Weirdest video game rumor?

[laserpotato]

We've all heard some pretty strange rumors from time to time, but these are the ones that stick out in my head:

*As a failsafe, Sega and Nintendo made a secret pact so that the very last game on the SNES would star Sonic.

*There were going to be games that were compatible with both the Genesis and SNES. Not the same game for different platforms, I mean you could play the SAME CARTRIDGE on BOTH CONSOLES. It took me a while to wise up to this.

*Wart was going to return in a direct sequel to Super Mario Bros. 2 on the SNES that was going to be much darker than the other Mario games.

*Sonic the Hedgehog 64

*Sega was going to have Sonic killed off in a game following the release of Chaotix

*Super Mario 64 was going to be part of a trilogy of Mario platform games on the N64

*The Genesis was going to have a VR add-on

*A Mario game designed for the Power Glove

*A Sega exercise-based game system for Genesis, similar to the Power Pad or Atari's attempted "Puffer" project

*A Genesis answer to Mario Paint, complete with mouse

*A Game Gear knockoff of Pokemon, in a last desperate attempt to win against Nintendo

[HardcoreGamer]

There was a Genesis answer to Mario Paint - it was called "Art Alive" and the Genesis had a mouse.

[Jibbajaba]

Nevermind, I am a very stupid person.

Chris

[laserpotato]

Cool! I did not know that.
The Art Alive thing, that is.

Back to the rumors. I remember seeing in Nintendo Power (back when the Nintendo 64 project was called the Ultra 64) that it was going to be a CD-based system. There were going to be FMV games, "make my music video" games, and you would be able to play special movie discs on it. Silverchair had even signed up to make an Ultra 64-exclusive music video compilation! My blood ran cold-it was going to be another Sega CD! Thankfully, they came to thier senses and nothing of this sort happened.

On the other hand, the same issue promised a Metroid 64...

[Moo Cow]

I once heard that there was some sort of arcade game that only appeared in a couple of arcade shops that sort-of warped people's minds. They said that the people who sold it to the arcade shops periodically came in to check on it, and then took it back in a couple of months. They said the people who played it ended up becoming antigame activists or something.
But, I'd take it with a grain of salt.

[SirDrexl]

I once heard that there was some sort of arcade game that only appeared in a couple of arcade shops that sort-of warped people's minds. They said that the people who sold it to the arcade shops periodically came in to check on it, and then took it back in a couple of months. They said the people who played it ended up becoming antigame activists or something.
But, I'd take it with a grain of salt.

Yeah, that's just what I was thinking: Polybius.

[Ed Oscuro]

I kind of gathered from the Chinese Contra page (babelfish'd) that there was a rumor about the Famicom version of Contra. Apparently there was some sort of sprite glitch and people strove to do...something...to find a secret level or something. No go, naturally.

[Moo Cow]

I once heard that there was some sort of arcade game that only appeared in a couple of arcade shops that sort-of warped people's minds. They said that the people who sold it to the arcade shops periodically came in to check on it, and then took it back in a couple of months. They said the people who played it ended up becoming antigame activists or something.
But, I'd take it with a grain of salt.

Yeah, that's just what I was thinking: Polybius.

Ahh yes, it IS called Polybius. It also has its own Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_%28game%29
It was supposedly based in Portland Oregon.

In Portland, Oregon in 1981, an unheard-of new arcade game appeared in several suburbs, something of a rarity at the time. This game was called "Polybius". The game proved to be incredibly popular, to the point of addiction, and queues formed around the machines, quickly followed by clusters of visits from men in black. Rather than the usual marketing data collected by company visitors to arcade machines, they collected some unknown data, allegedly testing responses to the psychoactive machines. The players themselves suffered from a series of unpleasant side-effects—amnesia, insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, and suicide appearing as having been caused by the game in various versions of the legend. Some players stopped playing video games, while it is reported that one became an anti-gaming activist.
It's really an interesting read.

[Yago]

I heard a rumor that they were working on another Duke Nukem game called Duke Nukem Forever. :D

[Emuaust]

Wow a new duke nukem game?
HOLY BANANAS @_@ @_@
When is this game due out :hmm: ?

[Ed Oscuro]

It's really an interesting read.
The only interesting thing about it is that this crap merits its own Wikipedia page (besides the Tempest possibility, that is).

[Moo Cow]

It's really an interesting read.
The only interesting thing about it is that this crap merits its own Wikipedia page (besides the Tempest possibility, that is).
I still think it's interesting, even if I don't believe it (Roman, Greek Mythology for instance).

