As mentioned on the other thread, that Time\'s Up/Tacky Buzzer used on the syndicated Hollywood Squares was at the top of my list.
And, while not really a Game Show specific, I give you \"The S From Hell\":
That creepy music and snakelike logo formation scared the crap out of me when I was little. And I wasn\'t the only one if the \"S from Hell\" moniker can easily be googled on the internet.
Since we\'re extending this to closing logos (and I remember how well THAT went the last time...;-)), let me further nominate the Thames \"rising buildings\" and Colex Enterprises as ones that bothered me as well...because the jingles sounded like the above Screen Gems music. And there was the AAP logo that used to appear before Popeye and Looney Tunes shorts back in the day.
The other arch villian in the closing logo world is the \'70s and \'80s Viacom \"V of Doom\"...but that never bothered me, actually.
Back to game shows, I\'ll reiterate mine:
- The TPIR losing horns (and any similar ones, like both Blockbusters Gold Run loss SFXs or the Classic Concentration bonus round loss)
- Someone mentioned Cliff Hangers...when I was really young I thought the \"yodely guy\" music was weird...
- Bankrupt slide whistle
- TTD dragon (and I turned the sound down on TJW too cause I thought the devil made a noise too...though I didn\'t like the Penny Ante sound as I likened it to a weed whacker starting for some reason...)
- The Stopper
- The Whew! opening, esp. the vampire\'s roar. That haunted me from when I was 3 when the show aired until I found out about it on ATGS and got an episode. I didn\'t even know what it was called or anything until then...I just remembered that opening!
- Yes, at first I feared the Whammy too.
- The Davidson HS bonus game loss sound bothered me too for some reason.
/ObGameShow: a still version of the SFH was seen at the end of All About Faces.