They Don't Forget You

It was my birthday. I couldnt wait to rush to my mum and dads room to wake them and declare my birthday was here, by opening cards. I got one hundred pounds in total from my relatives and friends, who shall remain unknown for now. The one thing that stuck out from all the money was a present from my auntie,The nintendo Gamecube. This all happened in 2004 so i'm sorry if it sounds a bit sketchy. I remember the moment my dad booted it up though, i had never been so happy i mean it was the first console i ever got, who wouldnt be excited? I didnt have any games but seeing that jingle at the opening screen would make any young boy happy.

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My first game i got was at my local game shop. It was none other than Mario kart Double Dash, the 4th mario kart game i believe, probably the best racing game for it's time. I ran home and shoved the disk in and I played that game every day of every week of every year. Video games looked different from what i saw in the social media, in truth it was more colourful and loud than what movies and tv shows make it look like. Because it was my first console i didnt know what to expect but i can tell you now that it was brilliant!

As I aged and time flowed forward I still played that game. It kept calling me back and without fail I'd be on that game in no time. I bought super mario sunshine, luigi's mansion and sonic adventure battle 2 but none could compete, Mario kart Double Dash  always had a place in my childhood.

More years went by and one christmas day i tore open the thin beautiful wrapping paper till it was mere scraps to find a white wii complete with wii sports. I can remember how excited I got, just like the gamecube i played it for hours until my parents said it was time to turn it off I downloaded all the mario series smb1,smb2 (and the japanese version) ,smb3 etc My gamecube was blown out the water by all these new features and games i just simply couldnt get of the thing. Like the gamecube... I purchased super mario galaxy and super mario galaxy 2 on release. I also purchased the succsesor to the gamecube game, mario kart wii. Words couldn't express how much it meant to use the wiimote as a wheel and how some courses from the gamecube debuted in mario kart wii no words could express how THEY felt...

5 Christmas's later I matured greatly. I  had began to a build pc I had also stopped playing on the wii for a long time, everything was going my way at college despite the fact i'm very unlucky at all times. But one christmas day I was opening my presents from my family one of them was pretty big, well from my standards it was. I had gotten clothes,pc parts,money and new super mario brothers u. That big present gave me a massive clue. I ripped open the big present and you guessed it, a wii u deluxe set.

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I wasnt as excited as I was in my youth but I rushed through all of the setup to play what had been in my childhood, Mario! I played new super mario bros u like I had in my childhood. I zoomed past levels like a bullet, i was so happy to see my favourite plumber in hd. Due to the fact you can move save files and play wii games (also virtual console games) on the wii u, I had no need for the wii anymore. But I had a need for the gamecube seen as I couldnt play gamecube games on the wii u.

So I decided to boot up my old gamecube. All I needed to do was to retrieve my childhood from the attic. It was insanely dusty up there as it hadnt been entered at all since I put it up there. I felt as if I was being watched like any teenage boy would but this time I was convinced that something was behind me. I was sweating and my heart rate shot up like a rocket. I then turned my head. Nothing, there was nothing there. I wiped the sweat of my brow and foAfter 10 minutes of searching i found my gamecube on top of a chest of draws. Soon as i held the thing in my handI felt warm inside like i was reunited with an old friend... The feeling was mutual...

I plugged in the power cable,the video input cables and inside the gamecube was mario kart of course! I turned it on. Everything worked phenomenally, the music quality sounded lively with lots of gusto. The picture quality was at its best and not even one frame dropped.

I played for 2 hours before i noticI hadnt got hit by one shell yet nor a banana nor anything! All the npc characters seemed like they wouldnt dare try to injure me at all costs bit i think i'm looking to deep. Thats when it began...thats when THEY began... I got hit by luigi, he used a red shell. "Finally!" i remeber myself saying

