The year was 2015 on the miserable speck of dust we humans call Earth. For many years, legends had told of a grand prophecy, a prophecy that would render the world in unanimous disbelief for many decades. It was a prophecy that would end up reinforcing the infamous "the cake is a lie" meme more than anyone could have ever previously imagined.

It was known as the one and only Grand Prophecy of the Indie Cake. In this prophecy, it was said that one day, on the exact day of Cave Story's 11th anniversary, an unknown team of famous indie game heroes would band together against the forces of mainstream evil and reign victorious, even baking a delicious birthday cake whilst doing so.

And at exactly noon on that very special Sunday that was December 20th of 2015, when not moon nor sun had risen, something very strange happened. When people sat down to replay their favorite big-name indie games, the games suddenly wouldn't work! Reddit and all of its subreddits immediately exploded with questions and discussions about this bizarre occurrence, trying to figure out exactly what might have caused it.

Eventually, after about maybe 500 upvotes and at least 2,500 downvotes, Reddit's user community concluded that there was no logical reason why this was happening; however, numerous theories were jokingly made about how the characters of those games perhaps might have been on a day off or something. Let me tell you, they had no idea how right they were.

The dimension in which this story shall now take place is one of video games, of the wonder and excitement that they provide. So get set, strap in, and insert all your coins to me!