/vr/ - Retro Games

The Mandela effect isn't real, it's always a case of people remembering things wrong because the way they remember it makes a lot of sense, even if it was never canon.
People believed Pikachu's tail has a black tip because that way it would match his black-tipped ears.
People thought the Berenstain Bears were called Berenstein because -stein is a very common ending to many Germanic names unlike -stain.
People thought the Monopoly man had a monocle cause, I mean, look at him. It suits him perfectly.
>but I actually have a copy of this thing where it really is the way I remember it!
That just means that some artist made a mistake cause he was also suffering from the same misconception that you were suffering from.
Again, it's not unlikely that someone would screw up and think that Pikachu's tail had a black tip, so it could have made its way into official merch at some point.

unpopular opinion: modding consoles is a war crime, defacing items making the amount of pristine consoles in circulation gets smaller and smaller, unable to be restored to its original condition again