Creepypasta (Rewritten)

Mr. Mix (REWRITE)

A/N: I'm now taking a short break before the last couple of exams. In the meantime, I'm giving you another short, classic Creepypasta. And like some of the old Creepypastas, this is an example of just because you're old doesn't mean you're good. If you read the original, I don't think I need to explain why this pasta needed a makeover. Clearly, whoever wrote it had no idea how computers worked (I looked at some of the comments criticizing the function of the game and tried to change it), and the cliche ending certainly didn't get any favors. I'm not entirely sure about the version I came up with, but part of me feels like I traded one cliched ending for another, so I'd like to hear the opinion of anyone who comments.

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Back in the early 1990s, there was an old PC game called "Mr. Mix." It was mainly a typing game, similar to Mario Teaches Typing, where the player had to type words into a box to make a chef (the titular Mr. Mix) put ingredients into a bowl.

Unlike most typing games, however, this game is notorious for having an insane difficulty curve. The game has a "Words per Minute" requirement for each level, being as low as 10 on level one and as high as 85 on the third. By level 5, the requirement reaches over 500, making it impossible to proceed through conventional means.

One of the main things that people noticed about this game immediately was the background music. The music on the first level was an unsettling pattern of growls that got progressively louder as time went on, often causing damage to early computer speakers that were not designed to handle extremely high volumes.

The second level had no music whatsoever, and the third had what sounded like a low-quality recording of a hairdryer playing in the background. The remaining two levels had a loud, high-pitched ringing that deterred those who managed to get that far.

Another disturbing aspect of the game was the design of Mr. Mix himself. He was a large, round-faced, overweight man with large beady eyes and red spots on his cheeks.

Most children who played the game reported having vivid nightmares of Mr. Mix speaking to them in a quiet, raspy voice and threatening them to keep quiet about something. However, none of them could remember the specifics.

One psychologist who saw many of these children reported being disturbed by the sheer terror on the children's faces as they recounted the details of the nightmare.

Many of the children ended up breaking down into tears in the process, begging their parents to "save" them. However, no direct relationship to the game itself could be determined by these few cases, as not all children suffered the same adverse effects.

For obvious reasons, this game did not sell very well. It remained in relative obscurity until a few years ago, when a small group of PC hackers was hired to get hold of a ROM of the game and start digging through it.

Using memory-hacking software, they managed to crack the game's code and bypass the impossible fifth level.

According to the reports left behind by the hackers, the game behaved very strangely once the fifth level got bypassed. The game would crash violently and close, writing a sizable amount of files to the user's System32 directory while also filling up the RAM.

These files are reportedly pictures of people with horribly deformed faces, appearing to scream in agony, with their eyes bleeding from their tear ducts and their outer layer of skin torn clean off in multiple places.

If the user attempts to delete any of these files, the computer will violently crash and blue screen, causing irreparable damage to the user's hard drive. The hackers discovered that the process was caused by multiple bytes in the game's ROM that triggered when the fifth level was completed. After removing said bytes, they were allowed to proceed to the sixth and final level.

Unfortunately, that was the last report before everything went silent. None of the hackers reported what they saw on the sixth level. They all went missing, and any way to contact them was lost. All remaining copies of the game were destroyed.

To this day, no one knows what was in that game or how the group vanished from the face of the earth. Maybe it's better that way.