Pokemon Black....Ok thats freaky

[Redith]

Just read about this thing.

I’m what you could call a collector of bootleg Pokémon games. Pokémon Diamond & Jade, Chaos Black, etc. It’s amazing the frequency with which you can find them at pawnshops, Goodwill, flea markets, and such. But this one takes the cake in weirdness.
It was a black gameboy cartrage with grey writing that said pokemon.

The game started with the familiar Nidorino and Gengar intro of Red and Blue version. However, the “press start” screen had been altered. Red was there, but the Pokémon did not cycle through. It also said “Black Version” under the Pokémon logo.

Upon selecting “New Game”, the game started the Professor Oak speech, and it quickly became evident that the game was essentially Pokémon Red Version.

After selecting your starter, if you looked at your Pokémon, you had in addition to Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle another Pokémon — “GHOST”.

The Pokémon was level 1. It had the sprite of the Ghosts that are encountered in Lavender Tower before obtaining the Sliph Scope. It had one attack — “Curse”. I know that there is a real move named curse, but the attack did not exist in Generation 1, so it appears it was hacked in.

Defending Pokémon were unable to attack Ghost — it would only say they were too scared to move. When the move “Curse” was used in battle, the screen would cut to black. The cry of the defending Pokémon would be heard, but it was distorted, played at a much lower pitch than normal. The battle screen would then reappear, and the defending Pokémon would be gone. If used in a battle against a trainer, when the Pokéballs representing their Pokemon would appear in the corner, they would have one fewer Pokéball.

The implication was that the Pokémon died.

What’s even stranger is that after defeating a trainer and seeing “Red received $200 for winning!”, the battle commands would appear again. If you selected “Run”, the battle would end as it normally does. You could also select Curse. If you did, upon returning to the overworld, the trainer’s sprite would be gone. After leaving and reentering the area, the spot [where] the trainer had been would be replaced with a tombstone like the ones at Lavender Tower.

The move “Curse” was not usable in all instances. It would fail against Ghost Pokémon. It would also fail if it was used against trainers that you would have to face again, such as your Rival or Giovanni. It was usable in your final battle against them, however.

I figured this was the gimmick of the game, allowing you to use the previously uncapturable Ghosts. And because Curse made the game so easy, I essentially used it throughout the whole adventure.

The game changed quite a bit after defeating the Elite Four. After viewing the Hall of Fame, which consisted of Ghost and a couple of very under leveled Pokémon, the screen cut to black. A box appeared with the words “Many years later…” It then cut to Lavender Tower. An old man was standing, looking at tombstones. You then realized this man was your character.

The man moved at only half of your normal walking speed. You no longer had any Pokémon with you, not even Ghost, who up to this point had been impossible to remove from your party through depositing in the PC. The overworld was entirely empty — there were no people at all. There were still the tombstones of the trainers that you used Curse on, however.

You could go pretty much anywhere in the overworld at this point, though your movement was limited by the fact that you had no Pokémon to use HMs. And regardless of where you went, the music of Lavender Town continued on an infinite loop. After wandering for a while, I found that if you go through Diglett’s Cave, one of the cuttable bushes that normally blocks the path on the other side is no longer there, allowing you to advance and return to Pallet Town.

Upon entering your house and going to the exact tile where you start the game, the screen would cut to black.

Then a sprite of a Caterpie appeared. It was the replaced by a Weedle, and then a Pidgey. I soon realized, as the Pokémon progressed from Rattata to Blastoise, that these were all of the Pokémon that I had used Curse on.

After the end of my Rival’s team, a Youngster appeared, and then a Bug Catcher. These were the trainers I had Cursed.

Throughout the sequence, the Lavender Town music was playing, but it was slowly decreasing in pitch. By the time your Rival appeared on screen, it was little more than a demonic rumble.

Another cut to black. A few moments later, the battle screen suddenly appeared — your trainer sprite was now that of an old man, the same one as the one who teaches you how to catch Pokémon in Viridian City.

Ghost appeared on the other side, along with the words “GHOST wants to fight!”.

You couldn’t use items, and you had no Pokémon. If you tried to run, you couldn’t escape. The only option was “FIGHT”.

Using fight would immediately cause you to use Struggle, which didn’t affect Ghost but did chip off a bit of your own HP. When it was Ghost’s turn to attack, it would simply say “…” Eventually, when your HP reached a critical point, Ghost would finally use Curse.

The screen cut to black a final time.

Regardless of the buttons you pressed, you were permanently stuck in this black screen. At this point, the only thing you could do was turn the Game Boy off. When you played again, “NEW GAME” was the only option — the game had erased the file.

I played through this hacked game many, many times, and every time the game ended with this sequence. Several times I didn’t use Ghost at all, though he was impossible to remove from the party. In these cases, it did not show any Pokémon or trainers and simply cut to the climactic “battle with Ghost.

I’m not sure what the motives were behind the creator of this hack. It wasn’t widely distributed, so it was presumably not for monetary gain. It was very well done for a bootleg.

It seems he was trying to convey a message; though it seems I am the sole receiver of this message. I’m not entirely sure what it was — the inevitability of death? The pointlessness of it? Perhaps he was simply trying to morbidly inject death and darkness into a children’s game. Regardless, this children’s game has made me think, and it has made me cry.

