[HN Gopher] Ghost in the machine? Legend of the 'haunted' N64 vi...
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Ghost in the machine? Legend of the 'haunted' N64 video game
cartridge
Author : fallinditch
Score : 61 points
Date : 2025-05-03 16:41 UTC (2 days ago)
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| pxndxx wrote:
| Inscryption captured the "videogame creepypasta" genre in an
| actual, pretty good roguelike video game, if you want more of
| this!
| joshu wrote:
| Inscryption is a towering achievement, especially the frame
| story. Definitely an example of game as Art
| randomtoast wrote:
| Short Summary:
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| Ben Drowned is a viral internet horror story (a "creepypasta")
| created in 2010 by Alex Hall, who posted under the pseudonym
| "Jadusable." The tale revolves around a supposedly haunted
| Nintendo 64 cartridge of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The
| cartridge was unlabeled, and when played, exhibited disturbing
| behavior: reversed music, distorted graphics, and the recurring
| presence of a statue of Link with a petrified, menacing
| expression. The in-game ghost was said to be "Ben," the spirit of
| a boy who drowned.
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| Related Wiki Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Drowned
| neuroelectron wrote:
| Pretty creepy. Here's a direct link to the scenes in question:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGOJmdxdjeA&t=230s
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6D2XCJUJHY&t=65s
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| The effects are made with N64 ROM hacking in Project64 emulator
| and video editing.
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| Are haunted/cursed games a common fear in children? I recall a
| recurring nightmare where my Sim Town game was corrupted or
| cursed. Having all of the game rules become inverted was
| terrifying for some reason.
| dafelst wrote:
| For what it's worth, I experienced the same sort of nightmares,
| though it typically wasn't a specific game or program, more
| like the computer being hacked/compromised/haunted.
| gs17 wrote:
| I've always had nightmares about technology misbehaving, but I
| blame it on my childhood Mac being one that would sometimes
| start up with with the screen inverted, the "happy Mac" icon
| replaced with a dead sad Mac, and the sound of a car crash. The
| machine that usually follows specific rules randomly deciding
| to scare you definitely builds some anxiety.
| nekoashide wrote:
| Ghostbusters on the NES was fear inducing as an 80's kid, then
| came Resident Evil on the PSX.
| MisterTea wrote:
| Fear inducing through the anxious environment created on
| purpose by the gameplay itself or the fear that the game
| would do something super-natural?
| MisterTea wrote:
| As a child I only once remember fearing a machine - the local
| dry cleaning machine. That thing was a tubular tentacle monster
| to a child. I feared people a lot more and felt that machines
| were predictable as they were not biological therefor could not
| be possessed or haunted. I also have no fears of supernatural
| beings nor do I have religious inclination to fear a
| gods/demons/spirits/etc. People are the real monsters.
| yazantapuz wrote:
| Not a game, but where i live, stories of haunted smurfs toys
| (or clothes!) that killed their owners where pretty popular,
| and definitily scaried me when i was a child (we had a tiny
| smurf action figure and a sega genesis cartdrige of the smurfs
| game)
| ThrowawayTestr wrote:
| Do kids still have urban legends?
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