/vr/ - Retro Games

[Vidya myths you believed as a (...) No.1248847]

In light of the recent successful Childhood Abominations thread, lets discuss the stupid shit we believed about games as kids.

I firmly believed in that there was a way to get the Pokegods and Pikablu by using cheats in Pokemon Red.

I also believed that there was a way you could have a meeting with Giovanni, and join Team Rocket. Some guy at school told me that. Dick.

Itt: confess to your childhood retardation

[Anonymous No.1248851]

>>1248847
In Ultima Underworld, there's a little plaque on one of the lower levels saying "Thou canst not defeat the Drakhai". For years and years, I thought the Drakhai was the name for that invisible monster alluded to in the manual, and that if I wandered in the wrong pattern, it would kill me.


Then, much later, I played the wing commanders. I very belatedly got that joke.

[Anonymous No.1248867]

There's so many to do with Pokemon. A friend of mine swore to me that if you trained a Level 100 Magikarp (no Daycare or Rare Candies), one of the NPCs in a Pokemon Centre would trade you Mew for it.

[Anonymous No.1248869]

>>1248867
>>1248847

I still remember actually finding the truck by the SS Anne for the first time, and desperately trying to think of a way to pick up those damn keys at Rocket Game Corner.

Dammit, they MUST be important.

[Anonymous No.1248873]

>>1248867
Fuck, all the pokemon ones are coming back to me now.

I used to think there was a way you could get outside the walls of Pallet Town, and that there was a secret area in there.

To my disappointment, I found when I did it with a gameshark that the game just crashed :(

[Anonymous No.1248874]

>>1248869

Has anyone from Game Freak actually revealed what the point of the keys and truck were?

[Anonymous No.1248875]

>>1248867
There is actually a legit glitch to get mew, though. As far as I know the Nugget Bridge thing actually does work.

>>1248869
Wait, what keys?

[Anonymous No.1248883]

>>1248874
I think the truck didn't have a point, it was just a random sprite left there. I seem to remember someone managing to remove the sprite, and finding there was nothing under it.

Not sure where I heard that though, Game Freak may have said something different

[Anonymous No.1248897]

Defeating the Elite Four [x amount of times] would cause the S.S. Anne to return to port. I also bought into the Pikablu thing. I really liked Marill's design as a kid, even had a dream about catching one in Viridian Forest.

[Anonymous No.1248898]

So many stupid pokemon rumors I can remember

>you can evolve a blastoise and venusaur into venustoise
>Mew under the truck
>if you hold down B at the title screen and start a new game, you will start Pokemon Black version where you can catch level 1 Mews in the first route from Pallet Town
>inside Hitmonlee is a Togepi
>tapping B increases the catch rate of Pokemon

There were many others Im sure, I just cant remember, stupid kids on the playground, the only one I believed was Mew under the truck until I got that gameshark for christmas and debunked it.

[Anonymous No.1248901]

>>1248897
>mfw you catch a pikachu in Viridian Forest

You're absolutely set for the game if you manage it. They're a fucker to find though

[Anonymous No.1248908]

>>1248898
>tapping B increases the catch rate of Pokemon

It's holding down B, not tapping it.

Did holding it down actually do anything, come to think of it? I always do it just out of habit

[Anonymous No.1248918]

>>1248875

There's a set of keys on one of the slot machines. It was rumoured to be the keys to the truck by the SS Anne.

These rumours varied by region/school, but the one I heard was trading a Level 100 Nidoking to the Team Rocket looking guy wandering around Celadon, and he'd let you take the keys.

>>1248908

Again, a foundless rumour that varied by region. Here, it was holding B and Up at the same time.

[Anonymous No.1248924]

>>1248918
Actually, come to think of it, it was B and Down, here not just B.

Huh, I thought that one was real

[Anonymous No.1248928]

Fucking Nintendo Power.

[Anonymous No.1248932]

>>1248924

That stuff essentially equates to superstition. You end up forgetting all the hundreds of times you didn't catch anything, but the one time it does work, it validates all your effort. It's the same reason people who play sports will have lucky socks and shit like that.

[Anonymous No.1248934]

I don't even fully remember the myth but there was something that if you used up your starting potion, but still threw the fight at the beginning to your rival, it did something or other, made Pokemon easier to catch or some shit.

[Anonymous No.1248940]

My friend told me if I beat OoT without dying a single time and did all the temples in order I could get the black tunic

[Anonymous No.1248945]

>>1248867
You see I was hustled out of of my rare, shiny dragonight card for about 20 pages of fake cheats (It was the 90's, we didn't all have the internet at home then). Anyway, the cheat told me that if you gave that specific magikarp thats given to you in the game to the daycare center, leave it there to level up to level 50, take it out and level it up to level 51 yourself, it would evolve into Mew.

