The thing about Tails Doll.... Sonic Team has leaned into the creepy factor as time went on. Yeah, in the comics the doll is made by Eggman, used as spy camera, then turns into an eldritch horror robot.
What do you mean, Sonic.exe aged perfectly well! People thought it was the same quality when it was released as they do now, therefore it didn’t age poorly
Sorry if this is a joke and I'm not getting it It's just his personal opinion on the creepypasta. I liked it but I'll admit it did have issues (like, plenty of issues, like how did a final fantasy sound effect get inside a sonic disk?).
@@webbtail245 Understandable, but I was making a joke about how it was always this bad, therefore it can’t age poorly because there’s nothing of quality to be aged, already moldy bread can’t really age poorly because it was already moldy
@@sometechydude2324 I feel like a better version of sonic exe would be sonic eyx. At least the game is good, it's legitimately creepy and unsettling instead of being just a blood eyed version of sonic.
I love how you act more emotional and filled with hatred for the Godzilla creepypasta than you did for the Bowser's Inside Story remake that killed Alpha Dream, all the abuse and horrible shit from the Tester, and even when you were forced to confront Aran Ryan.
@@AzafuseKingTora The Tester was a Reality TV thing Playstation did to promote I think the PS3. One of the contestants was routinely bullied, excluded, and insulted, to the point where she is forced to vote for herself as "Most undeserving to be here," in a challenge where they have to guess what other people answered to certain questions, despite seeming to have done nothing except be happy and excited. The 2nd one was mainly joking, as during his two Punch Out Rule Violation vids he was over the top "scared" of Aran Ryan because of how many rules he broke.
@@ECODKyleskymast The bullying was primarily from the other contestants. If you want someone the show itself bullied, then look at Egoraptor, who was repeatedly edited and cut around to make him seem like a narcissistic egomaniac, and was kicked off the show on episode 2 despite performing by far the best of anyone that episode.
It's really strange how these repetitive "scary stories" had such traction......y'know what no. No it's not strange. This is the internet. The same place where there is a detailed thorough explanation as to why Vaporeon is the most bangable Pokemon. The bar for stange broke a long time ago.
That's the real creepypasta. "I hadn't remembered there being an NPC that gave you an Eevee, especially this early in the game! I was so over the moon that I accidentally clicked the default response when the NPC asked if I had a plan for its evolution, which was something like "NO IDEA". Then the NPC gave me this horrifying smile (it was totally hyperrealistic) and said "Hey guys, did you know that in terms of male human and female Pokémon breeding...""
Godzilla's not so much a creepypasta, so much as it is a weird, no budget kaiju film, and I appreciate it as that. I'd also argue that a game genuinely making itself an interesting experience that you can't stop playing because you want to see what's next is more compelling than having a game tie you down and force you to play it like you're an AVGN ripoff. The girlfriend stuff is dumb though.
Yeah excatly, everything in plot was making sense until girlfriend stuff showed up. At this point it was too cheesy. Everything else is nice tho. Honestly its like my favourite videogame creepypasta (but i havent looked into Ben Drowned much, maybe its better)
i'd choose to say "no budget text anime" and the paranormal "i couldn't stop playing, and the game burned me and fucked my wife" stuff does drive it over the edge, and it just becomes silly lol the game ghost being very personal to the gamer protag is an idea that can work, but this ain't it... i'd love to see where it _is_ it, because i have never seen it the effort is admirable, though, i think that's unanimous
Yeah. Godzilla NES gets real unrealistic once the author's gf gets involved. Its why I much prefer the lost media creepypasta based on Godzilla vs Destoroyah.
23:51 I mean another iconic 3 word phrase that came from Sonic.exe is "Bull. Friggin. Horseshit" from when the author found out it got moved to the crappypasta wiki
" and jeff the killer, a loser teenager with white face paint with a fandom more rabid that an african wild dog." I ALMOST SPIT OUT MY ORANGE JUICE AT THAT ONE! top tier insult, imma use that
I actually love the lavender town theme PS: Herobrine was the gamertag of a normal swedish person. Almost everyone knows it's fake, and it's become more of a running joke. And the twerking Sonic was more terrifying then most of these
The Tails Doll is really funny to me because it's creepy reputation actually inspired how it was portrayed in the Archie comics. The creators took notice of the reaction the Tails Doll got and made it capable of transforming into a lovecraftian monstrosity.
