/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5556368
You can't start a thread like this and not go into more depth.

>>5556391
This. I watch Ghost Adventures, man. You had potential for a good thread here.

>>5556368
What happened op? Are you cursed? Are ghosts following you are.

>>5556368
Alright, what are some occult famicom/nes games?
>Taboo: The Sixth Sense
>Tao
>Megami Tensei I/II

>>5556437
There's a tarot game for Super Famicom called Tarot Mystery and another for Game Gear called House of Tarot.
Those are the only tarot-simulators I know of apart from Taboo.
BTW, Taboo has nudity (including visible nipples) despite being a NoA approved game.

>>5556368
Explain yourself at once

>I won't tell you the details because you'll all laugh and point me to /x/

I won't laugh. Can you explain? I'm a Wiccan and I have an interest in this stuff, I don't think it's a cursed game but I'd be interested to hear your perspective.

>>5556564
>I'm a Wiccan
You're a faggot.

>>5556368
>I won't tell you the details because you'll all laugh and point me to /x/

theres a reason you`re posting it anonymously, now do it

>>5556564
>I'm a Wiccan

This game actually cost me my job at Babbage's believe it or not

>>5557372
How?

>>5556368
Seriously anon, give with the juicy details- this thread has actual potential

>>5556368
Everthing supernatural is bs.

>>5557437
Different anon here. I imagine it's along the reasons of this.

>>5556368
It was able to turn you into even more of a faggot than the colossal faggot you already were so it must be pretty powerful

@5556564
Of fucking course you're a wiccan lmao

>>5557473
Watch out, guys. We got a total badass here.

>>5557418
Okay so my about best friend was third key and this girl I went to high school with was assistant manager. A new store opened and my friend went from third key to assistant manager of that store but instead of making me third key at our store they rehired some dumb cunt they had fired and made her third key. She didn't know how to do anything, left herself logged into the registers while she sat on her ass in the back and a bunch of shit like that, so I was doing her job for her plus my job and giving less and less of a fuck every day. One day instead of talking to her to get my employee discount I just rung myself out for it on her register she had left open. She noticed it at the end of the day on the Z reading and reported it to the district manager so I got fired. The game I bought was Taboo and I absolutely should have just stolen it instead.

>>5557509
Did you at least have fun with the game?

>>5557504
Wyd here newfag go back where you came from

>>5557509
Just as the prophecy foretold

>>5557518
No. I didn't even actually want it I had it confused with Arcana for SNES

I had Taboo as a kid. Would like to hear more. At the very least it sounds like a good story.

>>5557505
>le ironing

>>5557440
whatabout skelletons?

>>5556391
this
but op's a pussy, too scared to anonymously say something online. he fears other's opinions about him

>>5556564
Aren't you a tranny?

>>5557445

It has dark magic attached to it. Please trust me and don't laugh, and whatever you do, don't play the game.
I would say more about what it did to me, but you'll all just laugh at me and tell me to go back to /x/, and say that I just made it up.
I know it's stupid to care what people think on 4chan, even though we can all be anonymous, but this is like the last place I can socialize on at all.
I don't really even want to share my story, but I figure maybe some of you are like friends to me, in a way, and I wanted to warn you not to play this game.

>>5557936
OmG :O

>>5557936
Okay, so all the paks are cursed, but what if I just play a ROM instead?

>>5557936

>>5556368
the game is pokemon yellow Chinese for the nes btw

>>5556368
I try to never mess with occult things. I'm a huge srpg/trpg fan but won't play tactics ogre because of the tarot stuff in it.

Fuck, I actually did play this on an emulator long ago.

>>5557936
This is the worst attempt to post as OP in history of /vr/

>>5556564
>OP makes a joke thread
>tranny takes it serious
Please know we are all laughing at you

I thought Nintendo didn't allow religious/supernatural stuff in games.

>>5557086
kek

>>5556564
>wiccan
>tranny
abra kadabra penis go byebye
zim zalabim him to her

>>5558470
Since there's also visible tits, I think they must have been asleep that day.

>>5558186
F

>>5558470
This game simply breaks all of Nintendo guidelines and family-friendly rules they frantically obeyed. Well if there's no occult involved then how the fuck did the most anal company in the world could overlook religious symbolism, occultism, nudity, sexual references, black magick and violence (for eg. the picture of Hanged Man).

