'Mew under the truck': 30+ Gamers share their favorite pre-internet gaming rumors

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    Font - "WHAT PRE-INTERNET GAMING RUMORS DID YOU BELIEVE OR TRY?"
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    Font - jenescript 9 hr. ago - . the Yeti living on the mountain in GTA SA 4 1.0k Reply Share Inquisitor_Boron · 7 hr. ago I searched Big Foot, because a youtuber showed them existing (I was a kid and I didn't know it was a mod) 216 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - 2Scribble 10 hr. ago. edited 9 hr. ago . In the same vein of Pokemon - I was convinced holding down the B button just right would turn any Pokeball into a Masterball So I wouldn't buy great bas or ultra bals xD Which is kind of petty considering that in a lot of the earlier Pokemon games - there was f all else to spend money on 929 Reply Share
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    Font - crevassesexual 9 hr. ago · They used to say in OoT you could get the triforce in a number of different ways. I remember hearing that if you used Din's fire on Ganondorf's body after you beat him he would ignite and you could claim the triforce of power, then zelda would give you
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    Font - wisdom and you could unfreeze zoras domain, survive a jump in lava at death mountain, all sorts of dumb sha that made no sense. My friend also convinced me that if you say no to Zelda enough times when you first meet her she would shoot lasers out of her eyes and kill you. I was a very gullible child. 320 Reply Share
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    Font - gate_of_steiner85 · 8 hr. ago My friend also convinced me that if you say no to Zelda enough times when you first meet her she would shoot lasers out of her eyes and kill you. Considering that Link's Awakening had a shopkeeper that would murder you with a laser if you stole from him, that wouldn't have surprised me at all lol. 129 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - kogent-501 8 hr. ago Sonic and tails were in smash brothers melee if you beat one of the wire fighter modes by killing ten wire fighters without taking damage (I can't recall, the merciless/ultra hard mode) 248 Reply Share
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    Font - Holoogamooga. 9 hr. ago That if you beat the Elite 4 in Pokemon Red/Blue 50 times and released your starter you'd see it run off and you'd be able to catch it and get a secret fourth evolution stage. I didn't personally try it but knew someone who did. That poor Blastoise. 113 Reply Share
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    Rectangle - Jizzraq 5 hr. ago Classmate defeated the Elite 4 with a single Chansey and items only in order to get a Togepi... Reply Share 25
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    Font - Gintoki48 8 hr. ago Yoshi on top of the Castle in Mario 64 ● Got every star and was at disbelief when it was true lol Reply Share 322 v3n0mat3 - 6 hr. ago How about the secret room where you see Bowser looking in from outside? 70 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - PlazmaSnake_ · 10 hr. ago . TOless Pointy Croft 642 Reply Share soulxhawk 8 hr. ago · My friends dad told my friend that he found the secret code to make Lara naked and what made it all the more real was I heard
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    Font - his mom tell my mom when she came to get me "So his dad found that secret code to see Lara naked so my son keeps asking him what it is". If his mom is saying it then it had to be true. So we spent an hour one day trying to figure it out before just giving up. 89 Reply Share
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    Font - Moontorc 9 hr. ago > I remember in Pokemon Red my cousin convincing me I could get Mew You can. Here's how (it's not under the van ). 254 Reply Share Zagrunty 8 hr. ago This is better than the version of this I used. Much earlier in the game. Nice! Reply Share 45 ●●
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    Font - An_Actual_Moderate 8 hr. ago I had an uncle, who actually worked at Nintendo as a 'counsellor", who would constantly fowith me by telling me but. I'd go tell friends, it would be untrue, I'd look like a fool. FO you, Uncle Jim. "I 422 Reply Share
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    Font - Scudss 7 hr. ago ● My uncle worked at Microsoft and banned people who talked sto me on Halo 2. I tried to warn them, they didn't listen 182 Reply Share
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    Font - Practical-Bell-54179 hr. ago Mortal Kombat 10 was already out in China. Circa 1997 73 Reply Share 38 ●●● stealingtheshow222 7 hr. ago That one's hilarious since most of not all the MK games are banned in china Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - RockyStonejaw. 8 hr. ago Saving Aerith 68 Reply Share whynameneeded · 2 hr. ago how about the crazy steps to revive her? I don't remember everything, but it involved going back to the little church where you DO actually encounter her ghost for a moment (which made the whole process seem legit to me at the time lol) 11 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - Jizzraq 8 hr. ago That one that made Blizzard "there is no cow level" a cheat code in Starcraft: Brood Wars. 62 Reply Share
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    Font - KM nihonlights 11 hr. ago That the trees in MK2s hidden forest ate you as a fatality. Reply Share 162 dan7361 9 hr. ago My friend said he heard you could do something (can't remember details) that would activate a fight with the green pants liu kang in the background of the pit II. He said the super secret character's name was hornbuckle. We absolutely believed it! 58 ●●● Reply Share