I never finished it because I was to lazy and impatient. But my good friends temper challenged older brother did when I told him about it. He was not happy.....

Thinking back on it i think all the bullshit pokemon cheats just added to the experience really.It made the world of Pokemon seem like it had a little more depth and mystery.

[Anonymous No.1248952]

>>1248928
Bastards.
People lying on the net is a given but publishing that shit seems that much more evil. Unless it's a April fool's joke.

[Anonymous No.1248958]

>>1248847
I heard that in DK64 after doing something or other you could buy a tank from Funky for Donkey, and a submarine for Lanky.
Thinking back on it though, that was probably an honest misinterpretation of how Donkey can turn into a rhino and Lanky into a swordfish.

I also heard one about getting Mewtwo in SSB64. You had to start a CPU match against a lvl9 opponent with 99 stocks and take all of theirs without taking damage, dying, or doing any damage to them.
The funny thing is that's actually really easy to do because of a glitch in lvl9 Link's AI.

[Anonymous No.1248962]

>>1248901
>tfw you had Yellow version, no idea about mankey's low kick and spent about two weeks leveling up your pikachu to painstakingly take out Brock's whole party with 'quick attack' at a snail's pace.

Fuck I was a stupid kid.

[Anonymous No.1248970]

>>1248873
You'd think so tho. I don't think two houses and a lab can technically be classified as a town.

[Anonymous No.1248981]

>>1248958
I had one for SSB64 for getting Goku, but I have no idea what you were supposed to do for that anymore.
What's the glitch in Link's AI? I know it's fairly easy to get Pikachu to use it's Up+B in a spot where he can't recover.

[Anonymous No.1248979]

>>1248932
>I wear lucky socks when I play baseball
>I know it's bullshit but I still wear them
Confirmed you for wisest on this board.

[Anonymous No.1248983]

>>1248847
I remember back when I was 7 and this first came out I couldn't get past Rhapala. Tried as hard as I could and just couldn't figure out how to proceed.
In my ignorance I listened to another guy at school who claimed he played it too. Told me if I input a code at the main map it'd let me fly over water and bypass the area.
Lying little sod.
Also told me there was a secret boss in FF7. To reach it, you had to ride a gold chocobo over a very specific point on the northern continent. Doing so would unlock a fight with Nuclear Weapon.
Too bad I didn't know what that was at that age.

[Anonymous No.1248994]

>>1248981
Go on Hyrule and have him die once, then before he respawns stand on the far left right before the edge. When he comes back he'll jump down and up-b over and beyond you and since he'll be facing away from the ledge he can't grab it.
He does it on a lot of stages but that one's almost perfectly consistent.

[Anonymous No.1249017]

Pretty much the only rumor I remember hearing was of a secret Charizard evolution called "Charizone" that became a water type for some reason that I never bothered to question. Needless to say, I was amused when I saw GF's own evolution design was not too far off from what I had imagined it to be like.

[Anonymous No.1249057]

>Brother plays Digimon world
>Mention offhand something about a "digidiaper" which makes it so your digimon doesn't have to go to the bathroom anymore
>Forget about it
>Year or so later
>"Hey bro what are you trying to search the game for?"
>I'm trying to find a digidiaper.

[Anonymous No.1249074]

>All those rumors to revive Aerith
And I tried them all.

[Anonymous No.1249089]

>unowns will kill you while you sleep
>zapdos is in the roof of lt. surge's gym
>the ice path has articuno hidden somewhere
>get scyther to level 42 in order to get scizor
>slowpoke cave has a slowking hidden
>that cave with lapras has this trainer with a charmander that will give it to you if you fight him at midnight
>same with the guy who had squirtle and the girl with the bulbasaur
>moltres is in the roof of the first gym
>you can go behind that bellsprout "door" on top of bellsprout tower

that same fucker claimed you could fight "ash", catch lugia in gold and get celebi with a gs ball. no one believed him because that sounded even more stupid of what he said before

>tfw found out the truth
good times

[Anonymous No.1249098]

>Sonic and Tails in Melee
>Fuck you EGM

[Anonymous No.1249116]

There was this rumor in my school about a stone that would evolve Charizard into "Mega Charizard", he was apparently black with blue flames.
Of course the thought of that was so butt-fuckingly retarded that no one believed it.

[Anonymous No.1249119]

>>1249116
And yet...

[Anonymous No.1249156]

>>1248940
The black tunic is in there, though you can only get it with a gameshark. it was planned to be used in the Shadow Temple.

[Anonymous No.1249179]

>>1248898
To this very day I hold down left and B the moment the pokeball completes its arc. Habit since red and blue came out in 6th grade and have never been able to break it.

