Ben Drowned was the ultimate unauthorized Nintendo content

Ben Drowned was one of the great fables of the web: a haunted Nintendo cartridge, unsettling glitches and footage, and a tragic backstory emerging over time. Posed originally in the hoax mode of storytelling, it was the creation of Alex Hall. The BBC posted a retrospective of it, as seen by a tween, 10-year-old Saarthak Johri, chancing across it early o…