Rumors, Early Emulation News from the Good Ol' Days

[Epicenter]

Remember those days when you and your friends were little and into games, but all the info you could ever get back then was from half-assed magazine snippets, 1-900- help lines, game manuals and horribly overpriced hint guides? Before the internet and long-distance gaming communities? How everyone thought they were privy to some awesome tidbit of info?

Here are some interesting ones from my youth, I'd love to hear yours.

- An old game I used to play a lot for my NES was 'Mach Rider'. For the unfamiliar, you're a motorcyclist fighting alien invaders, who drive giant cars. You can shoot a gun to destroy them or just outrace them. Thing is, the game never ends, it just loops like many games from that era did. I was talking someone about it, asking if they ever found an end to the game. Their response: "Yeah, after the last course you fight a giant red lobster monster."

- I recall that me and some friends were riding bikes and had just stopped in a cul-de-sac (What kind of word is that..) and were discussing games. A friend of mine casually mentioned, "My friend's Dad opens his cartridges and takes out all the wires, plugs them into his computer and plays the games on there." I was 7 or so, but my response was simply that I'd believe it when I saw it. Despite that nothing but a prototype cart has wires; the individual in question must've had a self-built ROM copier and an emulator. At the time, the 486 was pretty much the fastest machine around, I suppose there was some primitive NES emulation in 1992..

- A friend of mine who was starved for attention once tried to convince me that you could connect Sonic & Tails 2 / Sonic Triple Trouble for the Game Gear to Sonic and Knuckles for the MegaDrive/Genesis. This is the same kid whose mother wouldn't let him "talk about Sega" before school. Otherwise he'd "be distracted" and fail all his classes. On a side note, she was a bitchy, annoying Christian fundamentalist.

- "Nudalities". 'nuff said.

[Cmosfm]

Nudalities...I remember that! Oh man, there was that one move the kid down the street did where Sonya took off her top. Ever notice it was only the girls with the nudalities?

Hmmm, what else was there. Mortal Kombat had a lot of em, I just cant remember em.

[VACRMH]

Man, I remember when everyone would talk about NBA Jam and all the hidden characters it supposedly had.

Yes I know there were alot, but kids were saying Ren and Stimpy were in the game, along with Sonic and Tails.

[Flack]

I thought this sounded familiar ... here are a bunch of them!

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22076

[Epicenter]

EDIT: Double post. Nothing to see here, shoo.

[Epicenter]

Nudalities...I remember that! Oh man, there was that one move the kid down the street did where Sonya took off her top. Ever notice it was only the girls with the nudalities?

Hmmm, what else was there. Mortal Kombat had a lot of em, I just cant remember em.

Nudalities weren't real, just so you know. Just a very prevalent rumor.

[sniperCCJVQ]

- I recall that me and some friends were riding bikes and had just stopped in a cul-de-sac (What kind of word is that..)

It's the french meaning for "the bottom of the bag" (but "cul" = "ass", weird ey!) which in fact said that it's the end of something, in that case the road.

[Epicenter]

No one else has any rumors to share?

[Jorpho]

Oh, it's all been done in the other thread.