The Real Game

Hey everyone, I would just like to give my apologies for all the parents who had lost their sons and daughters who had died years ago after an incident occurred with, "The Real Game"

Welcome to 1999, things were becoming the future with Windows 98 computers, cameras and even games coming in CDs! And when I was 15-16 years old, I was sick from home, and I had gone to a game shop somewhat far from my home with my parents, it's usually where we pick up games from "Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn and even PC" and when I got there, there was a new game that just released for everyone who owned the Windows 98 PC. The game was known as "The Real Game"

I had my eyes on it when I saw how off it looked. There was no cover, style or nothing, just a black plastic case. And inside, was what appears to look like a written white blank CD with "THE REAL GAME" written with one of those permanent markers. Now, usually people would not look into these types of things because they could be crappy games since they look so cheap. But something hit me about this CD and I really needed to know what this was, so of course, I told my parents I would buy this game (so I told them to wait), then I went to the counter, and pulled out my money so I could buy this CD.

As I was pulling out my wallet and taking out cash to buy the game, the shopkeeper saw what I was going to buy and he had explained,

"The game is in current beta-test according to the person who owns the game" The shopkeeper asked.

"Why is it out on CD then? Should not it be finished first" I questioned. "Do you know any information why"

"I think they just want others to beta test it, that explains how it looks cheap. They did mention something about making .zip updates on the official website for the game"

"That's cool, anyway, see you" I chanted, as I took off with my parents back home.

I still do not get the fact why they are asking us to beta-test the game, but it doesn't matter, let's play it!

So when I got to my 98 computer, I was about to insert the game, but that moment stopped when I started having second thoughts about this game. I did not want to have any viruses or anything. But then when I said, hey, this came from my gaming store, this could not possibly have anything wrong, I filled up with excitement, shoved the game in and waited on.

The CD's title on the PC was "REAL LIFE (D:)" and it contained an installation wizard which popped up already so I looked into that instead. The installation wizard was completely different. It had a simple dark background and it just had the usually welcome, but it was different. And strange.

"Welcome to the real world"

"The wizard will helpfully guide you to installing the planet Earth on your system. You will need to give important information such as name, country, city etc. If the game is not installed correctly, there will be consequences"

Now this is such a weird opening from a setup for the real game, but I completely ignored it and clicked next. Then I appeared with this which I was ready for anyway.

"WARNING: Enter correctly or bad things could happen"

Name: ___________

Age: __________

Country: _______

City: _______

State: _______

Phone Number: ______

Your digital signature (your real name, not the company or organization. This will show that you have made a choice to play in the life experience and do whatever you wish:

_________________________

I entered all information and clicked next. It began installing, and then it was complete. It appeared on my desktop as "THE REAL GAME" and I opened it up. Things had gotten a little odd here.

The game was all mediocre, distorted and it displayed static. It then popped up with the following message:

"Now before we get started, you shall learn the controls"

Done that, then I finally started the game.

"Good! Let's start the experience"

Waited five seconds after.

"Do whatever you want! We will start you off at your school and you can go ahead and do such. You could go into a classroom, smash a desk and rip up the math work, just do what you want"

And I appeared at. My school? This is unbelievable. And everyone was there. Students, teachers, cleaners, everyone! I could not believe my eyes.

So I took a tour around the game inside my school and saw somebody I hated a lot outside the school (I guess it was break time). And I hated him so much that I could knock him out. And when I started grinding my teeth to the person I hated so much. Students in the game pointed out the mysterious person (that was I!). And at this point I saw that I had pulled out a knife, and I stabbed the person with it and instantly the game displayed a message. It read "LET'S GO KILLING" then it started really flickering, twitching and playing loud static. Kids were shrieking, screaming, and I began to notice my player was running around, violently attacking, torturing and KILLING hundreds of the students I knew from my school. The player was shouting such hateful words, he laughs at them, causing so much pain on them and torturing them to death. There was blood, tissue and guts spewing all over across the screen. They were screaming horribly. Then, the player had paused, the camera turned around and went to the player, and it made a massive GROWL before going to static. LOUD noises were heard, blood-curdling screams, crying, laughing, and jump-scares happening constantly.

At this rate, I was getting violently disturbed. I started shaking around, tearing down the walls of my room, smashing my Nintendo and SEGA systems. And eventually, started cutting myself, laughing. Then. passed out on the spot.

I was at hospital. Doctors, police and my parents were there. My father had told me that I had suffered panic attacks and eventually had a stroke with some other unknown problem, which caused me to go violent, and drop on the floor, choking.

I was crying at the moment, and my parents hugged me and told me that it was all over. The police came in and said.

"Is it over? A lot of students were tortured, attacked, raped and most of them got killed at his school. We wonder if he had something to do with it"

My father replied "He would not go Columbine on the school, even if he hated this one person. And also, he was never violent like that, he would not do a thing"

My mother then said "He was home for two days having the stomach bug, he was sick all day. And he was out of school for a while because of that. Even if he was at school, I would never see the rage in him to do that kind of things. Including rape, I do not think he would do anything of that"

After hospital and that, I was back home and my whole computer was completely wiped out, probably because the game had removed itself and contained a virus that did not infect my PC, but completely got rid of evidence to keep away from FBI and cops. But they forgot one part of evidence. The police had reported a mysterious letter with writting in a kind of scratchy, raging font in red pen, it had read:

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"Didn't you enjoy it? Did you not enjoy the suffering of your own haters? After all, they ran you into a lot of crap for six years. Don't you just want to KILL them? You should ripping the heads off their shoulders, cutting their stomach open and tossing the remains on a tree branch just to see them hanging, choking and coughing up blood, desperately crying for help. And there is no help, there is only the opposite, and I am in charge of it.

The whole world I've hidden with me in darkness. And I am your master, holding the Earth haunting it forever. I shall take this game, and escalate it farther within. The whole world shall bow before me, and the game will become bigger than it was. It will be the biggest destruction that shall be known to humanity, and every bit of planet Earth, will rot away, slowly. Torturing EVERY part of it.

And I will get you too soon, child. When you die, I will grab you and haunt you forever, in darkness alone. And everyone else shall be grasped into my hands. Watch me, I will rise again. This time will even be more deadly.

Kind Regards

The magic behind the REAL LIFE game.

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