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Have you ever heard of an old PC game called “The Theater”? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Probably because many people say it doesn’t even exist. You see, The Theater is an old computer game released around the same time as Doom. Today, if you ever find it, it’s only available on * bootleg CD-ROMs, which, more often than naught don’t even actually contain the game. The actual legitimate copies that they say were released back in the day feature a blank cover with nothing but the sprite of what has since been named the ‘the Ticket-Taker’. He is simply a poorly drawn, pixelated Caucasian, bald man with large red lips wearing a red vest over a white shirt and black pants. He is completely emotionless, though some say that if you smash the disc his face is shown as angry the next time you look at the cover. But this is just dismissed as an urban myth. What is peculiar about The Theater, though, is that there is no developer named on the jewel case, nor a game description on the back. It is simply the Ticket-Taker on a white backdrop on both sides.

The game was initially known for its inability to install correctly. The installation process immediately locks up the computer when the user reaches the licensing agreement. Also strange about the licensing agreement for The Theater is that whenever the development studio is supposed to be named, the text is simply a blank line. Anyways, most people who have claimed to owning one of the original CDs say that they figured out how to install the game by simply rebooting their computer on the licensing agreement with the disc still inside. Then they are prompted to press ‘I AGREE’ on startup. Then they continue with the installation. The game then starts up without any introduction besides a main menu that is simply the sprite of a movie theater’s exterior on an empty city street. The title fades in and then the 3 menu buttons ‘NEW GAME, LOAD, OPTIONS’. Selecting OPTIONS immediately crashes the game to the desktop. LOAD is said not to function at all. Even if you do have a saved game, nothing happens when you press it. Thus, NEW GAME is the only working menu option.

Once it is selected you are in the first person view. You are standing in an empty movie theater lobby, with the exception of the Ticket-Taker standing in front of a dark hallway which one can only assume leads to the theaters themselves. There’s nothing to do but look at the poorly-drawn, mostly illegible movie posters or approach the Ticket-Taker. Once the player moves towards the Ticket-Taker a very low-quality sound clip plays saying “THANK YOU PLEASE ENJOY THE MOVIE” along with a speechbox saying the same thing. You then walk into the hallway and the screen fades to black and you’re back in the empty lobby and you do the exact thing again and again and again.

While this may sound like a really horrible game, a number of peculiar things occur as you continue to play it. The number of times that you have to continue into the hall after giving your ticket to the Ticket-Taker before the strange events happen is unknown. Most state that it’s completely random and could take anywhere from the first playthrough to the four hundredth. What happens, though, has deeply disturbed some players.

The first occurrence is when the player fades back in after walking into the hallway. This time they will notice the Ticket-Taker is completely absent. The player then, without any other options, decides to walk into the dark hallway. The sound clip and text box mentioned previously still play in the absence of the Ticket-Taker, but when the player walks into the hallways the screen does not fade out. It goes pitch black as they walk deeper into the hall, but the player’s footstep sound clip is still playing as they continue to push the up button on their keyboard. Those claiming to have played the original game report to have felt extremely uncomfortable walking down the hallway, anticipating the whole way something horrible happening. Well, eventually the player is unable to move forward. There is nothing for a few moments before a strange sprite that is described as ‘the Ticket-Taker but with a swirl for a face’ appears and stands before the player. The original players of the game say their bodies immediately froze up and their stomachs churned they saw this sprite (which has been appropriately named the ‘Swirly Head Man’). Nothing happens as the Swirly Head Man stands before them. Then suddenly a piercing screech plays as the game glitches out. This lasts for a few minutes, with the screeching being continuous. Then the player is abruptly returned to the lobby with all the sounds and graphics being as they should be.

The game continues normally for the next couple of ‘cycles’ of entering the hallway, with a couple of the original players claiming the Swirly Head Man would briefly appear and disappear in the corner of the screen as a brisk ‘yelp’ sound effect plays. Then, at some point after meeting the Swirly Head Man, the player sees the Ticket-Taker pacing back and forth (though there is no walking animation - the sprite’s limbs are completely static, so he just hops up and down slightly as a substitute) with his eyes being wide and his mouth open to simulate a worried facial expression. Some players noted that the movie posters had been replaced with images of the Swirly Head Man, which caused them to immediately turn their character’s head away from the posters and approach the Ticket-Taker. Then another, different, low-quality sound clip plays, but the speech box contains nothing but corrupted characters that cause whatever text that would have been in the box to be completely illegible. Due to the extremely low quality of the sound, it is debated by players what exactly the Ticket-Taker says at this point, though it is widely agreed that he says ‘NEVER REACH THE OTHER LEVELS’. Then the screen fades out once again and returns the player back to their starting point in the lobby, but the Ticket-Taker is gone and the hallway is blocked by a large brick wall sprite. Touching the brick wall will immediately crash the game. And that’s all there is to it. No one knows what the ‘Other Levels’ are or how to gain access to them, nor is it known why the Swirly Head Man causes such acute fear in those who have seen him in the game. All the original copies of The Theater have either been lost or destroyed. But the creepiest part is the fact that is that all the original players of the game claim to occasionally see a brief glimpse of the Swirly Head Man out of the corner of their eyes…

