The story we know as BEN Drowned was an immersive fiction piece in which viewers follow a student playing through a haunted cartridge of Majora’s Mask. With the classic game celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, it’s a good time to look back at the infamous fan creation stemming from it - including the second, interactive half that many fans of the series may have missed. But one project shaped the trend as we know it: Alex Hall’s BEN Drowned, a scary spin on The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Illustrated stories like NES Godzilla Creepypasta and fake Let’s Plays like Petscop are becoming more and more common, and urban legends like Polybius were already circulating at the turn of the millennium. They tap into an already spooky part of our lives: a time graphics were especially uncanny and storylines were darker and more surreal than our typical Saturday morning fare. Those cursed vintage video games in particular have a wide audience. Creators and analysts have built entire Internet careers around the making and taking-apart of these online horrors, all so we can lose a few more hours of sleep at night. Ruined childhood? Some of it’s even being made into TV series and films. Cursed video games? You can literally download and play them. Anything you want, you can find it - or make it yourself and get an audience.
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