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Glitchy Gengar

So, I had this Pokémon Crystal cartridge for years. We got it brand-new (or at least it appeared to be) for my 13th birthday, a few months after it came out. I cherished it; that is until Emerald came out, then I forgot it for a while. Then HeartGold and SoulSilver came out, and I was stuck with a HUGE wave of nostalgia. I HAD to dig out my Crystal and play it again. I did, and cleaned it out and started it up.

Call me stupid, but I got so excited that a tear or two came to my eye. I was instantly bored when I looked at my old team though: I was one of those "n00bs" that just used Pokémon that looked cool to me or I found cute: Houndoom, Charmander, Squirtle, Meowth, Raichu, and Dragonite. And even more sadly, those were the only Pokémon I had above level 60. So, I deposited all but my Houndoom, Dragonite, and Raichu, and got a team that actually was competent, with a Slowking that was forgotten in the box and a Vileplume from the good ol' days of Red. Lastly, I went to go through headbutting trees to try to get a Pineco or a Heracross.

I tried for hours until the game stalled. I screamed, because I had worked too hard for the game to crash at this point! Suddenly my rage was silenced though; the battle music continued...And a Gengar of all things came out of the tree, a shiny one! I was confused, but extremely excited. Gengar was one of my favorite Pokémon, and it was a strong Pokémon that would balance out my team. I caught it and looked at it: It knew curse, destiny bond, nightmare, and hypnosis. Seemed pretty normal to me, except that its SPECIAL ATTACK stat was a big ugly GLITCH BLOCK. I didn't think much of it, and kept going. As soon as the game's clock ticked over to 8:00 p.m., though, the game stalled yet again, and a strange text box appeared when it finally ran again:

"You didn't think about this too much, did you...? Time to have some fun."

What? I never saw anything like that happen on the game before. I blinked for a moment and pressed A, thinking it might have been just a crazy easter egg, oh well. I kept playing, and went into the grass to find some Pokémon I didn't have in my pokedex. A battle started, and my trainer sent out....Gengar? Wait...I thought I had Sparky, my Raichu, in front. I thought I must have absentmindedly switched them around, since I usually train newly caught Pokémon right away. I used the combo of Hypnosis and Nightmare on the Pokémon to see if it would at all be effective. ...I regretted it. For whatever reason, when Gengar used Nightmare, the screen turned solid red, and a bunch of horrid glitch sounds happened, before it turned back to show the Pokémon fainting. My ears were throbbing from the glitch sounds, I was convinced I had just caught a glitch Pokémon. In fear of my data, I checked everything: My save data, my items, my trainer profile, my pokegear, my Pokémon. Nothing had changed, Gengar even still had that ugly glitch block stat. Relieved, I shut out the start menu. Then, another text box happened:

"That gave you a good scare, didn't it? But it's not the scare I want."

...Okay, WHAT THE HELL. Did the game just TALK to me? My stomach dropped as I read that. But, I REALLY wanted to finish Crystal before I played the new games. I kept going, and for a long time of dull battles and catching Pokémon, I went to Mt. Silver to catch some other Pokémon. As soon as I finished flying there, though, a new textbox came up:

"You haven't forgotten, already, have you?"

With that came the "YES/NO" option box. Not knowing what the game was talking about, I hit "YES".

"Oh my, you foolish girl. You'll see around midnight."

There was nothing after that. I looked at the clock; it was 11:49. Guess I had almost 10 minutes to see what was going on here. I kept going as I wanted to at first, and surely enough, as the timer ticked over to 12:00 A.M., I was greeted by another text box.