Video Game Urban Legends

[junglehunter]

Here is a link to info on what I stated above:
http://sm.umbreoncave.com/rumours.htm

I went to a different site that even had a photoshopped picture and was quite convincing (at least to me). :embarrassed:

[Funkenstein]

Anyone else remember the "nude backup dancers" myth about the Marky Mark Make My Video game for the SCD?

[jetsetradio4ever]

OK, I remember sme more, there was supposedly a way to get 'PIKABLU' All you had to do was talk to that girl who said that her boyfriend was getting her a pikachu. Then, give her pikachu. Next, she will be out back in the dumpster. She will say "I's evolving, but not cute anymore." It would turn into pikablu and u would get it.

Another is the one about Seaman for Dreamcast. Someone on the interweb claimed to have had it for so long in japan that it turned into a human. Of course, it's a hoax because the highest is frogman, which lives on it's own. Pretty good one, it had me and my brother until we both figured out i wasn't true. I'll find pic.s if possible. It might be true.......I still believe it just a little.

One more straight from my school. My friends who love Resident Evil (Me too :D ) say that n apan they were tired of just regular Biohazard games. So, they created (supposedly) Biohazard: The Monkey Virus. It's totally bogus but they say that they replaced zombies with monkeys, the monkey virus instead of the T & G viruses, and made sniffers, who sniffed coke, instead of lickers. Like I said, totally bogus!!

[MattG/Snyper2099]

Well, I have one for Metroid for the NES. There is a part of the map that you have to bomb up and through a door in order to get to. In order to complete the task you have to have high jump, bomb, and the thing that lets you duck into a ball. It's really pretty cool but it takes a lot of patience just like the -minus world in SMB. I remember someone documenting the "lost portions" of metroid but can't remember the website. It was really hard to move around because a lot of the level had pits that you would get stuck in and you would have to start all over again. I remember using nesticle to do this a few years ago.

I still have trouble convincing people that this is true then I go through all the trouble of playing the game and then they "see the light".

I also remember the MK rumors and hoaxes. I remeber in the genesis version of MK, there was a shadow character or something that you could fight on the pit level. I think that they put it in there based on all the rumors that were flying around about the arcade version.

I also have played the -minus world of SMB many times and have got all the coins and you simply run out of time. There is no other minus world unless you use the game genie or something to change to level numbers.

Great thread!

[LAGO]

When I had first got a SNES my step dad told me that they showed a thing on the news that claimed that video games caused brain cancer. He told me that to get me to quit playing vid games ... it didn't take.

What I am curious about though is if this was ever on the news or if he was being an ass ... so did anybody ever see anything like that on the news?

[DasCrewShtool]

there was a rumor in my neighborhood that on super mario bros that if you jumped the flag pole that you got to go to the "chocolate factory" but my older brother bought a game genie and proved it wasn't true, it was crushing, I blame him for my messed up life

[Nez]

I know of one hoax that was true the pokemon red/blue version there was a glichimon or somthing to that effect. All I really remember was that when you found it on some island that it looked like a bunch of random textures and if it was cought it would bug out the game. Im pretty shure nintendo power ran an article about it. I l look it up and tell more in a furture post.

[Dave Reinquest]

I remember in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out! Someone had claimed to be able to defeat Tyson with an NES Zapper. He attempted to prove it to me and I fell for it. I was so gullible, I should have realized his zapper wasn't even plugged in.

[Ninja Blacksox]

Okay.

The "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" rumor was something like this... At least it was something like this around my elementary school...

In the crowd, there's a character with sunglasses. I'm sure there are a few characters with sunglasses, but this trick involved one down near the ring.

Anyway, upon reaching Iron Mike, the player would have to enter a code.

Upon entering this code, the crowd member with the sunglasses would stand up, draw a gun, and, you guessed it...

...shoot Mike Tyson.

All this would somehow end up with the player successfully beating the game. No murder charges, no nothing... Just the heavyweight championship of the world.

Needless to say...

Most.

Retarded.

Rumor.

Ever.

-A Boy

[farfel]

Just yesterday, I had a friend tell me that he was POSITIVE you can play DVD's on an xBox by plugging the controller in slot 3.You can't play DVDs in Xbox without a addon?