[Anonymous No.1249182]

>>1248873

I used to think there were a bunch of new Pokemon out in the grass outside of Pallet Town and wanted to go there so bad. I thought Pikablu and Ho-oh were there.

[Anonymous No.1249196]

>>1249116
But dude, it was in the TV show, it has to be real!

[Anonymous No.1249224]

>>1249074

I remember finding out that you could indeed have different affection values from Aeris, Tifa and some of the other characters, which made me CERTAIN that you could change who dies.

But I always preferred Tifa anyway, so who cares.

[tim the tool man taylor No.1249264]

>>1248928
>black and white game
>yoshi is green

[Anonymous No.1249270]

>>1249224
I did. Aeris seemed much more a complete, unique character than Tifa, despite having considerably less screen time.

[Anonymous No.1249279]

>>1249089
>catch lugia in gold
Some people, eh?

[Anonymous No.1249281]

>>1249089

>catch lugia in gold

Heheheh

[Anonymous No.1249295]

None of them are coming to mind right now, but I'm sure there were loads of retarded rumours about what you could do with Missingno besides the item glitch

[Anonymous No.1249303]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QGILo0SZyI

For all those who thought it was just bullshit

[Anonymous No.1249307]

I thought you could get Ramus (Ramses? That general guy in the first Xenogears game) in your party. Scoured the net, and found all kinds of shit you supposedly have to do to get him. Tried some of it. Failed miserably.

[Anonymous No.1249319]

>you can do a combo that turns the enemy into a baby in MK2

I'm so sorry for doubting you all these years, evan

[Anonymous No.1249335]

>>1249295

Missingno validated all the stupid "Do X and talk to Y and then Z happens" crap by actually being real.

[Anonymous No.1249349]

>>1248932
Oddly enough, it has some truth to it. Due to the way RBY's RNG works, pressing any buttons at any time will change the random number being used by the game at that point, so if you throw the ball then press B before it hits the pokemon (when the game determines whether it'll be caught or not) it will affect the Random Number being used for the capture.

There's no way to tell whether you fucked yourself out of a capture or changed a non-capture into an actual capture though, so doing it is very pointless unless you're on an emulator using savestates.

[Anonymous No.1249358]

>>1248847
I'd managed to get to the point where I knew Pikablus and Pokegods didn't exist in the game, but didn't quite understand Gamesharks and thought they could create anything.

I spent ages typing in lines and lines of codes to change my pokemon into one of these only to come out with a garbled mess. Such disappointment.

[Anonymous No.1249359]

>>1249098
>defeat 20 guys on cruel melee

[Anonymous No.1249365]

>>1248962
>evolved Caterpie into a butterfree to defeat brock
>still barely managed to do so after several tries

[Anonymous No.1249387]

>>1248873
Oh yeah I remember this one. And if you're in that area you'll find an empty arena which will become yours. You will have to fight Trainers who come along the way.

[Anonymous No.1249448]

>>1248952
It was an April issue and the name listed for the tipster is J. Ester.

[Anonymous No.1249531]

>>1248873
I remember this but I'm certain as well there is a tiny patch of grass below Pallet Town you can get to once you can surf, it's where Tangella appears in one of the games. Maybe this is why it's stuck in my head, that place does exist right? As I'm sure I've been there but I think I remember it not being there too.

>>1248962
It was all about catching a Caterpie to train it all the way to a Butterfree.
I've no idea if this is a good idea or not but it took a long enough time too.

[Anonymous No.1249546]

>>1249531
It's there but technically it's the route below pallet town.

Also has Mr. Mime in Yellow.

[Anonymous No.1249550]

>>1249098
>>1249359

I was actually boss enough to have done that before even hearing about the code; aside from it being an April issue, that's how I knew it was fake. Oh, the days when Captain Falcon wasn't hilariously nerfed.

[Anonymous No.1249574]

>>1249531
Yeah there is, you can't access it till later in the game though, obviously

[Anonymous No.1249704]

Here are two Final Fantasy rumors from late '90s:

First one claimed that you could getting Sephiroth's Super Nova summon in FFVII by constantly talking to everyone in Junon on disc 3.

Second one claimed you could turn Ramza into a Dark Knight in FFT by following very specific instructions including stuff like making him a priest for the Zirekile Falls fight and later on killing him using the exact same set of equipment he had on when he joined your party.

Obviously both were lies but given that I was on the "Playstation FFs are the best shit ever!" phase at the time I and some of my friends spend ages on trying to make these happen. IIRC the FFVII one actually was on a English(not my native language) gaming magazine that also had instructions on beating the WEAPONS so it felt like genuine information but looking back it probably was an April Fools prank.