I'd like a subversion of creepypastas. Story where the haunted game is restricted to the screen, and the person playin' it wants to try and help whatever spirit's stuck there. To get out? To move on? To just have a little fun for a bit maybe? To make a friend, even?
Something kinda like that is Gunslinger Pro 2009 and Badwater 2009. Really cool ARGs. They're definitely not about helping the spirit but it's still really interesting
Actually, there is at least one that's just like that. "Sim Albert" is about a haunted Sims game, but the ghost in it just wishes to live a second life and the player helps him do so. It's nothing ground breaking, but even just a flip of "And I got a haunted copy of a popular game and things happened to me, oooo!" already sounds better than more teenage horror stories that's all shock, no value. There's also "Feelpastas", again just a nicer twist of creepypastas. I'll point to "The One Left Behind", which is about a Red/Blue game where the player somehow picks the Pokemon Red and Blue don't take and has a good time. It's more for Pokemon fans, but it's proof there was more than "HyPeR rEaLiStIc BlOoD" out there. I'm kinda glad we all had a chance to grow out of failing to do Are You Afraid Of The Dark? but on the net, but it also glad didn't kill off internet horror because we literally wouldn't have LOCAL58 without Candle Cove (same creator)
one thing that ive always found stupid is people saying "the person in the sonic.exe story shouldve just broken the disk" but like... the person's friend had the ability to write on the disk, write a letter, put the disk in a case, put the case in the letter, and send it somewhere if it was really so urgent, then they wouldve just smashed the disk themselves with all that time they had like, wow it must be so threatening and dangerous if their friend had like what, 3-4 minutes to get ready to mail the disk over?
@@galanga21890 If JC were a more clever writer, he would have said that Exe went ahead and let the friend attach the warning because he knew that doing so was futile. the guy he was mailing it to wouldn't be able to resist the siren call of curiosity.
What's the beef with Minecraft? And, as for the Godzilla Creepypasta...I'll admit, it's cheesy as hell and riddled with cliche, but, hey, that pixel art is damn good, and it's clearly a love letter to Godzilla, which, as a fan, I can't really fault.
Sure it's cheesiche city, but damn. That fucking "kill yourself" part scared baby fish so much i couldn't sleep for days, and red is a cool monster design, I would love to see him in the legendary style.
That one mario creepy pasta on tumblr that reads "mario once came out of my screen and killed my mom and my parents" sums up the whole creepypasta experience. Yes it was written like that.
I would like to note, Polybius is actually slightly plausible if you know it's based on real events. Many 80s arcade games WERE known to induce brief amnesiac episodes in players...On account of their triggering photosensitive epilepsy. Since bright flashing lights in rapidly cycling colors are not exactly commonplace outside of video games, most people with photosensitive epilepsy at the time didn’t know they had it, and there was little public awareness of the condition, creating the impression that the games themselves had some sort of mystical power. Similarly, many early video arcades really were subject to covert monitoring by law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, not because of illicit medical experiments, but because many arcades were suspected (sometimes correctly) of being fronts for underground gambling rings. And it was pretty common for weird video game cabinets to pop up in odd locations before vanishing leaving no records...Because those were bootlegs. Add those three things together, and Polybius seems oddly plausible.
@@bumblesmcfumbles I respect your opinions in the video but sonic.exe has evolved, has its own universe’s (ai and nightmare), and lore of them is shockingly well done for the actual good ones, ui kostas man genius writer.
