A Sonic the Hedgehog ransomware game

(This is my first time putting a creepypasta on here, and this is my first time writing a full length creepypasts, so please don't be too hard on me, and give me some tips on how I can improve in the future. Anyways, you may now read the story.)
This is a screenshot taken from a free version of the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, this game was released back in 2023 on a website called “PRTgames556” which was an obscure website for kids that advertise free versions of popular games, like Super Mario, Mega Man, Cuphead, and some others. For some reason, when they added the original Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis, it became extremely widespread across the internet, there were videos on YouTube, people were talking about it on Reddit, Twitter, and other sites. But once the game became widespread, the website suddenly disappeared from the face of the internet entirely, no trace of it left. But despite this, the free version of Sonic the Hedgehog on the website had a download option, and was strangely the only one on their website to be downloadable, so people were still able to play it despite the website disappearing, and that was when the true nature of this game was revealed.
People who downloaded and played the game has stated it was a ransomware, which meant they had lost all the files on their pc. The only image of ransomware to surface was the screenshot mentioned before, which was the very end where the game encrypts the player's files. No other images or footage of this game has surfaced yet, so the only information on the rest of the game are claims by the people who've played it. Multiple people have talked about what had happened when they played the game, the main menu of the game looked somewhat like the original, but with some parts of the sprites smooth and not pixelated, and bits of the background and words were melted together, possibly being made by ai. After that, the main game was almost the same as the regular Sonic the Hedgehog, it had pretty awful controls, and the art looked like the main menu, some parts of the sprites were smooth instead of pixelated. Things got weird at the first boss of the game, during the boss fight with Dr. Robotnik, his sprite would get more and more saturated with each hit and would flash randomly, before disappearing on the 6th hit entirely.
The game would then end on Marble Zone Act 3, once the player got to and defeated Dr. Robotnik in act 3, the screen would cut to black before the screen showed the previously mentioned screenshot showed up. A weird, blurry, and somewhat stretched version of Sonic in the background, with multiple sentences overlapping on the screen, with text in red at the bottom right that read “1 HOUR REMAINING.” All the text on the screen basically talked about what you expected, how the player’s files were encrypted, and that they had to send them $800,000 to their PayPal to get them back. Yes, their PayPal. They didn't put any kind of email address on that screen, so it seemed like it was meant to be impossible to get the encrypted files back.
The game is now considered lost media, since everyone who played the game couldn't get their files back, meaning the game couldn't spread around, and due to the website disappearing, all links to the game were dead. No one is sure why the person who owned PRTgames556 made and put a ransomware game onto their website, some people think they put it on there to stop people from playing free versions of paid games, which would be odd as it was meant to be a kids website, while others think they put it on there just to put it on there and “mess” with people who played it.
Category:Video games
Category:Sonic