[Anonymous No.1249725]

>>1249704
Wow I remember the Dark Knight thing, everytime I play FFT I do all that stuff hoping that one day I'll finally get the Dark Knight class

[Anonymous No.1249748]

>>1249303
>legally
Bunch of pussies. I caught my Mew illegally. Spent 2 years in the slammer. It was worth it.
>captcha: jewslyut years

[Anonymous No.1249768]

Surprised no one's mentioned the 1/37 (?) soldiers in FF7 yet.

I really wish they had finished that game properly, it would have explained so much shit like that

[Anonymous No.1249779]

>>1249748
You should've been in there longer. Poaching scum like you make me sick.

[Anonymous No.1249796]

>>1249768
I guess I could post this.

[Anonymous No.1249817]

>>1249796
I don't get it

[Anonymous No.1249821]

>>1249817
The game says there are 12 of those things in a set, but you can only get about 3 of them. They also had rumors about them, but they don't do anything at all.

[Anonymous No.1249867]

>>1249817

It's one guy being retarded, thinking he's the only one who's noticed that 1/35 is the scale, not the amount of toys in the set.

[Anonymous No.1250075]

>>1249748
I remember my cousin rocking up one day and having Mew. I still to this day have no idea how he got it because I know he didn't go to any nintendo events. At this point gold and silver had come out, so we cloned the shit out of the little fucker and I had a yellow version as well so i would just toss it between cartridges when I wanted to start a new game.

I wish I had never sold my yellow and silver...

[Anonymous No.1250098]

>>1250075

Pre the mew glitch being discovered, it can only have been gotten by trade from someone who got it from an event, or Game Shark.

[Anonymous No.1250771]

>>1248981
I remember the Goku one for SSB64. You had to beat the story mode with Samus so many times, on Very Hard difficulty and three lives, but you could only use the B button. Not up B or down B, just the gun. Then you had to do the same with Donkey Kong.

I also remember reading that if you knocked him off when he was doing a Kamehameha, there would be a voiceover of Cell saying, "OH SHIIT!"

I was like 8, but I still can't believe I fell for that shit...

[Anonymous No.1251143]

>>1249821
>>1249867
The confusion comes from the name of the item being "(a) 1/35 soldier" in singular, ie. one toy soldier (that's 1 to 35 scale), while the item description refers to "armoured attack soldierS, 12 in the set" in plural, ie. a box with 12 toy soldiers. So people assume that since the name refers to a single soldier and the description to a set of twelve, there must be 11 other ones in the game, and poossibly a reward for callecting them all. Had the text been clearer that it is infact a box of soldiers rather than a single one, there'd have been no confusion.

[Anonymous No.1251198]

I was the youngest kid on my street, and we were all into Pokemon. Overall I was well liked and all that, never picked on for being noticably younger but from time to time I'd get screwed over in card trades and things like that. One time I traded a foil Japanese Clefable for a shitty ass Persian. My parents hunted that guy down and made him apologize, we were cool after that. I have an older cousin who was into Pokemon at the time as well, and he knew his way around GameFAQs so I knew the schoolyard lies were bullshit and we figured out the Missingno inventory glitch, which I knew to never catch. I maxed out on Master Balls and Rare Candies. Maxed out my party's level and caught whatever I wanted, shit was cash. However, one little lie I was told sticks out to me because it was my favorite dude out of the "big kids" and also pretty believable.
Level up a Caterpie to 100 (exp only, Rare Candies won't cut it) and it will learn "Climb", a discarded HM which lets you climb up and down trees. The upper canopy can trigger random encounters with Flying type and Bug type Pokémon. A certain tree, however, is a secret entrance to a secret city. Sky City. I don't remember which tree was said to be the one and I never tried it, but I found it plausible.

[Anonymous No.1251228]

>>1248847
>Pokegods
#whoa #WOAH
Maybe his dad worked at gamefreak and designed Arceus.

[Anonymous No.1251231]

>>1248873

[Anonymous No.1251236]

>>1248847
>I firmly believed in that there was a way to get the Pokegods and Pikablu by using cheats in Pokemon Red.


Fuck me too.

Did you read it on the same website I did?

fuck

[Anonymous No.1251238]

>>1251236

[Anonymous No.1251241]

I was introduced to Pokemon through the the show first. I was confused as to why Brock wasn't following me after I beat him

[Anonymous No.1251247]

>>1251228
>>1251231
>>1251238
What the fuck are these

[Anonymous No.1251245]

>>1251228
>>1251231
Is this shit for real? Did they seriously put this shit in a book or is this just a clever shoop?

[Anonymous No.1251251]

>>1251245
It's from the Pokemon Prima guide.

