Sonic 2 8 bit beta creepy pasta:
2 Things come to mind when I hear the infamous name of Sonic: beta content and that character tails. Ever noticed when you enter debug mode in most of the first few sonic games, with sonic 3D blast and sonic spin ball being an obvious exception, scrolling through the various game sprites proves the existence of items that cannot be found on the average game maps without hacks or cheats? Such items along with the existence of demo cartridges is sure fire proof of the existence of a unfinished version of the game also known as the beta version of the game, which is once again a subject I am into. Not many others are though. Because people are into the actual content of the game, I find my odd interest isolated like a man living in a world of death. Most people focus on things like the characters; most adore sonic for his attitude, people love knuckles for his strength. Me though: tails. Yeah I know I fell for the trap saga set up by giving him a somewhat adorable look; that’s not all I fell for. His ambition to become great, his trait of being humble, his personality of never giving up; I am 14, but his story touches my heart. Sometimes I feel only my heart. He is my world; my life proves incomplete without him. I can’t face any jokes about harm coming to tails without weeping in despair for a few hours. That’s why I wished I never found that blasted cartridge. I don’t think I’ll ever recover
A night on eBay, a few hours up; things weren’t going good. Wasn’t long before I found the infernal thing. Some bozo was selling this sonic 2 8 bit beta cartridge, oh the joy that filled me when I saw the 2 dollar price. I pinched myself a few times and searched the cartridge up on sonic retro wiki. No information and I wasn’t dreaming. I instantly claimed the curse. Waiting, waiting, waiting; many weeks passed before I received the thing. To recap I like beta versions of sonic and love tails; basically this game was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. I wacked the game into my dust covered old game gear and the nightmare began. I was determined to find something; a game element hidden by a wall of invisibility to the public. Beta games are home to things that simply cease to exist in the final game versions. I was disappointed to experience the same old title screen, the same old underground zone, the same old sprite list and the same old boredom. Can’t remember what god forsaken part of the game I was in. I found a chaos emerald in the end of the act, went to a special stage, I could tell I wasn’t going to win. Failed the stage, went to the result screen, sonic started crying. He was crying? He just appeared on the results and he was weeping; in fact he was using a new sprites sheet. A flurry of excitement filled me up like a glass being filled by fizzy drink. I raced for my camera throwing frivolous clutter all over the place. Why sonic was like this I didn’t care, I just wanted to be recognized as the guy who found the beta elements of an unknown cartridge. Too late, act 2 just started; I had to get another emerald. Still in much excitement I took off determined to find those brilliant sprites of sonic. That’s what I told myself in the start; the words became an empty void when I ended the game with no emeralds. Well that was just great, not only was I unable to find the sprites again but I was going to be treated to one of the most sad endings to a sonic game ever. From memory the premise of this game was that you were trying to rescue poor old tails for robotnik as he had captured him. Ending without the chaos emeralds gives an ending that shows sonic looking up at the sky seeing tails amongst the stars. This created a popular belief that your failure caused tails to be killed. The credits began and sonic was running alone; the pain was already too much to me. Day turned to night and that infamous scene showed up, just without the music. It was too much, I couldn’t handle the guilt; my courage faded as I turned off the console and cried clutching my tails plushy. Sega has such a sick mind, even if tails didn’t die why did they do this? After a solid hour of despair I decided to put things right, I would start up the game and save my buddy. I started the console; only sonic appeared – crying.
Where’s tails, what’s going on, do I care; I found possibly the most unseen, unknown, incredible sonic sprite ever. I must have taken a few million pics and uploaded them to just about every single internet account of mine. This was just an incentive to find more beta elements, to continue searching, to hit that start button. Things were different. It was like the energy and joy of the game was engulfed by an ocean of tears. There was no energy in the music, and the enemies had just given up and left. Sonic’s isolation as noticeable, since his run was reduced to walking. His small bland pixilated face somehow expressed the most depressing expression I had ever laid eyes on. I just held the game in total shock; the title screen change was nothing compared to this. Heck this defied sonic gameplay: he was just walking. Continuing on I even noticed that the level’s sprites had been reduced in color. I had made what could possibly be the biggest discovery of sonic beta content since hidden palace zone – possibly even bigger. This was so big I was scared rather than exited. Scared because there must have been something that caused sonic to act like this. No It couldn’t be; Sega only does pg. in the sonic series. Do they? Such thought brought me all the way through to the boss. Eggman greeted me in nothing but his egg-mobile, laughing in a teasing manner as always. I wanted to give him one for, but sonic wasn’t moving- he stood there his eyes closed. And the boss was over like that, a black screen blasted my eyes. Why program the boss like that? It was like Sonic just didn’t have a reason to fight, or maybe he wasn’t fighting because he had lost all that he was fighting for – like the fans thought he had lost Tails. Perhaps … Sega wouldn’t do that, it’s just wrong. Little did I know they did.
