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Hello and welcome back to the Most amazing channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am bringing you a part three to the of the
Top 10 Cursed Games You Shouldn’t Play Part 3.
Before we get into this video, why don’t you guys let me know what your favourite game
is – be it video game, card game, board game…all of them!
Mine is definitely Settlers of Catan.
10 - Bingo It might seem like a glorious game for senior
citizens but it turns out that Bingo has been behind a very high number of deaths!
Honestly when I think high drama, I don’t tend to think Bingo…but I am wrong.
There are far too many instances to report in one point, so I will just mention a few.
In 2002 tech worker Brett Keeton managed to hack a Vegas bingo machine into allowing him
to play more cards than he paid for.
When he realised he had been found out, he committed suicide by jumping from San Francisco’s
Golden Gate Bridge.
In 2012 a 25 year old woman in the Philippines killed herself the day after losing 400 us
dollars in bingo.
In the same year a former marine killed a 65 year old woman outside a bingohall in Jacksonville.
Because of the demographic of their clientele, Bingo halls are often the scenes of deaths,
too… old age pensioners die of heart attacks in all the excitement.
In 2014 Gala Bingo in the UK came under fire when a game of bingo was played on despite
an 87 year old woman dying in the middle.
Do I really think Bingo is cursed?
Well, no.
Do I think it is best enjoyed responsibly?
Absolutely.
9 - Fallout 3 This has now kind of been disproved, but at
the time of release, a lot of people were worried that fallout 3 was cursed.
Why?
Well there was some spooky stuff going on hidden within the game that led a lot of people
to believe that it was spookily predicting the future.
The conspiracy theory arose when players said that the morsecode that is broadcast by stations
in the game was accompanied by a DJ announcer that said things like The Queen has Died today,
followed by a bout of Morsecode that translated into a date.
The Queen’s death date was set at 2014, but she is still surviving and thriving.
If Britney wins an Oscar in 2023, as predicted in the game, I’ll officially be worried
again.
Game designers, Bethdesa have denied there are any hidden messages in the game… but
all it takes is one twisted game designer…who knows.
Speaking of twisted game designers, is that what is going on here?
8 - Killswitch If the urban legends are to be believed, Kill
Switch was a game created by Russians in the soviet union era.
It is said that between 5 to 10 thousand copies of the game were released in the dwindling
days of the soviet in 1989.
The game was a horror game in which you had to battle demons and monsters in an abandoned
coal mine.
Allegedly no one ever proved they completed the game as when you were done, it would magically
delete itself from your computer.
Weird.
In 2005, the rumour goes that an unopened copy cropped up in Japan and was played by
Yamammoto Ryuichi.
Ryuichi set up a Youtube channel to document his game play but unfortunately he only ever
made one video – a video of him staring at his computer and crying.
That is the last we have ever seen or heard from him….
7 - Jumanji Did I want to add a fun one for the middle
of the list, or is making three parts of this video a bit of a stretch…you decide!
For the purposes of this video, I wish there was a real life Jumanji!
Jumanji the movie was originally released in 1995 but saw a revamp in 2017.
The original, two kids find a magical board game – a CURSED magical board game - that
unleashes a plague of dangers that can only be stopped by completing the game.
My lasting image from Jumanji is when the floor swallows them.
I am going to go out there and say this was one of the best movies of the 1990s.
in 2017, the cursed game was a video game…which I somehow think is less cool.
The original board game looked awesome!
You can actually buy Jumanji as a boardgame these days, too.
6 - Berzerk Ah, the legend of Bezerk is the top video
game urban legend, isn’t it!
I am surprised wehavent mentioned it yet!
Bezerk is a classic arcade era game that let you battle robots.
Hurrah!
Less on the hurrah side of things – the game is the first ever video game to be linked
to the death of a human.
I love how I said it like loads have been linked to deaths of animals… anyway, in
1981, Jeff Daily died playing the game.
* Just 1 year later, a young healthy 18 year old dropped dead in front of the machine.
