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- Growing up you've probably heard plenty of gaming myths, video game urban legends, and other game video game theories. Some have been around so long that they are embedded deeply in gaming culture. In this episode I go through my Top 10 gaming myths, the ones that I've personally connected with and experienced.
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From April Fools articles to the occasional creepypasta, gaming myths are out there in all shapes and sizes. From the infamous Kranky Kong run to Final Fantasy XII quest of denial, and some til this day have yet to be answered. There's a lot of video game secrets in the world. In my episode of Top 10 gaming myths we search for the truth. Because the truth is out there...
Let me know what you thought about my Top 10 gaming myths and if you have any other game myths, urban legends, or hoaxes that tricked you!
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The All Bonds mode actually almost happened, but of course it was cancelled because the game developers didn't have permission to use the past actors' likenesses.
PLEASE DO A REVIEW OF GOLDENEYE FOR N64!!!
Pokemon myths... you could make a whole seperate top 10 out of those.
Anyone remember the old Melee rumor that you could unlock Toad by shooting every last name on the credits screen in Classic Mode?
I dont rember it being toad for me it was the wire frame fighters and required the credits to be in fast forward mode when the shots were fired for each one, I got all the credits shot so many times but I could never come close in fast forward mode.
it was sonic and tails for me. i do remember hearing later about a wire frame one
My number one game myth: Increased chance of catching pokemon by rapidly tapping the A button.
Chai Guy Down + B w
I've heard that there where variations of this myth, Iacon, for example if I remember correctly Poke Kelz pressed A and B alternately in rapid succession as her variation. It makes me wonder how many different myths of this where out there.
It's down and B and it works
Mine has always been tapping the b button every time the ball flashed until it clicked to say it’s caught.
Im convinced it’ll come out that pressing down + b caused the game to glitch like super Mario land and created some weird effect that increased the catching ability.
One of my favorite myths was in Mario Sunshine's "Red Coins in a Bottle in Noki Bay". There's this rock formation underwater that just has an unreachable book inside. It's probably just cut content or, considering how previous stuff had become big online, maybe a developer leaving something mysterious just to see if we noticed? Anyway, it was kind of the "L is real 2401" of the Gamecube generation, and I had a lot of fun trying to reach the book to see if it does anything. (Eventually, people glitched their way end and found out you can't interact with it).
There's also a myth in Pokemon about what happened to Jirard's Pikachu...
#Pikagate
Super Beard Bros Alex killed it
#AlexDidNothingWrong
Did that Pikachu ever exist at all?
I think we need a DefendIt about this.
The Whiskey Dic yes we a defendit episode for this
Did someone say gaming myths and rumors? [appears in a puff of smoke]
I absolutely LOVE this stuff. It's always neat hearing what rumors were popular depending on where you lived and what you had access to. Great video all around, Jirard! (And stellar editing, Yoshiller!)
Hee hee, I'm glad that you enjoyed the editing! And as for you, keep up the great work, and keep researching those rumors! ;D
Woah! Swankybox!
Hey, I been watching some of your videos on Night in the Woods. You guys do good work!
OwO what’s THIS
@@Yoshiller not bad as sive1/brad2 editing!
0:29 Why Jirard's top 10 videos are ALWAYS the best
I remember one of the first experiences I had with the internet was going onto a website (Cheat Planet and Cheat Code Central) and printing off 30 pages of Pokemon Red rumors. Of course I tried them all including using strength on the truck by the S.S. Anne, using the old rod in a specific spot 250 times, and who knows how many others.
If I was a game developer, I'd put all sorts of cryptic junk like that into my game.
You're not the only one. I think a lot of games thrive on cryptic stuff as they drive up interest and build a sort of sub culture around it :D
Game Taco Holy crap I remember Cheat Planet and ol’ CCC. Good times.
Yup... I did the exact same thing, but from a website called TRS Rockin. It didn't help that it was one of the first sites that had information on the real "PokeGods" (just the glitch Pokemon with invalid IDs) that you could find via Gameshark, so I assumed everything else must be true as well; that they had special "insider" info or whatever haha.