[Anonymous No.1251254]

>>1248962

I actually discovered the Mankey tactic by accident while I was donging around in that route that goes to the Victory Road.

In relation of that, I know that there was a kid who defeated Brock in Yellow by using Nidorino's Double Kick.

[Anonymous No.1251282]

>>1251251
Holy shit...Prima is a massive fucking troll.

[Anonymous No.1251298]

B+down master race here, B+up faggots be told.

[Anonymous No.1251301]

Back when pokemon Gold was new, I got to the town with the first gym after a few weeks of retarding about. I never did notice there was a path to the south of the town, I only saw the weird tree to the left. Since it was such a small tree and it was my first pokemon game, I was confused. While digging through my inventory, I noticed there was a "Toss" function. So I did what any sensible child would do and walk to the tile next to the tree and tossed all of my items at it.

This didn't work of course, so I consulted a guide. But, since I didn't want to spoil the game for myself, I looked at one that was very vague. I noticed that it said on a certain day, a guy near the tree will hand you a rock. Of course this meant that I had to wait to get that rock and that'd knock the tree down! It was genius!

It didn't work and it started to slowly settle in how retarded I was

[Anonymous No.1251302]

>>1251282

I particularly love how they use an image of Zubat in the page about rare Pokémons.

[Anonymous No.1251304]

>>1251301
>Implying Sudowoodo wasn't Gamefreaks trolling kids because why the fuck no.

[Anonymous No.1251307]

>>1251304

>oh shit, a unique pokemon
>better use my master ball on it!

To be fair, in Gen 1 it was easier to catch Mewtwo than Snorlax.

[Anonymous No.1251425]

>>1251251
My sides are in orbit.
That is so fucking evil. I'd love to hear from the person who wrote it.

[Anonymous No.1251772]

>>1251251
I bet the guy who wrote that got fired, but to this day still thinks it was totally worth it

[Anonymous No.1251819]

>>1248962
I used Butterfree the entire game was my Starter

Dunno why

[Anonymous No.1251825]

Probably has been said, but to this day I still hold down the 'A' button when my pokeball opens to increase the catch rate.

[Anonymous No.1251870]

>>1251302
That's just from the instruction book that had random pokemon on each page. They didn't want to reveal any rare pokemon, they didn't even reveal all the gym leaders.

[Anonymous No.1251898]

>>1251251
To be fair, they are half right. In Gen 1, crits were based on speed (like a lot of old school RPGs), and Raichu was among the fastest Pokemon that could use it. No one knew, or payed attention, to same type damage bonuses, which might surprised those who suggest using this move on Tauros instead (second fastest normal type in Gen 1, normal with the highest attack). Swift might have a lot of PP, but Gen 1's accuracy calculations were based on fractions of 256 instead of predetermined accuracies like in gen 2.

Funny, in Gen 1, Blizzard had a good chance to hit. Every game afterwards, Blizzard only works if the opponent uses it when your Pokemon has low HP. If your Pokemon does survive, it freezes it.

[Anonymous No.1252030]

>>1249725
play the psp one yo

[Anonymous No.1252102]

>>1251825

You hold A to do more damage

You hold left and B to increase changes of a pokemon being caught

Jesus man, get it straight

[Anonymous No.1252180]

>>1252102
>left and B

It's down and B, pleb.

Holding down represents keeping the lid of the pokeball shut

[Anonymous No.1252373]

>You will never sweep entire teams with the Hyper Beam glitch again

[Anonymous No.1252398]

>>1248928
i also believed that, but had no reason to try. nintendo cameos are nothing new.

[Anonymous No.1252446]

>>1252180
>down and B

Down and A, fool. A accepts, B cancels.

But seriously, none of that shit actually works.

[Anonymous No.1252769]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq2ngCb8xLo

[Anonymous No.1252779]

>>1252769
what the unholy mother of fuck is that thing?

[Anonymous No.1252784]

>>1252779
>Black and White
oh.

[Anonymous No.1252790]

>>1248928
Expert Gamer, actually. I still have that issue.

Although Nintendo Power did print this.

[Anonymous No.1252791]

My older brother insisted to me that I could get the Goron Mask from Majora's Mask in The Wind Waker if I beat all three savegames twice without copying the files.

I fully realized the Goron mask would be fucking useless and stupid in TWW yet I still did it.

Sorry for not retro

[Anonymous No.1252816]

>>1252790

Thanks for posting that. I had that issue and I bring it up when people claim the down b stuff was some internet shit. Naw, someone from fucking NP told us about that one, explaining why it caught on.

[Anonymous No.1253492]

>>1252779

[Anonymous No.1253565]

>>1252790
>Can I fish anywhere besides waterways?
What human would ask that? I swear Nintendo Power faked most of their letters.