[thefireflowermario]

I wanna play dagnabit!!!! LOL
EDIT: most possibly fake rom/virus http://tcwe.edikos.com/polybius/index.html

[ShinobiMan]

I remember seeing early screen shots of a fourth mario game for the NES before the SNES was even mentioned. I was so excited for it as a kid. Never surfaced because it eventually became SMW on SNES.

Anyone have these old screen shots?

[laserpotato]

Nope, but I've seen screenshots of Super Mario World while it was still being developed.

I don't remember this ANYwhere in the game.
https://www.kaejae-worx.com/gallery/albums/Super-Mario-World-Beta/smw1.sized.jpg

[Moo Cow]

I wanna play dagnabit!!!! LOL
EDIT: most possibly fake rom/virus http://tcwe.edikos.com/polybius/index.html
No, actually click on the link.
http://tcwe.edikos.com/polybius/untitled.jpg?
That's what it is :P

[Poofta!]

I heard a rumor that they were working on another Duke Nukem game called Duke Nukem Forever. :D


rofl. awesome.

[ShinobiMan]

Nope, but I've seen screenshots of Super Mario World while it was still being developed.

I don't remember this ANYwhere in the game.
https://www.kaejae-worx.com/gallery/albums/Super-Mario-World-Beta/smw1.sized.jpg

Cool, yeah, I remember seeing that one too. The one I sawlooked almost like the original SMB but it had bigger and more detailed sprites. I wish I could find the mag I saw that in, but I think it disappeared with my childhood. :(

[jajaja]

Dont know if this goes under rumor, but i would like to mention Larry 4. I remember when i was a kid, i always wondered if it was real or not. Remember playing Larry 3, i think its the one (out of 1-6) that have the most porn and i heard that Larry 4 was even more dirty hehe. Of course, this was pure bullshit from a guy in my class (who even claimed he had it), since the game never got out.

I dont think they even started on it. I remember sending a letter to Sierra back in the days about Larry 4. I got reply some weeks later were they said Larry 4 was an Al Lowe joke. I still have the letter :)

[thefireflowermario]

No, actually click on the link.
http://tcwe.edikos.com/polybius/untitled.jpg?
That's what it is :P
Meh I expected spyware or broken link

[DeputyMoniker]

People were killing themselves in front of the Dungeons and Dragons arcade cabs @ the grocery store. I got that one from my parents who must have misunderstood the "D&D will make your kids dead" reports that were all over the news those days.

[boatofcar]

It's really an interesting read.
The only interesting thing about it is that this crap merits its own Wikipedia page (besides the Tempest possibility, that is).


Whatever, man. Polybius is the best video game urban legend ever.

http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Polybius/Polybius.gif

\m/

[laserpotato]

That the SNES was going to be able to play NES games. (I have no idea where I heard this from.)

[boatofcar]

Here is a thread with many more video game rumors and urban legends.

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28355

[christhegamer]

It's really an interesting read.
The only interesting thing about it is that this crap merits its own Wikipedia page (besides the Tempest possibility, that is).


Whatever, man. Polybius is the best video game urban legend ever.

http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Polybius/Polybius.gif

\m/

Amen :rocker:

[Fighter17]

It's really an interesting read.
The only interesting thing about it is that this crap merits its own Wikipedia page (besides the Tempest possibility, that is).


Whatever, man. Polybius is the best video game urban legend ever.

http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Polybius/Polybius.gif

\m/

Amen :rocker:

Funny, because here's the guy who orginally made the game:

