The effects are made with N64 ROM hacking in Project64 emulator and video editing.
randomtoast · 5h ago
Short Summary:
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.
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.
yazantapuz · 44m ago
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)
MisterTea · 2h ago
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.
gs17 · 2h ago
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.
dafelst · 3h ago
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.
nekoashide · 2h ago
Ghostbusters on the NES was fear inducing as an 80's kid, then came Resident Evil on the PSX.
MisterTea · 2h ago
Fear inducing through the anxious environment created on purpose by the gameplay itself or the fear that the game would do something super-natural?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGOJmdxdjeA&t=230s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6D2XCJUJHY&t=65s
The effects are made with N64 ROM hacking in Project64 emulator and video editing.
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.
Related Wiki Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Drowned