AFAIK this is the only game on NES that was actually advised for kids over 14 y/o to play. I think all of them are like 3+/7+? Well they were generally targeted "for kids" while Taboo has a specific age limit.

>>5558493
Ha
>>5556564
40% yourself already

>>5558598
I guess only Howard Lincoln would know for sure how Taboo managed to pass, especially since this was back before Rare were that important to Nintendo.

What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn around quick, and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh no
Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan's sitting there, he's smiling
Watches those flames get higher and higher
Oh no, no, please god help me!

EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP

so hl3 confirmed or not

River City Ransom has a dude's butt in it, so...

game is safe on everdrive, avoid the cartridge

One time when my sister was like 13 she said she was at a friend's house and they were playing with a Ouija board. My mom told her no I don't want you fucking around with Ouija boards because really creepy stuff can happen with no way out.

>>5556564
>Wiccan
aka attention whore marxist feminist, except cutting your dick off will never make you a woman

>>5558876
Oh yeah.

>>5558182
I specifically chose tactics ogre over fft because of the ladder's antichurch christkilling plot, but I didn't even blink at the tarot cards.

Come on /vr/, let's make a creepypasta out of Taboo.

>>5557950
The ROM is safe because you are behind the protection of an emulator, but the carts have a dark energy that is transferred to your body via controller.

>>5557816
Yea a pretty hideous one at that. Pretty sure he got #exposed on /x/

>>5560648
What if you play it on a flashcart? This is retarded btw.

>>5556368
Satanic americans freemasons brought satanism and witchcraft to japan after the end of WW2 in the late 40's as well opened masonic lodges over there.

>>5560697
>thinking Japan doesn't have plenty of indigenous ooga-booga traditions

>>5560984
Surely less than the Jewnited Shartles of Muttlandia

>>5556564
you
will
never
be
a
woman

>>5556368
Anyone else getting deja vu? I feel like I remember reading this same thread a few years ago.

>>5560648
Why the carts? How does the emulator protect us?

>>5561090
Why don't you try playing it on emulator and find out. I've heard stories about people having intense nightmares after playing this game. A common one that I heard was in the nightmares, the individuals would see their loved ones burning to death, begging the individual to help them.

Don't play the game. I couldn't help it. This will be my last post here.

>>5557445

Where do I get a Bachelor's in demonology?

>>5561019
They actually have way more mysticism and spirituality in their traditions than any modern western country. They believe in all kinds of spirits and blessings and curses and all kinds of superstitions. People there frequently visit temples and leave offerings and shit like that, it's just part of their culture.

>>5561909
Yikes

This is only the 2nd craziest accusation of games having magical powers I've read on /vr/ this week

>>5561090
this

I used to play this game on an emulator regularly, like to consult it for advice. It actually would be surprisingly specific and dead-on about issues and problems in my life.
Around this time I also started to read about the Goetic demons and stuff like that... I think that it is possible that one of them got attached to me and that it was somehow related to this game. I've had to go through some serious ups and downs since then and only recently have shaken loose of some of this stuff.
I think that I was perhaps spared from some of the more sinister aspects of this dabbling. Why? I don't know. But I definitely believe in God now, and I definitely know that demons etc are real, are not anything to mess around with.

>>5556368
Spill the beans,man! What happened to you?

>>5562989
What was the first?

>>5556368
Not the first time I've heard these accusations against Taboo and it certainly won't be the last. It is a strange oddity and there's a creepiness about it considering its contents, but there's never been any real evidence behind these claims, as per usual with supernatural stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if OP believed in energy vampires.

>>5563573
Where'd you heard the other accusations? I've tried searching usenet archives but no luck.

>>5557523
>Wyd

Real convincing.

>>5561316
This creepy story about the cursed game of Taboo agrees:

“When I was younger, I rented this game because I had seen it and I was curious about it. As I was playing it, I noticed that little devil or satyr faces with glowing red eyes would appear super imposed over the suns on the backs of the cards from time to time. Needless to say, this creeped me out immensely. Almost every time I asked the game a question, I would get a negative reading involving the Devil card and/or Death. I didn’t take any of it very seriously, though; after all, I was young and just shrugged it all off as a silly video game. Within the next few following months, my dog Tippy died, my parakeet died, and then the worst thing all happened my father died of lung cancer. My parents were split already and I lived with my father because my mother was deemed unfit due to her alcoholism. He was my best friend.