Im learning game development and Im gonna do that when i develop my first game.
Feebas says hi
I've heard about the whole thing with blowing into NES cartridges before. It's like shaking a Polaroid ... something "everyone knows to do" but it can actually damage things. I think constant blowing into the carts as well as condensation from your breath can damage both the cartridges and the pins in your system itself. The classic-game stores around here refurbish NES and fix all the pins, then sell them - they are like new. I don't think they refurbish cartridges, but if I recall, they tell you not to blow into them.
I love learning about myths like these. Really gets me thinking. Keep up the good work dude! You’ll reach 1million very soon!
Thanks so much
Really, I should be thanking YOU. Consistently providing excellent content that's always entertaining, informative, and inspiring. Always follow your passion Jirard!
I remember the glory days of 1992. Browsing AOL boards and chat rooms, it seemed every other person had "an uncle who worked for Nintendo" or "A cousin who works at Midway". The "myths" they started were fabulous - Nude-alities was perhaps my favorite. The best was how, as you pointed out, Midway didn't really take any of it seriously, and ended up throwing in some of the old rumors such as Animalities and Babalities.
The 'All Bonds' myth wasn't Photoshop. I read an interview with Goldeneye devs where they said they had the Bonds in the game but had to take them out due to licensing
The myth I heard about it was it would have been Co-op and George Lanzbey would have been the chief enemy. For those unaware, 5 men had been Bond by Goldeneye release.
Yeah, that's right. However, they didn't fully remove them. They only dummied them. You could still get them using Game Shark.
Lmao Lazenby only played him once. I doubt they were worried about putting him in.
[Final Fantasy Spoilers Ahead]
Many of us who had played the FF series before VII didn't get our hopes up for bringing Aerith back. We'd already lost all hope trying and failing to bring back General Leo.
Or Galuf. Or Tellah.
Or half the cast of the NES FF II. XD
Leo is my #1 myth. It still hurts LOL
At least we can save shadow
I failed at that the first time...
Shoutout to Easy Allies
Dude...I am so hyped you spoke about Pikablu. I spent HOURS searching for any info i could, game shark codes, possible guides to find it, everything. This was a big one for me.
I used to work at a retro game shop, and Jirard, thank you for bringing the myth of blowing into your games to life. A lot of the times why that works for people is that the spit that gets blown into the cartridge helps form the connection, but yes, it can absolutely rust and ruin your games. Believe it or not, a little sandpaper works wonders, so long as you don't go too deep with it.
Oh my god, thank you for turning me towards Easy Allies and Game Sleuth, I loved Pop fiction and always felt it was way underappreciated and I was so sad when it stopped being created. I had no idea they started something else up, I'm so happy right now.
#2 SPOILER OWL?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?
Hoo! Hoo! Snape killed Dumbledore!
Kudos to you for not going the easy route and listing Shenlong from Street Fighter as your number 1. I appreciate the extra mile traveled to compose this list since I’ve no doubt you were tempted to include that one.
I love how personal you make your top tens. I subscribed to your channel because of your personality, so I enjoy that you are not trying to give an objective truth to what is no. 3 vs. no. 1 based on some scientific rigor, etc; rather, it comes from you and your life and your history with these games. It also makes me think, "What would my top 10 list be?" instead of "How could he not include [insert thing here]?!"
Aerith turned an entire generation of people into Edward and Alphonse Elric, lmao.
Oh man, Diablo II was my first in the series and is still one of my all time favorite games. I saw rumors about the infamous Cow level and was only told I needed that leg. I spent many weeks trying to figure out how to access the cow level. My older brother ended up helping me though.
One of my personal favorite myths as a kid was in Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. In the Mossdeep space center, there's an NPC who counts the number of successful space rocket launches. The rumor was that if the counter reaches 100, he would let you ride a rocket up to the moon and that would allow you to fight and catch Jirachi and Deoxys.
On the topic of Aerith's death, the visual novel Hate Plus has a fun little easter egg referencing it in its achievements. One achievement is called "Level Four Revive Materia," and the requirement for it is to reach the end of the game with a certain character still "alive." It's actually impossible to get, though, like how it's impossible to revive Aerith.