[bluddy]

rofl how do i get that epic pokémon?

i would just love to play the evil version of pokémon

[Azunara]

Reading that....

Wow.

Just wow.

It really does make you think about all those pokemon you messed with, harmed without second thought, the trainers you sent crying home....That ending made me kind of...disturbed. I want to try this, just to see for myself, but yeah. That's....impressive. Points to whoever made it, I salute you. You may have done some lovely hacking and messing around, but at least you're making folks think about what they're doing.

[Kira]

You all know this IS a creepy paste, right? I've seen it on other sites.

Still freaks me out though..*shudder* I NEVER use Curse...

[rubybeam]

Now this is just freaky.. truly a scary peice of art, make's you think a little bit

[Saturo]

A few years ago my friend purchased a supposedly hacked version of red online. When it arrived he put it in his old gameboy color and booted it up started a new character and went off on a another faintly nostalgic adventure. He played for hours but couldn't really find anything that would be consider hacked, and he thought he'd been ripped off by another asshole on the internet. He eventually reached Lavender town and that's when things got strange. He reached the part with the ghost and was on his way to Saffron and by chance he happened to find one tombstone in the tower that could actually be read it, it simply read S.L. Ender he didn't think much of it and went on with the game, when he eventually got back to the tower he identified and defeated marowak, but then but for the rest of the game just on the edge of the screen there was an unidentifiable character that would follow him no matter where he went, my friend thought this was the glitch, that it summons some kind of ghost or something and eventually he made it to the indigo plateau and finished the game, he went back to his house in pallet to save for the last time but when he went in he noticed that the ghost man didn't follow him. he went back outside and noticed that the man was no longer on the edge of the screen but sitting maybe 5 or 6 paces in front of the house. He saved for the last time and turned off the game for good, understandably pissed at the 'hacked' game he bought. The next night he couldn't get to sleep because one of the dogs that his neighbor commonly left outside wouldn't stop barking, he looked out his window and saw a tall almost gangly man sitting on the bus stop bench across from his house, which was odd because the buses didn't run that late. He thought maybe it was just some one who was out for a late night jog or something and let it go and went to bed. He woke up around 3 in the morning to answer the call of nature, and on his way back to his bed he passed the window and noticed the man was still sitting there, he was unnerved but figured the man must have fallen asleep. The next day he woke up looked out his window and to his relief the man was gone. That same night he was settling in when he noticed the strange absence of the barking of his neighbors dog, he peered out his window only to see someone was sitting at the bus stop again. He didn’t get much sleep. Over the next couple of days a lot of people in the neighborhood where complaining that their pets where disappearing, He reported to the neighborhood watch about the man at the bus stop and they said they’d keep an eye out for him. Then a couple of nights later his mom asked him to take the trash to the curb, he was hesitant but after prodding from his mother he went to the garage opened the door and to his dismay someone was waiting at the bus stop. He went to the curb left the trash and walked very quickly back into the garage. As he was reaching for the button he looked back and saw the man tilted his head up to look at him, and that’s when he started to freak. The man appeared not to have a face. The man stood up and started taking long strideful steps toward the garage. My friend pushed the button and the garage started closing. The door closing seemed to last an eternity, the man continued his long stride towards the garage picking up the pace just a little. His long, inhuman, awkward gait burning its image into his brain. The door closed just as he reached the threshold of the garage. My friend stood in horror as the man peered through the plastic windows on the door and put his hand on the glass lightly tapping on it, My friend ran back inside and locked all the windows and doors he wouldn’t tell his parents why he was so distressed, He just told them he would feel better if they were locked. He went to bed that night looked out the window and the man was sitting at the bus stop looking back at him.He wouldn't leave the house after dark, from then on.

a few years ago he moved out to California, haven't heard from him since.

Awhile ago I went searching on the web for the guy who sold him the Pokemon cartridge, but the strange thing is they've never had any seller of a hacked Pokemon red cartridge on record

[rubybeam]

I found another creepy game like this only it's pure horror, ack now i'm just in the darkest of mood thanks to these two creepy things it's called pokemon lost sliver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKnCBwsa-bU

there's also plenty of creepy fanart, but sense it's to creepy to post here i'm just going to post the original story


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[Azunara]

Reading all of this, despite how disturbing and thought inducing it is...I'll admit I'm skeptical. I doubt any of this really happened, and it's one of those "It would have to happen to me for me to actually believe it" kind of stuff.

Unless we're all in the same mind frame of, "This is all fake silliness." Then you can ignore me...

[rubybeam]

naw this type is stuff is called creepypasta and is only made to creep you out, I found a whole thread on a different forums based on pokemon different pokemon creepypasta

[Vephriel]

Weee
http://www.creepypasta.com/

[Azunara]

The first story, with the whole Ghost turning on you, reminds me a lot of Final Fantasy....Ten, I believe. One of the characters, for those who don't know, was named Yuna. She was your basic healing unit, with one twist. She could summon various different creatures as her guardians, and that was the secondary plot line, visiting the temples and getting them as your buddies.(The first being your main character find his way home.)

Their purpose was to protect Yuna, whose purpose was to fight Sin. In the end, it turns out because your guardians, who had been with you the entire time, were also a large part of Sin....they had to be destroyed. So you would summon them one by one, your loyal protectors, and kill them.

So yeah. It fits the whole, "Aaaw. My long time pal is kind of killing me..." theme.