The Video Game Critic

[QUOTE=Conn]I was tricked by the old Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow rumours back when I was seven or so. Well, I didn't actually have the patience to try them, but I did believe them.[/QUOTE]The worst part about those was how they were partially true.  Like the one where you have to play through like the entire game without getting the "cut" move, go find a red truck, use "strength" to move it, open a pokeball underneath it, and it's supposed to have mew in it.  You do all that work, get to the dock, see the truck, and you're like, "omg! i can't believe it!!!11!".  Then, you try to push the truck . . .  

 

[QUOTE=Paul Campbell]Gees that video is frustrating to watch, because he gets into the minus worlds on the first try.  And what's worse... he went in backwards!!!  I heard that you had to jump, turn, and hook the bill of Mario's hat on the brick to make it work, therefore I have never seen those minus worlds until just now.  Are the US ones just swimming all the time?  And, is this actually some kind of fluke?  or was it purposely programmed in like that?[/QUOTE]

I can sometimes get into the Minus World on the first try, and usually in the same way that he did in that video.

 

Here's my video of the US Minus World.  Yes, it's just swimming, and yes it was a fluke -- a fluke that was removed from some later remakes of the game.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-mhujXTJKQ

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[QUOTE=Conn]I was tricked by the old Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow rumours back when I was seven or so. Well, I didn't actually have the patience to try them, but I did believe them.[/QUOTE]The worst part about those was how they were partially true.  Like the one where you have to play through like the entire game without getting the "cut" move, go find a red truck, use "strength" to move it, open a pokeball underneath it, and it's supposed to have mew in it.  You do all that work, get to the dock, see the truck, and you're like, "omg! i can't believe it!!!11!".  Then, you try to push the truck . . .  

 

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Now don't ask me how... I haven't played Pokémon Red in a while, but flipping the game on just briefly I notice that somehow I have Mew as a Pokémon. It had something to do with the truck, I know... I just forget how. The character is in the game, though.

Yeah, you had to send Nintendo the cart and they uploaded Mew to your party. At least that's what they did here, in the US you might've had to attend a convention of sorts. It's not hard to get, you just had to know what to do, and do it before said machines were sent back to Japan and converted into transfers machines for the exclusive crap the next game would offer.

And of course, there's also gamesharks and a glitch that's somewhat well-known nowadays that let's you fight any pokemon of your choosing, Mew included, which a lot of silly kids who have no idea how it works makes awfully more complicated by telling you you need to follow specific directions for battling Mew, which you don't. Neither is Mew the only thing you can catch, so you can easily get youself a couple of starters, version exclusives or fossils as well.

[QUOTE=R. Jones][QUOTE=Conn]I was tricked by the old Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow rumours back when I was seven or so. Well, I didn't actually have the patience to try them, but I did believe them.[/QUOTE]The worst part about those was how they were partially true.  Like the one where you have to play through like the entire game without getting the "cut" move, go find a red truck, use "strength" to move it, open a pokeball underneath it, and it's supposed to have mew in it.  You do all that work, get to the dock, see the truck, and you're like, "omg! i can't believe it!!!11!".  Then, you try to push the truck . . .  
 
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No, you had to recieve a Pokemon who knew Cut through a trade and never board the SS Anne so you could go back to the dock.

Regardless of it not working, I always found the truck neat. An easter egg of sorts.

Atari 2600 Doom... The phony screenshots were pretty cool.

 

Of course, SF2 legends abounded... Like Guile being able to handcuff people, use a gun, etc.

 

Actually, there was a bug that allowed Guile to "freeze" the opponent in the first version of SF2; this was called the handcuff.

Of course, the gun is just an urban legend.

[QUOTE=IronKnux][QUOTE=R. Jones]

[QUOTE=Conn]I was tricked by the old Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow rumours back when I was seven or so. Well, I didn't actually have the patience to try them, but I did believe them.[/QUOTE]The worst part about those was how they were partially true.  Like the one where you have to play through like the entire game without getting the "cut" move, go find a red truck, use "strength" to move it, open a pokeball underneath it, and it's supposed to have mew in it.  You do all that work, get to the dock, see the truck, and you're like, "omg! i can't believe it!!!11!".  Then, you try to push the truck . . .  

 

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Now don't ask me how... I haven't played Pokémon Red in a while, but flipping the game on just briefly I notice that somehow I have Mew as a Pokémon. It had something to do with the truck, I know... I just forget how. The character is in the game, though.
[/QUOTE]I'm not sure if I'd be devastated or relieved if I found out that you actually could get mew from beneath the truck. 

I know the character is really in there, though.  I actually got one eventually from a friend with the duplication trick.  I knew several people that had mews, but when I asked them where they got him from, they'd always say they knew a guy that had it.  It's kind of interesting to hear all these different ways it's possible to get him now.  When I was a kid it was all shady and mysterious.

People used to say that there was an ending to Spy Hunter, and some even talked about a "graveyard" level.

Liars.

How about the Galaga "TripleShip" , where you can somehow get THREE ships linked? You couldn't of course, but people still believed it. You can't even get 3 in Galaga:arrangement!

Also, the pac man myth "You can move through the monsters when they are not looking at you". This one is understandable. Sometimes Pac-man and Ms. pac man DO move unharmed through colored monsters and sometimes they ARE looking away when it happens, but it is just a bug in the programs. You are equally likely to move through them no matter where they are looking. It can happen in other Pac games too. I have a pattern for the third board of SUPER pac man; on the PSX Namco disc at least, going immideatly right, down and up causes pac man to move straight through the blue-green monster every time! It's weird!