Nice video! Top 10 Platformers possibly?
Ryan Carless would have mario everywhere but heres my list
10.mario 1
9 donkey kong country
8 sonic 1
7 mario 2 american
6 mario 2 japan
5 donkey kong country 2
4 sonic 2
3 mario world gameboy version
2 sonic 3
1 super mario world original
Noice video my dude. This took me back when all I did was watch stuff about myths in video games. One of my favorites was a way to access a secret ending in Shadow of the Colossus. Keep up the good work!
All those hours trying to get to Bill’s Garden.....
In Classic World of Warcraft, there was a dungeon called Stratholme where the last boss had a very rare mount you could get drop from him. It had an extremely low drop rate, leading to multiple theories that in order to get it you had to do very specific things such as make sure the boss died within a circle pentagram in the boss room, get to the boss within a certain time limit, or even kill every other trash mob in the level (the dungeon was huge). These kinds of theories spread on to other dungeons and rare loot drops, since people hated the idea that they had zero control over a very tiny drop rate and farming a rare item was made more tolerable when you thought doing certain actions changed the drop rate.
Whars,funny about number 8 is there are the other bonds portraits in the game. And you can unlock them via,gameshark I think (I did it once) as they were supposed to be in the game but couldn't get the,l rites
Yeah I was going to point that out. It was meant to be there but sadly things didn't go the game designers way. I believe Guru Larry talked about it. So this magazine basically took that would of been concept and used it to piss off players who didn't know it was almost a real thing.
spot on. There were several things like that in golden eye. The original ads had early weapon skins that never made it in that always drove me nuts. Though you could use the shotgun one with the all guns cheat. And another one i recently discovered is the original release of the game the manual calls the klobb the spyder. That DROVE ME INSANEE. I was like where the hell is the spyder! Later release manuals correctly call it the klobb
Yeah it was all of them except for George Lazenby for some reason. They ended up being cut near the end of development for, as you said, legal reasons. Though amusingly enough, before cutting them from the game, some of the developers played as all 4 of them in one final deathmatch to 100 kills, which took about 3 hours.
Oh my God, I'm so happy to hear you talk about Pikablu!! I remember how fucking crazy so many of us went back in the day over that.
2:06 I love that David Wise was the composter for Rare, and Grant Kirkhope wrote music.
Why the hell wasn't your last video in my sub box? Youuuutuubbbeee
In the same vein of the FFVII myth, I don’t think it was ever an official myth, but as a kid I was completely convinced there was a way to bring Lavitz from Legend of Dragoon back after he died. I had this whole convoluted plan surrounding the ghost ship. Little did I realize (two years later, because my blonde butt was stuck on a level because I didn’t notice a door I hadn’t gone through in the area) that his death becomes relevant to the plot later, and seeing that made me realize having him accessible in the game again was just a pipe dream.
...doesn’t stop me from having fun now and again and manipulating the functions of what creates the New Game Plus glitch and try to merge saves to where he’s an active member of the party after he dies, but that’s just more of my love of glitches and learning their limitations than my vacant need to bring back the first of many characters I grew attached to only to have them be the first to die ;u;
I love me some Easy Allies!
"The Raichu you traded me went and evolved!" is basically the result of translation issues. In the Japanese version of Blue (the source for the text), the Pokemon you trade is Kadabra, which does evolve from trade. The localization team didn't catch these inconsistencies, thus, the start of the "Pikablu" rumor.
At my school, the biggest rumor we had was "Crystal Onix." Someone at the school had found a shiny Onix in Gold (none of us understood what shinies were aside from the Red Gyarados), and after telling everyone where they found it, everyone kept looking for it in the same cave for weeks on end until we got sick of searching for it.
One for me and my bro
We were always curious as to why Resident Evil 4 kept track of the number of times you saved. We mastered the game, compleating it 10s of times 100% nothing else to do in the game, yet we still were curious as to why it kept track of that number. We thought maybe if we beat it with a REALLY low number we would unlock one last super weapon.
