Lost Super Mario 64

As a kid, I owned an N64. I loved it. I had many fun times with my mom and dad. We would play on it all the time together. However, that all changed one day.

I was around 8 when I my dad got me a horror game(which I don't remember the name of since it's been so long). He thought I was mature enough to play it. I wasn't. I played the game and it scared the ever-living crap out of me. I ran to mom about how the game scared me and she immediately looked to dad. They got into a big fight, which lead to divorce. I went to live with dad. Dad took the divorce pretty hard. He spent most of his time by himself and would really only hang out with people on their birthday. Speaking of, my most recent birthday.

I hung out with a few of my friends and we went to a lot of places that day. When it got dark, we all headed home. When I got home, my dad was at the door. He had a really twitchy look on his face and had his hands behind his back.

"Hey, son." He said in a stutter-y way.

"Uh, hi dad." I responded.

"I got a present for you." He said in the same way I just mentioned.

He then brought his hands from behind this back to reveal an N64 and a cartridge of Super Mario 64.

"Wow, dad! Thanks!" I exclaimed. "I haven't had one of these since we moved in!"

Oh yeah, I should mention, when we moved, my mom kept the N64. I got a gamecube not too long after but I still missed my N64.

I then went upstairs to my room and set up the N64 to my TV. I turned on the N64 and put the Super Mario 64 cartridge in my N64. I started the game.

After messing around with Mario's face in the title screen for a bit, I started the game for REAL. I noticed the first file had one star in it, so I guessed that my dad tested the game out to see if it worked, but forgot to delete the file. I decided to just select that file anyway since I remembered the King Bob-omb boss fight so well, and because it was so easy that it wasn't worth fighting. So I selected the file and walked in the castle.

I decided to continue collecting stars at Bob-omb Battlefield, so I went into the room where it was located and jumped in the painting. When I got there, I noticed there were no enemies or helper bob-ombs, just the koopa you would race to get the star. I talked to him, and we raced. I was ahead of him for pretty much the whole race. The only other weird thing besides the no enemies were that there were none of those black boulder things rolling down the hill. Other than that, it was normal. But when I got to the top of the hill, I was surprised to see Koopa the Quick was already there. Not only that, but the camera was fixed on some weird bottom-up perspective.

"No, no, no! Not you again! I'm in a great hurry, can't you see!" Koopa the Quick said in a textbox. "It's just that I'm in such a rush. That's it, that's all. Now, I must be off. Ow! Let me go!"

"Weird." I thought.

I decided to run around from that perspective to see if anything would happen and something did.

I stepped on something and faded to another place. I landed in a cage.

"Huh." I thought. "I don't remember this. Maybe it's just because I haven't played this game in such a long time."

I noticed there was a giant blue button in the cage. I ran to it and jumped on it. Then a textbox appeared saying I activated the ability to use the vanish cap. I also thought this was weird. I knew the vanish cap was in this game, but I didn't think you got you it here. Then I noticed the blue box that contains the vanish cap. I got the cap and went out of the cage. When I walked out the cage, the music cut completely, which I found weird.

I walked around to see where I needed to go. I walked to the right and the music came back. That's when I saw the weirdest thing. It looked like a pixel-y version of my dad. That's when I could tell this definitely wasn't the same game. I then went the other way and found a cage with a pipe inside. I used the vanish cap to go in the cage, and went in the pipe. This took me to another place.

Later guys, it's late.