6. Super Mario All Stars - Musical Screams And A Picture Of Pikachu
That wasn't the only thing that had a 2001: A Space Odyssey vibe to it. No, allow me present to you what it must sound like if a game cartridge was screaming in agony. Now, how this is achieved is that the gamer tilted his game cartridge while playing. This is a method you can try at home to see your own games squeal and howl in pain while throwing monstrosities at you. All you have to do is take your cartridge base games system and pull up one of the sides of the game while it is on. However, there is really something quite off putting about this video especially. I admit, there are some pretty horrific tilts out there and this one is perhaps ont he surface a little tame. Until you start to take stock of the details. The real horror is in the subtleties. As the boy tilts his version of Super Mario All Stats, what procedes is a scene reminesent of Dave shutting off HAL in the aforementioned 2001. A series of echoey notes ring out, playing a slow and lonely song as the game struggles to read the data on the cartidge. As the cartridge come to terms with its own lonely existence, we hear several short beeps followed by several more quieter ones. That goes onto until the player decides that enough is enough and hits the reset button pretty sharpish. I unfortunately can't translate computer notes but I think if I could it would probably ready something like, "Why? Why did you do this to me?! It hurts, it hurts. Please, make it stop. Make the pain stop. I don't understand. What have you done to me?" By the end of the video, that game reset is a relief to us all. Nobody needs to witness that. However, possibly what makes this video particularly creepy is that all we have to look at is a picture of what is most probably the boy (at least I hope it is, or it is even creepier still) and an oversized Pikachu. There is something very off putting about the juxtaposition of that picture and the dulcid tones of a dying cartridge game.
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Patrick Dane is someone who spends too much of his time looking at screens. Usually can be seen pretending he works as a film and game blogger, short film director, PA, 1st AD and scriptwriter. Known to frequent London screening rooms, expensive hotels, couches, Costa coffee and his bedroom. If found, could you please return to the internet.
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