One thing I'd like to add to Herobrine was that it was actually originally posted to /v/, just as is, with no further context. While the original story certainly codified it, it was actually this vague, weird post that popularized the idea, without all the "notch's brother" baggage, which in my eyes makes it way better. That wasn't the original author's stuff, the og creator's just been lost to time because they were just some anon on a gaming board. Also worth noting that Herobrine directly inspired two separate mobs in Minecraft; The Enderman, with their "watching the player vaguely menacingly" and "stealing random blocks", and the upcoming warden, with the whole "terrifying thing that pops up out of no where" bit, easily making it the most influential gaming creepypasta of all time. Also, I'm 100% certain tails doll didn't get popular because people actually read the story, it got popular because, for some fucking reason, there's a really creepy still image of the tails doll you can unlock in the game, and people just remembered that when they saw the title and went "yea, that works as a creepypasta I guess." And on Godzilla NES... Yea, I feel like the story was more a way for the author to show off his cool pixel art, it honestly isn't even really scary. I honestly do like the story, but more because I find it interesting then remotely scary, at least when imagining this in the context of the Godzilla characters actually experiencing it in the game's story. That, and Red looks *exactly* like a stupid ass "evil monster" Kaiju that would terrify small children for Godzilla to beat up in a classic monster movie, and for that, I have to give props. The guy really does love Godzilla. Tidbits aside, I loved the transitions, they're easily your best yet and I will forever wish RU-vid was a person so I could kick it half to death for not telling me about your uploads for like a month. Also, pleasantly surprised you didn't fall for the Mario "I hate you.exe" trollpasta. Like, so many people fell for that one it got a fangame like Sonic.exe did, and after that most people assumed it to be legit. And one last point: as bad as some of these can be, they're also directly to thank for the rise in dark and/or creepy stuff in indie games (seriously, half the shit you can do in Undertale feels like it coulda been written in a creepy pasta word for word (except, ya know, good), and that's not even counting the genocide route, you can just do fucked up shit for the fun of it), and the rise of internet indie horror in general. Pioneers of a genre are never the best examples of it.
You mean the picture of the doll floating alone in a checkered-floored abyss with a single spotlight shining on it? Nowadays I see that picture for Tails Doll as more underwhelming than creepy. In the game's story- if you can call it that- the Tails Doll was made by a desperate Robotnik with dwindling resources as a last ditch attempt to stop the blue blur. That picture is basically the game saying _"Here it is. It's just a plush with a drone in its head. Dunno what you all were expecting..."_
The reason people like the Godzilla Nes Creepypasta isn't the story; most fans haven't even read it. The thing people care about is the fact that there's a real playable game to go along with it.
the scariest gaming creepypasta is when the gamecube boots up to the main menu I genuinely thought my gamecube was haunted the first time i booted it up without a disk
I never thought it was ghosts, but that shit did scare me as a kid. As my discs got more scratched (because I was a dumb kid) I was terrified that it would show that screen.
As much as it pains me to say it, watching Sonic.exe gameplay on its own with no commentary managed to scare me. I had a few people in my life that had... Interesting responses to my annoying young self. Long story short, It felt like I couldn't trust anyone because anyone could become a scary monster out of nowhere. Now, of course I had seen a few 2d Sonics before, and he's this wholesome guy that cares about his planet and his friends. Seeing him out of nowhere be a phsychopath just reached somewhere in my brain that it shouldn't have, but managed to anyway. Then I learned that I was the only one genuinely spooked by it and figured I should move on.
I was really hoping the crown jewel at the end of the video would have been Blood Whistle. The Mario 64 creepypasta there covers a lot of similar bases, but Blood Whistle is a masterclass in how to do everything wrong and be boring as sin. It's earned a soft spot in my heart, kind of like The Room.
You know a story's bad when the protagonist goes on and on about how he's gonna take his own life after he beats the game, and you're just like _"Why wait, man?"_
i think with hauntedvideo game creepypastas, i think writers need to realize that an actual spooky glitched game THAT YOU CAN PHYSICALLY PLAY is ten times spookier than having all the scary stuff described.
For me, the spookiest creepypasta had to have been “Snow on Mt. Silver”. Seriously, I couldn’t sleep for weeks after that one, and while now it’s not scary at all, that shit was terrifying compared to strangled red, creepy black, lost silver, etc.
We technically already have that. Your profile picture is really fitting because it's the creepypasta about that girl trapped inside that boys consoles. The one where she forcibly brings him into wherever she was to do the same thing to some other poor soul.