A new zone emerged from the black screen of anticipation that once faced me: end zone. The sky was a depressing grey and there was no grass. All looked dead, apart from sonic; he still wasn’t moving. His eyes were focus on a tiny grave – with a T on it. My heart exploded all over my chest and my spit turned to magma. Rage, despair and overwhelming fear; tails did die. I wanted to spread my words over the net like a raging virus, Sega was corrupt! tails was meant to fall. In all this anger I noticed something… eggman was back. Furthermore sonic was holding something – whatever it was his face of complete rage told me it wasn’t good. The sudden darkness of the screen returned leaving my nerves frozen. My rage froze into a solid puddle of panic, since I thought I had switched off the console. I wished I did. A new zone turned up: mad zone. Sonic was still in front of the grave, and looked better – like his rage had torn out of his system ready to rampage. It was then I noticed egg man’s horribly mangled corpse. And sonic had dug into the grave, he was hugging something, it was a small body. It was. I switched the console off.
You know delving into the mystery behind why certain things happened in video games is not for the faint hearted. I tried, and I still have a few regular appointments to sort out my problems. I just can’t get over the fact that Sega is that sick. I mean Sonic doesn’t take revenge, he is a friend. He would do anything for his friend Tails. Too much. To the extent he would find his body and … Do the unthinkable. I can’t look a picture of Tails without swelling up with tears of emotional pain. Still haven’t destroyed the game, the boss of Sega tried to however. Leads me to ask myself why do I keep it hidden? I love beta content.
2 Things come to mind when I hear the infamous name of Sonic: beta content and that character tails. Ever noticed when you enter debug mode in most of the first few sonic games, with sonic 3D blast and sonic spin ball being an obvious exception, scrolling through the various game sprites proves the existence of items that cannot be found on the average game maps without hacks or cheats? Such items along with the existence of demo cartridges is sure fire proof of the existence of a unfinished version of the game also known as the beta version of the game, which is once again a subject I am into. Not many others are though. Because people are into the actual content of the game, I find my odd interest isolated like a man living in a world of death. Most people focus on things like the characters; most adore sonic for his attitude, people love knuckles for his strength. Me though: tails. Yeah I know I fell for the trap saga set up by giving him a somewhat adorable look; that’s not all I fell for. His ambition to become great, his trait of being humble, his personality of never giving up; I am 14, but his story touches my heart. Sometimes I feel only my heart. He is my world; my life proves incomplete without him. I can’t face any jokes about harm coming to tails without weeping in despair for a few hours. That’s why I wished I never found that blasted cartridge. I don’t think I’ll ever recover
A night on eBay, a few hours up; things weren’t going good. Wasn’t long before I found the infernal thing. Some bozo was selling this sonic 2 8 bit beta cartridge, oh the joy that filled me when I saw the 2 dollar price. I pinched myself a few times and searched the cartridge up on sonic retro wiki. No information and I wasn’t dreaming. I instantly claimed the curse. Waiting, waiting, waiting; many weeks passed before I received the thing. To recap I like beta versions of sonic and love tails; basically this game was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. I wacked the game into my dust covered old game gear and the nightmare began. I was determined to find something; a game element hidden by a wall of invisibility to the public. Beta games are home to things that simply cease to exist in the final game versions. I was disappointed to experience the same old title screen, the same old underground zone, the same old sprite list and the same old boredom. Can’t remember what god forsaken part of the game I was in. I found a chaos emerald in the end of the act, went to a special stage, I could tell I wasn’t going to win. Failed the stage, went to the result screen, sonic started crying. He was crying? He just appeared on the results and he was weeping; in fact he was using a new sprites sheet. A flurry of excitement filled me up like a glass being filled by fizzy drink. I raced for my camera throwing frivolous clutter all over the place. Why sonic was like this I didn’t care, I just wanted to be recognized as the guy who found the beta elements of an unknown cartridge. Too late, act 2 just started; I had to get another emerald. Still in much excitement I took off determined to find those brilliant sprites of sonic. That’s what I told myself in the start; the words became an empty void when I ended the game with no emeralds. Well that was just great, not only was I unable to find the sprites again but I was going to be treated to one of the most sad endings to a sonic game ever. From memory the premise of this game was that you were trying to rescue poor old tails for robotnik as he had captured him. Ending without the chaos emeralds gives an ending that shows sonic looking up at the sky seeing tails amongst the stars. This created a popular belief that your failure caused tails to be killed. The credits began and sonic was running alone; the pain was already too much to me. Day turned to night and that infamous scene showed up, just without the music. It was too much, I couldn’t handle the guilt; my courage faded as I turned off the console and cried clutching my tails plushy. Sega has such a sick mind, even if tails didn’t die why did they do this? After a solid hour of despair I decided to put things right, I would start up the game and save my buddy. I started the console; only sonic appeared – crying.
