/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3585995
I don't know how this works exactly or if I'm remembering it right, but basically, the in the beta build of Green & Red, the Lavender Town music (and possibly some other tracks), had some "binaural" beats and tunes, which if you listen to them, can give you a headache, cause a general feeling of uncomfort, some people apparently can get a migraine (if they're prone to those, I guess), and supposedly visual and audible delusions (though I think that's not specifically these old tracks).

https://youtu.be/LNKEcCna-ws
This is one of the developmental versions (I kinda dig the spooky tune at the start, before the melody starts up), there was apparantly another one, which may or may not have been in the earliest distribution run, and then changed (this sounds like a convenient element for creepypasta, honestly), this one was much closer to the final version, except it had some binaural 'popping' noises left in it, which would cause those headaches in some children

The creepypastas is partially "these tunes drove children to suicide, ooooOOOOOoooh so spooky!" and the other one is the "buryman" nonsense (just google it to see the pasta), which among other things describes thr game as corrupting your Gameboy, by uploading a flash file to it's internal memory, which would make it display a game over screen showing the player character being eaten by a ghoulish creature, and never do anything but show this screen ever again (nevermind that the flash format didn't yet exist, doesn't fit in a Gameboy cartridge, doesn't run on a Gameboy, nor that the Gameboy has an internal memory, consider how likely it would be for Nintendo to allow this shit).

It's all bullshit and the only truth is "listening to this annoying noise in these tracks made your head hurt so we changed it".

All this dumb shit aside, the idea of some kind of demented ghoul dragging you down into his grave to bury the two of you alive (and slowly eating you alive), is kind of neat as a horror concept.