The thing with NES gozdilla is that is a "personalized copy" it was different for everyone that plays it. So Red wasn't actually a real being possessing a game and trapping Zach's dead girlfriend. It was just lines of code that focused on a tragic memory from Zac's past. Not a lot of people like the ending though as it does get tropey with the game leaking out into real life. The personalized game copy was hammered down even more in the ongoing sequel in which the new protagonist (I forget the name) has a radically different game with the new big bad being a character called Warlock. Their are also actual friendly NPCs in the game that weren't in the original story. I do wish the first story emphasized how the copy was tailored to the player and their experience with it instead of keeping it in the dark and making you think it was haunted by a tumor and a dead girl.
My favorite part of the Ben Drowned creepy pasta is the April fools video he uploaded after it was sorta over the first time. I will never forget rewatching the series just to relive a bit of the childlike wonder I shared with my brother when we were kids only to suddenly hear KING KONG KING KING KING KONG and seeing a swag edit of Goron Link
18:23 Funny you mention this method, Sonic and Tails actually do this to it in the Archie comics after beating it and taking the crystal on its head off.
Fun Fact: Sonic.EXE was SO bad, the story got kicked off the creepypasta website it was on, reuploaded on another, kicked off again, and reuploaded on the TROLLPASTA site.
honestly the only really good creepy past i remember as "good" is this old mario world one that blatantly states "hey, this game isn't haunted or anything, i just broke the game files by playing the rom through a crappy emulator to many times and found an alternate ending. here's what happened."
Funny thing about tagging Super Sonic as Tails Doll. I managed to do it. _twice!_ on two different playthroughs! it took me about an hour each time, but I got the bastard both times. The trick is that Tails Doll is the only racer that doesn't slow down or sink in water, since its always floating. You can get Super Sonic by taking shortcuts and detours that no other racer can even dream of taking! It also helps that Tag Mode has you in free roam and you don't have to follow the track, and you have all the time in the world to tag everyone since the mode is a time trial to see if you can beat your personal best.
I enjoyed Godzilla NES when I read it, but there is no denying that it decides the best way to present a big horror moment is to quote The Lion King. No, I'm into it. Freddy Kreuger's new catchphrase is "Can you feel the love tonight?" Play Hakuna Matata over the ending of Midsommar. It works!
i love your stuff dude! I found your channel though the first punchout video...kinda? Funnily enough my first video I watched from your channel was the yugioh iceberg which...i actually didn't know was from your channel until a while later when I found your punchout video and went back to watch your earlier videos. But yeah, I have been recommending your stuff to my friends ever since, your punchout and banned videogames made me laugh so much man.
@@bumblesmcfumbles honestly I feel like I should thank *you* if anything, you make all those awesome videos for free, you brought so many smiles to my face recently while also teaching me some neat fact that I had no idea about before. But yeah, take care man! Have a nice weekend ^^
What I like about Creepy Black is that it's almost a secret test of character. You don't have to use Ghost. You don't have to kill trainers. But you did. And now your own Pokemon is putting you down like a limping horse.
Here's a little bit of trivia about the Polybius thing. There actually were FBI Agents gathering data from Arcade Cabinets. But for a different reason. See, people would watch people playing games like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter or stuff like that and actually place bets on who they thought would win. There would be cameras placed inside of the cabinets so they'd find put who was placing bets.
OHHH MAN THIS. this is an actual blast to the past. i used to write creepypastas and well, they sucked, but i have to admit that writing them was my first dip into writing and i'm grateful for that. well that and MLP fanfiction.
The amount of buildup for the "sound that caused the Fallout creepypasta author to kill himself" only for it to be Neco-Arc followed by a _violent_ gunshot made me burst into laughter, thank you for that
Candle Cove is easily my favorite for how on the nose it is about how terrifying a lot of low budget stop motion shows can be at times, with a hint of the supernatural. Its a lot more lowkey than other creepypastas which is refreshing to see.
I don't consider myself a strong person. Like I've never been in a real fight so I don't know how well I could handle myself That being said I would make that little dweeb a smear on the concrete if I found.
@@bumblesmcfumbles the only reason Jeff lived was because Keith, Randy, and the third one brought guns as wimp-ass 12 year olds who never aimed one in their lives and missed every shot. If even one of them just threw the gun at him he'd be deader then most of the OCs people shipped him with.
