From the birth of the game to the present, has successively spent dozens of spring and autumn, throughout the history of the game, genius players, legendary event players have more or less heard of some, but do you know the urban legends of the game industry?
It is said that there is such a game in the world, a player can only play once in a lifetime, and after playing, the player will be plagued by strange things, known as the death tape of the game world, and the name of this game is called "Kill Switch"!
In 1989, Calvina released a game called Killswitch, which literally translates to Kill Switch. It is said that at that time, the game was only limited to 5,000 copies, which should be regarded as the earliest hunger marketing in the industry. However, just when players were wondering what kind of game it was, something even weird happened, with many Kill Switch players claiming that the game was strange and that they had encountered some supernatural events outside the game.
According to the available information, "Kill Switch" is a puzzle action game, somewhat similar to the "Silent Hill" series, the game is set in a mine, the screen is quite simple, black and white gray is the main tone of the game. In some special scenes, there will occasionally be some red as an embellishment, but considering that it is a 1989 game after all, such a performance is also understandable.
The game's optional characters are two or two, an invisible demon named Ghast and a human girl, Porto. Ghast is more powerful in both characters because of his ability to breathe fire and stealth, but his invisibility in the game is too thorough for even the player to see, so the difficulty of this character's operation can naturally be imagined. The other little girl, Porto, is much more normal, although there is no special ability, but at least the normal clearance is still no problem.
After the game starts, the protagonist wakes up in the dark, the player needs to find a way out in the darkness and find out the truth, I have to say that this plot development is really quite mainstream. In addition, during the game, players occasionally encounter the corpses of dead miners, monsters made of coal blocks, and overseers dressed in red. The game doesn't have a boss, you just need to find the location of the tunnel in the level to reach the next level. During the escape process, the player can also collect tapes and files, and slowly, the game's backstory begins to be gradually revealed.
The protagonist, the little girl, is a worker in the mine, and this time the purpose is to investigate the situation here, but then the player has to collect the map to crack a rather difficult password, and many players stop there. The password is very obscure and almost no one can decipher it, but fortunately, a player named Porto881 disclosed the password he found on the forum, and the game plot was able to continue.
It turned out that because the output of the coal mine was declining, the foreman began to forge the fault and the worker's resignation report in order to find an excuse, which led to the investigation of the overseer, who even punished the workers with a knife in order to monitor the work, and then the demons appeared in the mine, they gave the machines and coal mine souls in the mine, turning them into monsters to avenge the workers. After the monster was born, it began to hunt down workers and overseers indiscriminately.
The protagonist girl then falls into a deep pit, and when the progress reaches a furnace, many players are stuck here again, this time it is Porto881 that solves the puzzle and sends the guide online, it is said that only the protagonist swallows coke to continue the next level, and successfully escapes after passing through several layers of mines. However, when she climbed through the last tunnel to the ground, the screen suddenly turned white and the game ended, and then it was automatically deleted! That's right, once the game is completely removed from the player's computer, and can't be copied, in other words, 5,000 copies of the game will disappear sooner or later.
At this point, the information about the "Kill Switch" game body is basically over, and it is estimated that many players are confused, and the game seems to say something and seems to be a metaphor. Many people on the Internet are interested in this game, so it has also spawned many game experts, and the most mainstream speculation is always the same;
The developer of "Kill Switch" is called Calvina, and coincidentally there is a town of the same name in the world, and it is famous for mining coal, but later the coal resources gradually dried up, and the town of Calvina began to depression. Whether it is the same as the plot of the game, coupled with the torture of workers to increase production, it is inevitable that people will be reminiscent of the industrial inertia of the former Soviet Union, so many people think that "Kill Switch" is a satire on the dark side of the former Soviet industry. But no matter how reasonable this speculation is, because the time is too long, and the game itself is limited and self-destructive, Kill Switch has basically lost the opportunity to meet the players.
But in 2005, what could be the world's last Kill Switch appeared at auction, the cartridge was auctioned off by a Japanese player who wanted to unlock the game's secrets for $730,000. However, the final ending may have been guessed by some people, and it is said that the only video uploaded by the player is a 45-second crying video, and as for what happened, I am afraid that no one but himself knows.
Finally, there is the existing "Kill Switch" video, you may ask, obviously the last game was bought, and there was no video transmission, so where do these screenshots and videos come from now? This goes back to 2013.
A netizen named Ghast1989 said he found a copy of "Kill Switch" and uploaded a video on his channel, saying that his father had worked at Calvina, a game left behind after his father's death, and that he now uses a simulator to play. In August 2014, the player posted his last gameplay video and never updated it, and social media was completely broken in 2015, as if the whole person had evaporated.
Before he uploaded the last "Kill Switch" video, there was a video that someone broke into his home and the safe containing the game was destroyed, and someone on his social media suggested that he did it, this person also uploaded four "Kill Switch" videos on the video website, and the game data now is basically from these two people.
At this point, the story of "Kill Switch" is basically over, what is the truth of the matter?
In fact, it is not difficult to speculate, now mention the game online information are surprisingly so, and tracing back to the source of all this is actually from a website called invisible games, and the video on the video website Ghast189 can find a lot of clues as long as you are a little careful, whether it is the frame rate of the game, the light change of the screen or the full timbre, it is unlikely to be the level of the game produced by a small company in 1989.
Second, the game itself has a rather outrageous flaw, that is, how exactly is it designed to make the game self-delete after completing the level?
Third, according to the data, the cassette of the last game was finally auctioned off on eBay in 2005 and sold for $730,000, and if there is such a thing, there will be relevant reports, but in fact, there is no news about this auction except for related fabricated news.
The truth of "Kill Switch" is actually a short story written by American writer Catherine Ken Vallett, but this story is regarded as a real event, and this game is also mistaken for a real game, as for the Japanese players who filmed the game, it is very likely that they directed themselves. So the so-called legend is just an urban legend based on the self-imagination of the novel, there is no self-deletion game, and there is no supernatural event.