A few years ago my friend purchased a supposedly hacked version of red online. When it arrived he put it in his old gameboy color and booted it up started a new character and went off on a another faintly nostalgic adventure. He played for hours but couldn’t really find anything that would be consider hacked, and he thought he’d been ripped off by another asshole on the internet. He eventually reached Lavender town and that’s when things got strange. He reached the part with the ghost and was on his way to Saffron and by chance he happened to find one tombstone in the tower that could actually be read it, it simply read S.L. Ender he didn’t think much of it and went on with the game, when he eventually got back to the tower he identified and defeated marowak, but then but for the rest of the game just on the edge of the screen there was an unidentifiable character that would follow him no matter where he went, my friend thought this was the glitch, that it summons some kind of ghost or something and eventually he made it to the indigo plateau and finished the game, he went back to his house in pallet to save for the last time but when he went in he noticed that the ghost man didn’t follow him. he went back outside and noticed that the man was no longer on the edge of the screen but sitting maybe 5 or 6 paces in front of the house. He saved for the last time and turned off the game for good, understandably pissed at the ‘hacked’ game he bought. The next night he couldn’t get to sleep because one of the dogs that his neighbor commonly left outside wouldn’t stop barking, he looked out his window and saw a tall almost gangly man sitting on the bus stop bench across from his house, which was odd because the buses didn’t run that late. He thought maybe it was just some one who was out for a late night jog or something and let it go and went to bed. He woke up around 3 in the morning to answer the call of nature, and on his way back to his bed he passed the window and noticed the man was still sitting there, he was unnerved but figured the man must have fallen asleep. The next day he woke up looked out his window and to his relief the man was gone. That same night he was settling in when he noticed the strange absence of the barking of his neighbors dog, he peered out his window only to see someone was sitting at the bus stop again. He didn’t get much sleep. Over the next couple of days a lot of people in the neighborhood where complaining that their pets where disappearing, He reported to the neighborhood watch about the man at the bus stop and they said they’d keep an eye out for him. Then a couple of nights later his mom asked him to take the trash to the curb, he was hesitant but after prodding from his mother he went to the garage opened the door and to his dismay someone was waiting at the bus stop. He went to the curb left the trash and walked very quickly back into the garage. As he was reaching for the button he looked back and saw the man tilted his head up to look at him, and that’s when he started to freak. The man appeared not to have a face. The man stood up and started taking long strideful steps toward the garage. My friend pushed the button and the garage started closing. The door closing seemed to last an eternity, the man continued his long stride towards the garage picking up the pace just a little. His long, inhuman, awkward gait burning its image into his brain. The door closed just as he reached the threshold of the garage. My friend stood in horror as the man peered through the plastic windows on the door and put his hand on the glass lightly tapping on it, My friend ran back inside and locked all the windows and doors he wouldn’t tell his parents why he was so distressed, He just told them he would feel better if they were locked. He went to bed that night looked out the window and the man was sitting at the bus stop looking back at him.He wouldn’t leave the house after dark, from then on.

a few years ago he moved out to California, haven’t heard from him since.

Awhile ago I went searching on the web for the guy who sold him the Pokemon cartridge, but the strange thing is they’ve never had any seller of a hacked Pokemon red cartridge on record.