Where’s tails, what’s going on, do I care; I found possibly the most unseen, unknown, incredible sonic sprite ever. I must have taken a few million pics and uploaded them to just about every single internet account of mine. This was just an incentive to find more beta elements, to continue searching, to hit that start button. Things were different. It was like the energy and joy of the game was engulfed by an ocean of tears. There was no energy in the music, and the enemies had just given up and left. Sonic’s isolation as noticeable, since his run was reduced to walking. His small bland pixilated face somehow expressed the most depressing expression I had ever laid eyes on. I just held the game in total shock; the title screen change was nothing compared to this. Heck this defied sonic gameplay: he was just walking. Continuing on I even noticed that the level’s sprites had been reduced in color. I had made what could possibly be the biggest discovery of sonic beta content since hidden palace zone – possibly even bigger. This was so big I was scared rather than exited. Scared because there must have been something that caused sonic to act like this. No It couldn’t be; Sega only does pg. in the sonic series. Do they? Such thought brought me all the way through to the boss. Eggman greeted me in nothing but his egg-mobile, laughing in a teasing manner as always. I wanted to give him one for, but sonic wasn’t moving- he stood there his eyes closed. And the boss was over like that, a black screen blasted my eyes. Why program the boss like that? It was like Sonic just didn’t have a reason to fight, or maybe he wasn’t fighting because he had lost all that he was fighting for – like the fans thought he had lost Tails. Perhaps … Sega wouldn’t do that, it’s just wrong. Little did I know they did.
A new zone emerged from the black screen of anticipation that once faced me: end zone. The sky was a depressing grey and there was no grass. All looked dead, apart from sonic; he still wasn’t moving. His eyes were focus on a tiny grave – with a T on it. My heart exploded all over my chest and my spit turned to magma. Rage, despair and overwhelming fear; tails did die. I wanted to spread my words over the net like a raging virus, Sega was corrupt! tails was meant to fall. In all this anger I noticed something… eggman was back. Furthermore sonic was holding something – whatever it was his face of complete rage told me it wasn’t good. The sudden darkness of the screen returned leaving my nerves frozen. My rage froze into a solid puddle of panic, since I thought I had switched off the console. I wished I did. A new zone turned up: mad zone. Sonic was still in front of the grave, and looked better – like his rage had torn out of his system ready to rampage. It was then I noticed egg man’s horribly mangled corpse. And sonic had dug into the grave, he was hugging something, it was a small body. It was. I switched the console off.
You know delving into the mystery behind why certain things happened in video games is not for the faint hearted. I tried, and I still have a few regular appointments to sort out my problems. I just can’t get over the fact that Sega is that sick. I mean Sonic doesn’t take revenge, he is a friend. He would do anything for his friend Tails. Too much. To the extent he would find his body and … Do the unthinkable. I can’t look a picture of Tails without swelling up with tears of emotional pain. Still haven’t destroyed the game, the boss of Sega tried to however. Leads me to ask myself why do I keep it hidden? I love beta content.