[Anonymous No.1253572]

>>1253565
>implying

A bunch of kids read NP.

[Anonymous No.1253646]

>>1248847
I believed that Super Mario Bros was hiding an entirely new game genre inside it, like Simon's Quest or any other rpg.
The way to get to it was...to jump in a cloud.

[Anonymous No.1253670]

>>1253646
Where on earth did you get that idea from?

[Anonymous No.1253672]

>>1253492

But...Garbodor has a clear theme behind its design, so that joke makes no sense.

[Anonymous No.1253695]

I first came online in February of 1999 because I had gotten a PC for my 11th birthday, and holy fuck I was crazily in to Pokemon. Of course, I came on during the heyday of POKEGODS/PIKABLU/etc. shit. After following one really long and complicated fake code to get some awesome ultimate dragon Pokemon, I quickly learned that everything on the internet isn't real.

>mfw I still remember the very last stage of the code where I'm standing in that building in the Safari Zone, feeling overwhelming disappointment when I figure out I've been fooled

>>1252398

I remember that. I also remember there was one for Luigi too.

[Anonymous No.1253705]

>>1248945
That was just because pokemon attracted so many kids' imagination which bred countless rumors and stories. To sell more magazines authors picked them up.

Also disinfo on innerned

[Anonymous No.1253709]

>>1248962
>friend goes to viridian city for the first time
>doesn't know how to get past the old guy who shows you how to catch pokemon
>always clicks "I don't want to learn how to catch pokemon"
>he goes back to the high grass and trains his squirtle up to wartortle
>has a whole team around level 16
>figures out how to past old man
>easy road ahead

other guy from school didn't know how to get out of viridian forest... he always fainted in high grass and didn't know how to use potions or how to flee.

[Anonymous No.1253716]

>>1253709
>he goes back to the high grass and trains his squirtle up to wartortle

[Anonymous No.1253721]

>>1249546
>ash's mom gets a mr. mime in the show
>there are wild mr. mimes in the game just next to the town
you know realize the filthy stuff ash's mom and mr. mime did

[Anonymous No.1253724]

>>1251251
Oak's face all over the picture makes it even more hilarious

[Anonymous No.1253727]

>>1251251
WAIT

Are you telling me the diploma thing wasn't true..?

[Anonymous No.1253735]

>>1253716
why did you post that pic?

[Anonymous No.1253737]

>>1253727

No, that part was true (I think, now that I think about it, I can't actually remember). Just the Mew part makes it bullshit.

[Anonymous No.1253738]

>>1253735
Because it looks ridiculous. Why so inquisitive?

[Anonymous No.1253742]

>>1253738
because its neither to be taken funnily nor ridicoulus. it was a very dark and cruel time.

but lets not derail the thread

[Anonymous No.1253750]

>>1253742
JIDF detected.

[Anonymous No.1253760]

>>1253742
You might go on Reddit, you'll fine open-minded people like you. I'm not even white by nazi standards faget

[Anonymous No.1253762]

>>1253742
You might go on Reddit, you'll find open-minded people like you. I'm not even white by nazi standards faget

[Anonymous No.1253768]

Those Metal Gear Solid rumors about playing as Grey Fox after x amount of play throughs. Then we get VR missions. After all that work to unlock the ninja missions, we get 3 boring disappointing levels on the same small room...

Capcha:necessary stelmoe

[Anonymous No.1253771]

>>1253492
Man, why are RBY-only fans so obnoxious?

Even I'll admit the later generations had some pretty flawed or outright bad designs, mostly due to design elements in pic related, but Generation 1 was far from perfect in itself. Who here actually gives a shit about Tangela?

[Anonymous No.1253774]

>>1253771
...Is it bad that I think both of those designs are better than their actual counterparts?

[Anonymous No.1253776]

>>1253771

RBY fans aren't obnoxious, latter gen fags just don't get it. There was a certain mystique about the earlier games. After maybe gen 2, all that mystique was gone. Maybe X and Y brought it back with that creepy ghost chick <.<

[Anonymous No.1253778]

>>1253771
I like how everyone reacted to the key pokemon
>OHGOD so uncreative!
>IT'S THE END POKEMON IS DEAD
>FUCKING CAR KEYS

meanwhile gen 1 had
>a mime
>a pokeball imitation
>diglet, a brown head sticking out of the ground

[Anonymous No.1253790]

