PC users may be familiar with “.exe”, but not everyone knows that because of some urban legend on the Internet, “.EXE” will form a unique subculture in the gaming community, and give rise to a number of strange or horrific homage games.
Tragedy is the destruction of something beautiful for people to see.
The worldview created by the collective is full of magical charm because of its curious settings. So let me introduce …… sorry, off-topic. Just as the “SCP Foundation” started with a Creepypasta (urban legend) in 2007, there is also an urban legend subculture in the gaming community – “.EXE “. This word we see every day, but not all of us may know the story behind it.
Want to run? I’m the fastest Sonic on earth.
“EXE” originated from a Creepypasta released in August 2011. The story goes like this: A long-lost friend sent a CD and an attached letter to “me”, claiming that he was being hunted and asking “I” to destroy the CD-ROM, do not believe in “I” had to play it, but found that the CD-ROM is a mix of a number of horror elements of the modified version of Sonic, the protagonist lost after playing the game, turned around to see a bleeding Sonic puppet, die.
In the Creepypasta industry, there are several such stories born almost every day, which is not that unusual. EXE”, which became famous all over the world by a coincidence: the famous Swedish ironman PewDiePie uploaded a video of the game, and the horror game, which was originally shrunk in a small circle, quickly spread all over the world with the power of Internet celebrities.
He did not realize what happened in this moment
EXE” process is highly faithful to the original, the game in the moment of starting, Sonic’s eyes will turn black and bleeding, the bottom of the producer information will change from “SEGA 1991” to “SEGA 666”. This modified version of the game uses modified “Earth Adventure” (Mother) and “Wind Kronoa 2” BGM, and adds “Final Fantasy 6” in the magic guide Jeffka representative of the low sound quality of the evil laugh.
The game starts off normal, until the process advances to a screen full of corpses, the entire game is basically only red and black, play with nausea until the end, the game will suddenly burst into a loud noise, and jump out of the mouth like the Cheshire Cat, eyes dripping blood, with a very powerful sense of “I’M A GOD.” and left a scary message: Want to play a second round?
In the same year, the original author of Creepypasta, JC-the-Hyena, posted a long article on the forum to explain the setting of Sonic. It is not a demon, nor a god, but a creature created from the void, and loves the game series “Sonic”.
This creature wants toys, but can not leave their realm to capture people, so they have to take the form of a video game inhabited in the burner disk, when humans install the game, the computer is completely controlled by this evil creature. It knows where the dark side of the human heart hides, and it designs the game process to be horribly dark but fascinating, and when the game passes it will burst out of the screen and pull the victim’s soul into its own world.
The red kill teacher is the least scary schematic I could find
Although the victim’s physical body left behind in the present world looks like a suicide, this creature that resides in the game doesn’t usually kill. It only stuffs the victim’s soul into the body of a character in the Sonic worldview and continues to torture them repeatedly in the game world. When it gets tired of playing with a soul, its mouth turns into a black hole and absorbs the victim, as if the person never existed in the world.
As the game spread, people called the creature “Sonic.EXE”, which it thought was a good name and sometimes called itself “EXE” for short. It was born in another world, not like the gods or demons of the real world, and the title screen’s “SEGA 666” and the famous line “I’M A GOD.” are a deliberate desecration of the present world.
In 2014, MY5TCrimson released the sequel to Sonic.EXE, Sally.EXE, which was developed at a much more refined level than its predecessor, and played a trick at the beginning of the game – faking a blue screen. In this generation, Sonic.EXE tired of direct pursuit, but chose to Amy, Cream and Sally, the three female protagonists into the special execution ground, watching them die!
Speaking of Sally also has a little bit of lace news. She comes from the SEGA licensed U.S. Archie Comics “Sonic” comic, and Sonic has a lot of ambiguous play, but because it is a derivative work, the comic version of the role has never been recorded in the history of the world view, the history of Sonic’s love interest in another person. EXE” ending of the final scene is Sonic and Sally’s eyes were sewn up kissing, so look at this little game may have a little bit of party flavor ……
“I want it all”
After all, it’s a game played by Netflix, and Sonic.EXE’s creation of the same person is a lot. Most of the creations are on the level of reinforcing the horror, comparing whose noise and illustrations are disgusting, but there are still some conscientious authors – in response to the “second round” proposed by Sonic.EXE in the first generation, someone has created a king to orthodoxy, defeating EXE. EXE”, and someone else made a long process game “Sonic. EXE, the player is operating Sonic in this game, if through very difficult conditions to defeat Sonic.EXE, you can achieve the perfect ending to escape the nightmare world, the horror of this work is significantly reduced, just a symbolic meaning.
The next one is you
Humans all over the world have a common characteristic: good can not learn, bad a slip.
EXE” has a complete flow of only a few minutes, but many of its elements are easy to understand and reproducible, it became popular, many imitations were born, and many old games have a corresponding “EXE version”. The purpose of these imitations is very unified, is to target those cute, full of children’s works, including but not limited to “Pacman.EXE” “Aladin.EXE” “Kirby. Later these people were no longer satisfied with revamping the game, and even came up with something like “Micky.EXE” that could potentially be sent a lawyer’s letter.
The process of these works are almost completely copied from the original canon, the player in the magically modified horizontal level to operate the supporting characters being chased by the protagonist, from time to time there will be a splash screen and the sound of electricity to interfere with the screen, and the process will definitely appear at the end of the classic scene: along with the sound of evil laughter, the screen appears a red eyeballs, open mouth of the protagonist’s face, with the blood-red letters “I’M A GOD.”.
