Gaming Myths/Lies/Rumors that you believed as a kid.

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zapdos is the god tho

caught it with an ultra ball

one myth i remember was being able to fight in the back in one of the early wcw n64 games. had my friends and i just walking towards the tunnel like fukkin idiots trying all types of shyt. when moves and irish whips didnt work =

someone tried calling on me when i said you could get "Team Fire" and the ball would be blue in NBA hangtime. then i got 3 alley oops on him in a row without him scoring he rage quit

also for tyson punchout..people kept saying that glass joe's only victory was against mike tyson and thats why he was all fukked up after for taking a beating (lost 99 straight fights after (i think he was 1-99))

I remember that wrestling shyt too bruh.

People use to say you could fight back stage, in the crowd, and press a certain button to have help come from back stage.

-DMP-

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Mine was down+ B for pokemon

lol i tried all the combos listed. i think the one i did most that was most effective was tap A repeatedly then hold A right as it was going into its last roll

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Luigi on Mario 64

Dropping 2 halves of a broken table next to each other at the same time a full table would be made in WWF No Mercy

Big Foot on San Andreas

Jason on Saints Row 2

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I remember that wrestling shyt too bruh.

People use to say you could fight back stage, in the crowd, and press a certain button to have help come from back stage.

-DMP-

yeah. i thought it was all ducktales at first..but when i saw a random run in one time i was like hmm..then when a friend first grabbed an item out of the crowd i started to think it was possible

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

ITT we discuss the lies the kid down the block told us and how he always seemed to have a relative who worked for the popular console maker at the time . Or remember the early days of the internet, when gaming code sites ran rampant with fake codes?

So first up, an old but a classic. Getting mew in pokemon red/blue

Legend had it, that if you had a lvl 100 pokemon with STRENGHT HM, that after you beat the game, you could go to the truck in vermillion city, move it, and MEW would be underneath

Im pretty sure we all heard some version of this, and we all tried it.

Next up, one that's a lil more personal, my mom was dating this guy and his kid was a huge DBZ fan. At the time, dbz games weren't really in the US yet, but I managed to get a copy of DBGT: Final bout.

This mofo told me that, if you beat the game (50 I think?) times with vegeta, you could unlock gogeta. Being the gullible head strong kid I was, I took on the challenge and one Saturday, I started to play the arcade mode over and over again. Needless to say, there was no gogeta


Other shyt I remember:
-Trying to get the 18 wheeler to come out as Stone Cold Steve Austin's entrance on WWF:Atittude
-Pikablu (this was before the new pokemon came out)
-There would be a MGS2 released for xbox that let you play as snake instead of raiden.
-you could play with Yoshi in Mario 64
-you could revive Aeris in FFV7

Add on, im sure there are some that im forgetting.

-DMP-

That DB GT one hurts Man that game takes me way back.

I did so many gaming myths as a kid that when the mega man hadoken rumor came around I just KNEW it was fake. I mean having to die 3 times and doing a motion to shoot the fireball and it one hitting everything... yeah right.

I almost passed out when it was true.

Wait what?

Michael Jordan code for NBA Jam

Plenty fukkin grade school azzholes perpetrated that fukkkn lie. Had a adolescent so geeked only to have my dreams crushed.

RMJ

That one is a classic.

My older brother giving me an unplugged controller and acting like I was playing

 

[Womb Raider]

Bigfoot in GTA SA

 

[Bboystyle]

Blowing into nintendo cartitidges would help fix a game that wouldnt boot up. I damn near passed out after trying this for damn near a half an hour as a kid.

Found out much later that it was just BS

 

[-DMP-]

Damn I forgot I started this thread.

In a way, I kinda miss this time period, when there was still mystery in a lot of games.

 

[Regular_P]

Blowing into nintendo cartitidges would help fix a game that wouldnt boot up. I damn near passed out after trying this for damn near a half an hour as a kid.

Found out much later that it was just BS

Younger people won't know the pain of fiddling with a cartridge like a space shuttle launch trying to get it to work.

Blowing in the cartridge, putting alcohol on a q-tip and trying to clean it, wiggling the cartridge inside the NES hoping it catches just right and the game works. Especially when it was a game you rented that you were looking forward to all week.

 

[NoMorePie]

In San Andreas, if you fly some plane for a certain amount of time, the map will suddenly change back to GTA 3's map.


...To this day, I still don't know if that's true or not. My brother tried it, flied for over 15 minutes to half an hour. Then I made him press triangle

 

[Givethanks]

This mug right here, had me fearing for my life when I met him. This Persian kid told me to stay away from him when I was 8.

 

[Bboystyle]

Younger people won't know the pain of fiddling with a cartridge like a space shuttle launch trying to get it to work.

Blowing in the cartridge, putting alcohol on a q-tip and trying to clean it, wiggling the cartridge inside the NES hoping it catches just right and the game works. Especially when it was a game you rented that you were looking forward to all week.

I remember moms used to take me to block buster after school to rent a game for the weekend. With no resources of how good games were, id pick the one with the best cover or if it was a movie game.....only to find out shyt is pure trash when i went home to play it