Super Smash Flash 3.0

Super Smash Flash 3.0
think I'm finally ready to tell people about my story, and what better way to do it here. Scary stories are like my drugs: they're bad for me, but I just want to keep reading them. Horror games on the other hand are the bane of my existence: I play one, I don't sleep for weeks, sometimes months.

So this one day, I had a serious case of gamers block: I had all these games and didn't know what to do with them. After a while I decided to revisit a online game that i hadn't touched in months: Super Smash Flash. This was a free online flash game that emulates Super Smash Bros, and it's a barrel of fun. Next to quite some fighters from the official games, there's some fan-favourites to, like Ichigo, Goku and Naruto.

When I went to the site of McLeod Gaming, I saw it had recently been updated to Super Smash Flash 3.0. I understand why they went from 0.8, which it was when I last played it, to 3.0: This update was huge taken to a whole new level:

- Added Lucario

- Added Ice Climbers

- Added Luigi

- Added Master and Crazy Hand

- Added Classic mode

- Added 10 event matches

The list just went on and on, and I decided to have a look. The first thing I noticed was the brand new intro, now resembling Brawl's intro instead of Melee. I decided to check out the new characters and boy where they cool. Their Final Smashes were amazing, and I also noticed a shitload of new stages and assist trophies.After this I checked out Classic mode, and that's when things got weird. As I clicked "Classic mode" the screen froze for a few seconds, then went on. I turned around on my chair (my PC is in the living room) and asked my dad if he was downloading a big file, but even before finishing my sentence I realised his laptop wasn't even on: he was watching TV instead.

I giggled at my mistake and turned back around, and chose a new character that was obviously entered as a fan favourite: Ridley. His sprite was quite neat, and he was, obviously, scaled down to about the size of Bowser. Classic mode was a lot of fun: You had 3 boxes with question marks and a logo, and you'd get a fighter of that logo. Problem was: With some boxes, like the mushroom, you could get about 5 or 6 characters, and some, like the Goku-logo, you could only get Goku.

As I progressed I noticed something odd: At the end of the fight the screen would zoom in and freeze, like in Brawl, but Ridley looked devestated, like he'd done something horrible. I thought this was just a limitation of the medium: Making characters look victorious in sprites was difficult. I continued on past I think about 10 other fighters, including Mario, Tails and Zero-suit Samus, and I got to a message: Victory! Face the boss? Yes / No. I of course chose yes, I wanted to see Master Hand! And, I wasn't disappointed. The sprite of Master Hand build op on the screen like he was made out of Tetris and the fight began.

As the fight progressed I noticed little tears forming in the glove, a nice touch. When the fight ended Master Hand's tears ripped the glove apart and exploded in epic fashion. Once again, Ridley looked horrified by what he'd done, which I found quite humorous. I pressed space, expecting to be booted back to the starting screen. However, what happened next shocked and intrigued me.

Every character, every single one, was on a table like the horde mode in Melee. All of them, were dead. They looked like they were killed by their own weapon: Mario was on fire, the Ice Climbers had their faced smashed in with their hammers, it was quite gruesome, but there was something wrong. I looked at the picture a couple of seconds and noticed what was missing: blood. None of the characters was bleeding. The sprites looked good, but no gore or blood everywhere.

Suddenly my curiosity changed into fright. I wanted it to stop, to go away. I started pushing buttons: Space, Enter, none of them worked. I tried pressing W, and saw something move. I found the select hand, like the one when you choose a character, which I probably just overlooked when looking at the slaughterhouse of smash bros characters. I played with the idea to close the browser, but I'd read enough horror stories to know what would happen: Close the source and shit goes down.

I went over the character and tried to pick the one that looked the most pained, as if I could help them. I eventually chose Zero-Suit Samus, who had been strangled by her Plasma whip. The second I chose her she opened her eyes. She started clawing at her neck and traced the whip back to the handle, a second later it was disabled, leaving two darker looking stripes on her neck. She sat upright and looked around, then looked at the screen. I tried to move the hand over to the other characters, but it was stuck in place.

I suddenly was thrown into a fight, with the words "GO" on the screen. I instantly paused to see what the situation was. I was Zero-Suit Samus, my opponent was Ridley. The stage I didn't recognise: A blur of red and black, with an equally depressing background. It was a stock match: I had 3, Ridley had 1. I unpaused, expecting a grand fight. I shot my paralizer gun at Ridley, who...did nothing. He was idle, like when you're in training mode. I walked up to the stationary purple dragon and hit him once, and Ridley was knocked back by about a pixel.

It was a fight I couldn't win, we sat at opposite sides of the stage, looking at eachother. I suddenly came up with an idea. I paused the game and tried to input the code for "no contest", nothing happened, I tried again, again nothing. I was getting kind of sick of this shit and decided this wasn't going anywhere fast. I walked up to Ridley and smashed him of the stage, as I hoped he fell without trying to recover, and a burst of red from the bottom of the screen told me the fight was over.

I saw Ridley falling, tossing and turning, frozen in an awkward possition while doing so. He landed on a grey floor and a text formed above him: Continue? Yes / No. I picked no, i wanted it to end. I was kicked back to the main screen, but Classic mode was grey, like it wasn't available. I decided this was a save time to close the tab, and to my relief, nothing happened when I did close it.

Like I said before: Horror is my drug. Every night when I come back from the bathroom and walk to my bedroom, I pass the stairs leading to my parent's room, and I always look up to make sure there's nothing there, especially this night. I slept badly that night. The next morning I was feeling sick. The sickness had built over the last few days and now excerted it's power over me. It was monday and I begged my mother that I could stay at home, to which she agreed.

I'm 17, and go to middleschool per bike every day, so I was relieved I could stay at home. Around 14:00 I was sick of making puzzles and watching TV and booted up my PC. I played with the idea to play Super Smash Flash. I decided a quick look couldn't hurt. When I checked the site, I was surprised to say the least. The game had recently been updated. The site read "Super Smash Flash 2 Demo 0.9".