'Mew under the truck': 30+ Gamers share their favorite pre-internet gaming rumors
The internet has been around for a while now, and there's a lot of information—far too much, really—readily available at our fingertips that once might have been a bit more difficult to find. When it comes to video games, a lot of knowledge is spread through word of mouth. You might try for days to solve a certain puzzle or figure out the trick to a certain boss fight. Sometimes, this could get frustrating, but finding the answer always felt extremely rewarding.
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Nowadays, after a few minutes of trying to figure out the solution, it will probably send you straight to Google, where a descriptive search will effortlessly direct you to a YouTube video where some random guy gives you a step-by-step solution. But back then, you might try different approaches or retrace your steps aimlessly for days before finally stumbling across some random NPC you forgot to talk to to progress the story, the repetition and desperate searching committing areas of the game to memory to the point where you could probably draw them 20 years later. The next day, you'd share what you'd discovered with your friends to disseminate the knowledge. This constant discussion about games and their mysteries would lead to the emergence of rumors and the misconstruction of facts, which morphed into gamers' desires to form an almost sort of mythology of secrets…
These gamers gathered together to share the rumors from days past that they once thought were real.
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This is the video that the commenter linked, which uses an exploit of the way the game codes Pokemon, making catching Mew possible. Funny, since the actual method is incredibly similar to the rumors that were prevalent at the time.
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