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Scary Sonic Stories part two.
Hey everyone, welcome back to top 10 gaming.
If you’re a fan of the channel, you’ll know that we’ve done many a video on all
things Sonic, including all things terrifying in the realm of Sonic.
From scary moments to creepy pastas, we’ve dived into many a tell that are fictional,
real, and some inspired by true events, all of which can make a reader uneasy when they
stumble upon them online.
And no, we’re not talking scary Sonic feeder porn.
That falls under a different kind of horrifying, friends.
Today, we’re taking a look at more Sonic inspired creepy pastas, with our list of the
top 10 scary sonic stories part 2!
10 Lost Sonic This story tells of a gamer who went up into
his attic to find his old Sega Genesis.
But upon finding the console, he also discovered something else; a cartridge with the words
LOST SONIC written on it on a sticky note.
He didn’t remember owning that game in the past, so he decides to try it out.
At first, it appears to be the original Sonic the Hedgehog.
But a few things were unusual, specifically the title screen, which was just black with
the Sonic title and a giant ring.
The game itself seemed normal though, minus the fact that the Zone’s names didn’t
appear, only the words Act 1.
As he goes through, he notices that there aren’t any enemies or hazards or rings.
Then, out of nowhere, Robotnik appears, collides into Sonic, and because there were no rings,
Sonic dies immediately.
Instead of the death animation, the screen cuts to black, and the ‘death sound’ was
heard.
The game froze there, so he reset his Genesis.
This time, the screen is red, and under the ring with Sonic in it, the title reads LOST.
The level startup is also strange; it now reads LOST NO ESCAPE ACT 1.
He plays through the level.
The next level loads, with no title.
It’s an underground level, with bones and small puddles of red along the ground.
There were no check points, and the only badnick to appear was the centipede from the Mystic
Cave Zone.
He finally makes it through the level, but then the screen goes completely red, and a
message appears, reading YOU COULDN’T ESCAPE.
Sonic then appears, hung by a noose.
The player turns off the game and throws it in the trash.
Better safe than sorry.
9 Sonic.exe We tried to avoid talking about Sonic.exe
on our part 1 list of Scary Sonic stories, but it’s pretty much the first story that
comes to mind when you think of Sonic inspired horror stories.
As the tale goes, a teenager encounters a series of paranormal events after he gets
a copy of Sonic the Hedgehog as a modified PC port from a friend who leaves him a mysterious
note, along with the game on a CD with the name Sonic.exe written on it in sharpie.
When he loads up the game, there’s three playable characters; Tails, Knuckles and Robotnik,
playing them each in consecutive levels that become increasingly scarier as a sentient
Sonic chases the characters down and seemingly murders them.
The story has some variations; some say that the player was attacked by Sonic coming through
his computer screen.
Others say that his computer shut off, and he turned around to find a Sonic plushie covered
in blood.
Others say that the player is haunted in his sleep, tossing out the game for good, destroying
it, but Sonic eventually catches up to him and kill him.
There’s even been a game that indie developers have crafted, matching up with the description
of the creepy pasta that you can download yourself.
8 Undead Tails This one comes from Deviant Art user AskCreepySonic,
who starts off this creepypasta by stating that they’re a fan of classic Sonic games
rather than his 3D titles.
This is why he stopped playing Sonic for so many years, at least until rediscovering his
old Master System.
When his old Shinoby cartridge didn’t work, it prompted him to go shopping in search of
anything that the system could run in working order.
He stumbled across a copy of Sonic 2.
He plays through the game, finishing it without collecting all of the Chaos Emeralds.
The credits of the game start to play, and that’s when he notices that Sonic is crying.
The game then returns to the title screen, which then reveals Sonic and Tails together,
except Tails is gray in colour, and had no eyes, as if he were a zombie.
So the player starts the game again, and rather than Tails appearing with Sonic as he normally
does, he’s disappeared entirely.
As he plays through, Sonic is crying, despite his controls still responding like they normally
do.
When he goes looking for the first Chaos Emerald, it’s not where it should be.
When he gets to the third act of the first zone, and the insert like boss with pincers,
his controls become unresponsive, and Sonic jumps towards the boss, hit by it’s pincers.
The game freezes and turns into a black screen.
So the player resets his console.
Then, when the title screen shows up, Tails still appears to look like a zombie, and Sonic’s
eyes are white.
Assuming that he’s playing a hacked game, he decides to keep going and his start.
The screen turns black, and Sonic and Tails are completely absent when it loads.
RIP appears on the screen.
He turns off the game and claims to have never played it since.
7 An Ordinary Sonic Rom Hack This creepy pasta is a spin off to the Sonic
exe creepy pasta, and tells of a player who is a Sonic fan, and had thought that the Sonic.exe
urban legend was a bunch of baloney.
That is, until he gets an email from someone named Tom.
The e-mail reads, “Dude, don’t you dare play this game.
He’s in it.”
Attached is a genesis rom titled An Ordinary Sonic Hack.
