What game do you think this is?

[Redfish12X]

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=213&topic=53548452

This man seems to be in quite the predicament.

[Game Freak]

I lol'd ROFL

[Baloo]

Takes me to a user login page.

[Kitsune Sniper]

For those of you without GameFAQs accounts...


I collect old video games; whether they're on the NES, the Genesis, the SNES, or even obscure things like the PC Engine. I visited a Pawn Shop in the city which was reputable for collectors of retro technology. While in there, I stumbled upon a game that was "given back" multiple times. The clerk gave me an SNES cartridge. It was oddly-shaped and colored, kind of like those unlicensed Bible games from Wisdom Tree. The cartridge was a very neon-ish Yellow tint to it, and the label seemed to have been hand-drawn, albeit with good detail.

The name of the game was simply "4", and had an illustration of four colored blobs all next to one another. Thinking it was a generic platformer, I took it home to play. When I started the game up, I was surprised to find out that the language wasn't English. I couldn't match it with a part of the globe, but I would have to say it best matches Southeast Asian typography. The first level of the game was mildly eerie. It was a Sonic the Hedgehog-inspired game where you played as four different characters. The multi-char thing was a ripoff of Donkey Kong Country, as you had to break them from rusty cages. The level was urban-themed, and involved the player escaping from (what seemed to be) blob-thing catchers. All of the sounds in the game were either taken from other SNES games, or seemed to have been recorded. I noticed many low-quality voices, grunts, etc. Besides the characters, the enemies and objects were terribly-rendered and designed. Most of them were geometric shapes, or sprite edits from other games. I noticed that every time you killed an enemy, the Hell Knight scream from the original Doom played, and a sentence of text appeared on screen.

As creepy as it was, the red flags started to appear. Each time you "lost" a character, the scenery and sprites changed to become darker, and less colorful, until everything is black and white. As you progressed further in a level (regardless of how well you're doing), the scenery becomes gory, and somewhat psychedelic. The levels are all cliche. Urban, forest, clouds, snow, etc. In the middle of the game, it appears as if it's designed so that the player cannot progress, and continuously dies. When you lose all four characters, the screen becomes very dim, and to my shock, a low-quality scream, as well as unintelligible sentences BLAST at high volume, accompanied by pixelated, low-res images of generic gore pics; presumably from wars. The final picture shown was a pixelated image of an Asian family at a wedding. The dimmed background turns white, as a sentence appears on screen, and a voice speaks the unintelligible language.

I thought the game froze, but upon inspection, it wasn't. I turned up the volume way up. A low buzzing noise could be heard from the game, as the screen dimmed again. The Game Over screen was a close-up shot on the four main characters looking happy. The screen gets darker, line-by-line. Their faces get visibly sadder and sadder, as a generic "Wah wah wah" song comes on. The game did another buzzing sequence, prompting me to turn up the volume. Surprising me due to the noise and creepiness, a loud, long sound byte was played; which sounded like a man + woman arguing. This went on for a while, when it just stopped. The screen turned black, and in white text, three sentences appeared on screen. I tried turning the SNES off, but I couldn't. I took out the cartridge, and the image on the screen became distorted, as the upper half was white. Becoming genuinely scared, I pulled out the power cord, and re-plugged it.

I couldn't turn my SNES on. The whole "Corny horror movie" emotion overwhelmed me, so I took the game back to the pawn shop. The clerk didn't give me my (small amount of) money back, simply because he said he wouldn't know the cash value.

[DefaultGen]

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[Voliko]

Sounds like this guy has quite the twisted imagination

[cityside75]

Ahhh to be young enough again to actually believe stories like this are possible...

[Gameguy]

Sounds like a bootleg remake of an old Atari game.

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/1541/4125719main.jpg

[exit]

Real or not, this sounds more interesting than most of the crap that's released nowadays.

[thom_m]

Fake story, obviously. Still, why do I ALWAYS get to read this kinda shit late at night?!

[Compute]

Maybe it was the SNES port of Polybius

[understatement]

I played a game like this once, but in the end it turned out to be Shaq-Fu.

[Gapporin]

I smell a homebrew in the near future...

[NayusDante]

I smell a homebrew in the near future...

Be careful, these things tend to end in violence and butter.

[SegaAges]

Dude, I would totally play this game.

Sounds cooler than some of the other games I purchase.

Besides, that would be awesome to make a fake haunted game. If ghosts and haunted entities can reprogram SNES carts and other games, maybe they can do something about IronMan on 360. That game blows goats.

[Flippy8490]

...that sounds like a really cool video game horror movie XD

[Gapporin]

I cant understand the logic of this Discussion.Simply i can say this is wastage of time to read or post on this thread.

Chinabuye.com

Speaking of wastages of time...

--Zero

[TonyTheTiger]

Ahhh to be young enough again to actually believe stories like this are possible...

You'd be surprised about some of the bizarre experiences I've had with video games doing things I didn't think were possible. Electronics are sometimes scary things.

Not saying this is true in particular but I wouldn't discount the possibility that a game cart could screw up an SNES.

[cityside75]

You'd be surprised about some of the bizarre experiences I've had with video games doing things I didn't think were possible. Electronics are sometimes scary things.

Not saying this is true in particular but I wouldn't discount the possibility that a game cart could screw up an SNES.

Nope, not discounting that at all - I've seen a few wierd bugs/glitches as well. If the story focused more on some demented homebrew and unsettling glitching, it might almost seem plausible. It's when the story inevitably gets to the "I switched off the console but the game stayed on, I pulled the cartridge but the game kept going" section that I know it's very likely fiction. At least the console turned off when he unplugged it in this case, but apparently his cursed SNES was killed from the experience.

Now, a thread about unsettling and bizarre glitches that people here have really experienced like you mentioned would be very interesting to me, kinda like the Bizarre Stories thread in OT that gets revived every now and then. I love that thread!