Wrong
Sure this maybe wasnt a popular myth but we couldnt have been the only ones who tried this. In our teenage hearts we were so sure it would have lead us to something, much like the Cranky Kong run in Donkey Kong Country. (Which I also fell for when I was a kid)
The spoiler warning for ff7 is pretty classy. I’ve had it spoiled for me as I never played it and was waiting for the remake. Some don’t hold back.
Daniel Turner you’re going to be waiting for like 2-4 more years. Might as well play the original
Yeah, good call to put a spoiler warning for the generation of kids that were born AFTER FF7 came out and the few people who own Playstations but don't play the JRPGs. Remake is going to be a huge let down so I would also suggest playing through the original. I personally put over 99 hours into FF7 when I was a kid, I got a playstation and FF7 for Christmas because a friend had it and it looked amazing. I didn't know you needed a memory card to save the game (I was used to Nintendo cartridges) and played the first 3 or 4 hours of the game a few times before finally talking my mother into getting me a memory card. Then I proceeded to 100% the game and play the mini games for hours.
Yeah, I'm not excited for the remake at all. I absolutely love VII, and from what I've read, they're completely changing it.
I think 20 years exceeds the spoiler statute of limitations by a long shot, to be perfectly honest.
So while working on DKC, David Wise just decomposed various things, while Grant Kirkhope made all the music by himself?
Impressive.
Waitaminnit, wasn't the other Bonds originally legit planned to be playable in *Goldeneye* multiplayer? I feel like i saw somewhere that there were remnants of that plan in the game code. Am i wrong?
tcrf.net/GoldenEye_007_%28Nintendo_64%29#All_Bonds
Yes, there are remnants of it in the game.
I heard that same rumor about Sonic and Tails in Melee, from my neighbor, as a kid. I was 90% sure it wasn't true, but that 10% was enough for me to at least attempt to unlock them. Unfortunately, I was nowhere near good enough at Smash Bros. to get 20 kills in Cruel Melee, even after hours of playing, I was lucky if I got past one kill. For what it's worth, I applaud you for being able to do this as a kid, as I can only imagine how hard it must've been.
David Wise = Composter lol
Somehow our collective eyes glazed over this several times.
Who knows, he might do some composting at home when he's not busy making music...
I remember the PikaBlue myth too, it was all the rage on the playground honestly. It really was bigger than the mew thing, since at the time most of my friends had already tried for themselves!
Music in #2 never fails to give me goosebumps. Such a beautiful piece.
I fell for the Pikablue myth as a kid, I tried everything, and the Mew one. I was reading Angelfire and Geocities pages with instructions like "Catch 99 pikachus" and other ridiculous stuff, I didn't attempt all the methods to catch a Pikablue or Mew but I did end up trying a few and it made me put many many more hours into one of my favorite games so no harm done.
Pikablu is freaking stupid name. Fans need to try harder
We were ten.
Pikablu I see what you did there XD
Pikablu at least it's better than Super Saiyan Blue.
Super Pikblu Super Pika
Poyo
I LOVED the ffVII Game Over theme at the end. Thank you so much for being who you are.
I remember most of these myths from my childhood. Especially the Pokemon ones. I spent so much damn time trying to move that truck to find Mew. I was so glad when I got the internet and finally found out how to get it legitimately.
My favorite myth ever: Does Bruno Mars is Gay?
Wow. The Pikablu myth critically hit me with forgotten nostalgia. Thank you.
Thank your Jirard for the Easy Allies plug. I loved those guys in the Game Trailer days and since then I've been wondering where they were. This is amazing!
We almost 1,000,000 bois
#RoadtoaMillion
Great list! Thank goodness for not dwelling on the low hanging fruit and actually going towards lesser known myths. Some of them could have used a few more details, but... of course they were just myths (for the most part)
Jealous of people getting heart comments
Envy no longer
That's one way of getting it.
What a bundle of sticks
There's an item you get in FFXI called the Ying Yang robe, it drops from an NM called he Shikigami Weapon. This NM is the direct result of a Japanese player creating a story about an NM that would drop very powerful piece of gear but it'd only spawn in a very specific area and it would appear invisible so you wouldn't even know it's there until it aggro'd you. It became so popular that the developers actually made it into a real thing.