“Anyway, years passed and I never really blamed the game for any of those things because logically it is just silly to think that an 8-bit video game cartridge can cause someone to lose everything that they care about.

“I got married and moved out of town. I finally got a computer and Internet access and as a result I discovered emulation. (I did not have my NES anymore because I gave it to one of my best friends before I moved.)

>>5563776
“So I [played] the Taboo [game] to give the game another try. My wife thought it sounded cool, and we asked it a few questions. The Devil/satyr faces with their creepy red glowing eyes appeared again, and my wife saw them too.

“Needless to say, it creeped her out too. Again, I got negative readings. Over the course of the next few days, both me and my wife became terribly ill. She got over her illness quickly, but I had a fever of nearly 104 off and on for about five days straight. I was delirious with fever for a bit. I finally went to the doctor and I was told that I had an unidentifiable flu-like illness. He prescribed me some strong antibiotics (the same kind that they give people who have contracted Anthrax), and he threatened to hospitalize me if my fever did not go down soon. I got better but the antibiotics caused me to have internal bleeding.

“Needless to say, I have never played the ‘game’ since this happened.

“I am not saying that I believe that Taboo was responsible for anything that happened in my life, but I do feel like it is not worth the risk to find out.

“Is anything really worth that?”

I have a healthy skepticism about a lot of things in this world, evil Nintendo games being one of them, but after speaking with him at length, I was convinced that he truly felt this way.

Source: http://www.nintendoplayer.com/feature/taboo-fortune/

>>5563779
>flu like symptoms
>a virus
>doctor prescribes antibiotics

This thread makes complete & total sense to me due to my unnatural love of all the spook shows they play on the Travel Channel.

>>5563776
>>5563779
Taboo could call the attention of bad things on you. My mother did Tarot readings and had a Ouija board whose "spirit" was named "Alvin". Some nut she did a paid reading for creeped her out and that was the end of the business, and the board said something of a disturbing nature and she trashed it.

I hated sleeping near the Ouija board on a foldout couch at times.

Turning all this into a videogame...what could possibly go wrong?

>>5564139
ah yes, some pictures on flimsy card stock and some digital code in a childrens game machine. Surely all of these point towards the devil.

>>5563636
Honestly I think it was just for googling around for this kind of stuff like 10 or so years ago, back when things like the ebay haunted NES were a bit of a meme. Taboo is kind of a gaming urban myth. I remember reading unsubstantiated claims that it accurately predicted the deaths of some of its players (a rumor that persists on a few websites today) and the odd accusations over the years that it's cursed.

>>5556368
There's been creepypastas based on this game forever. Outside of the one posted in this thread there's another about this game causing seizures in the narrator and then he writes to Rare to ask them about the nature of the game only to get no response.

>>5558186
Emulation doesn't count, you're safe.

>>5557440
Is that so, Jason?

Nothing like a cart full of Devilry to round out a collection.

There is literally nothing wrong with being a Wiccan.

>>5566238
There is. You're proof.

>>5566238
Retard.

>>5556368
so did this game retail at full price or what?

>>5556368
Did you hear the blood whistle's cry?

>>5566238
There is however, something wrong with being a namefagging tranny though.
So maybe you shouldn't be the one to tell anyone what to do or think. Because...yeesh.

>>5556368
Anyone know any spooky stuff about the development of the actual game? Stuff that happens to people is kind of subjective, but is there a legit cause for concern in regard to ill intentions of the programmers?

And what does it mean when the skull flashes on the card during your reading? That really used to creep me the heck out.

>>5569063
I've never seen, heard or read any single line from any of the creators about the development of Taboo. Seems like it was also ignored in Nintendo Power.

>hurr why isn't the ROM cursed
Because the real cartridges contain a fragment of Stonehenge you dummy

>>5558845
OOOOOOOHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo

DEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR DEEEEEEERRRRRRRR DEREREREREREREREREEEERRRRR

I'm gonna play this game right now. Wish me luck /vr/.

