Bogleech.com's 2019 Horror Write-off:
Invaderz (Only For Game Boy Advance)
Submitted by Ben Aron
I come to one of my favorite used electronics stores where I found
a Game Boy Advance cartridge for a game I had never heard of. The game is
called “Invaderz” and the little sticker on the cartridge just had the title
with a stylized yellow logo over black. I bought it.
I get home. I stick the GBA game in my Nintendo DS Lite. I usually
use it to play GBA games because of the brighter screens. I am greeted with
logos for a few companies I had never heard of. Then I am able to access the
main menu and I select “New Game.”
A weird cartoony astronaut greets me. He walks over to my
character and says, “Invaderz from a planet called Infans! They want to eat
humans! Can you defeat the horde of Invaderz?!” This seems like a weird game.
The first level starts. My character looks like a pretty normal
dude but he holds a ray gun. An astronaut gives me this objective: “FIGHT Baby
Dolls.” These creepy looking, but cartoonish enough, baby dolls swarm my
character. I clear the stage and get ready for what is next.
In the second level, the cartoony astronaut says, “New Invaderz!!
Run!! FIGHT Baby Dolls + Slime Dinosaurs!” Weird goopy solid-colored theropod dinosaurs
swarm my character along with a few more of the baby doll enemies.
Ready for the third level, I try skipping the cut scene but I am
unable to. The astronaut tells me, “We want you. FIGHT Baby Dolls + Soldiers??”
He had a skull for a face now. He looked like he wasn’t doing so well. And the
soldiers? Well, they were like those solid green plastic army men we had as
kids.
As level four starts, a baby doll says, “FIGHT Slime Dinosaurs +
Soldiers!!!!”
Level five starts. A baby doll in an astronaut suit says, “Giggle.
FIGHT Baby Dolls + Slime Dinosaurs + Soldiers?!?!?” This level is too hard. I
try really hard but can’t beat it.
GAME OVER.
I am ready to move on, but the screen flashes red.
My character appears and is approached by a crawling baby doll.
“Come play with me. Come into my crib. I will love you forever. Come inside. GO
TO Crib.”
I hear knocking on my door, which startles me. I look at my phone
and see that it is late (or early) as fuck. 3:23 am. I open my door. There is
no one there.
Time for bed. I fall asleep.
I wake up. I am not sure how much time has passed. I am in a giant
crib. There is a baby doll in the crib. It is wriggling. Its face opens up to
reveal huge owl-like eyes, scaly skin and a lamprey-like mouth “I’m gonna eat
you all up,” it says.
I scream.
I wake up. I am drenched in sweat. I am in a hospital. I get out
of my bed.
I walk to the door and I open it. I see the baby doll eating a
doctor’s face. The poor woman struggles.
I go back into my room and barricade the door with a table and a
chair.
I type this up.