I believe I recall hearing that GoldenEye actually had at one point the other Bonds as playable characters but they were eventually disabled and removed. But the character photo's in the character select screen are still in the game.
Oh god I remember Pikablu back when The Poke Centre was a thing.
I like his pose art next to every number he looks forward triumphantly saying I FELL FOR ALL OF THESE!
I like the ones that involve an odd or detrimental item that is fabled to get you something for beating the game or going to a certain location with it. The kind that people scour the entire game wearing and searching for answers while it is equipped or in your inventory. The ones that immediately come to mind are The Calamity Ring and the Pendant from Dark Souls.
There is a secret cow level in Diablo 3 iirc
Yeah, it's called "Not the Cow Level". Of course, Whimsyshire and Whimsydale are also both available.
Thats not a myth its a fact lol
All Bonds Mode was originally going to be in Goldeneye. This feature was scrapped in the finished game due to unknown reasons. It is speculated that it was due to licensing issues concerning using the likenesses of the actors. The finished game still houses remnants of the coding for this, if you go data mining to look for it. You can also reveal the portraits of the other Bonds by using a GameShark. It is also worth noting that traces of All Bonds Mode can also be found in the manual that comes with the game.
Personally, my favourite in-game myth is the secret 5th chest in Destiny’s Vault of Glass Raid. When the Raid first launched, there were 4 hidden loot chests in the Raid. Soon after, a rumour spread that suggested there was a 5th chest somewhere in the Raid. Over the years, various theories have as to how to obtain the chest have circulated: Some suggest beating the first boss without letting it perform a certain action, having 0 deaths prior to and during the first boss fight, finding a way to activate a certain Vex Warp Gate (a ring-shaped portal), or some combination of these and other actions. This myth became so popular amongst the community, that an in-game achievement was added for beating the first boss without it performing the certain action referred to earlier! When the Raid was brought up to the current Light Level last year, the developers put in a 5th chest, though it has been referred to as the 6th chest due to the fact that Bungie has never officially called it ‘The 5th Chest’. To this day, people still hold out hope that Bungie will confirm the existence of this legendary reward!
Lol, probably a REALLY obscure gaming myth, but one I tried for ever to complete: it was claimed that, in Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town on the Game Boy Advance, if you befriended Barley, the owner of the neighbouring animal farm, he would borrow your dog and one day bring you the puppies that his dog and your dog produced. It took me a LONG time to accept that there was no way to get puppies in that game 😅
Fun fact on the NES blowing myth: part of the problem is the front-loading design of the American NES. The Famicom doesn't have this problem, being a top loader, but the NES will gradually have its contacts bent downwards and out of alignment after many, many controller presses down. It's possible to open the NES up and bend the pins back into shape.
Supposedly the change in design was due to the US video game crash in the early 1980s, so Nintendo redesigned the NES to resemble a VCR, to make it more appealing. No idea if THAT part is true, though.
The EGM April's Fool that got me the hardest was unlocking Simon Belmont in TMNT The Arcade Game.
All I could think about during the vid was Pop Fiction and the Allies, so cool to see you shout them out!
What's funny about mentioning Pikablu is that the trading cards for the first movie, some of the cards for Pikachu's Vacation actually said Pikablu instead of Marril.
Quite the interesting list. I always wondered what it was about the blowing on the cartridge myth that caused actual problems, glad I didn't do it too often as a kid. And sadly, like so many others, the myth of saving Aeris / Aerith will forever be naught but that. Who knows what will happen in the FF7 remake.
My favorite myth was that you could get a fire flower in Super Mario Bros 2. When I was in elementary school we went nuts looking for it. We wanted to see what Princess Toadstool looked like with fire power!
You can actually keep Aerith as "uninteractable zombie" thanks to one glitch involiving Yuffie encounter that corrupts save file. I don't remember details, but it will transfer your party data from one save to another, so as long as you have save before she lefts your party and do this glitch after she dies, you can have her back
Didn’t realize David Wise spent so much time with compost during the development of DKC
I remember the PikaBlu myth!!! I completely forgot. In my school, we didn't think it was a Raichu evolution, but a Pikachu evolution using stones.