[AFGiant]

(didn't read whole thread, so I don't know if its been mentioned yet)

I know there are a ton of urban legends for Harvest Moon 64. A ton. Secret people, secret events, secret cutscenes, 2nd photo album, rick's teleporter actually working, rick giving you a firefly lantern, characters dying, your son growing up, etc etc etc.

There also many many many Zelda: Ocarina of time legends. Entire sites are devoted to them. We've all heard the million ways to get the triforce, and the million other rumors...

[Zap!]

Perhaps the biggest one of all is that there was a way to play as the bosses (Balrog, Vega, Sagat, and M. Bison) in the origion Street Fighter II for the SNES. In fact, many people to this day still insist it is a well hidden code, because you can play as them with a Game Genie. So therefor, they say, there must be a way to unlock the code. Comments guys?

[vulcanjedi]

(hum smurf music for effect)

My second most popular web page is my naked smurfette from the coleco game.

Smurfette closes her eyes, drops her top, hikes her skirt up. And submits to all your smurfy desires :)
http://www.vulcanjedi.com/smurfette.htm

Woo Hoo

http://www.vulcanjedi.com/images/nakedsmurfette.gif

vj

[Wavelflack]

"Yes, Nintendo did explore that option but it wasn't "handed to Atari on a silver platter". Anyone who thinks that it was has never been involved in any major corporate negotiation of this type. Discussions never got anywhere near to a point where Nintendo wanted Atari to sign and Atari outright passed."

Well, Howard Lincoln and Arakawa don't see to agree with you. It's been pretty well documented in several interviews that this was indeed the case. Nintendo offered Atari right to manufacture the Famicom (excluding jpn.), negotiations took place, with Yamauchi empowering Arakawa (with Lincoln as attorney) to work the deal. The deal fell apart at the 11th hour. You can read the details in Game Over, The Last Quarter, or several other game history books.

[Famidrive-16]

I am SOOOOO Sorry to double-post, but, does anyone remember the missing no trick for pokemon blue/red? Ya, the one that would screw up the cartrige if u caught it. Do u remember how to get it? Also, TELL US ABOUT THE MT'S PUNCHOUT RUMOR!!!!

You watched that guy in the second town catch the slowpoke, then you grabbed a flying pokemon and flew to the islands, and then you swam near the edges of the island, to catch missingno and some other odd pokemon

I caught a bunch of lvl100 mewtwos that way @_@ @_@ @_@

[Zap!]

(hum smurf music for effect)

My second most popular web page is my naked smurfette from the coleco game.

Smurfette closes her eyes, drops her top, hikes her skirt up. And submits to all your smurfy desires :)
http://www.vulcanjedi.com/smurfette.htm

Woo Hoo

http://www.vulcanjedi.com/images/nakedsmurfette.gif

vj

That was awsome, I'll never forget that one!

[shellac]

I always wondered what color smurfette's nipples were.

[vintagegamecrazy]

How about the old Urban Legend where you could get Link to join your party in Super Mario RPG, anyone heard of that one before, or the Legend that you could get a character named Luna in the genesis version of the original Mortal Kombat, or the legend where there was a code where Scorpion would shoot his spear and say "Get the F**k over here" that one ran rampant at that games launch.

[vulcanjedi]

I always wondered what color smurfette's nipples were.

I was always rather demented this way when I was growing up.

I remember while my friends were thinking about Ginger on Gilligan's Isle I had this strange obsession with Witchiepoo.
http://www.vulcanjedi.com/hr_pufnstuf.htm
I could not stop imagining her without her makeup or clothes on...

Billie I hope you forgive me :)

VJ

[stuffedmonkey]

Perhaps the biggest one of all is that there was a way to play as the bosses (Balrog, Vega, Sagat, and M. Bison) in the origion Street Fighter II for the SNES. In fact, many people to this day still insist it is a well hidden code, because you can play as them with a Game Genie. So therefor, they say, there must be a way to unlock the code. Comments guys?

I remember those codes - they were incredibly glitchy. You could play as the bosses sorta - but random caracters moves would do random things.

[tony_good]

Some people claimed that if you got Guile's "handcuffs" to work in SFII, that it was the first part of an easter egg. If you did some stick/button combo, you could then make him pull a gun out of his boot and shoot the other character in the head.

Anybody remember that???

