NOCLIP Pocket E06 - I Should Haunt Those ROMs - Pokémon Black

I’m what you could call a collector of bootleg Pokémon podcasts,
Happy Halloween! As was alluded to in the previous episode, we are
in fact playing a couple of the various recreations of the famous
(infamous?) creepypasta Pokémon: Black Version. This haunted or
hacked first-generation Pokémon game relies on the tried and true
horror formula of taking something you’re very familiar with and
forcing you to view it from a new, more macabre, perspective. While
this effect works for the story, widely circulated on the Internet
for almost—or possibly more than—a decade, when applied to the real
game, the terror doesn’t really take hold. Nevertheless, the
existence of hacks like these is a fascinating topic, so come for
the discussion of the video game in question, stay for the cultural
discussion of creepypastas and Internet folklore. We’re going to
talk about the glitch hunting phenomenon in Pokémon, demographics
and their expectations, and the ingredients that make up a
“Good-Bad Sandwich.” Thank you guys for listening today! We can all
let out a collective exhale because the busy month of October is at
last over. I genuinely hope you’ve enjoyed this year’s survey of
horror games, as well as our Anniversary bloopers episode, but as
we head into November we’re going to make a slight, barely
perceptible shift in tone; next time, we’re going to be discussing
Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 2!