Fun fact about goldeneye there's now a fair few speed runners who actually got so skilled trying for the all bonds cheat that they developed license to kill mode max stats on everything trying to not only finish but beat cheat activation times (beating facility in under 2 minutes when every guard takes ten head shots and can kill you in one shot and never miss etc)
Having all the other Bonds playable was actually planned before release but one of the actors threatened to sue and they had to remove it. I believe at least the pictures for the selection screen are still in the game files and some of those screenshots might actually be early promos for the game.
There is an actual cow level in Diablo 3 as well, but you can only get to it during the month of March. During that time if you go to the Immortal Throne, Kanai's spirit appears an opens a portal. Following him in leads to a hunting ground full of angry cow-men for you to slaughter.
Some of my favorite myths were in Ocarina of Time. If you threw a bomb into the center of the lava at Ganons Castle then the bridge will open up so you can fight him without any other resources.
And the other was that if you could get to where you fight Volvagia in the volcano, as Child Link. You would find Zelda and Ganon. If you beat Ganon, then you would have all 3 pieces of the triforce and that was the only way to collect them.
All bullshit, but a lot of fun to speculate on back then.
I do remember getting mew behind the truck because that was the only way I could get it as a kid. I had Pokémon Red and Yellow. And it only worked on Red for me, but I had to use my Xploder (gameshark) cheat cartridge to make it happen. I remember gliding past the seaman at the dock and floating around the inner map (even ghosting across the water and wall tiles). Only thing I can't remember is if they were user codes you found on the Xploder forum by other members or if they came packaged already on the cartridge. But regardless of the exact details I do know without any doubt I had mew in my team. I remember getting very excited about this new mysterious Pokémon I've never seen before as either the movie had not come out yet or I hadn't been to see it at that point.
The one myth I fell for as a kid playing Pokemon was the myth that if you beat the Elite 4 in Red/Blue 100 times you would gain access to the grass area around Pallet town (The area to the left/right that is completely blocked off) and there you could catch every single Pokemon in the game.
Nice to know Pop Fiction isn't forgotten... definitely need to check out that spiritual successor now!
You can Yuffie wrong warp for Aerith on PC now. So I mean yea. But real talk I straight up started bawling when that happened in the game on my first playthrough. So many emotions. Only video game to do that to me.
This is a bit unrelated, but before we got the English 2nd Gen Pokémon cards in the US, I convinced my parents to buy me a pack of Japanese cards from a local theme park. The holo I got was Azumarill - which obviously, at the time, I had no idea what it's name was, but it was cool knowing that Marill had an evolution at a time when the only thing people knew about it was that he looked like a blue Pikachu.
There are few things I remember ever being so excited for as 100 new Pokémon.
Mario RPG, supousedly there was a way to wake up Link and you could add him to your party, i spent hours checking out every single area to do it.
Resident Evil 2, the infamouse AKUMA code that allowed you to play with him.
Those are two i remember most from my childhood
I remember making up a myth for myself, and believing it so much that I thought it was real.
I remember, in Luigi's Mansion in the art gallery, there's this drain out of the wall. And for some reason, I thought behind that wall was where King Boo and even more ghosts were, so I had to be quiet or the ghost came to haunt me. Good old times, will miss those days no one knew anything. Now we have dataminers :(
I remember the neighbor kids going on and on about Pikablue, but also about "Goldenbird". I thought Goldenbird was a dumb name for a pokemon and didn't believe them. Turned out, Goldenbird was just Ho-oh. He showed up in episode one and was yellow. I didn't see episode one until a couple years after the show aired, so I had no idea.
There were sooo many myths in Melee about unlocking secret stuff by doing ridiculous things or finding out secrets. And it always came from this guy who knew a guy who did it.
Also I knew the blowing myth in relation to the N64 cartridges but the explanation was most probably the same.