[Naouruki]

Also, I heard of a version of Super Smash Brothers exists on the Super Famicom. Is that true?

I don't know, but in SSBM on GCN, when you have a look around your 'room', there is a Super Famicom with cartridge in it.

The cartridge label is the Japanese box-art for SSBM.

I think some people have seen this and gone - "ooooh!!! SSB on teh Super Famicom OMG!!"

Reminds me of the Saturn Ryo Hazuki has in Shenmue - in 1986. LOL

[WanganRunner]

The one that really got me was the myth that you could wall-jump your way up onto the top of the castle in Mario 64 WITHOUT using the cannon.

Damn, I tried that for hours. Hell, I spent a few minutes trying it this past Sunday, lol.

[Jorpho]

The one that really got me was the myth that you could wall-jump your way up onto the top of the castle in Mario 64 WITHOUT using the cannon.

Damn, I tried that for hours. Hell, I spent a few minutes trying it this past Sunday, lol.

Myth? Is it not true?

[Zap!]

The one that really got me was the myth that you could wall-jump your way up onto the top of the castle in Mario 64 WITHOUT using the cannon.

Damn, I tried that for hours. Hell, I spent a few minutes trying it this past Sunday, lol.

Umm, that's true. :)

[WanganRunner]

Crap.....I guess now I have no excuse for not actually DOING it then.....

[Sniderman]

A friend of mine swore - SWORE - that in the last scene of Dragon's Lair, when Dirk is unlocking Daphne's Prison Bubble, if you hit the "Sword" button, Dirk would break the key, the dragon was resurrected, and Dirk would be eaten - Game Over. He swore he did it a few times too.

This never made it as a global videogame rumor, but everyone in town had heard it and knew it. Thing is, once someone got to the Dragon's Lair final scene, no one wanted to "commit suicide " at the end, so no one ever proved or disproved this tale.

[pragmatic insanester]

i'm not sure if this is part of the rumor, but...

long ago, while playing FF3 on the snes, i was fighting in the lair beneath figaro where you come upon raiden and so forth. i think it was in the earthy cave part of the dungeon and not the ruins. i was trying to perfect relm's fake mustache technique and somehow right around that moment something weird happened and one of my characters was turned into general leo. i think he even did his sword's special movie once before i freaked out and reset the game. i've heard this can only happen on the snes version, and not the playstation edition.

[pragmatic insanester]

is there any weird outcome or secret involving zigfried on either the phantom train where he steals the item from sabin/cyan and his appearance at the coliseum?

[Jorpho]

I've heard there are some pretty crazy bugs associated with Realm's Sketch ability.

[lurpak]

when the atari VCS was about, I saw the games listed as

invaders 112 Games and thought that once you played the game 112 times the cartridge ran out :( you had to buy another one

[Doonzmore]

Everyones forgetting the major urban legend of 2002:

Sonic and Tails in SSB:M

Also, I heard of a version of Super Smash Brothers exists on the Super Famicon. Is that true?

I read about that cheat in an issue of EGM, but it just turned out to be an April fools joke. :(

[Doonzmore]

During the holiday season of 2001, i was playing Sonic Adventure 2 for Dreamcast and when i pressed start a tiny box appeared in the middle of the screen that said "Suffering from a stuffed nose?"

True story, i am not kidding.

[9c1lt1]

I'm adding another one to Super Mario Bros.
There is a Rainbow world, where Mario slides down rainbows. In between the rainbows are Beetles. :/

[tony_good]

One that is just laughable is that there was a prototype of Taz called, "Zat" or Taz in reverse. The surprise is last, everything is in reverse order, and it gets easier as you go along.

I didn't believe the rumors about Final Fight where in the end, Guy beats the crap out of Cody as they walk away, because he is jealous of him and Jessica. That is, until I saw it for myself!

[long_shawn_silver]

My god everyone has to remeber that at least one of there brain dead friends could "jump the flag pole" in SMB 1 right !! Oh my how many people tried to show me over and over, Boy did they shit there pants when I showed them my FAMICOM Mario 2 and that you actually could jump the flag in that game but sertainly not in Mario 1. Funny how the impossible always makes the attention savy make shit up eh?

[stimmyjimmel]

sadly when i was in middle school I believed that in the new zelda game for the super cool new nintendo 64 there was going to be not a triforce but *dun dun dun* a QUADFORCE!