So he’s like screw it, let’s give it a go.
He loads it up, and it’s Sonic.exe.
Thinking that this is some silly prank, he decides he’ll play it.
Underneath the word start is another option for score.
Beginning the game, it seems totally normal, until static appears on his screen.
Red rings appear, and if you collect them, your ring count would drop.
Badniks were invincible.
And his score would drop on its own.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the Sonic sprite that appeared in all of the Sonic.exe
creepy pastas he had read appeared, chasing his Sonic as he progressed through the zone.
Phrases like FOUND YOU began appearing on his screen while he ran.
Knowing that in Sonic.exe, the evil Sonic strikes you regardless, the player waited
in anticipation.
He caught up, heard the piercing scream that is supposed to occur, and the game restarted.
Except this time, when it restarted, he was regular ol’ Sonic again.
So he plays through until he reaches Robotnik.
The battle went down as it normally should, but after a few seconds, the world started
to turn dark again.
After about 4 hits, Robotnik would drop a monitor.
If he grabbed it, the world would go from dark to regular again.
This continued to happen until he defeated Robotnik.
Thinking he had defeated a silly game, he went back to his email to respond to this
Tom character who had sent it to him.
But the email was gone.
He checked all of his inboxes, his trash, his junk mail, etc, and it was nowhere to
be found.
Apparently this version of the ROM does exist in real life, but it seemingly has to be emailed
to you in order to pass it on.
6 The Dreamcast This one tells of a man whose friend decides
to bust out his old Dreamcast to play Sonic Adventure.
The two of them used to play the game together after school, and feeling nostalgic, his buddy
keeps sending him pictures of his screen.
As he progresses, the game starts to glitch a lot.
So the pictures he sends over to his friend get stranger and stranger.
He keeps playing though, getting to Big The Cat’s story.
It was always they’re least favourite part of the game; Big always seemed so idiotic,
and searching for Froggy was such a silly mechanic.
But he carries on.
As his pal is trying to catch froggy for the first time, he starts texting him about the
game freezing, and sends him a photo of Big, staring directly at him from the screen.
He tells his friend that the controls have become unresponsive.
As he’s texting his buddy back, he gets a photo message; it’s Big the Cat, but appearing
on the Dreamcast controller’s small screen, staring right at him with dead eyes.
The next text he gets is “Can you come over?”
As our author is typing his response, he gets another text saying, “I think someone is
trying to get into my house.”
He replies, are you sure?
After a few minutes of no response, he calls his friend, who doesn’t pick up.
He waits ten minutes.
Calls again.
Then again.
Finally, he gets a text from his pal saying “Don’t worry dude, false alarm.”
The next evening, the author is walking his dog and passes by his friend’s house.
None of the lights are on, except the upstairs bedroom, which he knows is his friend’s
room.
For a second, he sees a large hulking shadow that has large pointy lynx like ears.
A second later, the lights turn off.
He texts his friend saying “hey man, are you home?”
But gets no response.
He continues the walk and takes his dog home.
A week passes, and he’s heard nothing.
Taking his dog out for a walk, he decides to take the route past his friend’s house.
But this time, he sees the police in front of the house, with the building taped off.
Alarmed, he talks to one of the officers outside.
He later finds out that his friend’s parents, who were on vacation, had returned home to
find their son dead in front of his dreamcast, eyes wide open, with his father’s fishing
pole line tightened around his throat, having strangled him, and that there were signs that
the home had been invaded.
5 Genocide City The Genocide City Zone is a scrapped level
from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 that was never completed; instead, it’s map eventually became Metropolis
Zone Act 3.
It was also believed that the boss for the level was equally as grim as the level’s
name, apparently a hedgehog with a flaming skull; this theory originates from a piece
of trivia published in a magazine that claims it was nixed because showing something that
looked like Sonic’s skeleton was a big no-no according to Sega.
According to the level designer Tom Payne, the reason why the level was called Genocide
City was due to the development team’s “not quite complete grasp of the English language.”
This has spawned a few different creepy pastas, the most popular being one where a player
tries to enter debug mode through the sound test menu, and accidentally stumbles upon
a level that’s pitch black.
Sonic runs along the ground until he reaches what appears to be an edge, leading down into
nothingness.
When the player pushes forward, or tries to jump over the ledge to whatever may be on
the other side, Sonic falls, turning into his death animation.
But he never hits the ground.
He just falls for an eternity, until you turn the console off.
Not nearly as intense or traumatic of a creepy pasta compared to some of the others on this
list, but somehow its morbidity makes it a little bit worse.
4 Sonic Generations Amy Rose This creepypasta is by Deviant Art user Danderson9615,
who starts the story off by telling readers how he got a free copy of Sonic Generations
from an odd man at a toy store.
Going home, he opens up the game’s case to discover that the CD has no artwork on
it.
Rather, the words do not play are written on a piece of tape attached to it.
He ignores the message, not wanting it to ruin his chance to finally play the game he
had been wanting since before it was released.