My cousin and I always thought you could catch Mew after 200+ hours of gameplay in gen 1, so we used to leave our Gameboys on all night. Of course, this only depleted the game's internal battery, so we lost our save files after a while. Yay!
Well, it's no resurrection, but I heard there's a sort of glitch you can manufacture on FFVII where you can cause Aerith to be in your party after she is supposed to be dead. I could not even remotely begin to explain how it is supposed to work, but basically you wait to get Yuffie until relatively late, and then the glitch makes it so that when you would get Yuffie later it "teleports" Aerith into your party instead. Idk.
I honestly hope they do something with this in the remake games. Having references to old school legends and glitches and easter eggs and other nonsense that has been talked about for years would be pretty awesome. Especially if they added in a legit method to revive her or something.
when i was a kid i heard you could unlock "pikablu" in pokemon yellow as a replacement for pikachu. it was the buzz in my elementary school football team.
To be fair, Sakurai originally wanted to get Sonic into Melee, but the game was set to release before everything was finalized. And Rare originally wanted to include all the Bonds as playable characters, but they couldn't get the licenses to use the actors' likenesses.
My elementary school's local myth was for Mario Kart Double Dash. Supposedly you could fly out of bounds on Rainbow Road onto a shooting star, and that star will take you around to the finish line and you'll win. We spent hours trying, but conveniently, nobody could get it when we were all together. I have to wonder if that was a myth for anyone else, too?
Not sure which, if any myths surrounded this, but I always wanted Perfect Dark’’s cheese-spotting to be more than a running visual gag.
Speaking of the Pikablu myth, there were a set of cards that showed screen shots of the Pikachu's Vacation short (and Mewtwo Strikes Back but that's not important now) on one side and a description of what's going on in said screen shot on the opposite side. One of these cards show a scene with Marill on it... and I swear to you these people legit referred to it as Pikablu in the description.
Dunkey and Completionist crossover! LET'S GO!!!
when I was very small, my old brother told me that, in super mario bros 3, if you make bowser break all the red bricks and then you kill him, you would go to the 9 world, the darker world, that is under the dark world and you would see the world map like terranigma (like, you see the 8 world above you), and in this world the final boss is dark bowser, a bowser with a black shell that throws hammers and his fireballs are faster.
Of course this was all bullshit but I spend so many times dying on bowser just because I wanted to try it.
Surprised the Nude Raider myth didnt crack the top 10. I fell for it when I was a kid!
There was a second part to the cartridge blowing myth. For some reason, everyone knew to put the cart in your shirt and blow through the fabric. Somehow this was the "safe" way.
As an electronic repair tech, I have to advise, do not use normal rubbing alcohol if you can avoid it when working with electronics. Use bottles labeled 99% isoprophyl.
I love gaming rumors. They keep the conversation going, gives you something to think, wonder, and speculate about. And real or not, it keeps the game's legacy alive.
Ok: Pikablu and the Mew under the truck are great....
But am the only one that remembers people online talking about Lapras evolving into Lugia? I swear i remember reading it back on sites like Pojo about this back in Gen 2's release.
My neighbor friend who introduced me to pokemon was the one who also told me about Pikablue when I was like 9 or 10. We both called Maril Pikablue forever afterwards.
Omg, the blowing of the cartidges. When i was an adult and that article came out, i was like, "wait wut?"
I don't know why, I guess it's the old-school Zelda fan in me, but I've always been partial to the once endless rumors that you could obtain the Triforce in Ocarina of Time. Everyone nowadays knows it's bunk, but I remember fondly the days (before arguments over open world vs. linearity, cartoony vs. realistic artstyle, motion controls vs. traditional controls, etc.) when Zelda fans would speculate about how to get the Triforce, where it could be, and what it might mean for the lore of Ocarina of Time and for the Zelda series (to that point) as a whole. I don't even think most of us truly believed there was a Triforce to be found... it was just fun to ponder in those days.
The main myths I remember falling for, were ways to get Mew in Pokemon Red/Blue and ways to get Celebi in Gold/Silver.
shikamaru317 there are ways to get mew in red/blue/yellow with some easy glitching. Don't know if the rumors you heard had anything to do with that, but it is possible.