[Cryomancer]

During the holiday season of 2001, i was playing Sonic Adventure 2 for Dreamcast and when i pressed start a tiny box appeared in the middle of the screen that said "Suffering from a stuffed nose?"

True story, i am not kidding.

I'd believe this, Sonic Adventure games have content that changes near certain holidays, so do a few other Dreamcast games.

[Tatsu]

My god everyone has to remeber that at least one of there brain dead friends could "jump the flag pole" in SMB 1 right !! Oh my how many people tried to show me over and over, Boy did they shit there pants when I showed them my FAMICOM Mario 2 and that you actually could jump the flag in that game but sertainly not in Mario 1. Funny how the impossible always makes the attention savy make shit up eh?

I'm not sure if I understood your post right: do you mean over-jump the flag pole and play on until time ran out? That's actually possible on SMB 1. I did this several times.

[rbudrick]

I always wondered what color smurfette's nipples were.

Purple Nurples!

Anyway, for SMB there are sctualy tons and tons of levels you can unlock with a game genie, some of them minus worlds. I heard there may be one or 2 more that you can unlock without GG., but that could be --surprise, urban legend.

As for the PC Engine Hu card of Dracula X, I was under the impression this was true. I vaguely remember that it didn't have the CD music that would have taken far too much memory. I heard there were like 2, not 6, but whatever.

Flack, about the ET landfill thing, you mentioned that you thought this was true, and not urban legend. But remember, just because it's urban legend, doesn't always mean it is false. :)

Luigi in Mario 64....he was supposed to be in there and you can find him by disecting some of the code in the game, but he is not unlockable and was thrown away...he is in the cart though, it just takes some hacking, as I remember it.

The Metroid Secret Worlds are clearly explained, documented and mapped on the Metroid Database: http://www.classicgaming.com/mdb/m1/index.htm
They are glitches and are actually in more than one Metroid game.

-Rob

[kirin jensen]

I never played MK myself (anything with more than 1 button and a joystick isn't really my speed), but I used to watch people play it all the time and, yes, they would try to get a nude fatality. Never did. I think it may have been MK2, but it was definitely BS. I was thinking of this the other day after reading the joyshtick column about Dragon's Lair and The Naked Princess.
I think the best video game urban legend would be that a bunch of '80s programmers became MTF transsexuals.
Oh, wait. That's true.... :eek 2:

[tony_good]

One more thing I just remembered about MK. Remember Jade in MK II? I remember fighting her in the arcade and it said, "Now Prepare to Fight an Undiscovered Warrior from MK I!"

Also, one of the characters' friendship said, "I've never seen a Kano transformation."

I also knew several people who said that the game allowed you to feed your opponent to the tree with a mouth, but I personally never saw that move. They said also that every level in MK 2 had a fatality, from the Tower to the Pit to the Armory, where allegedly you would pick up a sword or axe and use it to finish you opponent.

[squidblatt]

My brother and I always swore there was a way to "beat" Astrosmash. I can't remember what we thought would happen.

[christhegamer]

There isn't a better gaming urban legend than Polybius

Damn, it's too bad this was a hoax... I'd love to give it a try. Any game that could give you amnesia and horrible nightmares must be one hell of a game!

There were always tons of stupid rumors going around my high school about the Mortal Kombat games... everyone coming up with ridiculous combinations that were supposed to trigger the Kano transformation and what not.

--Zero

OMFG!!! POLYBUIS IZ A HOAX?!?!? that sux!

anyways, I always heard rumors about naked chicks in games when i was around 12; stupid hormones :P

[evildead2099]

There's also the urban legend about one of the woman fighters in Killer Instinct 64. For a taunt, she pulls back her shirt and faces her opponent, bearing all. The player, of course, only sees the back of her.

... Well, I've never even played the crappy game, personally. Who knows? Maybe the urban legend is actually true.

I dunno about the N64 version of the game, but in the Super NES and arcade versions of Killer Instinct, Orchid has a finishing move where she unzips her shirt and flashes her opponent. His eyes then bug out and then he falls over dead. It's rather humorous. LOL

So yeah, at least in the original game, that's entirely true. I've done it many many times. My brother and I used to laugh at it all the time years ago. Like I said before tho, I can't remember if it's in the N64 version or not.

