Real anti-piracy screens:

Imagine being a kid and you just got Nintendogs and then it says “Zeus has died” randomly.

“I fear no man. but that thing,,”

I’m absolutely terrified of fake anti piracy screens, but I literally will watch them for hours

“I fear no man. But that thing...”

Therapist: when did your anxiety start?

Don't you hate it when you're in the middle of a race and you mistakenly throw your head?

The fact that some of these let you play the game for like 6 minutes and then it just takes a sharp turn into a horror game.

Young child: *buys pirated disk*

The Mariokart ones look more like a creepypasta than an anti-piracy screen

List of games:

Not gonna lie. While watching this, I got a weird pop-up on my desktop. Then the laptop screen kept dimming and getting brighter. Then my laptop shut down. Scared the crap out of me. Turns out I forgot to plug the charger in.

Pirated Mario kart is actually terrifying. Imagine if a kid bought that without knowing

R.I.P.

I used to be afraid of warning labels, as a child. This woulda sent me straight to heaven. Up there with the THX theme too.

also, for people wondering why they don’t actually make anti-piracy screens scary or intimidating, it would actually encourage piracy as everyone would be pirating games in order to see the cool scary screens. i’ve seen so many people asking why no one actually uses these kind of scary screens so i figured i’d give an explanation from a functional standpoint

The most unnerving of the selection is the Bowser’s Inside Story one. Bowser literally portrays your every reaction, which means…