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Ben Drowned was the ultimate unauthorized Nintendo content

Ben Drowned was the ultimate unauthorized Nintendo content

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May 12, 2025
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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…

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