Your favorite (or most hated) hoax of all time

[Stibbons]

Originally posted by Nash
i hated the original street fighter 2 for the super nes boss code hoax. it was so good/bad, that people would lie about it.

"yeah, i got it to work. i can play as sagat."
"can you show me how it's done?"
"naw man, you're gonna have to find out for yourself."

unbelievable.

This happened to me recently with someone's little brother.

"Dude, one of my friends got Sonic and Tails in Melee."
"Oh really? How is it?"
"I dunno, I just saw it though. It was cool."
"And you didn't want to play as them?"
"Nah, I had to get home."
"Oh, okay. Well, how'd he do it?"
"I didn't watch him do it, I just saw he had Sonic and Tails."
"Why don't you go over and get his memory card now, so I can play as them?"
"I think he sold his Gamecube."
"You're 12. How old is your friend that he's selling his Gamecube?"
"His mom did it."

I just gave up.

[Kidnemo]

Originally posted by Zerodash
The Mortal Kombat series boasts a TON of false rumors. And everyone knew a guy who knew a guy who got these to work...

-MK2: Kano and Sonya were hidden characters. If you played as Jax on the "arena"(?) background, do a doouble-flawless fatality and Kano will break free and fight you...

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

It's only funny because it's SO freaking true!

*dead*

[Tommy Tallarico]

Originally posted by Stibbons
This happened to me recently with someone's little brother.

"Dude, one of my friends got Sonic and Tails in Melee."
"Oh really? How is it?"
"I dunno, I just saw it though. It was cool."
"And you didn't want to play as them?"
"Nah, I had to get home."
"Oh, okay. Well, how'd he do it?"
"I didn't watch him do it, I just saw he had Sonic and Tails."
"Why don't you go over and get his memory card now, so I can play as them?"
"I think he sold his Gamecube."
"You're 12. How old is your friend that he's selling his Gamecube?"
"His mom did it."

I just gave up.

LOL

Funniest thing I've read all day.

As a sidenote, I pissed someone off to the point that they almost hit me when I called them on the boss code for SF2 back in the day.

[Mr_B]

Definetly all of the MK2 rumors.

I have heard so many it wasn't funny. I remember guys saying that they found hidden stuff and they would make up a huge list of requirements to get it to work. I would double check their info and ask them again and then they would say that it would only work on the test machines at "Enchanted Castle".

Enchanted castle was the premiere test location for MK2, since Midway is located in the burbs of chicago. That arcade had roughly 15 MK2 machines back in the day.

But never the less, I laugh now but got mad as hell back in the day for them not sharing...

[FirstBlood]

... ah yes... the wonderous "nudalities" from Mortal Kombat... those were all the rage back in the day...

[Satsuki]

That one rumor where Disney and Squaresoft were teaming up.....

*checks date*

GODDAMNIT

[PaperWork]

Sheng Long for me too. Though I wish that would have been the last one. Nothing worse than false "facts".

[Josh]

EGM(?) saying that the SEGA Neptune went into production, and was available for sale.

I was very pissed about that.

[MechDeus]

I knew a few kids who loved lying about all sorts of games, so I've got pathetic lies and rumours about videogames that were never mentioned in magazines. Hell, one of them even managed to come up with the secret origin for Captain Planet, that one was so reaching I struggled to not laugh hysterically at him.

One of my favorite ones was someone trying to convince me that Roll was playable in Megaman (the first one), but it involved an alternate path as you're given a choice later on. I had beaten it already, but he refused to listen to me. He even had a friend backing him up on this.

[burgundy]

My friend's friend's father worked for Nintendo, so he had gotten to play Mario 17 and Zelda 23, which were already out in Japan.