But, when the game starts, text appears on the screen with the words IT BEGINS.
This doesn’t match up to any of the Let’s Play videos he had watched of the game, but
he ignores it anyway.
The Can You Feel The Sunshine theme starts to play, and gradually distorts.
So he mutes his TV.
Playing as Classic Sonic, he realizes that there’s no enemies on the first level, and
as he reaches the first goal post, Sonic freezes, and doesn’t respond to any of his commands.
That’s when Sonic falls to the ground.
A new stage begins, titled TIME TO DIE.
As he begins to play, he sees that Amy Rose has appeared.
She starts to chase him.
Her eyes flash red.
He turns the sound back on, and hears a girlish voice repeat over and over “come to play”.
Amy gets closer and closer.
This is when he realizes Sonic’s spin dash has been disabled.
Amy gets closer and closer again.
And finally, she catches up to him.
A cut scene plays, and Amy decapitates Sonic.
The player then throws up.
When he returns to his television, he sees the words FUN NEVER ENDS on his screen.
He goes to turn off the console, but it won’t turn off.
Modern Sonic appears.
The player picks up the controller and takes over.
This time, as Amy chases him, the camera angle has changed to a downwards 3D chase similar
to Crash Bandicoot.
Amy catches up to him again, catches Sonic and rips off his head once more.
Text then appears on the screen again.
This time, it’s the player’s name, and the words YOU’RE NEXT.
He grabs the console, finds a hammer and smashes it to pieces.
3 Sonic CD’s Hidden Message One of the well-known secrets about Sonic
CD is that if you enter a certain chain of numbers into Sound Test, you can find a bunch
of secret screens hidden in the game left by the developers.
One of these hidden screens is a terrifying message that contains creepy music, along
with a background filled with deformed Sonic sprites that look a little like a Sonic Mario
crossbreed, along with a message that reads Infinite Fun, Sega Enterprises.
The message, signed by Majin, is said by some to translate into a word that means devil,
which many interpreted as being a message hidden by satan himself.
A few creepypastas have used this as a basis for their stories; that gamers would unlock
this hidden screen, only to have odd things happen to them; they would die shortly afterwards,
they would experience hallucinations or night terrors, or have friends who unlocked it and
become possessed by a demon.
Creepy, isn’t it?
But, turns out, in real life, Majin was actually the nickname of one of the individuals who
worked on Sonic 2 named Masato Nishimura, and that’s where that name came from.
2 Bad Hack This creepypasta tells the story of a man
who back in the 90s adored playing Sonic games on his SEGA MegaDrive.
When he was an adult, he got hit with a wave of nostalgia and decided to find himself a
MegaDrive on ebay so he could play Sonic again.
He finds one for six pounds, which claims that it comes with the first Sonic game, so
he buys it.
But when he receives it in the mail a week later, the cartridge’s original label has
been ripped off, with a new sticker replacing it and the title of the game scribbled on
its front.
He started playing, and instead of the game starting up like it should, static noise starts
pouring out of his tv.
The sky was dark.
And the sea looked sludgey.
During the Green Hill Zone, Sonic looked pale, and when he ran, he began crying digital tears.
When Sonic approached a Buzz Bomber, it killed him brutually, stabbing him through the chest.
That’s when Robotnik appeared.
The author claims he went up to Sonic and broke his neck.
A message then appeared in Japanese on his screen with a Yes or No selection.
The player decides to choose Yes.
This time, the player gets to the end of the stage, with the wrecking ball boss.
But before he can do anything about it, the wrecking ball destroys Sonic, and static begins
to play.
This is when the player gets a little freaked out.
He goes into his search history on his computer to find the seller he got the game from on
eBay.
But no luck; a 404 page appears, and upon searching the seller’s name, nothing comes
up.
1 Tails Doll The only other Sonic urban legend that’s
as famous as Sonic exe is the Tails Doll creepy pasta.
In it, a man buys Sonic R for him and his son to play.
They play through it all night, and unlock all the characters, but then the game starts
to glitch, and the cursor gets stuck on Tails Doll.
So the boy goes to bed, but the dad decides to reboot the system and play the game alone
for a few hours before bed.
He starts playing as Tails Doll, but it gets pretty creepy, lagging and glitching.
But as he finishes the race, the game freezes, and the power goes off.
The story then has two variations.
The first is that he goes to bed, and hears someone knocking at his bedroom door.
Thinking its his son, he calls out, telling him to go back to sleep.
But the knocking continues.
So he goes up to the door and opens it, revealing a Tails plushie with two red eyes sitting
on the floor.
The other variation is that after the power goes out, he sees two little red lights.
He turns the lights back on to see the Tails plushie.
That’s when he becomes unconscious.
Hours later, he wakes up to see the plushie on his tv screen, with the words, Can You
Feel The Sunshine, the name of Tails’ theme, written in blood.
Sometimes he dies then.
Sometimes the story ends there.
There we have it friends!
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