>>1253778
I'm sure people do that with every new gen.
Like when gen 2 came out, I'm sure there were cries of "Porygon2 sucks because it's just rounded Porygon, Game Freak have no originality, bring back Tangela".
Then when 3 came out "Castform sucks, it's just a grey blob, Game Freak have no creativity, bring back Delibird".
Then when 4 came out "Bronzong sucks, it's just a bell, Game Freak are hacks, bring back Tropius".
Then when 5 came out "Vanillite sucks, it's just an ice cream, it's not even an animal, Game Freak sucks Pokemon is dead, bring back Drifloon"
And now with 6, it's "Klefki sucks, it's just keys, it's not even an animal, Pokemon is dead again, bring back Roggenrolla"

[Anonymous No.1253792]

>>1253790
>Bronzong sucks

He does really suck though

[Anonymous No.1253831]

>>1253776
>Calling other people fags
>Using emoticons
>Judging games based on arbitrary shit like 'mystique'

Is this satire or are you really that dumb?

[Anonymous No.1253881]

>>1253727

The diploma part is true.

There are a few truths sprinkled throughout, making it that much more of an amazing example of trolling.

[Anonymous No.1253902]

I was told by several people that you could get the 1ups and drops down there in Commander Keen 4.

[Anonymous No.1253985]

>>1253565
Actually in some gyms you can fish in the statues. For some reason the statue sprites are mapped the same way as water, and have the same random encounters

[Anonymous No.1254528]

Guys not long ago i read a comic about a child telling his friends he had a super mario game but he could play it as sonic because his father was a programmer, when he invited his friends at home, TV exploded, and after some random events i don't remember 2 sonic save the world

[Anonymous No.1254571]

>>1254528
...go on...

[Anonymous No.1254662]

>>1252446

Alright, faggots listen up

The proper technique:

When you hit A to release a Pokèball, do not let go. Press the B button when the pokeball explodes, while continuing to hold the A button. Then, while still hold those buttons, press the start button, when the Pokemon disappears.

Jesus, fucking posers...

[Anonymous No.1254737]

I remember this old site called "Zelda Power" that had a rumors section, and my brothers and I would always go to the section every month when it updated.
there would be little things like being able to catch the mans hat at the fishing hole in Ocarina of Time, and even bigger things like jumping into the hole of the lava under Ganon's castle would take you to the "Dark Fire Dungeon" and it let you get the black tunic and the flame sword that let you be invincible and one hit everything

[Anonymous No.1254846]

>>1254737
Not sure if you knew or not, but you can totally catch the Fisherman's hat.

[Anonymous No.1255017]

>>1254528
reverse search on google image dude

[Anonymous No.1255072]

>>1248847

A kid on the bus told me that scientists were going to make pokemon exist FOR REAL.

I believed this shit for like 2 years of my life after that.

[Anonymous No.1255102]

I used to think the last unlockable character in SSB was Master Hand. Almost ten years later, the name entry glitch fulfilled my wish.

[Anonymous No.1255109]

>>1255072
I still want this to be true. If Pokemon were to become real, I would drop everything in my life to become a pokemon trainer. It just sounds fantastic

[Anonymous No.1255178]

>>1248908
For me it was holding down A and tapping down over and over.

[Anonymous No.1255184]

>>1248901
The game itself is fucking broken though.
Me and two friends recently undertook a project where you had to pick one of the 3 starters and could only use that for the entire game (you can use fodder for HM's but you could not use them in battle), you were never allowed to evolve that starter, and you could not teach it any TM's it could only learn moves that it learns naturally. You also could not buy any items and could only use items that you found on the world map. You had to fight every wild Pokemon that appeared and you had to fight every single trainer in the game as well and if you died you had to start from the very beginning.

I at first thought it would be impossible because I've been spoiled by the balance of the later Pokemon games, but alas I had forgotten how broken Blue version one and my Charmander just fucking steamrolled through the game and had absolutely no issue with beating the Elite 4.

[Anonymous No.1255189]

>>1251228
It makes me wonder if there actually was anything planned for Bill's backyard during development.

[Anonymous No.1255191]

>>1251251
I'm not too surprised by this.
In the late 90's video game journalism wasn't really seen as a respected thing, they probably just hired the first 20 year old stoner they could find who majored in Journalism at his community college who was a Pokemon fan.

[Anonymous No.1255193]

>>1255191
Are you implying that its seen as a respected thing ever? Or that it should be respected?

[Anonymous No.1255686]

>>1253778

Don't forget

>It's a pidgeon... uh... named "pidgey"
>It's a seal.... uh..... named "seel"... and he has a spike on his head
>It's a sea horse..... uh.... named "horsea"....

