Unwanted Nostalgia: Difference between revisions

I had been craving to play one of the older Pokemon games for a while now, as all I had were Ruby and FireRed. As soon as I started up Yellow, though, I never wanted to see another Pokemon game in my life. When I buy something used, I usually check out the save file that's on the cartridge, just to see how far the person before me got. The save file here was called “"????SIN”, and there was a 97 hour playtime. A rather strange name, but that just made me even more curious. When I was finally in-game, my character was inside of a Poke-Center, but there was a few things wrong; Nobody was in it. Not even Nurse Joy. Pikachu's sprite was completely black. Upstairs, the rival character was in a corner. When I spoke to him, he just said “O"O..U..T..S..I..D..E..”, and disappeared from the Poke-Center.

I wanted to turn the game off at this point; But again, curiosity got the best of me. I mean, at the most, it was just a hacked game, right? I proceeded to go out of the Pokemon Center, and found myself Lavender Tower. The music started screeching, and would continue to play even if I put the volume all the way down. Well, it was a used game, and a used Gameboy, so I assumed it was a normal problem. Then, Pikachu's sprite was on the ground, with a pool of black pixels under it, which I could only think was blood.. That's kind of a sick joke, hacked game or not, but I just brushed it off and went to the top floor of the tower. There, the rival character appeared out of nowhere, walked up to me, and said “"..........................” as I was thrown into a battle. What really disturbed me was the fact that the Pokemon that was sent out was the Pikachu that was with me. It had streaks of blood coming down it's sprite, and it's cry was the sound it makes when it faints in battle. The rival sent didn't send anything out. He just stood there. My only battle options were “ATTACK"ATTACK, ???, ???, ???” so I chose attack. But then, all it said was.. “KILL"KILL, KILL, KILL, KILL” so I just chose one of them. The rival's sprite had tears on it's face, the Pikachu fainted, and the game just froze.