stevenroach. Comment: "I think it's about time I laid this to rest, however entertaining the speculation. My name is Steven Roach who is primarily based in the Czech Republic. Sinneschlossen was a company set up by myself and several other mainly amateur programmers in 1978 that worked on component parts for Printed Circuit Boards that saw programming as a limited but very profitable sideline. I think the fact that it wasn't the focal point of our business took the pressure off of us and hence we created some quality work which quickly gained a reputation within the industry. We were approached around 1980 by a Southern American company that shall remain nameless for legal purposes to develop an idea they had for producing an Arcade Game with a puzzle element that centred around a new approach to Video Game Graphics. They were very keen indeed to gain an upper hand in what was already a very competitive market so we were offered a staggering commission-based renumeration package to develop something special that utilised the technology. We developed the game in little more than two portacabins that were knocked together where we spent many stressful mornings, evenings & nights which was a great pity because it compromised our relaxed and innocently amateurish approach to our business in spite of the financial possibilities. Marek Vachousek was the programmer who came up with the name Polybius - he had studied Greek Mythology at Masaryk University and came up with the name because it sounded quite bold and mysterious, which is what we wanted quite simply. The inspiried graphics combined with the puzzle elements and scintilating gameplay was something to behold - we playtested it for hours and hours and it certainly was an addictive game that was well loved professionally and recreationally by all that played it. The company couldn't have been happier and we all thought we were on the verge of something very special indeed. We then received a phonecall stating that there were concerns within the company that the basic graphics which featured prominently in so many other games of the time were fine for the average gamer to spend hours at a time without any noticable physical or mental detriments but the intense and engrossing gameplay of this new step was very much an unknown quantity so the game was put back several months due to divided opinion within their board of directors, much to our consternation for breaking our backs to finish it on time. We received heartening collated playtesting figures and were then told that the game would receive a temporary limited release which bouyed us significantly but shortly after, we received terrible news - a thirteen year old boy from the Lloyd District of Portland, Oregon had suffered an Epileptic Fit while playing the game, only six days after the machines had literally been installed. One of the senior employees that I knew very well contacted me to tell me that it caused immense ripples of panic throughout the company who were of the opinion that they had "created a monster" as such. It may sound laughable now but please bear in mind that this was 25 years ago when the Video Game Industry was in it's infancy. Every effort was made to withdraw the game from the public domain as quickly as possible but the scaremongering was already out in force and a lot of the children were queueing up or daring their friends to play this supposedly nightmarish game. Company Directors descended on the town to assess the situation which may account for these reports of "Strange Men in Black Suits hanging around" and the machines were often taken in daylight, causing minor but noticable incidents. As far as I was made aware, only seven machines were distributed around the area and no other health-related incidents were reported. I heard "off the record" that the company made a one-off settlement to the boy's family and no more was heard, apart from all the internet-based speculation and resulting paranoia. We disbanded Sinnesscholssen shortly afterwards because we didn't want to restrict ourselves to the stringent deadlines of other companies and favoured distancing ourselves from the game in case of any lingering recriminations which could have done a great deal of damage to our personal and professional reputations which was our livelihood and with some of us having very young families, this was extremely important to us. As far as I'm aware, no ROM's or otherwise exist unless they remain in the bowels of the company that distributed it. We only received a basic payment in view of the fact that the game was withdrawn without nationwide or international distribution so we grew to loathe it and was often a cursed word whenever we used to meet up and still is today, which is a shame. I still believe we created something that should have changed the face of gaming and would have set us apart from the rest of the industry but Arcade Games were often compared to drugs at the time because of their addictiveness and we created something that small-minded bureaucrats perceived to be the Heroin of the Video Game World that's only crime was to be many years ahead of it's time. I'm sure people will doubt the sincerity of this so feel free to drop me a line at stevenrroach@yahoo.com as I'm happy to answer any questions. Steven. "

Got this from Coinop.org ;)

[Jackattack]

Megaton!!!!!11!!

[evildead2099]

In Portland, Oregon in 1981, an unheard-of new arcade game appeared in several suburbs, something of a rarity at the time. This game was called "Polybius". The game proved to be incredibly popular, to the point of addiction, and queues formed around the machines, quickly followed by clusters of visits from men in black. Rather than the usual marketing data collected by company visitors to arcade machines, they collected some unknown data, allegedly testing responses to the psychoactive machines. The players themselves suffered from a series of unpleasant side-effects—amnesia, insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, and suicide appearing as having been caused by the game in various versions of the legend. Some players stopped playing video games, while it is reported that one became an anti-gaming activist.

Sounds like that game might be the root of Jack Thompson's jack-assery, and the reason why he takes it out on videogames.

[thetoxicone]

*The Genesis was going to have a VR add-on


At least according to genesis collective this was not rumor and it was pulled due to high cost and projected low sales

http://www.genesiscollective.com/ShowPage.php?GameLink=1210

[diskoboy]

The weirdest rumor I think I've ever heard is that in the arcade version of Battlezone, if you kept driving your tank forward long enough (think several hours...), you'd eventually come to and fall in the volcano in the BG.

I have no idea who started that one.

[Rev. Link]

Okay, my favorite convoluted game rumor of all time:

In FFVII, breed a gold chocobo. then kill the Ruby Weapon to get the Desert Rose. Trade the Desert Rose to the collector guy to get a second gold chocobo. Breed the two gold chocobos together to get a white chocobo. This will let you fly to the moon where you can revive Aeris!

