NES Godzilla: Round 2
A Godzilla fanfiction
By H.R.C. Stanley
Inspired by the NES Godzilla creepypasta by CosbyDaf
Prologue
Hello everyone. My name's Sam, and I ordered a game with quite a story behind it. Some you may've already heard about Zach and his NES Godzilla cartridge? I wasn't aware of it until I saw the eBay auction, and it immediately grabbed my intrigue.
I skimmed through the recounting of what the game supposedly was and what it did. I wasn't sure what to make of it, but something about the whole thing just seemed captivating to me, and I decided to buy the game. I thought if nothing else, I'd get a new game and a nice conversation piece. I used Buy-it-now and got it for a decent price, $10 including shipping.
Zach sent me an e-mail and we talked for a while. He seemed like a normal guy despite being a bit dramatic at times. He made it clear that he was dead serious about the game being dangerous and cursed and all that. I wasn't entirely convinced yet at least, but I played along with it.
About myself and the game: I actually never played the Godzilla NES game before, hell I never even had a NES system to call my own back in my childhood. I was admittedly perhaps born many years too late for it, I moreorless grew up with the likes of the Atari Jaguar, Playstations 1 & 2, and the Dreamcast. However, while waiting for the delivery to arrive, I surfed the web to find any info regarding the game. I've become quite a geek in many franchises, Godzilla is no exception. No thanks to my big brother who happened to be a big collector since his early teen years, and he'd usually let me watch lots of old films and play video games with him.
After a few days, the order finally arrived through the post, and so far, there was nothing that seemed visibly wrong with the cartridge itself, no weird marks or anything that would make it stand out. If it got misplaced and sorted in with some regular games, you'd never know the difference. So soon enough, I managed to find my brother's toploader, plugged it in, and hooked it up to the TV, all set and ready to go.
I guess I was ready to begin too. I popped in the game into the system, and eventually the title screen went on, classic 8-bit music and all. It looked pretty much the same. If this was like Zach's game, there wouldn't be anything too noticeable until the first boss fight, but part of me couldn't been disappointed if this whole game ends up playing normally. Only a few seconds in and already something went off. I almost didn't notice, but the "Last Game" option was gone. I didn't know why, as usually it would've done the same thing as "New Game". If I couldn't save my game, then that would be it. I didn't want to have to play this entire game in one sitting. Maybe the world titles would work as passwords or something. No way to know until I started playing, so I wasted no further time and pressed start. However, the Solar System Intro was skipped entirely; bit of shame really, I did like hearing the music.
So as the game officially began, the text simply said:
THE MOON
To be continued...