Peter Burkowski has just set a new high score for the game and as he stepped away, proud
of his achievement, he dropped down dead.
Both deaths were ruled as heart attacks…and you can imagine what the headlines in the
80s were like.
A good number of people actually did start to believe Bezerk was cursed.
5 - Virtual Girlfriend There are many reasons not to play Virtual
Girlfriend, the game that illegally used Mia Khalifa as a cover girl.
One… like, dude, come on.
And two, it is cursed.
By cursed I mean that the company who made the came made it as a malware scam and you
could end up getting our credit and debit card details stolen.
The malware in the game was also able to access phone numbers, contacts and read your texts.
Since the dawn of the age of the smart phone, surreptitious and illicit companies have been
creating dodgy phone games specifically designed to steal data and worse.
4 - Curse of Scotland Playing cards were invented by the Chinese
in around the 9th Century.
They are the oldest game that we humans still regularly enjoy playing today.
With a long history has came a lotttt of strange instances with playing cards.
On the surface level, card games are instrumental in many gambling games, which have tempted
people into losing more than they have.
While we could consider this to be a curse, perhaps there is something even deeper going
on.
The nickname the curse of Scotland is specifically applied to the nine of diamonds card, which
is considered to be particular bad luck in cards.
The name is further applied to people who seem to have spells of bad luck in a number
of card games, leading to their misfortune.
Have they had the curse of Scotland bestowed upon them?
Ah, we have a good old fashioned Las Vegas Urban legend on the go!
3 - The Curse of Megabucks Megabucks is a game created by International
Game Technology and is a Nevada lottery but also the name of a slot machine popular on
the Vegas Strip.
The rumours are that if you win the megabucks from Mega bucks, you will become cursed.
It is said that the majority of players who have become millionairs from Mega Bucks have
died early, tragic deaths.
One example is Cynthia Jay-Brennan.
Who won $34.9-million on the Megabucks Machine at the Desert Inn Casino in Vegas in the year
2000.
Only Just 6 weeks later, she was tragically involved in an car crash with her sister.
Sadly, her sister was killed instantly and the jackpot winner needed all of her limbs
amputated, leaving her as a quadriplegic.
Similar stories of death and misfortune have surrounded other jackpot winners.
Sure, you might win big, but would it be worth it?
2 - Monopoly Ah, Monopoly.
Remember Yahtzi from episode one?
Well, Monopoly is regularly involved in cases of domestic violence.
We could talk about all of those cases, but, like with Yahtzi, they are plentiful.
Instead I am going to talk about something perhaps even creepier.
Have you ever hear of the Mandela effect?
This is where people think that we are living in a different dimension or universe from
that which they grew up in.
It is called the Mandela Effect because of a situation that occurred where some people
were in total belief that equal rights fighter and former president of South Africa died
in prison in the 1970s…whereas in actuality he was released from jail and died in 2014.
To cut a long story short, this had led a lot of people to believe we are living in
many parallel universes.
There are loads of examples of this, and one comes from the humble game of Monopoly.
Many people swear that Mr Monopoly had a monacle, others are equally adamant that he never had
one.
Which do you think?
1 - Momo This game has a lot of similarities with Blue
Whale but is a different social media game sweeping its cruse across the internet.
So the game involves texting a mysterious phone number with a terrifying bulgy eyed
bird woman avatar.
That doesn’t sound too scary, but it is…have a look!
The mystery number then replies and sends back a series of challenges and disturbing
threats as well as bombarding them with spooky and often horrifying images.
The civil guard of Colombia made an announcement demanding nobody plays Mono or engages with
the number.
They did this in response to the suicides of two teenagers who had played the game and
received texts demanding they kill themselves.
Unfortunately the game has also spread across the world, sparking suicides in Argentina
and India and scaring parents and kids alike elsewhere.
Do not play MOMO.
It is sick and twisted cyberbulling.
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Gary Smith said: If yahtzee is a cursed game then you haven't noticed that it has nothing
on monopoly?…
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