User blog comment:Urkelbot666/Experiments./@comment-5934310-20140707204457/@comment-25021327-20140708025117

It is hard to be original sometimes in such a niche genre as creepy gaming. There are quite a bit of rip-offs or clones of more popular, or successful stories. But honestly, a lot of those older stories don't really hold up as well more recently, perhaps partially because they have been so poorly and repetitively copied.

Luckily, there seem to be plenty of interesting, and fairly original video game related stories still being written. I've actually been pleasantly surpised by the volume of fairly good, to very enjoyable pastas on this Wiki :)

People seem to think that they need to explain where the game came from, why they are creepy or weird (ripped lables, sharpie marks etc,) and what happens to them after the story is over. Unless there is a real reason to know, or there is a truly interesting origin for the game, sometimes less is more. Maybe have it remain unknown where the game came from instead of getting it from a crazy man at a yard sale, or fanatical store clerk.

Reading many of the stories out there, yard sales sell more games than all the major chains combined!