Yeah, but isn't there a stage with mirrors in it in KI1? If so, do you see a reflection of what's going on with Orchid's fatality?

[Rev. Link]

With all the Mortal Kombat rumors, I can't believe no one has mentioned Animalities! Back when MKII was at the height of its arcade popularity, everyone I know was trying to figure these out. Supposedly, every character had a fatality that transformed them into an animal. Then they would maul/eat their opponent. There were whole lists of these moves posted on the internet, and my stupid friends and I would throw away tons of quarters trying to make them work. Of course, they never did.

I suppose out of admiration, the creators of the franchise decided to finally make these moves a reality in MK Trilogy. But they were sure inconvenient. You had to perform a Mercy on your opponent before you could do the Animality. I think you may have had to have a flawless at least once in that fight, too. Not sure on that, though.

[evildead2099]

Remember how in Zelda 2, in order to access the Death Mountain area, you had to get past that giant spider-like monster that was blocking your path on the map?

A movie from the late 80s / early 90s called the Wizard started this bogus runour about how you had to "fight the river devil" in order to progress through the game.

What a bunch of bull-crap that was! I spent so many hours trying to get past that part in the game, all because I was midlead by The Wizard :roll:

[evildead2099]

With all the Mortal Kombat rumors, I can't believe no one has mentioned Animalities! Back when MKII was at the height of its arcade popularity, everyone I know was trying to figure these out. Supposedly, every character had a fatality that transformed them into an animal. Then they would maul/eat their opponent. There were whole lists of these moves posted on the internet, and my stupid friends and I would throw away tons of quarters trying to make them work. Of course, they never did.

I suppose out of admiration, the creators of the franchise decided to finally make these moves a reality in MK Trilogy. But they were sure inconvenient. You had to perform a Mercy on your opponent before you could do the Animality. I think you may have had to have a flawless at least once in that fight, too. Not sure on that, though.

Animalities were in tact before MK Trilogy; MK3 and Ultimate MK3 had them.

[ismokeblunts]

back when mortal kombat II first came out in the arcades, there was a rumor around here (R.I) of a nudeality for sonya blade. most of us being young teenagers at the time, believed it and tried relentlessly to figure out how to do it. Does this legend sound familiar to anyone, or was it just around here?


same rumor was around in my town, i tried forever to get them titties out...

[50TBRD]

The ones that I remember are:

The fake code to make Lara Croft neked.

The rumor that Aeris could be resurrected or stopped from being killed.

The fact that Reptile, Jade, Smoke, or Melina were in the original MK game as unlockable players.

The twist, turn, pull move for Sonya Blade in the original MK game.

[cmislin]

I forgot where I read it but I thought galaga on the nes had a end board. Of course playing that good is very hard. So I use the game genie with codes for infinity lives and a rubberband to keep it firing. I came back 3 or 4 days later it was still going. The score rolled over and was now using triagles to show a larger score. Also the board levels were impossible to really tell where you were really at but it was high.

[Jorpho]

Hee. Did you catch the cameo of Polybius on tonight's episode of The Simpsons? It was right next to Triangle Wars.

[RASK1904]

When I was a kid I liked R.C. Pro-AM alot. I had a friend named Tron and he was very good at Nes games. His family had alot of them and they'd play together. Well, one day he told me he could beat it. He sais that after the cars were Monster Trucks. Then boats and thats the end. I believed him for like 19 years. Then like 2 years ago I got the game Genei and played. I got so far that if you don't shoot that crazy car, you lose.No way to beat this game.Lol.

I also remember when the Genesis came out. They said if you put Altered Beast in, turn on the system wait for the start up screen(not sure if it was the Sega or Altered Beast one)(I think it was when you here the dom dom dom of the Alterd Beast music) then rip the game out without turning it off and quickly put in another game(maybe then press reset?) It would mess up diferent games diferent ways. Sometime in good ways like extra men. I actually remember doing this and it working! I also remember them warning people it could mess stuff up permantly.Guess thats not an urban Legend though? Anyone else do this one?

