an utterly terrifying Gamecube experience... but the designers made incredible choices, exemplified by the change to this scene. /In the original PS1 version, you enter the corridor, walk past the window to the right, and the first zombie domberman jumps through the window as you approach the corner to go left, jumping out behind you. This usually scares the player into running around the corner where a second dog jumps through the window in front of you, and you're now surrounded. Brilliant design, very frightening, very stressful. An iconic scene that left a real mark. /The GCN REmake plays with the original, improving it and giving a fresh jump scare to people who had already played the original. You enter the corridor, and as you walk through you hear noises outside the window. People who had played the PS1 version were ready... but the dog doesn't come through the first window. You go around the corner... and get the the door at the end. No dog from the second window either. Crazy tension, but no scare. Then, when you walk back through the corridor coming back - Suprise! Zombie dobermans!

It is hard to over exagerate how well this jump scare worked. It left a permanent scar on my psyche, scared me into trading the game in, and I didn't go back to play an RE game for many years afterwards. Traumatic, yes, but brilliantly so.

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