That Nintendo 64 Game Everyone Knows and Loves

It was a foggy night. Similar to other nights, although it was hard to see as it was very cloudy outside. On a fog scale of 1 to 10, it was about an 8. That's very foggy and it was pretty hard to see what was going on outside. I was walking home from work. I'm a cashier at my local supermarket. I take people's money and give them what they order and give them change and shit like that. Being a cashier involves learning how to use a cash register, which is very simple to use. Just tap the numbers of the prices and add em up. It's that simple. It's boring but it gives me free money. Well, technically it's not free, as I have to work to earn the money. Nothing is free if you think about it. While I was walking in the direction of my abode to get to my abode, I came across this homeless man on the sidewalk. There's a lot of homeless people in the area I live in, as it is a somewhat poor area. What I mean by that is, there are not very many rich people living here, and there are a lot of poor people. Basically, it's a bad area. The homeless man, for reasons not associated with this fake creepypasta, had a Nintendo 64 game in his hand. The Nintendo 64 was a video game console released in 1996 in Japan and North America, and in 1997 in Europe, Australia, and Brazil. It was a part of the fifth generation of video game consoles, and it had a 64 bit CPU. It was very advanced for its time, although it lost the console war to the PS1, largely due to the fact that developers could fit a lot more of their games on a CD, rather than a cartridge which the N64 used. N64 is a commonly used abbreviation of the console's name. The homeless man stated, in a tone not worth mentioning because it will not put any depth into this story (which isn't real), TAKE THIS GAME, IT IS NOT HAUNTED. I thought it was very strange that he said the game was not haunted, as it was already very obvious the game wasn't haunted. Clearly, it was just a Nintendo 64 cartridge, and it is physically impossible for video games to become haunted, as there is no soul to overtake in a video game. Humans (not gingers), on the other hand, have souls, and therefore can be haunted by a demon or other paranormal entity (if you so believe in those types of things, I personally don't. I feel as if they are highly unrealistic, and there's no hard proof yet. I would like to see proof, it would be interesting if they were real.) I took the game, without thinking of the odd event that had just occurred to me a couple of seconds ago. During the time it was a couple of seconds, now it's clearly not. It's even longer after since you're reading this way after all this happened (which it didn't). I continued to walk home, as I was already walking home, as I mentioned previously in the creepypasta (If you were reading that part, some people like to skip through stories. That's fine, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. You don't have to read this story if you don't want. You have free will, and you can do anything you want with your life.) When I got home, I took a shower, as I usually do when I get home. Taking a shower involves washing your entire body with soap and water. Most people do it, as it is very important to live a clean lifestyle. I'm sure some people don't do it, but that is gross and something that I would never do. I take great care in my body and I like it to be very clean and well-washed, even though those two terms mean basically the same thing.  After I took the shower, I ate some food, as I usually do after I take a shower, as I usually do after I come home from work, as I usually do after I finish my job. I ate some leftover pizza I bought from the night before. I got it from my local pizzeria, which makes a very good pizza. I really liked it. After I finished my pizza, which I usually do after I take a shower (although it's not always pizza I eat various other things as well, I'm not that plain in my food choices. Please do not think that), which I usually do after I come home from work, which I usually do after I finish my job, I decided to check out the game that homeless man sent me. Considering I just got the game after I finished my job before I got home from work, it would only make sense to play the game now that I am home from getting home from my job and have taken a shower and eaten a pizza. So I went up to my attic and got my old Nintendo 64 down. I have a lot of my old consoles that I don't use anymore in my attic. Since I don't use these consoles much anymore, I didn't want them to take up space in my house, so I thought the attic was the perfect place to put them. My attic contains my Nintendo 64 (which I just brought down from the attic, once again I mentioned this previously, but if you skipped that's completely fine, free will and all that stuff.), my Gameboy, a portable handheld released in 1989, which is part of the fourth generation of gaming, the generation right before the one the N64 and PS1 was in (PS1 is an abbreviation of the name of the Playstation 1. It was also known as the PSX, although I do not know the reason for this, it sounds cooler than PS1 in my opinion though. Of course, you don't have to agree with me. You can have your own opinion. Again, free will.), my Super Nintendo, which was released in 1991, also part of the fourth generation, the same as the Gameboy, and my Nintendo, released in 1985, part of the third generation of consoles. The NES (an abbreviation of the Nintendo Entertainment System) is my personal favorite console of all time. There were just so many classic titles on the NES, that were extremely fun to play, such as, Mega Man, Mega Man 2, Mega Man 3, Mega Man 4, Mega Man 5, Mega Man 6, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros 3, Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II The Adventure of Link, Castlevania, Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest, Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse, Metroid, Contra, Tetris, Punch-Out, among many other games that I thoroughly enjoyed as a kid and enjoy today through emulators on my computer. I use Jnes personally, although you are free to use whatever emulator you enjoy. Since, ya know, you have free will and stuff like that. Some people don't like downloading roms on the internet, since some people view it as piracy, but NES games are discontinued, so even if you bought them, no money would be sent to Nintendo. There are, however, things like virtual console that allow Nintendo to continue receiving money from their classic games, so I guess that's a reason to not download ROMs illegally. But, once again, I don't personally mind downloading them. Anyway, I popped the game in the Nintendo 64. I used to love this game as a kid, I played it all the time. I won't explain too much about the game, cause it's so popular, you all know everything about it already.  When the game loaded, it went straight to the title screen. (Not sure why it would do anything else, just stating the obvious here.) The title screen had several buttons that would bring you to different menus. For example, the options, or the save files, and stuff like that. I moved the analog stick down to move the cursor in the game down to scroll over the option to play the game (Obviously, since I wanted to play the game because I haven't played this game in such a long time, and also considering I got it from some homeless man after I finished work, before I took a shower and ate pizza, as I usually do after work, although, once again, it's not always pizza, it's other foods sometimes too. Don't think I'm that plain to only have pizza after work. Please, please don't think that! I'm not! In the save file menu, there were 4 options of save files. Save files in video games are extremely helpful. They basically let you go right back into the game where you left off, even after you turn the game off to play it some other time. It's a really nice feature that I think a lot of people take for granted these days. Back in my day, games didn't have save files, and we had to finish hard games, like Ninja Gaiden or Zelda 2, without ever turning the console off. Oh, how modern games are so much more convenient. There was already a save file on the game. (Even though that's impossible, the Nintendo 64 stored its saves on a memory card you put in the controller, not in the game, so I couldn't have had a save file, since I didn't already have one on there, but for the context of this story, (which is fake by the way) let's say there was a save file. The save file was named *name of main protagonist from game*. It was a very simple save file name, just the name of the main character. I, of course, don't have to explain who this character is, as we all know him and the game he is from that I'm playing right now in this fake story that I am making up at 3 in the fucking morning for some reason. I moved the analog stick on my controller, which moved the cursor on the display of my television screen, which the console was processing at that moment, onto the save file, so that I could load the save file and see what is was, since it wasn't mine. I pushed my finger onto the A button, which loaded the save file in the game. I always thought it was interesting how video games work. There's a lot of technology that goes into it. But isn't it amazing you can get immersed into this whole world just from one video game. It truly is amazing, at least in my opinion. You, as always, are free to believe whatever you want. Of course, you have free will. To quote that song by Rush, "There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance. A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance. A planet of play things. We dance on the strings. Of powers we cannot perceive. 'The stars aren't aligned, Or the gods are malign...'. Blame is better to give than receive. [Chorus:] You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill. There are those who think that they were dealt a losing hand. The cards were stacked against them. They weren't born in Lotusland. All preordained, A prisoner in chains. A victim of venomous fate kicked in the face. You can't pray for a place in heaven's unearthly estate. [Chorus] You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill. Each of us, A cell of awareness. Imperfect and incomplete. Genetic blends with uncertain ends on a fortune hunt that's far too fleet [Chorus] You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill." I really enjoy that song. When the save file loaded, I went to the iconic first stage of the game, which we all know and love, and I don't have to explain it at all. However, this was different than usual. Instead of what the first stage usually looks like, which I am not going to tell you because, once again, you all know it, it was black and white. Only black and white. There were no colors in the game at all, it seemed. This was very odd, because the original game had colors, since the Nintendo 64 was able to display colors, unlike the popular handheld, the Gameboy, although the great games on that system really made up for it. The Gameboy had such amazing games such as Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Metroid 2: Return of Samus, Tetris, Pokemon Red, Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Green (the green version was only released in Japan) Pokemon Gold, Pokemon Silver, Pokemon Yellow, Kirby's Dream Land, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, and so on. I could go on for a lot longer, but I am