This was my personal favorite of the many, many revive Aeris rumors.

[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:

[Moo Cow]

A friend once told me the Dreamcast was going to be able to play Playstation games LOL
I told him they weren't even made by the same company.

[Vinnysdad]

If you have bleemcast you can do it.

[DeputyMoniker]

A movie from the late 80s / early 90s called the Wizard...

The only thing that amazes me is that you've been here since '04 and you think you have to explain The Wizard. LOL

[Frica89]

i remember hearing u could play as naked mario in mario 64 LOL ...i was younger so i actually beleived that shit 4 a little while.

[evildead2099]

A movie from the late 80s / early 90s called the Wizard...

The only thing that amazes me is that you've been here since '04 and you think you have to explain The Wizard. LOL

LOL LOL LOL

Actually, I looked up The Wizard on Wikipedia, and even Wikipedia confirms that The Wizard was yanking my chain re: 'fighting the river devil.'

According to Wikipedia (at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_(movie)), "The River Devil ... is confronted on the overhead map, not in an action scene."

As we all know, no actual battles take place on the overhead map in Zelda 2.

And, as anyone who's actually beaten Zelda 2 knows, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO 'FIGHT' THE RIVER DEVIL!

Observe:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/evildead2099/overworld15.gif

[evildead2099]

How do I get that picture to display in this forum? All I see is HTML...

[Slate]

That the SNES was going to be able to play NES games. (I have no idea where I heard this from.)

The first model can't play NES games, but the second model can when it has the Super 8 adapter attached.

[ismokeblunts]

i remember playing mortal combat 2 on end for ever trying to get sonya naked when i was like 13. so many ppl swore to god that it was possible to see them perfect animated tatas. unfortunately it never happened =[

[evildead2099]

i remember playing mortal combat 2 on end for ever trying to get sonya naked when i was like 13. so many ppl swore to god that it was possible to see them perfect animated tatas. unfortunately it never happened =[

The actress who played Sonya, Kerri Hoskins, was supposed to appear nude in Revolution X, but Midway removed such footage from the game while it was still under development.

I've heard people swear that they saw Nudalities in Mortal Kombat as well, but the ones I heard pertaiend exclusively to MK3.

[DeputyMoniker]

How do I get that picture to display in this forum? All I see is HTML...

All your tags are showing. It looks like you selected the "Disable HTML in this post" option while you were posting. Check that. You may also want to check your profile and make sure your "Always allow HTML:" is set to "Yes".

[Moo Cow]

Once I heard a very strange rumor:
If you beat Contra 3 on Hard without gitting hit once and never used bombs, never grabbed any weapon pickups, never used the tank, never used barriers, and right after you beat it you turned it off, you would turn it then to the news and it would look like George Bush was president.
of course, now I realized that no nation could possibly be dumn enough to elect him. what a stupid rumor.
LOL

[unbroken]

"In mario 64, on the way to the haunted level ,if you beat the big boo to the entrance of the door, it would take you to a secret level"

"It's possible to use yoshi as a secret character in mario 64"

"snes cd system"

[evildead2099]

How do I get that picture to display in this forum? All I see is HTML...

All your tags are showing. It looks like you selected the "Disable HTML in this post" option while you were posting. Check that. You may also want to check your profile and make sure your "Always allow HTML:" is set to "Yes".

Hmm... The problem seems rooted in the fact that all my posts have the "Disable BBCode in this post" setting enabled by default...

I don't know how to reverse that setting on the profile page (mine already has "allow BBcode" enabled).... I guess I'll have to manually un-check that box whenever I post a picture

[odyeiop]

Most of the SSB/SSBM rumours are entertaining.

[ProgrammingAce]

i remember hearing u could play as naked mario in mario 64 LOL ...i was younger so i actually beleived that shit 4 a little while.

You can, use a gameshark.

[Slate]

In the downhill jam level or the chicago level of Tony hawk's pro skater, if you do it right, you can rip tony's pants. x_x

Took me awhile before i realised nobody would have stuff like that in a game in that generation. Not until like THPS9.

[mailman187666]

I remember hearing so many rumors back in the day. I do remember the nudality thing in mortal kombat. But i also remember hearing something about a swear code, where scorpion would say "get the fxck over here." and that there was also a code where scorpion could use a gun instead of his spear. Somebody even went as far to write the code for it down on my notebook, but obviously it never worked. The Brutality thing used to be a rumor and then they finally included it into MK Trilogy. Then my favorite one was that every character had a "Golden Fatality" which were far more gruesome than any of the other mortal kombat games (I think it was MK 2 he was talking about). So pretty much any game rumors i ever heard were about Mortal Kombat. The only other one i ever heard was with mario 64 they said you could use luigi some how or something, thats about it.

