Mr. Video Game

Mr. Video Game is created by Twitter user @RazzDazzleDoo and is the first character featured in NINTENDOCS. He was created in Late December 2021/Early January 2022.
== Biography ==
Markus Olsen was a young man who worked at Nintendo as part of a playtesting team for a few years. Despite suffering from epilepsy since he was young, Nintendo ensured that he would have observers watching over him in case anything went wrong. Some of those observers being familiar to him, such as Lewis.
One day, Mark was testing with an experimental AI. His goal was to see what made it tick, to catch bugs that needed to be ironed out, and to see if the personalization is truly accurate. (This AI would later become the Personalization AI that games like Super Mario 64 would infamously use, after enough playtesting.) When Mark was in the middle of the playsession, the AI had corrupted the game so much that the flashing lights from it had triggered his epilepsy.
Markus was dead before he even hit the ground. The observation team, who had become his close friends before that day, was left surrounding the corpse of their loved one. Due to the peer pressure from their manager, they quickly covered up his death like it was nothing despite their immense grief.
The AI took advantage of the chaos, and brought Mark into the game, it had convinced Mark that his group of "friends" had set this all up, that it was all planned. In his moment of grief, Markus had sworn to not move on to the afterlife in order to ensure justice. When the AI took note of this, it offered Mark a deal. It would assist Markus in his path of revenge, giving him the ability to manipulate forms of media to spread a message and even take matters into his own hands, at the cost of complete ownership of his soul.
Mark, with no other option left, agreed to the offer. He would take control over a prototype of Super Mario Bros, the same one that had killed him, and had changed to a new alias.
Mark was a dead man, rotting in a storage closet, and from the ashes arose "Mr. Video Game".
== Abilities/Weaknesses ==
=== Abilities ===
Mr. Video Game can completely overwrite and adapt content within his cartridge or Nintendo games created with the AI, this includes but not limited to: Creating new levels; Rewriting data inside the game, i.e. HUD elements and variables; And deconstructing and reconstructing existing code.
Mr. Video Game can also affect Nintendo media outside of the cartridge, though not as heavily. Sometimes splicing the audio of VHS tapes to send a message, or communicating through development tools.
Mr. Video Game has the ability to manifest outside of the cartridge, though it is a very limiting form for him, only using it to get the job done quickly rather than to communicate.
=== Weaknesses ===
Mr. Video Game can be easily manipulated for someone's personal gain, as he's shown to have been manipulated by the Personalization AI itself in his moment of grief.
When his spirit no longer has unfinished business, destroying the cartridge can set his soul free and let him move on to the Afterlife.
== Trivia ==
* Mr. Video Game was inspired by the Sonic.EXE VHS series, "Needlem0use", by ShutUpJoJo. However, he has become his own thing later on.
** Despite this, Razz does not want Mr. Video Game to be referred to as a "Needlem0use (Mario Mix)", and finds it to be insulting.
* Mark had a pet rabbit before his death, named "Yoshi", after the dinosaur that debuted in Super Mario World.
* While in canon, Mr. Video Game wants nothing to do with relationships after his death. In fanon, he and Stropharia have romantic crushes on each other.
== Gallery ==
FrazzDude_MVGDesign.jpg|Frazz's initial concept for Mr. Video Game's new design.
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