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    Font - 00 Vivalaredsox - 8 hr. ago Resurrecting Aerith in FF7 using the underwater materia Reply Share 116 dentbox 7 hr. ago ● When I first completed the game I insisted that we keep the playstation on all night because I'd heard there was some post-credit resurrection but you had to wait twelve hours or something. Lol 33 Reply Share
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    Font - BourgeoisStalker - 8 hr. ago Can Mario jump over the flag in SMB? Everyone thought if we just tried hard enough we could get him over that flagpole. 101 Reply Share not_a_moogle . 7 hr. ago You can, but it breaks the game. It leads to an endless repeating background that your stuck in until time runs out. It's easiest to do on 3-3 86 Reply Share
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    Font - ifi iFiAudio 8 hr. ago I remember in the lead up to GTA 3 coming out I heard that the NPC's (or whatever we called them back then) would live their own lives and go about their day to day business and even run home if you scared them off. I also remember another GTA 3 rumour about it having a secret Matrix level with bullet time etc 31 Reply Share stealingtheshow222 7 hr. ago They actually implemented all that in RDR2 22 Reply Share
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    Font - An_Actual_Moderate 8 hr. ago Final Fantasy 7: That if you managed to get 35 of the "1/35 Soldier" item from the Golden Saucer, you'd get a Sephiroth clone in your party. Reply Share 31
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    Font - itsagrindbruh. 8 hr. ago. edited 3 hr. ago In Goldeneye on the dam mission, when you get to the dam before you jump, if you look into the body of water the dam is holding back, there is a small island or at least some sort of guard tower with a building or two next to it. Idk it's been a very long time. But anyways, I had a friend swear to me that you could get to that island and get dual weapons that were OP. I tried for a very long time to get over to that island with no success. ↑ 86 R
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    Font - . EmuUnhappy6373 · 8 hr. ago Codes to make Sonya Blade fight node in MK original went around my school like wild fire! Hit ABC 50 times at the start screen. We tried so hard to see some pixel boobies. Reply Share 52 contrabardus. 7 hr. ago Tomb Raider had fake rumors about a nOle code too. 10 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - SvennEthir 9 hr. ago Petting Poogie in Monster Hunter before running a quest would increase drop rates. My friend and I would run to pet him before everything we did. Reply Share 28
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    Font - DarylStenn 8 hr. ago I read an article not that long ago that listed pre instant internet game rumours and I think number one was a game that people remember existing in arcades but officially never existed, supposedly it was a government built game that caused seizures and was taken away by men in black, can't recall it's name. 27 Reply Share squirrel 32 7 hr. ago Polybius ↑ 36 36 ●●● Reply Share
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    Font - CrystPlaneswalker 9 hr. ago That you could see Meryl in her underwear in Metal Gear Solid. Turns out it was true. Reply Share 43 mattducz 7 hr. ago Kojima is the kid on the playground irl 24 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - Ozzeedee 7 hr. ago Oh man. Where to begin. I tried getting the triforce in ocarina of time, I tried to unlock Luigi in super Mario 64. Tried unlocking several characters that weren't actually in the game in both SSB64 & Melee. Spent a silly amount of time trying to find the "ghost in the sprunk factory" in gta 4. I just wanted to believe as a kid Imao ↑ 19 Reply Share
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    Font - kamilman 9 hr. ago In Crash Team Racing on the ps1, you could unlock N. Oxide's spaceship kart. Lies, I tell you! 4 17 Reply Share
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    Font - robotshavenohearts2 8 hr. ago When I was in the third grade, my classmate told me that after I get all 180 stars in Mario 64 I can triple jump over the hill from the starting point and start the second half of the game that takes place entirely in Bowsers Castle featuring Wario. We weren't friends after that. 15 Reply Share
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    Font - sephjnr 8 hr. ago The SNES version of Mortal Kombat can have blood turned on by taping a penny to the cartridge. 16 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - $40 drunkentenshiNL Mew under the truck Luigi in Mario 64 8 hr. ago Sonic in Smash Bros Melee Pikablu Just off the top of my head of course. 9 Reply Share
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    Font - Santarini 8 hr. ago The pokemon glitch where you change your box and then turn off the power when it says saving do not turn off the power 14 Reply Share Typokun 7 hr. ago I mean, for gen 2, it is real and works... I straight up played one run of silver where I had all 3 starters with my Og name Imao. 13 ●●● Reply Share ●●
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    Font - Lychee247 10 hr. ago So idk if it was a rumor but I thought thay if I were to insert a disc backwards I could play from finish to start 28 Reply Share

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