Thanx RASK1904:rockets:

[Famidrive-16]

I suppose out of admiration, the creators of the franchise decided to finally make these moves a reality in MK Trilogy. But they were sure inconvenient. You had to perform a Mercy on your opponent before you could do the Animality. I think you may have had to have a flawless at least once in that fight, too. Not sure on that, though.

In a similar vein, there was a rumor that you could fight a character in MKII named Ermac who was a glitched version of Scorpion. The rumor got so big that they actually put Ermac in MKIII.

Luigi in SM64 was a stupidly big rumor, there was a site I visited almost everyday when I was ten years old based on this rumor alone, and there were regular updates on new codes to obtain Luigi. I think after about two years even the owner realized how ridiculous it was getting and pretty much said "yeah these are probably fake, don't waste your time". Last time I tried to visit the site (99/00) it was a Maniac Mansion fanpage.

Oh yeah, the billion Pokemon rumors too. Mew, the truck, Pikablu, Yoshi, Electrichu, Togepi, Hoho, GhostMom... I can't believe that I still remember those goddamned names.

[darkslime]

That when you catch a pokemon, tapping the A button at the right time makes it automatically catch.

[TheGam3r]

in 2nd grade some kid said his Pokemon "Died" and it was at level 102 and by healing it didnt work

[MissingNo_1231]

oh, how many millions of urban legends surrounded Pokemon when I was growing up in the 90s.

Tapping A. Holding A and B. All to make the Pokemon easier to catch.

I think I've heard that "Pokemon dying" one too.

Polybius is my favorite. Real or not, it's a super cool idea.

I heard something once about being able to unlock Goku in Super Smash Bros. 64.

[The 1 2 P]

The only rumor I remember are the Lara Croft nude codes in Tomb Raider. It's really sad how many people out there believed it to be true. They would write into the magazines literally begging the writers to give them the code. Theres desperate.....and then theres wanting a non-existant video game nude code.

"Please give me the code. I won't tell. You don't even have to print my letter. Just send the code to me in the mail in plain brown paper bag wrapping"LOL

[PentiumMMX]

Here's some I remember:

- There was a short-lived rumor for Final Fantasy VII a few years back that you could turn Tifa into Laura Croft. I don't remember what you had to do to cause the transformation, but supposedly her guns could kill any enemy with one hit (Even bosses)

- There was also a short-lived rumor about a hentai ending to Final Fantasy VII. You had to beat the game 15 times on a single memory card (1 save per playthrough; no copying the file), and after the 15th time, you'd see a secret ending with Cloud and Tifa getting it on.

- Rumors of powerful, ultra-secret characters being hidden in the Super Smash Bros. games have circulated over the internet ever since the original came out. The one I remember the best was the rumor of Wario being hidden in the original SSB; you had to beat the game on Very Hard as Mario (In yellow alternate coloring) in less than 15 minutes, and then Mario will transform into Wario.

- I remember my older cousin tricking me into thinking that the Dragon Forest T.T. Key in Diddy Kong Racing had to be earned; not found like the first 3. He never explained what you needed to do in order to earn it, so I spent nearly 2 years trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do to earn it before I stumbled onto the answer somewhere online and discovered he had lied.

- While on the topic of Diddy Kong Racing, I also remember rumors floating around the internet circa 1998 that you'd get to see a strange ending with Diddy & friends having bacon for breakfast if you beat Adventure Two.

[mnbren05]

I remember so many of the MK, Pokemon, Tomb Raider rumors it is not even funny. (I even fell for most of them).

In Soul Reaver PSX I was told that if you stayed in the alternate world, where you gathered power, for 5 mins straight without getting hit/hitting anything you would get a special reward. Simply do this then jump die and you would unlock turn into a hidden character.

In Star Wars Shadows of the Empire N64 I was told by beating the game 3 times without dieing you would unlock IG-88 as a fully playable character.

My one friend always insisted that if he found a "hidden ability" in Earth Worm Jim for Genesis that allowed you to play through as only the earth worm head and a gun. He also claimed to have found an upgraded space suit and a suit of armor/sword to replace the usual one.

[Enigmus]

Polybius is my favorite. Real or not, it's a super cool idea.



You mean the government arcade machine that gave people violent seizures up in Canada? Only in Canada, man. Only in Canada.

