Videogame Urban Legends

[James]

The youth of today... Groucho Marx!

James

[Jeremy]

Lots of Vice City ones.
Using any of the cheat codes, even the ones that Rockstar gave out... will prevent you from getting a 100% completion rating.

[dog$]

Playing games that you don't really like makes you more open minded.

[Segatron314]

There's some great Insider legends (stuff we as gamers understand) But I was hoping to get some outsider stuff too, stuff born from people who's first impressions of videogaming was hearing about mortal kombat on C-span from Senator Leiberman. Stuff born from the mistrust and misunderstandings of the public at large about videogames. Something with a little more meat that "they rot your brains"

But if all you have got is insider stuff, fee free.

PS. I heard rumors of the "lost Souls" demo in an earlier version of Microsoft Word 95, or such. Apparently there was a mini FPS with names written on the walls, and if you made it into the end of a narrow path, something was supposed to reveal something about Microsoft or something like that. If anyone can flesh this out, I know it is not strictly gaming, but I never got the whole story.

[shidoshi]

This is odd, because while going through some old issues of VG+CE today, I came across the "kid spends his life savings" story. I then come on here and see it mentioned. *heh*

Originally posted by Dolemite
The infamous "nude code" in Tomb Raider.

This one sort of doesn't count, because it is based in reality. There WAS a nude code in Tomb Raider, and was part of the developer builds up until late in the process. I don't know up until what point the code was still in there, but magazines got preview copies that had the code intact.

The reason Tomb Raider starred a female character was that the developers decided if they were going to be looking at the back of the character the entire time, they might as well make it a female to look at. Then, you just extend that out - at some point, they got bored of even looking at her, or just bored period, and thus the nudity option was born for cheap thrills.


I've been trying to think of some good ones that I've heard, but that's a tough one. Of course, somebody "beating" Pitfall was always a classic. Or the old story about the original Legend of Zelda being in short supply because of the cart being gold.

[Dolemite]

Hey 'doshi, welcome back. How's Japan?

[skullkid]

You can Play as Samus in her bathing suit in Super Metroid.

If you jump over the flag in SMB you warp to the final dungeon

In Punch out if King hippo's Family is in the crowd,
he'll get up.

This one might be true
There's a 1 in 32 chance that you'll see Shadow(Clyde)
Have relations with Relm's mom in Final Fantasy 6

[Nick]

This thread received about 5700 visits over the weekend. Great work TNL past!

[Chux]

Cracked ran an article and Kotaku linked it, I'll assume that's where the traffic came from.

Here we go

I had no idea about the Goldshire Inn one, and never thought the final battle of earthbound was performing an abortion.

[Diff-chan]

Super Mario Bros. Chocolate Factory

edit: apparently I said the same thing 8 years ago. I'm not deleting this.