And you already said it, but really. I like Mr. Mime actually, but his design is just
>he's a mime.... uh.... and his name is "Mr. Mime"

And Dragonite looks pretty stupid too. Most of the simplicity of gen 1's designs weren't intentional, it's just the easiest way they could have gone about displaying pokemon with the graphical limitations of the original gameboy

Pic related, "amazing gen 1 pokemon design"

[Anonymous No.1256085]

If anyone remembers AOL 2.0 from way back, they used to have a "Video Games" tab or something like that. Basically NO ONE thought ANYONE EVER would have any reason to make something up on the internet so people would post random shit there.

Basically a lot of rumors would get started. I looked everywhere on my harddrive for this picture of Golbez in Final Fantasy 6(3) on SNES. They were like "oh you can turn Gogo into Golbez by doing these 4 steps" and since the internet was brand spanking new, it looked legit. Plus the west only knew about FF2 and FF3 on SNES. I wish I could find the picture for you all.

Up until last year the house flooded I still had some text files I printed out from back then with rumors from Final Fantasy to Secret of Mana. Basically there was the standard 'how to get Kefka', 'how to revive General Leo', etc. But there was some unique stuff like "circle Kefka's tower to get the Light Sword" or something. Or "before you ride the mine cart in the esper tower, head to this corner and search for some Blade".

There was another about how to turn Gogo into Daryl. OF COURSE all the rumors about Shadow's extra dreams. How to get Siegfried to join your party. And some more I can't remember.

I tried ALL of these but they never worked. I did have fun with some game shark codes in FF4 with the dummy items. I had no idea there were extra summons on the SNES from normal enemies (like Imp or Cockatrice).

But one of my favorite rumors was Akuma in Resident Evil 2. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.1256097]

It was a major rumor at my school that if you moved fast enough through sonic 2 levels you could cause the game to glitch and skip boss battles.

This led to some intense speed runs but we still believed we were just completing the levels too slow. Also that you could unlock tails in single player. Complete with flying and invisibility

[Anonymous No.1256104]

>>1256085
I also forgot a bunch of rumors about having Johnny join you in Super Mario RPG and having Schala join your party in Chrono Trigger.

[Anonymous No.1256106]

>>1256097
>Also that you could unlock tails in single player.
Options menu.

[Anonymous No.1256112]

>>1255686
Don't forget that the English names were slapped on later, and that the original planned names for them were even worse(like Firefox instead of Vulpix)

One of the translators actually discussed the possibility of there being genders in the future, and they just shrugged it off. That's why we have Mr. Mime which can be female.

[Anonymous No.1256118]

>>1253771
The sad part is that spikes actually did get added on to Charizard

Fucking
Why

[Anonymous No.1256126]

>>1256104
>Johnny join you
Why? What significance does Johnny have?
Speaking of SMRPG, there were rumors of having Link and Samus join you. Something like 'Find a triforce from beating this super secret boss and bring it to link' or some shit.

[Anonymous No.1256127]

>Girl at school tells me if you beat Very Hard on Super Smash Bros with 1 life and without getting hit once or continuing as Fox, you will fight Super Fox after beating Master Hand and if you beat him you will unlock Super Fox

I did it too. Beat the entire game and nobody laid a hand on me.

When I got to Pikachu, he just used his quick attack and plummeted right into the pit.

He knew nothing would stop me.

[Anonymous No.1256128]

>>1256126
Sharks are cool.

[Anonymous No.1256143]

>>1256126
It's been forever ago but I think there was some part after you beat Johnny he was like "Oh i'll join up with you later" or something or "you are a honorary member of my crew now" which probably led other kids who played it believe "he would join you at some point". But I kind of remember all the slots in Super Mario RPG full by the end of the game in addition to him being to big to join you.

[Anonymous No.1256160]

Anyone else every try to enter the castle in mario cart. I forget how you were supposed to be able to do it.

[Anonymous No.1256294]

>I firmly believed in that there was a way to get the Pokegods and Pikablu by using cheats in Pokemon Red.


dude everyone believed that, I even got a gameshark to convince my friends that the glitch poke I got via the GS was pikablu etc.

[Anonymous No.1256802]

The only "big" one I fell for was the unlocking Knuckles in Sonic 3.

Where you had to beat Sonic's campaign, Tails' campaign, and both Sonic+Tails, without getting a game over.

[Anonymous No.1256812]

>>1248874
In Fire Red and Leaf Green, remakes of Red and Green for the Gameboy Advance, Gamereak put a hidden Lava Cookie in the truck.

[Anonymous No.1256876]

>>1256802
Similar story, I saw a friend play as knuckles in Sonic 2, and I had no idea Sonic and Knuckles even existed.
The amount of shit I tried to do to unlock Knuckles.
When my school actually got internet I looked it up and was disappointed you had to buy a separate game.

[Anonymous No.1256943]

Mega-Rare Candies

could make any pokemon evolve even pokemon that required trading or stones.