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I get the error too





During 1977, video games were extremely popular, there were TONS of kids playing them. However there was a game that wasn't really recognized by many people.

Fluppy was a game for the Atari 2600, only a few people managed to get there hands on the game.

The game was a side-scroller similar to Super Mario Bros except you had to kill a certain amount of enemies before reaching the next level. There didn't appear to be any sound in the game at all except for a loud buzzing noise and a beeping sound that would change pitch for time to time.

The character you played as was named Fluppy, which looked like a duck without wings and always had a smile.

Whenever you started up the game, a start menu would appear with Fluppy looking at you with a smile. The music in the start menu wasn't music at all, it was just a loud "BEEP" sound over and over again. When you started the game you would be placed in a level where you would have to kill 10 enemies that looked like snakes while trying not to get killed and make it to the end. You had a health bar that would lower a little bit every time you got hit by an enemy. The only way to kill an enemy was by pressing the button on the joystick which would make Fluppy kick but you would have to be really close to the opponent, and the only way to jump was by moving the joystick up. Whenever you beat a level, the screen would just turn black for about 5 seconds and then put you in the next stage.

The concept of the game seemed simple, however things started get weirder and weirder as the game progress. An example would be that Fluppy would just start spazzing out at level 3 and then when you got to level 4 he would be normal again. Another example would be that the enemies looked like big red dots instead of snakes. Anyone who would play the game would just think of it as a glitch but things didn't stop there. The loud buzzing noise in the game would get louder and louder each stage and by level 10 it wasn't even a buzzing noise anymore, it seemed to be replaced with a loud sound that sounded similar to a car engine. There was only 15 levels in the game. When you finished the beeping sound from the start menu would play and you would see a "You Won" text appear and a black screen in the background. Sure it was creepy, but no thought of it to be to much trouble since the Atari 2600 had games with a lot of glitches too. However the people that played it and finished it start to develop a high level of paranoia, often not being able to sleep, seeing visions of dark creatures in there dreams, and just simply not acting like they usually do.

In 1990 David Clarkson was interviewed. David had bought a copy of Fluppy from a pawn shop in late 1988. When asked what the game contained, he said this:

"The game start menu screen was Fluppy starring at the screen, you had to push the button on the joystick to start the game. The first level was just a loud buzzing noise while having to kick enemies and make it to the end of the stage. On level 2 there was a red screen for about 30 seconds and then all of a sudden cutting to level 3. Fluppy didn't even look like a duck by level 5, he looked like a big yellow ball. Then one level 15 there was an odd creature at the end of the level that looked like a dead man. When I walked over to the dead man the game just went to a black screen and then cut to the start menu, which was weird because I had another friend who played the game and he didn't see any of the things I saw."

In 2007, Colin Smith actually found a copy of the game lying in a garage sale. Colin claimed in an interview that he saw a man starring at him from the TV screen for 20 seconds after finishing level 14, which was odd considering that for that time you wouldn't be able to do that, Colin didn't even hesitate, he immediately left the room he was playing in. A few hours later he had returned to grab the cartridge of the game and take it back to the person who sold it to him. When he got to the persons garage sale again, which was still open, he returned it to him and apparently the man didn't remember owning a cartridge titled "Fluppy". Colin stated that the man took it anyway, even though he claimed to have no memory of it.

What was strange about both these story's, is that they're different, a theory that many people have developed is that the game changes depending on who's playing it. During that time and even today in 2015, we still don't have that kind of technology.

As of right now, nobody else has claimed to have/have had a copy of the game other than Colin Smith and other people in 1977 who were not interviewed, but the people who did once have it could still be haunted by the memories of the game to this day.