Game Boy Camera - 1991 Version

## 12/24/2001

It was Christmas Eve of 2001 and I was really looking forward to playing Game Boy Camera on my Game Boy Color. I woke up and found a cartridge called "Game Boy Camera: 1991/02/26 build". I was really puzzled because Game Boy Camera was first released in Japan on February 21, 1998 as Pocket Camera and later in North America on June 1, 1998! I inserted the cart into my Game Boy Color, and the title screen showed up, but instead of Mario dancing it shows Mario hanging corpse. Hell, I couldn't even start the game! The game just started by itself.

The game started, but the Nintendo logo was removed, and the menu names "SHOOT" and "VIEW" are in triangles. I don't know why it was in triangles in the first place, but I kept playing. I press “SHOOT” then an error screen popped up showing a strange and inverted picture of two people, text saying “AN ERROR HAS OCCURRED!!!” and I reinserted the cartridge.

Then a really creepy error screen popped up the screen witch shows a guy from a second boss in the Space Fever II minigame but his eyes are black and his pupils are white with the text “ERROR” was placed in the bottom right center. I was scared and turned off the Game Boy Color. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I took a break from the Game Boy Color for a few hours, and then I returned to the game. The face appears to be “doodled” on, with fake hair, lips, eyebrows, and blood oozing out of its eyes crudely drawn over a male's face. A black star is seen to be imprinted on the face's forehead. The man in the photo seems to be posing with one finger over his mouth, as if telling someone to shush from the final North American version but the image is inverted.  Another error screen popped up saying, "An error occurred! Hope you have an unmerry Christmas! All save data deleted!" I was actually really mad that they deleted my progress and restarted the whole game.

The game wasn't in its normal state anymore. Graphics are glitching out, the menu is inverted, and the whole screen was distorted. The menu names "SHOOT" and "VIEW" are replaced with, "THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING! DO NOT FUCKING PROCEED!" I proceeded anyway, and the game crashed. Then the same creepy error screen from earlier popped up again. I stopped using the Game Boy Color for the rest of the day and enjoy my Christmas Eve anyways.

## 12/25/2001

It was Christmas, and I got on the Game Boy Color and booted up Game Boy Camera. The game started, and everything was ok until I got to the Shoot option. I was greeted by a screen that resembled some sort of strange JRPG, it shows a boy staring nervously at the camera and had a gun pointing at his head like he’s going to kill himself, and it had a text box saying “I’m going to die.”. One option appeared on this screen, such as “Run.". I pressed run then the game cut to an error screen saying: "ERROR 6F90W1L2

IF THE PROBLEM PERSISTS. CALL: Nintendo Costumer Service number" And that was it. I reinserted the cart (AGAIN...). This game also gave me a black screen! I thought that was for Windows/PC. I left the game alone for the rest of the day, and that was it.

## 12/26/2001

Nobody else was home, so I inserted the Game Boy Camera cart yet again. a message appeared it said "You will die tomorrow". I was so scared that I screamed, then I realized that I will NOT die tomorrow because it was maybe just a joke, a sick one. I played the game anyway and got an Anti-Piracy screen. I cleaned the cartridge and reinserted it (this is getting on my nerves), getting another anti-piracy screen. This time my Game Boy Color got a FATAL error. I destroyed the Game Boy and never bought or used any Game Boys again.

## Today (2/25/2023)

21 years has passed, I googled the 1991 version of Game Boy Camera along with the anti-piracy screen and the Game Boy Color Fatal error screens and all I got as results were one of those other stupid fake Anti-Piracy and Kill screens video. So, if you find the 1991 version of Game Boy Camera let me know.