Little Charley Saunders had wandered far from the preschool Easter Egg Hunt group. He had crawled through a gap in the fence with his bright yellow basket full of plastic eggshells, laughing and licking chocolate from his fingers. He had wandered up the hillside covered in grass and flowers. Now he was lost. But it was a perfect spring day, so instead of worrying, Charley settled himself in a patch of wild clover. He ate all the candy left in his basket and then he fell asleep.
    When Charley woke up several hours later, he yawned and stretched. He’d forgotten where he was, but he was hungry after his nap. The Easter chocolate seemed a long time away now.
    Charley got up, abandoning his little blue jacket and yellow basket, in search of food. He minded that he was lost now, and he wanted his dinner. Where was everybody? How had he gotten so far lost? He tottered around the hills, his stomach growling, when suddenly a tantalizing scent reached his nose. It smelled of ham roasting in the oven, his most favorite food.
    Without a second thought, he followed the scent to a cave in the hill. Meat-scented smoke drifted from the opening. Charley felt his mouth water. “Ham,” he said aloud. And he clambered up into the cave.
    Charley’s eyes widened in astonishment. The flames roasting the meat were emerald green! A hunk of meat as big as he was suspended in midair, cooking tenderly. It looked so good that Charley forgot all about the green fire. He ate his fill of meat. It was hot and he burned his fingers and tongue, but in his hunger he thought he’d never tasted anything better. He licked every drop of meat juice from his hands. The green flames illuminated the cave so that he didn’t notice how dark it was outside.
    When Charley had finished eating, he decided to explore. He didn’t have far to look before something interested him. It was a giant nest, in which was a huge golden egg! Charley brightened. So, he wasn’t lost after all—this must be the prize egg!
    However, he was so tired he went right to sleep, curled up beside the egg.
    Before dawn, Charley’s eyes blinked open sleepily. He’d woken to a loud, angry roar. At first all he saw was a flash of pearly white fangs and a huge red mouth. Then, his eyes adjusted to the spooky half-light of early morning and he stiffened with terror. Blood red eyes glared at him from a huge, spiky reptilian head. Gigantic wings like coarse black leather stretched up aggressively. And then Charley knew what the egg was, and that he was to become the dragon’s next meal…
    Three days later, a man stood out front of the grocery store, passing out blue flyers. “Missing children,” he explained to a passing person.
    “Children?” asked the woman, her eyebrows furrowing. She stopped pushing her cart. “As in more than one?”
    “Yes, two,” said the man passing out flyers. “It’s very sad. We suspect a kidnapper… Charles Saunders and Minnie Brown, two preschoolers from the same class, both vanished from the park on the exact same day. Minnie disappeared first…”

Last edited by 777w (2012-07-26 07:17:11)

For various reasons, including that nagging worry that I hadn't caught Rayquaza and an excuse to use my Gameshark again, I started up Sapphire and continued my old save. Everything was normal. I caught Latios, Latias, Rayquaza, Kyogre, and also had Swampert and Abracadabra from my old days. Then I used Gameshark to start owning Elite Four.

  It was good at first, my pokemon destroying everything they came up against. But around the 30th time I fought them, the last of the Elite Four spoke to me after his defeat. "You are an exceptionally powerful trainer. Would you like to find a new place?" I pressed yes, hoping for some sort of cool cheat arena or a hidden cave or something.

  Instead, the guy used Fly on me somehow(I assumed it was part of the programming of the cheat area at the time), and I got transported to a dark cave, with no visible exit, and a small, rectangular box in the middle. After smiling to myself for finding this area, I examined the box. It said,"Reserved." that was strange. Anyway, I decided to use Escape Rope.

  But when I got out, I found myself in a seemingly endless patch of wild grass. Soon I stumbled across a Zigzagoon, and expected a ridiculously easy battle. But my Swampert's Surf missed, and when the Zigzagoon attacked... it was weird. It shook violently and uttered distorted cries, then suddenly started rebounding around the screen. When it returned to normal, it said,"Zigzagoon has charged!"

