/vr/ - Retro Games

>Legend had it there was a specially modded version of Pokemon Red/Blue, called Pokemon Black - and it's creepy as hell. The game begins very much as Red/Blue did, with one exception - in addition to your chosen starter Pokemon, you have another Pokemon, caled "Ghost" - and you cannot remove it from your party. It's represented by the unidentified Ghost sprite you see before obtaining the Silph Scope, and it knows one move, called "Curse" (although - not the same "Curse" move present in later generations of Pokemon). And when you use Curse on wild Pokemon, the screen will simply go to black and you would hear a low-pitched cry. When the battle screen came back, the opposing Pokemon was gone. When used against a trainer's Pokemon, they would be left with one less Pokeball.
>What was happening was you were actually killing Pokemon. And it gets worse.
>If you used Curse once all the trainer's Pokemon were gone, the overworld trainer sprite would be gone, replaced with a tombstone. Yikes.
>There's more to the game (eventually, the game flashes forward to decades in the future - everyone in the world is dead but you, now an old man. Then Ghost reappears and curses you), but that's not the point of this. The point is - it's not even real. But the incredibly detailed and fascinating story drew in a lot of people. You can still find copies of Pokemon Black (Creepy As Hell Edition) floating around on eBay, and they never are what the legend promises they are.

http://www.dorkly.com/post/39521/the-dorklyst-the-7-cruelest-hoaxes-urban-legends-in-videogame-history/page:2

BETTER (and MUCH longer, which is why I didn't quote it) ARTICLE ON THE SUBJECT:

http://unrealitymag.com/video-games/the-urban-legend-of-pokemon-black/