It's even creepier if you feed a cracker to the parrot. Poor sweet little Polly says "Sleep tight my pretties in the basement... the basement." I don't mind sharing that I learned to type to play this game as a little kid, and 28 years later, I still can't be alone when I play it, and I try not to at night. The thing about the black cave is... by the time you can access the underground part, you've probably been dragged into shadows, choked to death, stabbed, and (I haven't been able to find this since childhood but I swear it happened) bludgeoned in the shadows of different parts of the house by a mysterious figure. By the time you're walking through that cave, you've been trained to be scared of the dark! UGH, it's still spooky. I agree about Croshaw games... sometimes the understated simplicity of the pixellated violence of old school games can be terrifying. I don't know if any game I've played recently gives me as big a jump as the troll in the cave behind the waterfall in KQ4 or the attic death in LB1.