History Main / TheMostDangerousVideoGame

** There's also a story about a hacked ''[[http://tinycartridge.com/post/866743831/super-creepy-pokemon-hack Pokemon Black]]''.
*** In both of these though the cause isn't explicitly supernatural. Indeed, both are simply about somebody finding a morbid rom hack on a bootleg cart. The games in question are hacked into chilling and even depressing stories about death. Pokemon Black [[spoiler: has you kill pokemon and their trainers with Ghost until there's nobody left, then Ghost kills you.]] Lost Silver [[spoiler: has Gold [[DyingDream coming to terms with his own death]] in what could be years after the fact.]] One chill comes from just who would have the knowledge to do all this, then distribute them as bootleg carts instead of posting them on the internet.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] ''TheMostDangerousGame''. [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Or the trope named after the story.]]

* Possible inversion in ''OnlyYouCanSaveMankind'': you can't actually die in the game, but [[RPGMechanicsVerse the mobs you're killing are real, sentient beings]], [[HumansAreCthulhu under siege by]] {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s [[WhyWontYouDie who won't stay dead]].

* Possible inversion in ''OnlyYouCanSaveMankind'': you can't actually die in the game, but [[RPGMechanicsVerse the mobs you're killing are real, sentient beings]], [[HumansAreCthulhu under siege by homicidal maniacs who won't stay dead]].

* Possible inversion in ''OnlyYouCanSaveMankind'': you can't actually die in the game, but [[RPGMechanicsVerse you can actually kill]].

* In ''TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Power Mad," Timmy wishes for a VR game that he can't wish out of. Timmy, Chester, and AJ have to finish the game without losing all of their lives or else they'll be trapped inside.

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* The ''[[HackSlash Hack/Slash]]'' miniseries ''My First Maniac'' featured an old arcade game called ''Bludbus'', which urban legends state was banned due to causing things like suicidal and homicidal thoughts. The slasher of the story, Grinface, was a normal boy who was either possessed by the game after his death, or was so obssessed with it he simply decided to adopt the identity of the VillainProtagonist.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] ''TheMostDangerousGame''. [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Or the trope named after the movie.]]

An evil {{video game}}, usually packing some paranormal baggage. This trope is the result of old fogies (and thrill-seeking youth) concocting myths about [[NewMediaAreEvil the dangers of new, unfamiliar technology]]. Playing the game will cause you to [[GoneMadFromTheRevelation go mad]], suffer from horrible nightmares, and even [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] in an effort to make the horrors stop. Sometimes, they are less destructive, casting a trance over the player and causing him or her to play constantly, at the expense of their health and relationships.

* This Troper works in technical support for a video game company. One phone call included someone who claimed that the main character in the game when selecting difficulty, called him out by name, flipped him off, and took off his clothing. This Troper ended the call pretty soon after the clothing comment and proceeded to put a note in the case that he believed the caller to be mentally insane, high, or more likely this was a prank call.

* The "Legendary Heroes" {{filler arc}} in ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]'' features an evil virtual-reality {{RPG}} created by the Big Five, to trap Kaiba and keep him from firing them.

* A Spanish children's book called ''La aventura de los chips biológicos'' is about an evil, addictive computer game that drains the life of the children that play it.

* What kicks off the story of Otherland. A number of kids who access the future-Internet fall into comas.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] TheMostDangerousGame. [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Or the trope named after the movie.]]