[Sniderman]

Hee. Did you catch the cameo of Polybius on tonight's episode of The Simpsons? It was right next to Triangle Wars.

http://i44.tinypic.com/311v3ev.jpg

Scene from "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em," the third episode of The Simpsons’ eighteenth season. (I love the "Property of the U.S. Government" stencil at the base.)

[Famidrive-16]

- While on the topic of Diddy Kong Racing, I also remember rumors floating around the internet circa 1998 that you'd get to see a strange ending with Diddy & friends having bacon for breakfast if you beat Adventure Two.

Oh... wow, I remember this. Vaguely.

What is wrong with people.

[Collector_Gaming]

Urban Legends

the only ones that really come to mind for me is

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time where supposedly in lake hylia theres supposedly a giant sea monster lives in it and you can only see it at a certain time. I tried for hours trying to make this happen and never worked :(

In GTA san andres theres a few urban legends

1 of them if you goto a certain farm and steal a combine tractor you'll be chased by leather face chainsaw and all

in the woods you can come across a big foot

in the desert if you goto a certain peak at a certain time at night a ufo will just hover above you for a lil bit

a certain spot in the ocean you will come across a giant great white shark

and much more

[FrankGarret316]

Has anyone ever heard of the one where they said that on Super Street Fighter on 3DO, if you can beat the game without losing any rounds on the hardest difficulty, you can use Mortal Kombat characters in the game? I was so dumb to believe that. But that sure made me a good Street Fighter player getting so much practice trying to beat that game without ever losing.

[Auto-Fox]

Anyone hear a rumor for the original Star Fox game for the SNES? According to a friend of mine back in the day, if you kept shooting at Slippy for long enough, he'd start "swearing" at you (stuff like spirals and exclamation points would appear in his text box).
Oh the torment I put Slippy through back then to try and get 'im to do that... not that his useless ass didn't deserve it.

[FrankGarret316]

Anyone hear a rumor for the original Star Fox game for the SNES? According to a friend of mine back in the day, if you kept shooting at Slippy for long enough, he'd start "swearing" at you (stuff like spirals and exclamation points would appear in his text box).
Oh the torment I put Slippy through back then to try and get 'im to do that... not that his useless ass didn't deserve it.

I actually remember my friend Michael Shephard also told me that. Although I can't remember if that's how he said you did it, I just vaguely remember him telling me that something would result in the frog using bad language text.

[shinobimusashi]

Someone actually told me and my brother that the Gamecube projected a hologram cube image that you sat inside and were surrounded by the game image to play. We believed him and counted down the days to buy one

[Ponyponypony]

Not sure if it's rumor or not, or if anyone else heard this -

When Primal Rage (SNES? NES? too long ago) came out, I was playing at my friend's house and he said there was a way that you could eat the people. I don't remember if we actually did it or not.

[Tempest]

Not sure if it's rumor or not, or if anyone else heard this -

When Primal Rage (SNES? NES? too long ago) came out, I was playing at my friend's house and he said there was a way that you could eat the people. I don't remember if we actually did it or not.
You can eat people in the arcade version to gain health, but I'm not sure if that made it into the home versions or not.

Tempest

[GameNinja]

That when you catch a pokemon, tapping the A button at the right time makes it automatically catch.

I actually did this, and I am sure I am not the only one!

[Collector_Gaming]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDXSr8jjpVk

This has Polybius legend reopened...

Get your tin foil hats everyone. and if guys with shades and black suits knock at your door.. don't open!

[mercuryshadow09]

back when mortal kombat II first came out in the arcades, there was a rumor around here (R.I) of a nudeality for sonya blade. most of us being young teenagers at the time, believed it and tried relentlessly to figure out how to do it. Does this legend sound familiar to anyone, or was it just around here?

I remember that but I'm from Boston, so.....

[mercuryshadow09]

Damn, it's too bad this was a hoax... I'd love to give it a try. Any game that could give you amnesia and horrible nightmares must be one hell of a game!


--Zero

Play Tetris for 29 hours straight!

[mercuryshadow09]

There's the (false) rumor that you could eventually make it to the volcano & mountains in Battle Zone...

And my friends used to think that if you quickly switched the 2600 off & on enough times that, sooner or later, you'd reach the maximum possible score without even playing...

-PongHit

If you switched the 2600 off and on while Space Invaders was in you could enable rapid fire, don't know that it did anything for any other games!