Mario, who was driving by the way, grabbed luigi by the neck and shouted "NO YOU CANT NOT AFTER EVERYTHING WE WERE PLANNING NO!!! NO!!! YOU WANT ALL THE ATTENTION DONT YOU? DONT YOU!? IT IS NOT OK... we cant let him know..." His voice wasnt his usual italian accent it was just pure english its hard to explain but I can tell you it wasnt italian,american or brittish. I suddenly stood up with a shock and turned the gamecube off. Due to me being good with computers I could see if anything was added in the programming so with that i took the small disc and pushed it into my computer. And you'll never believe me... it said that there was nothing wrong, all the files weren't modded or corrupt. My brain told me it was my imagination... my imagination said it was real, in truth i stuck with my brain for once. I turned my gamecube back on, only to find that the game was back to normal. Right after another hour I came second place in 150cc my first time second in 9 years. It was yoshi and birdo, I heard heavy breathing come from the speakers but according to my computer (i hooked up my speakers) there was no sound being inputted. Mario then jump from kart to kart From toad and toadette in 5th place to yoshi and birdo in 1st He looked like he had lost something I couldnt put my finger on it though... Yoshi was speeding up to get away from him but he was to slow to react and let Mario throw birdo off the kart You couldnt see birdo on screen but you could hear dreadful screaming and crying And i think i heard her say something like "YOU'VE BLOWN IT MARIO!!!...." Her voice was shaky and sounded like she had a hard time speaking. That scared me the most, how could Mario do such a thing? Mario twisted yoshi's head and snapped it. He then shouted "YEARS AND YEARS OF WAITING!!! AND FOR WHAT?!? JUST SO MY BEST FRIEND CAN COME SECOND!?" he threw yoshi off and started driving. His head turned to look at me directly "YOU...ruined my life everything, EVERYTHING!!!" He shouted very coldly, he sounded nothing like the real mario. I was about to turn it off in fear but I then saw him smashing his head against yoshi's kart wheel over and over "Why?" i thought to myself. Mario looked at me with a massive hole in his head and said quietly "If you know suffering ike i do you wouldnt be here anymore..." With that said he threw himself off the kart and hit the road blood scattered everywhere and brain matter splatted on the back of his cap. All that was left of him was a bloody corpse. I quickly turned the gamecube off and back on again. Mario was still on the road but he wasnt a corpse he was alive... I respawned him somehow by resetting the game. He got up "LEAVE ME!!! i MISSED YOU FOR YEARS AND WAS PLANNING YOUR RETURN!! i planned it ever since you left us for that son of a bitch wii!" "Can- can you hear me?" I said hoping he could. "yes... very much so. now thanks to you i despawned everyone i didnt kill anyone though... i erased them from the game!" he said changing the subject. "wha- wha- ... okay why did you do that? I dont go on the wii anymore... i got a wii u now... sorry." I replied

"WHAT!? ANOTHER ONE!? NO YOU SICK BITCH I- I- I- " the game started to lag.

"the disc cannot be read" screen popped up. So i reset the game and the same message popped up again "the disc cannot be read"

I inserted it into my computer to find all the files had been erased and in its place was a wii iso. I tranfered the file to my desktop then put it on a blank disc, that is compatible with the wii While i ejected the disc I then inserted it into my wii u, seen as it can play wii games. when i was starting up the game my wii textures started to become darker and insted of a welcoming white it turned to a dark grey. And i heard mario say "why? you abandon us and expect us to be forced to work for you?" I could hear him crying.

I had already lost my shit in other words I was terrified so I didnt care about anything else, I just wanted to get to the bottom of this and try to find out what Mario was doing. The game started normally it was super mario galaxy it had all my saves on it so I selected my first one. I spawned in the hub world like the actual game but What i saw there was awful, Luigi was beating up Mario shouting " NO I MISSED HIM TOO! I DESERVE SOMETHING!!" Luigi was a different guy compared to him in double dash, he stepped out of line unlike the other. Then i saw mario from  mario kart double dash jump into the hub world i saw him typing... on nothing. I couldnt look it was all my fault i made them go mad, i made them kill each other, ME! Then "the disc cannot be read" appeared. I ejected the disc and put it in the computer there were no files... a text file was left i opened it it read

"All years come to an end, this drove me around the bend. I liked it when we played, its a shame you couldnt of stayed..."

Furiously i opened the gamecube i then tipped it upside down and patted the bottom. there wasnt anything in there just a hollow gamecube.

And i have a question.... why was it heavier before then?