  My Swampert missed again. By now I was frustrated at this thing. 3 more turns continued, with Zigzagoon "charging" and my Swampert missing. Then Zigzaggon used Unleash, whatever that was. My Swampert instantly went down. After a slow process of defeating all my pokemon, the Zigzagoon finally said,"Zigzagoon has won!" then the screen faded to black.

  When it faded in again, I could see I was in that dark cave, except inside the box. I couldn't move or anything, so I started randomly tapping buttons. One button worked. When I pressed the A button, it said,"Reserved", like the last time, but the word was crossed out, and underneath was my name. Then at the very bottom, I noticed something that slipped my gaze before.

  Skull Coffin. Made in Lavender Town. Those 6 words, in fine print. Then came the distorted cry again, and my Gameboy just broke. Crashed. Gone forever.

  Shaken, I couldn't sleep that night. After 3 restless nights of tossing, I finally managed to go to Dreamland. Everything was as it was before.

  Except sometimes... I think for a second I'm still in the coffin.

Animeboy975 wrote:

Where's the story about the train in the park?

what story about what train in what park

Animeboy975 wrote:

777w wrote:

Animeboy975 wrote:

Where's the story about the train in the park?

what story about what train in what park

The one about the park in rural Wisconsin that had a train for little kids, and kids went missing

I think it's called Tourist Trap.

i saw that one but it wasnt very good imo
like i said, if you wanna help just go to the thread and post it yourself

Nice pastas.

Garr8 wrote:

Could someone make a Diary of a Wimpy Kid pasta?

no
this is the wrong thread anyway

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

I recently purchased the latest book of the Wimpy Kid series. It had a strange cover: A gray cover with the image of Greg Heffley looking like he was banging on a window, but his eyes stared into my soul. I opened the book and was literally sucked into it. I was forever trapped. "Enjoy your stay in that boring, colorless world while I get to roam your world" sau Greg Heffley evilly.

THE END

wdc wrote:

I HATE EVERYTHING ITS STUPID VBGIUAIFGUEBH
Now that I have you're attention, scrach team, I wanted to ask a question.
I am planning to censer and post Jeff the Killer. Some parts are possibly to graphic, but i was wondering what i should censer.

1. Jeff gets attacked by muggers and they get into a fist fight, probably OK, but someone pulls a knife at him and stabs one of the muggers, i will remove that. Also should i remove when he punches one kid he pukes on him, should i censer that or not?

2.  He gets attacked by the muggers again cus' they want revenge for them beating him. two of them pulls out a gun to make sure no one interferes with there fight. Not so woreyd about that as munch as the thing they say: "no one get close or guts will fly!" also the following things happen in the fight: A lot of punching, he gets hit on the head with A bottle of vodka, he punches someone and there heart stops and they die, he hits two people on the head with a peace of metal, he and another kid gets covered and bleach and then one kid throws a match at him and he he has bleach and vodka on him and hes on fire and passes out.

3. After he gets home from the hospitol at night he kills his parents and brother in there sleep and then the story ends.

Jeff the killar has already been posted in this rthread, so no need to do that.

wdc wrote:

nama wrote:

wdc wrote:

I HATE EVERYTHING ITS STUPID VBGIUAIFGUEBH
Now that I have you're attention, scrach team, I wanted to ask a question.
I am planning to censer and post Jeff the Killer. Some parts are possibly to graphic, but i was wondering what i should censer.

1. Jeff gets attacked by muggers and they get into a fist fight, probably OK, but someone pulls a knife at him and stabs one of the muggers, i will remove that. Also should i remove when he punches one kid he pukes on him, should i censer that or not?

2.  He gets attacked by the muggers again cus' they want revenge for them beating him. two of them pulls out a gun to make sure no one interferes with there fight. Not so woreyd about that as munch as the thing they say: "no one get close or guts will fly!" also the following things happen in the fight: A lot of punching, he gets hit on the head with A bottle of vodka, he punches someone and there heart stops and they die, he hits two people on the head with a peace of metal, he and another kid gets covered and bleach and then one kid throws a match at him and he he has bleach and vodka on him and hes on fire and passes out.

3. After he gets home from the hospitol at night he kills his parents and brother in there sleep and then the story ends.

Jeff the killar has already been posted in this rthread, so no need to do that.

I ment the hole thing

ACTUALLY I just realized that the post got deleted, so never mind you can post it if you want.

NeilWest wrote:

Dare you to click. It's the Slender game.

I swear that this is the official game.

I played it... nearly wet myself when I first saw slender! 

Then again, it's the surprise that gets you.

I JUST SUMMONED SATAN
OGODNONONONONONONONONONONONO

note:
NEVER play the original song and the Glee song together.
ever.

....probably a pasta about this stuff. ´o-o`

Last edited by GLaDOS2 (2012-07-27 08:20:45)