“Deciding to take revenge on all those people who said he had a rough transition to 3D!” HAH! Look, even as an 06/3D sonic fanboy that was fuckin hysterical.
Can we appreciate the effort and detail put into these YGO card transitions and what cards are used- ok 6:10 I WAS WEARING HEADPHONES AND THAT LEVEL OF AUDIO MIXING WAS DICKISH
Won't lie, I was taken in by the Pokemon Black story back in the day. I was willing to believe just about anything when I learned how to do the seemingly insane sequence of events to make Missingno appear.
Godzilla nes is completely held up by the design of red and the initial mystery of what red is but as soon as you learn what red is the story becomes so lame it would have been so much better if they never explained red
this is the first time anyone's explained that i've found, that the godzilla story focuses to much on zack, brings up reds origins, and so forth, most of the versions i like just go on to have red appear, and have the main character manage to beat him in a tyrannically difficult boss fight
My favorite video game creepypasta would have to be Wario Apparition. "Favorite" in the sense that he seems like an okay guy and I would have beers with him. There's stuff in the actual games scarier than it.
If you ever do another one of these, I’d like to see you review Snowy on Mt. Silver. I personally think it’s a better crafted G/S creepypasta than Lost Silver, and one that often gets overlooked. Edit: Fixed a typo
The best Pokémon creepypasta is mad pickachu. It is incredible. I will summarizes it for you. A kid gets his game on a Pokémon game. He plays it on a tv (somehow), and his friend is there. His friend catches six pickachu. He then leaves. Then the pickachus come out of the screen and unalive the kid. They write three letters on the TV M A D. The kid’s parents went to Nintendo and Nintendo said they never did that, but when the kid’s friend said he caught 6 pickachu. Everyone was shocked. Best story ever
I respect Godzilla NES a lot because it actually set out to be a *story* , and the Pixel-Art in it was really cool. To say the way I design horror shit is influenced by the way Cosbydaf designed the stuff in the Pasta would be an understatement. I still need to keep studying and creating monster designs like that, to be honest. But, yeah, I completely agree with the writing being egregiously cheesy and outdated. There were plenty of pretty fantastic ideas being thrown around at points though, as trope-y as they were. It still remains to this day as my favorite "classic" creepypasta, at least in terms of the monsters. If we take some of the new stuff into consideration though, that's where things get complicated.
God, I’m so happy to have found this channel. Cool, funny videos about video games and interesting related topics by someone who’s not massively transmisogynistic at worst and silent on some creators’ shittiness at best, and to top it all off he even shares my obsessive love of all things yugioh, with the early duel links character videos and various iconic sets of cards used for transitions. Keep up the great work man, every video has been a gift so far.
Godzilla NES reads like the author forgot they were writing a creepypasta halfway through and just made it a self-insert fanfiction about how awesome they are
Hell yeah your upload scedule actually just fits perfectly for me after work! Tho sadly most creepypastas for me got boring indeed i only listened to some until i realized it mostly ends with "And you/he/she died" Or "And he/she/you became the monster/being/killer" Tbh it really depends on some the writing of the person. If you understand basic writing and how to stay consistent you can come with amazing stories such as Ben drowned. Great video you make things entertaining.... when more tester? (Just meme-ing)
Actually, there's an actually good version of Sonic.exe by someone by the name of Mouse something something. It's basically a VHS horror series. I looked up Gearisko, and it is NeedleMouse.
I love going to that dingy brick and mortar game store that wasn't there yesterday, buying an obviously haunted cartridge for a console I don't have, and plugging it into my PC.
If the Internet didn’t decide to call them “creepypastas” they might’ve had a chance. No one’s gonna want to read the collected Works of “Aesop’s spooky bean farts”
I once saw this Persona 3 creepypasta where Igor actually talks to the player. Not the protagonist but you. I didn’t finish it because it was so late and I’ve died in 1995 and possessed my phone but I didn’t think anything was wrong with that. It was probably the closest thing to a Persona fan’s dream.
when I first heard about how the grim reaper comes after you if you spend too long on a level I thought it was just a story until I tried it. it still freaks me tf out