[Veepa]

How about the bogus rumor that you can play TMNT part 1 for NES with 2 players?!

Several cheat sites claim it.. even Digital Press's guide (http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=6239) says you can do it! And it pisses me off everytime I see it. Because it is impossible.

There were other fake codes for it too. Like a level select.. and they claimed you could "walk into the water" if you entered a code.

[j_factor]

*A Sega exercise-based game system for Genesis, similar to the Power Pad or Atari's attempted "Puffer" project

This exists! It's called Outback Joey.


That the SNES was going to be able to play NES games. (I have no idea where I heard this from.)

Backwards compatibility was planned for the SNES, but removed due to cost. If you ever see the "prototype" Super Famicom that Nintendo first showed to the Japanese public (which I'm sure was just a mock-up, not a working prototype system), it had a switch on it to switch to Famicom mode.


The first model can't play NES games, but the second model can when it has the Super 8 adapter attached.

My Super 8 works fine on my model 1 SNES.

[rbudrick]

You can kill the old man in Zelda if you hit him enough.

That rumor blew. You aways heard of someone who did it. I wonder why Nintendo made it so you could strike him like an enemy and then the flames start shooting projectiles at you.

-Rob

[poloplayr]

That playing Pit Fighter on the SNES made you soil your underpants. What a silly rumour! I tried and in fact did soil my underpants. But that was intentional to counterbalance the crap that was presented on my screen.

[Towlie2110]

Do the secret handshake to yoshi on top of the Castle and unlock the final 50 Stars.

You could actually get all the keys and mountain dew cans in RUSH 2 before a new system came out and you got bored.

You could kill trevelayan if you shot him enough on Cradle.

[Kitsune Sniper]

*A Sega exercise-based game system for Genesis, similar to the Power Pad or Atari's attempted "Puffer" project

This exists! It's called Outback Joey.


That the SNES was going to be able to play NES games. (I have no idea where I heard this from.)

Backwards compatibility was planned for the SNES, but removed due to cost. If you ever see the "prototype" Super Famicom that Nintendo first showed to the Japanese public (which I'm sure was just a mock-up, not a working prototype system), it had a switch on it to switch to Famicom mode.


The first model can't play NES games, but the second model can when it has the Super 8 adapter attached.

My Super 8 works fine on my model 1 SNES.

Actually, the SNES CPU is an upgraded version of the NES CPU, so theoretically it could've been done with a little more effort. Who knows. :)

[williewonka2k1]

The biggest roumor I had ever heard was that you could somehow manage to see Odd Job on the train level if you had the fast cheat on yourself and the enemies slow. You would reach the end of the train and procede through the door before it closes. My brother must have tried that like 20 times.

[Push Upstairs]

That playing Pit Fighter on the SNES made you soil your underpants. What a silly rumour! I tried and in fact did soil my underpants. But that was intentional to counterbalance the crap that was presented on my screen.

I believe there was a warning in certain copies of the game that mentioned this....

or maybe it was you'll hate it so much you'll take a crap on it....

or maybe it was a letter saying that the developers just placed crap inside the cartridge and sold it to you for $50.

I forget which.


The rumor i remember was someone telling me you could make your own weapons in SMB3 with a game genie.

[Muscelli]

Sega's Mega ton announcement at e3 being a new system (that wasnt too long ago either :embarrassed: )

andddd...

If you put sega genesis carts in the cartridge slot in the back of the saturn, they would play LOL thank god i never got a chance to try that one out

[dgordon86]

This was the biggest teast for me back in the day, Final Fantasy VII on the N64. I remember looking in the back section of game pro (or one of the other major magazines) at the vender ad "game Cave" and they listed the status as soon to be released. cha. My friend was there with me and he told me it was going to be released on 5 carts. bitch.

I called the company and they treated me as if I were mental!

Almost bought a import version of starfox 64 from them. I remember playing the import after renting it from blockbuster. Back in the day the blockbusters in my area cut off the extra plastic off the few import games they purchased (yuke yuke troub., flying dragons, st andrews golf, and sf) I

not a myth for me, but bizarre enough to post.

