Something was wrong with my father, I could tell from the beginning, Ever since I came into the picture, he had became erratic, and aggressive, And then he gave me that damn game.
My name is Michael Spiel, I'm the son of a lead game developer for Sega, and this is my story of how he tried to kill me with his own creation.
It had started since I was born, My father had always been interested in game development, and he had been hired by Sega and been working on several games from them, most prominently the Sonic Saga. And a few weeks after he got hired, he found out his wife was pregnant, He was delighted at first, knowing that I'll be born soon, But by the time he was at the emergency room, and looked at me for the first time. He was blank, he looked like he couldn't feel anything, Not joy, not even disgust, It made me feel like I was a mistake.
After I was born, my father began to distance himself more often, he was working on a "personal project" and his peers at work we're asking for where he was all the time, His boss was threatening to fire him if he didn't get back to work, So he reluctantly did, but he continued to focus on this project of his, I didn't know what it was then, I was about 4, But that all changed about 3 years later.
It was 1998, My father had came home with a computer that had been programmed with a portable Sega gaming system in it, He had given to me, I was 7, so it was obviously exciting, and he pulled out a cartriage, It looked identical to the Sonic The Hedgehog cartriage, but most of it was scratched out, and all that was left that I could read on the title was "Sonic." My father installed the computer into my room and had taught me how to open and close the game, It was loaded on a file, The file name was SONIC.exe, and a file called FEIUIIYED.rom, I opened up the game, and once I did, my father left the room, Locking it from the outside.
I booted up the game, and it was just the simple Sonic the Hedgehog game, though the lighting was a slight bit different. And there we're a lot of glitches in the main title sequence, I played through it like usual, But something happened when I began to kill the robot critters, Whenever I hit them, they'd scream in pain, as blood splatted from the inside of the robot, the critter being torn apart. I didn't really notice it that much, but I finally understood what it was, and when I did, I was terrified. I continued playing through the game, until I saw a version of Tails, but something was wrong, He had been nailed to the wall, and this upper jaw had been torn out, and his eyes had been gouged out of their sockets, leaving blood dripping on the ground. At this point, I had gotten off the game and had been screaming at my dad through the door to let me out, I was crying as I slammed my fist onto the door, But he didn't let me out, My father was always telling me to finish what I started whenever I make a mess or do something bad in school. So I looked over at the computer, wiping my eyes, and continued to play.
I had gotten past the second level of Green Hill Zone, But this part was worth than before, There we're corpses of the animals all over the place, and blood smeared the walls of the level, The game seemed endless almost, Levels we're constantly repeating, and the music was starting to pick up more and more, I then went through a loop, and when I began speeding past, I had logged myself right into Knuckle's skull, He had been standing there, right near the exit to the 3rd level, Sonic had sent himself right in the middle of Knuckle's head, it began to slowly split open, and his brains fell out to the ground, as a puddle of blood spilt from his head, I had been hyperventilating at this point, But I knew I couldn't get out, so there was no point to ask him to stop.
This was the last level...and the one I hated the most, I started the last stage, but something was wrong with Sonic, he couldn't go to higher speeds anymore, He looked like he was lipping, and blood was coming from his gloves, Despite him being so slow, he had been walking by a more darker and yellow version of Green Hill Zone, blood spilt on the ground as he walked through the empty landscape, But finally he collapsed on the ground, and at the same moment, I heard a large thud outside my room. I looked back at the game, and I saw Dr. Robotnik in his Egg Mobile slowly approaching, But that's when Sonic's entire back bursted open, and I saw it.
Out from Sonic's back bursted a disgusting creature, It's limbs were skinny and long, with skin that looked like bark from a tree, and giant skinny arms, Their face was melting almost, their pupils we're completely gone, and and his jaw was wide open, with several teeth sticking out of his giant gums.
Sonic grabbed Robotnik and began to tear them apart, they ripped apart their stomach, and began to bite off their intestines, Robotnik's screams blared throughout my room. I sobbed as I watched Sonic tear Robotnik apart, He then looked at the scream, and started to speak through text that appeared on the screen.
"IT'S ME, MICHAEL."
"I'M YOUR FATHER."
"I'M BEAUTIFUL NOW."
"YOU'LL BE BEAUTIFUL ASWELL, MY SON."
I stood back, and I watched as Sonic's arms began to tear through the screen, and began to break through into my room, His arms reached through, and then his head crashed out, He began to scream my name, I began to run towards the door, and scrape at it, slamming at it. I had somehow broke through with my "strength" and I ran to the kitchen...
I saw my father sitting by the sink, limp. He was dead, His wrist were slit open, and he had been bleeding out on the floor, I began to panic, My father killed himself, and placed himself into a video game, I then heard banging coming from my room, I then weaponized myself with a Kitchen knife, I slowly approached the door to my room. Nothing was there, it was obviously a mess, but there was nobody there, I then approached closer...But then I saw a drop of blood spill from the ceiling, I slowly looked up, and it was there, on the ceiling. It leaped at me, It began to dig it's claws into my shoulders, I screamed in pain, I looked over at the computer, and saw that the game was still on, As Sonic went to go bite into my skull, I threw my knife at the computer, It smashed the monitor, and Sonic disappeared in an instant.
A few hours later, My mother came home from work, and I told her everything, She of course didn't believe me, so she assumed that somebody had broken in and murdered my father and attacked me, I was taken into therapy for years, Nobody believed me at school, I was just an outsider, I still have the scar on my shoulders, and I have the cartriage for the game, It stays in a safe I brought, There lives my father, He'll stay there for all of eternity, Because as long as I live, I'm going to make sure that he never gets out, and that I never see him again.
He'll never see the light of day.