It is a very uneasy experience, and with the name Taboo you just can't help trying it out. Why is it taboo? By then it is too late

>>5569249
What card was your final outcome and what question did you ask?

>>5556368

it might of been that whole 80s/90s Satanic Panic mindset but I remember my sister's roommate fucked off and left a bunch of shit at the house they were staying in including about 20 or so NES games. This was one of them. Just looking at the cart without ever playing it creeped us the fuck out. I don't know if it got thrown out or what but all I know is when my sister brought that box of games home Taboo wasn't in there anymore.

>>5569124
>I've never seen, heard or read any single line from any of the creators about the development of Taboo.
That's because Taboo was not born of human hands, but rather was forged in the flaming maelstrom of Hades.

World's most self-conscious manual.

a Nintendo manual that directly tells you to participate in occult ritual. This is some fucked up shit.

The whole TABOO manual is one big warning.

people that believe in occult shit are the dumbest fucking people on the planet, and i say that as someone that enjoys occult aesthetics

>>5569772
>t. brainlet

>>5569772
This guy has the Nobel Prize in Physics, a physical effect named after him, professor at Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society, and the chips used in quantum and superconducting supercomputers are named after him.

And he supports ESP research and various paranormal phenomena:
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/

Just saying.

>>5556540
>Tarot Mystery
Last major game to be scored by Bun Bun.
Very weird.

>Make Tarot game for NES
>Suddenly the occultism scare hits the media and movies about how dnd makes you into a satanist killer are made.
>Better put a warning in the manual
>almost 40 years later some faggot makes a thread on a burmese basket weaving board about this.
Life is fun.

>>5570513
The d&d scare was in the 70s though. It was pretty much over by the time the NES rolled out.

>>5570539
The movies about the dnd scare hit in the early 80s and the whole anti occultism thing went strong throughout the whole decade mostly attached to rock and metal music.
Until when Mortal Kombat and Doom rolled around violent vidya became the new hysteriapieces.

>>5570539
Unless you grew up in the south where the satanic panic never really ended. I remember being a teen in the late 90's and early 00's and having classmates who thought Magic the Gathering was "satanic", and that bands like Slipknot and Rob Zombie were "devil music"... meanwhile I was sitting in the school library reading books about literal witchcraft, sipping vodka while listening to Inkubus Sukkubus on my headphones... and I also did tarot readings for some of my less close-minded classmates, so I guess it wasn't really THAT bad for me growing up, but there were definitely some kids who thought I was Darkness Incarnate...

The real redpill was that the christians were right about the satanic panic. (((They))) used that period to break down the moral fiber of the masses and it clearly worked. That's why all the shit that flies by today is accepted like the gender blurring agenda.

This explains why media was a certain way before and all the same things you knew and loved changed so drastically. It's cause they were never like that in the first place and were just following orders.

>>5572654
A lot of your posts make more sense now.
Btw, did you read about the m o u t h f e e l ?

>>5572682
>A lot of your posts make more sense now
You mean, now that you realize I'm just a lonely edgy teenager who never really grew up? :P

Read about it? No honey, I've lived it. The taste and texture of a trans woman's penis is something you just HAVE to experience for yourself, there is no way I can do it justice with words alone.

>>5572709
Yep, it's ok, growing up is overrated.

TOPKEKS.

I played this game a few days ago and I think it gave me some fucked up nightmares: stuff like this faceless person cutting my penis off with a pair of scissors and stitching it back on.

>>5563152
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>>5572680
holy based
spiritually redpilled

>>5574003
Is this Loss?

>>5574003
Get back to me when you win the Nobel in physics like the dude in >>5569928

>>5556368
I WILL laugh at your delusions if others won't. It's 20 fucking 19, how can you still be an esoteric retard when you have the best access to information humankind ever had?

>>5577109
Better not to tempt the forces of darkness, even if it's nonsense. Like Pascal's Wager, you have nothing to lose by playing it safe other than missing out on a shitty NES "game", and if occult phenomena are real you are asking for trouble.

>>5577472
based and logicpilled

>>5577559
BASED and analyzepilled.