currently in the process of creating a creepypasta (which is, in fact, fake, nothing in this story actually happened). There was no music either. And you all know this music, it's very catchy. This game has one of my favorite video game soundtracks of all time. I pushed the analog stick upwards on the N64 controller, which, in turn, moved my character on screen forward in the game. This is another thing that I think is amazing. The d-pad/analog stick. It's such a simple concept, but when people used the d-pad for the first time on the NES (abbreviation for Nintendo Entertainment System, see above), it was like the greatest thing ever. But, of course, you might not think it's that great. You don't have to believe that.F R E E  W I L L. I moved my character and entered the first door you could go through. (There was another door you could go through, but you can't do anything there yet, you need to get further into the game to reach that particular area.) I entered through the door and the text box came up as usual, but the text inside the text box was slightly different than I remember it. "horse", the text box stated. This, i thought (and you don't have to think this) was hilarious, it just says horse for whatever reason even though I just made it up and it didn't actually say that and I never actually played the game. The fact that there was just no context to that made it even more funny. I laughed so hard, I actually threw up my pizza which I ate after I took a shower, which I had after I got the game from the homeless man, which I did after I finished work, which I did after I went to work, which I did after I woke up this morning. Now there was pizza all over the floor. (fortunately it didn't get on my controller, i hate when controllers get dirty, it's a pet peeve of mine. That includes when it's sweaty, or when it has marijuana contained inside of it. NO! I don't do marijuana! Don't even think that! I was just making a joke, that's all. Please, please, please, please, don't think I do marijuana, because I am not that kind of person.) So, I went into my kitchen by using my legs and grabbed the nearest paper towels with my hand. I cleaned up the pizza and continued playing after I was finished cleaning up the pizza (Obviously, I wouldn't have continued playing with the pizza on the rug. I like to keep my house somewhat clean, although I'm not too obsessed about it.) I decided to keep the paper towels right next to me on the table, in case I ever needed them again. (Probably not, but it's always good to be safe than sorry, although I guess it wouldn't be that bad if I had to get up again to get more towels, but now I don't have to so that's convenient. I like when things are convenient.) I finally pressed A to remove the text box from the screen, so I don't die of over laughing. I believe it is actually possible to die from laughing too much. That's an interesting fact. I moved my character over to the first level of the game. (The game starts in a hub world, similar to games like Sonic The Hedgehog for the Xbox/PS3/whatever other console, I don't feel like researching it right now.) The first level's text box was different as well. It just stated "horse". This was HILARIOUS and I almost died laughing when I saw it. "FUCKING HORSE" I yelled out, in pure ecstasy. Fortunately, I did not throw up my pizza, which I ate after I got the game from the homeless man, which I did after I finished my job, which I did after I went to work, which I did after I woke up in the morning. It's pretty hard to get up in the morning. To quote Daily Routine by Animal Collective, "Just a sec more in my bed. Hope the machine's working right. When it's just precisely tuned is how it comes out so nice. Make sure my kid's got a jacket, keys and coat and shoes and hat. Strap a stroller to my back, bouncing along every crack. What can I do to make it fast? Sing a song to pass the playground. What can I do as traffic pass? Guard my girl from muffler's black gas. What can I do to make it fast? Pop a jump but not too hard. Take a little left up at the rest. Stop and look at the traffic signal. Up uneven steps and talking's hard. Just a sec more in my bed. Hope my machine's working right." That's a good song. The album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, is good as well. Definitely check that out. After I finished laughing at the "horse", I noticed that the first level looked extremely weird. There was no music, like the hub world from before, and there were no enemies as well. This, I thought was weird, because now the game seems like it's just not working. I must have gotten a broken game from the homeless man. I'm sure I could fix it somehow. It was still very nice of him to give it to me anyway. He really didn't have to do that, since ya know, he's got free will and stuff. I mean, the guy was homeless, you'd think he'd have more things to worry about.  Why did he even have a Nintendo 64 cartridge in the first place. Was it one of his family members'? Then why would it take him so long to give it to someone, and why me?  Maybe this guy was recently homeless and the only thing he had left was this game that you all know and love and that I don't have to explain at all.  Maybe all these questions don't matter because it didn't actually fucking happen.  Well, I thought nothing of the fact that the game had no music even though there was music before and there clearly should have been music now.  Must be a glitch, I said, as I belched and tasted my pizza that I ate after I went home, after I went to work, after I woke up in the morning, after I went to bed that earlier night, after my mom died of cancer that day.  lol, back to the game.  I stopped playing it. I got bored.

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