[biscuitdough]

i think alot of the halo 2 rumors that went around before it was realeased will become legendary, such as the one where if you took the halo 2 disk out and put in the halo 2 special edition dvd on the last level it would give you the REAL ending. if only it were true.

but also i remember tons of rumors that you could get knuckles in sonic one with the lock on cart. there must be hundreds of different rumors about that.

[biscuitdough]

also just to add is the infamous mew in pokemon blue under the truck by the ship. apperently you had to keep going aroun the truck with just the right pokemon equipped. i know so many people who did it for hours.

[exit]

Earthbound 2 for SNES and that one came from an actual game.

[Towlie2110]

That there was a point to collecting all the skulls, and It would trigger somthing. People are still at that.

A sequel to Thrasher Skate and Destroy...sigh if only.

[98PaceCar]

I once heard that there was some sort of arcade game that only appeared in a couple of arcade shops that sort-of warped people's minds. They said that the people who sold it to the arcade shops periodically came in to check on it, and then took it back in a couple of months. They said the people who played it ended up becoming antigame activists or something.
But, I'd take it with a grain of salt.

Yeah, that's just what I was thinking: Polybius.

Very cool game!

[aaronpetrosky]

I always remember these

In Friday the 13th there was a code where you could be Freddy

In Mike Tyson's Punch Out, if you hit Tyson with a star punch he'll fly out of the ring.

In NBA Jam there was a code where you could be Jordan and his stat bars were 100% full.

[j_factor]

Actually, the SNES CPU is an upgraded version of the NES CPU, so theoretically it could've been done with a little more effort. Who knows. :)

Well yes it could've been done... it was designed for it. They didn't change the design of the hardware at the last second, they just removed the option. Not "with a little more effort", that effort was done -- the SNES that we got still had the design in it to be backwards-compatible; apparently removing that ability (due to the cartridge connectors and some other physical parts necessary) reduced the cost of the unit. The SNES uses a 65816, the same as an Apple IIgs. It's called 65816 because it's the successor to the 6502 and can run in either 8-bit or 16-bit mode. The NES uses a 6502 (the same as an old Apple II), and the 65816 is backwards compatible with the 6502. The SNES's 65816 (which is custom for the system) even has the ability to run at a clock speed of 1.79 Mhz, which is the speed of the NES CPU.

So the SNES has the internals to be able to act as an NES, but it lacks an NES cart slot and the NES BIOS. I'm told that those two things are all that the Super 8 adapter uses to let you play NES games on your SNES. I haven't been able to solidly confirm that information, but it seems at least plausible, because the Super 8 sure doesn't feel like it has bunch of hardware inside. If that is true though, it really makes me wonder why Nintendo didn't make an official adapter (and have it ready at launch), like Sega's Power Base Converter.

[×FR3DD×]

*A Mario game designed for the Power Glove

Actually in the owner manual (page 15) of the Power Glove you can use it to play SMB.

PROGRAM 12
Use this program to play SUPER MARIO BROS. With the flick of a
finger, you can speed-up or slow-down Mario to meet the challenge.
To enter PROGRAM 12, press: (PROG) (1) (2) (ENTR) (ENTR)


I once heard that there was some sort of arcade game that only appeared in a couple of arcade shops that sort-of warped people's minds. They said that the people who sold it to the arcade shops periodically came in to check on it, and then took it back in a couple of months. They said the people who played it ended up becoming antigame activists or something.
But, I'd take it with a grain of salt.

"Another version of the conspiracy rumors involving military intelligence agents visiting arcades to collect stored information from game consoles which date to at least the early 1980s. (Back then we were supposed to watch out for men in black who came around to take down the initials of high scorers at Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Defender.)"

The Last Starfighter! O_O

[aaronpetrosky]

Here are a few others I remember as well

In MK II if you have 5 straight flawless victores you could be Shao Kahn

In Castlevania 2 the oak stake could be used as a weapon

There were flying zombies in Castlevania 2

[blue lander]

Actually, the SNES CPU is an upgraded version of the NES CPU, so theoretically it could've been done with a little more effort. Who knows. :)

It'd take a LOT more components than just having a compatable CPU to make a SNES run NES games. The VDP, sound chip, and any memory management chips would have to be added as well, or the ones alreadyin the SNES would have to be able to behave like the old NES ones. Those custom chips are the ones that cost real money to produce, and I'm sure that's why they never added the capability to the SNES. It would have required significant extra hardware.

In the case of Genesis/SMS compatibility, the cost was minimal because the Genny already had a Z80 in it as a sound processor, and the VDP was backwards compatible with the one in the SMS. That's one of the advantages of using off the shelf parts.