Gaming Urban Legends: Pokemon: Ghost Black

<p>A year or so ago I came back from the inner workings of the Internet with some pretty interesting <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;gaming-urban-legends-morbid-miyamoto&sol;">Urban Legends <&sol;a>regarding Nintendo&period; After another thorough search of the Internet&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve found this new Nintendo legend that will surely make your skin crawl&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;107653" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-107653" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-107653" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03153116&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;POKEMON&colon; GHOST BLACK - FLEA MARKET&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-107653" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em>&lpar;POKEMON&colon;<&sol;em> <em>GHOST BLACK<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; FLEA MARKET&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Like most Urban Legends&comma; this one begins at a flea market where an unsuspecting customer finds an interesting <em>Pokémon<&sol;em> game that no one has heard of&period; The buyer stated that the game fires up like any old Generation One <em>Pokémon<&sol;em> game&comma; but when it cuts to the title screen it says <em>Pokémon&colon; Black<&sol;em>&period; After pressing start&comma; the gamer was greeted by Professor Oak and looked like the normal beginning to <em>Red<&sol;em> or <em>Blue<&sol;em>&period; However&comma; once the gamer chose their main Pokémon&comma; they saw that they had an additional one&comma; Ghost&period; This Pokémon resembled the ghost Pokémon&&num;8217&semi;s in Lavender Town before obtaining the Silph Scope&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ghost has only one move in this title&comma; &&num;8220&semi;curse&&num;8221&semi;&comma; which kills the Pokémon you are battling against&period; Your foes cannot attack seeing as they are too scared to fight&comma; and once &&num;8220&semi;curse&&num;8221&semi; is used&comma; the screen blacks out&comma; a muffled scream is  heard and the trainer is down one Pokeball in their queue&period; After you defeat the Pokémon you are given the usual reward&comma; but this time if you don&&num;8217&semi;t choose &&num;8220&semi;run&comma;&&num;8221&semi; you can use curse one more time&period; Upon returning to the overland map&comma; the trainer is missing and replaced by a tombstone&period; As you continue through the game you basically murder everyone you battle&period; Once you beat the Elite 4 and your nemesis and become the champion&comma; all that surrounds you are tombstones&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;108081" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-108081" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-108081" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03150143&sol;maxres444default&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;POKEMON GHOST BLACK - FLEA MARKET&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-108081" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em>&lpar;POKEMON&colon;<&sol;em> GHOST BLACK &&num;8211&semi; FLEA MARKET&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>This is where the game really takes a turn to the macabre&semi; after the screen flashes to black&comma; you are shown an older&comma; slower sprite of a trainer that is presumably you&period; You wander around the empty world&comma; only being able to go to certain places seeing as you have no HM Pokémon&period; If you happen to wander into Diglett&&num;8217&semi;s Cave&comma; you can get back to Pallet Town&comma; where it all began&period; Once you enter your house&comma; another scene appears and all of the Pokémon you killed flash onto your screen&comma; then the trainers&period; As all of this is happening&comma; Lavender Town&&num;8217&semi;s theme music is playing and getting slower and slower until it is a haunting melody&period; Another cut screen and suddenly you find yourself in battle&comma; with ghost&period; You have no other option than to battle this Pokémon&comma; and you will not succeed&comma; once you are out of health&comma; &&num;8220&semi;curse&&num;8221&semi; is cast and you are no more&period; The &&num;8220&semi;New Game&&num;8221&semi; screen brightens up your pupils and you&&num;8217&semi;re suddenly back for more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>No one really knows where this story hails from or why it came about&comma; but it is pretty creepy&period; It doesn&&num;8217&semi;t sound like the game is haunted by an angry ghost or that this cartridge is possessed&period; To me it sounds like someone made a bootleg of Pokémon and decided to go a different route&period; Murdered Pokémon&comma; murdered trainers&comma; tombstones everywhere and an eventually dead protagonist&period; We may never know the full history of this tale or cartridge&comma; but I do know that it has cursed me with the goosebumps&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;&lowbar;wp&lowbar;link&lowbar;placeholderhttp&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2014&sol;8&sol;22&sol;6053213&sol;pokemon-black-creepypasta">Polygon <&sol;a>and the Interwebs<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;