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* [[Ben Drowned]] (sometimes called simply ''Majora''), an Internet meme / [[Alternate Reality Game]] about a blogger named "jadusable" who gradually loses his grip on reality as he is tormented by a haunted ''[[Majoras Mask|Majora's Mask]]'' cartridge. The whole thing can be found [http://www.youshouldnthavedonethat.net/ here].

** That site now redirects to the forum for the 3rd arc of the BEN Drowned ARG. Right now, you'll have to view that story [http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/majora.html here].

** There's also a story about a hacked ''[http://tinycartridge.com/post/866743831/super-creepy-pokemon-hack Pokemon Black]'' (not the official ''Pokemon Black'' version for DS, though).

*** In both of these, the cause isn't explicitly supernatural. Indeed, both are simply about somebody finding what is most likely a morbid ROM hack on a bootleg cart. The games in question are hacked into chilling and even depressing stories about death. Pokemon Black {{spoiler|has you kill Pokemon and their trainers with Ghost until there's nobody left, then Ghost kills you}}. Lost Silver {{spoiler|has Gold [[Dying Dream|coming to terms with his own death]] at what could be years after the fact.}} One chill comes from just who would have the knowledge to do all this, then distribute them as bootleg carts instead of posting them on the internet. The [[Fridge Horror]] comes in when you realize that hacking games to the extent shown in the stories and writing them onto cartridges only became possible fairly recently, with the cartridges featured in the stories apparently being from the first gen years.

*** Note that in both these stories, the players aren't actually in any danger, so these might be considered extremely mild versions of this trope.

** There's also the [http://pastebin.com/f71e6728f Lavender Town Syndrome] story, which has plain old ''Pokemon Red and Green/Blue'' being a dangerous video game, and talking about how various things (Lavender Town's music, fake stuff supposedly from the tower and haunted video games) led to mass suicide. There are actually two stories tied to this one, one haunted and one having various in-game stuff causing illness and death.

* Stories of haunted / evil video games are a fairly common type of Internet meme. Games from ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' to ''[[Wolfenstein (2009 video game)|Wolfenstein]]'' and ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' have gotten this treatment.

* Parodied, to great effect, by [[JonTron]] in his "review" of ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''.