I realized all my core memories are kind of stupid stuff when I was looking back on a licensed game I played a ton as a kid.
It's super old and was specifically commissioned from a foreign company by a very famous pizza chain (that I'm not sharing, because I don't want to get sued, but just know it has a really, really dumb looking mascot. XD)
The game is seemingly a more modern platformer downscaled to fit on a retro console, with the main character having the grinning maw of the brand mascot crappily pasted onto his head... It's almost a little creepy.
It's only the first few levels of the game it's based on, so I mindlessly played and beat it a bunch out of boredom when I was younger.
One day, though, barely even caring, I fell into a pit on the first level.
And you know what the weirdest part is...?
I didn't even die.
I fell to a level I'd never seen before.
It was like a factory, or a castle. It was totally empty with no music, like it was a test room or something. If the game was actually playtested, certainly nobody ever fell into a pit, because they would've seen it.
I don't even know what the point of it would be, but there was a single door that the player can enter. I wasn't even aware it was a door for the longest time. But you can enter, and the room almost looks like a sanctuary by a river, with the most serene music. It's more well-made than anything else in the entire game. And there's some black mass sitting on the ground, and you can interact with it, and text pops up:
"REPORTED S E B WW S H E 119999900000000114444400000582903"
I don't know what the point of that is. A weird noise plays at the same time. It really messed me up when I first saw it. It felt like someone was yelling at me from the game.
I played the game occasionally as I got older. And once again, I fell in a pit, this time on the second level... And I finally saw the game over screen.
It was a picture of the brand's mascot tearing its face apart, and smiling.
I never played the game again.
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........Did I getcha? XD