There are games that feel, perhaps unintentionally, haunted, and there are also games that go out of their way to scare the shit out of you. Pokémon Red, however, is not a horror game-though it’s certainly appeared in a lot of our nightmares over the years. Yes, reader, video games can be spooky as hell. And that’s not even to mention the spirit of a dead Pokémon mother that stalks you throughout the town. What lies on the other side? Well, in the case of a beloved GameBoy title like Pokémon Red, a creepy little place called Lavender Town, full of soft-grey shrines to the dead, synth bells that sound unstuck in time, and well, wandering ghosts. Like the static on the television screen in Poltergeist or the portrait of the eponymous Dorian Grey, video games sometimes evoke an unsettling feeling of gazing through the looking glass. We suppose anything that conjures up different worlds can be scary.
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