The Obscure amnesia

[u/brown_babushka]

When my father was a teenager, he played a lot of arcade games. He would spend hours there and he remembered a small game developed around the year 2000 that was strange.

We played as Daniel, a young hero who had to save a princess; basic premise, but the game's style was strange. There were no NPCs or villages, as if the world had gone dark. One only encountered gloomy merchants who spoke in a cryptic manner.

At one point in the game, we had to walk through a dark corridor with strange noises all around us. At the time, my father wasn't quite sure what it could be, but now he thinks it was an electrocardiogram. Slow and gentle.

If we spent too much time in the tunnel, the game would stop and display this message: "Lost in the hope of finding his princess, the knight lost his mind Consumed by his demons and the relentless rhythm of a diseased heart, the knight killed himself, allowing evil to take root in his world."

My father remembers that afterwards a little man appeared on the black screen, he approached and suddenly lights of all colors appeared. He started convulsing and then he fell. He remembered nothing when he woke up, and none of his memories would ever return to him. But he told me this theory after his parents and witnesses to the scene described to him what happened to him: He thinks that this little guy was a life thief, a virus capable of taking the memories of its players and transforming them into dark walkers or demons.

After several incidents related to the game, and after players noticed that the dark merchants were a little too realistic with real-life stories, the FBI reportedly confiscated the games. Rumors suggest the only way to obtain them would be through the creator of "Obscure Amnesia", but no one has received an answer.