As the “.EXE” culture gradually developed, fans were vaguely divided into two types of fans: the shouting school and the showmanship school. The “EXE” school concentrated on enhancing the scary parts, replacing the evil laughter with more ear-splitting loud noises, and making the jumping faces more realistic and disgusting. This kind of messing up is honestly a bit boring and should be called a heart attack game instead of a horror game. EXE”, for example, the way to scare people is to put several more well-known horror pictures in Creepypasta one by one, see more than one will not feel.
EXE” may be more famous than “Sonic.
EXE” at the beginning of the fake blue screen and the original author’s world view, trying to bring horror with Meta elements, such as “Rainbow.EXE” is one of the best works. It disguises itself as a normal program, and during the online update step of the installation process, it mixes in Sonic.EXE, which is not supposed to be downloaded – Sonic.EXE invades this “rainbow pony” worldview game because it is tired of playing with its own world. EXE because it was tired of playing with its own world, so it invaded this “Rainbow Pony” worldview game and revealed to the character Rainbow Dash the truth that “she is just a program”, and then contaminated it into an “.EXE” creature like itself, becoming its own messenger for making toys.
EXE and decided to take revenge on the world. Her revenge method is to kill and transform all her pony friends to become her own kind. At the end of the game process played a trick: Rainbow a punch burst the screen, close the game after the Windows desktop will be changed into a horror picture, on the desktop to generate a number of .txt files to “”Rainbow.EXE has mastered everything you, the next object of revenge is you.
Rainbow Dash and Sonic.EXE’s communication
EXE” has been divorced from its original meaning and has become a unique online culture. Some people may think that this kind of childhood destruction of secondary creation, a bit like the game world “cult video incident”, but in fact, foreign children are basically serious in the game console to play these all-age games, it is difficult to touch on the computer by mistake. Of course, some middle-aged teenagers themselves to touch that is their own problem ……
Cursed game
In 2014, the story was removed from CreepypastaWiki on the grounds of cliché and poor quality, for which he also had a rather long rant , reading that paragraph gave the impression that English swear words turned out to be quite diverse ……
JC-the-Hyena’s experience is not unjust, “Sonic.EXE” before the fire, similar stories and even derivative works are already a lot, which about “Pokemon” Creepypasta has long been a system, just not yet “EXE” such a unified name, about the cassette is also cursed, rather than being engraved in the CD-ROM .exe file.
Pokémon horror version of “Lost Silver” the birth of the event predates the “Sonic.EXE
EXE has the ability to erode reality, this setting is taken from Creepypasta in addition to the possible reference to the NDS “seven days to die game” (ナナシノゲエム) series.
Although “Sonic.EXE” is taken from Japanese games, and even suspected of being copied from Japanese games, the Japanese are slow to understand it. According to Niconico, it wasn’t until 2015 when Lattice did a live Niconico episode of Sonic.EXE that the horror game system became officially known in Japan, and gained the nickname “Cursed Game” among players.
Japanese folk horror games have a circle of their own, they prefer to engage in closed mental oppression, rather than Europe and the United States kind of simple and brutal “Jump Scare” (sudden scare), the game form is also focused on RPG, rather than cross-over, until the Japanese “. EXE” first person StarIsland appeared before, this kind of horror games have not made too much of a splash.
EXE” live is technically earlier than Lattice, having made “Yoshi.EXE” live in 2014 and later developed a homemade work combining East and West, “Childen.EXE”. Although the game is called this name, the actual and Europe and the United States side to the horizontal version of the “.EXE” series of works is completely different, the form is still the “RPG Maker” production of horror puzzle game. The main process is five children inexplicably into an alien world, to help a ghost called “Yukiko” in the pile of treasure chests to find curry – this is actually a nonsensical story.
EXE” main process is inserted several times “.EXE” style “Jump Scare”, but also set a special “Error ending EXE” main process several times to insert the “.EXE” style “Jump Scare”, but also set a special “Error ending”: after entering a certain branch, the screen will be fixed into a tragic white ghost face, can only force to close the process, it is clear that these elements are intentionally inserted in the “RPG Maker” works to pay tribute.
EXE” was released by StarIsland in the following year, and this game significantly updated the setting, telling children to be inexplicably captured by the devil into the other dimension, and need to collect 7 treasure beads to get out. EXE”, the production level of this work is obviously much higher, the degree of perversion has also improved a lot.
EXE, the protagonist Watanabe was transformed into a “curfew”. “EXE” and tries to dominate the world. According to the original author’s note, the 9-year-old elementary school student Takayama many Kako because of wrong answers to math problems by four strong men to get pregnant, the ending was almost designed as “True Ending” – if the Americans do this kind of branch, fear is a minute to be FBI Knock on the door oh.
StarIsland then developed two sequels. EXE”, the main characters were once again captured by the devil into the nightmare, from the production technology and game length have made great progress, to give more worldview truth, but also added more and more sick “Bad Ending”. EXE”, the fourth game developed later, focused on the final game of the series “Memory.EXE”, which is expected to be released in 2019.
EXE”, according to the preview, “Memory.EXE” can selectively turn off the horror and pornographic elements of the work and safely enjoy the storyline. Although it is a very kind setting, but what is “.EXE” without the horror elements?
EXE” after the fire, there are many Japanese people started “. EXE” system works, such as “TOUHOU.exe” based on the “East” series, but compared with StarIsland’s series, it is not a scale. In these scattered single-issue works, only one work stands out.
