FAKE Video Game Rumors from Childhood

Let me take you back to a time of recess, snack break, and anything being possible in a video game- or so you thought!

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Thanks for watching! I wanted to create a sense of oldness with this video, evoking a nostalgic feeling from the memories as well as visuals. Let me know what you think!

[@bluegir121]

You're welcome

[@OtterEleven]

I loved it right from the start! It was refreshing more so than nostalgic. I would appreciate seeing your future videos with a "lower" visual quality. It makes your channel more distinct and as you said, nostalgic ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Right after other homeslice did it with the nicktoons. Man, you people trying to make me feel even crunchier than I already do.

[@babar_tv]

Love this

[@plumjet0930]

All of these are true, My buddy Eric has found/encountered all of these.

[@willbreshears7618]

I miss discussions like this. They felt intriguing, ominous, and fun at the same time. Then you find out it’s not real and feel shocked.

[@CaptainJZH]

The fact that we can just dump all the files of a game and see what's there and what's not really ruined a lot of these rumors lol

[@anidson2045]

@@CaptainJZH this. kind of miss when it was hard for people to see into the code so we use imagination and speculate or make up something that cant be proven or disproven

[@CascadianRanger]

@@anidson2045 it made every game immense and limitless. Now as adults and with the internet, we know how games are made and what they can and can't do. But back then? A game could do ANYTHING be EVERYTHING.

[@SkullSkill912]

@@CaptainJZH exactly. people always find a way to ruin the fun frfr

[@middlethenerd]

I still feel sad that I missed out on that era of gaming...

[@FrickenDweeb]

I almost saw my dad naked as a kid printing off Animal Crossing codes as he got out of the shower. He was quick to cover up so I didn't actually see anything, but that awkward moment felt like a divine punishment for looking up cheats.

[@ffffffffROTHY]

The whole 'I have an uncle/relative who works at Nintendo' rumor kids used to claim that just about anything was an upcoming game, like random crossovers, was really common for me growing up. One I distinctly remember was a kid swearing up and down that Nintendo released a spin-off to Mario Kart where all the playable characters were their baby versions. I called him on his bluff, but he kept insisting he was telling the truth.

[@artistwithouttalent]

I mean, the _characters_ made it in, to some extent.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Your. Friend must have came from an alternate universe though

[@blackoverblueskies6221]

@@wolfetteplays8894 lmfao, my cousin actually works at nintendo now 😂

[@ayo.2022]

Dude predicted the MK8 roster

[@MrJohnlennon007]

I remember my old friend saying that you box K. Rool at the end of Donkey Kong 64 and I thought he was lying but it actually happened.

[@RayRaven]

I honestly have a strange nostalgia for the early/mid 2000's gaming culture. Not everything was datamined or combed day 1, so there was always mystery or wonders in games. I remember Pokemon Platinum had so much content I kept finding stuff for YEARS as a kid.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

That’s why we need better obfuscation tactics and red herrings in game code

[@ganondalf8090]

i think this kind of thing is still happening, a couple of years ago i was babysitting a ~7 year old and he kept going on about how you could get a super special item that gave you infinite status effects in breath of the wild, from "kilton's brother".

[@ganondalf8090]

@LeoGBA lol, i remember obsessing over the kung fu level in spongebob's truth or square because I thought that there had to be some extra portion that i had missed

[@chompchompchangbin]

Sweet of your dad to print you out the cheats! Reminds me of when my mom and I would stay up late and she would play Club Penguin mini games with me so I could deck out my igloo lol 🐧

[@caramelldansen.]

aww this reminded me of my dad grinding on webkinz minigames while I slept so I could decorate my house. that was really so sweet of him haha

[@ArthurTRead]

my sister used to beat club penguin games for me to get money cause she was really good at them and I sucked at them lol

[@pattyaddy]

when i was 7 this kid on roblox high school kept telling me i couldnt make my character a cheerleader so my mom got mad and started furiously typing at her, she did this alot to several people lmao turns out i really couldnt because i accidentally gave my character a different rank, but i fixed it, still i love my mom and that experience just tells me she loves me too

[@orin6705]

DO THE MARIO! SWING YOUR ARMS, FROM SIDE TO SIDE

[@Klusterfrick]

What does that have to do with this?

[@mitch_sorenstein]

A FULL COMMITMENTS WHAT IM THINKING OF, YOU WOULDNT GET THIS FROM ANY OTHER GUY

[@TheMrBonesShow]

This video reminded me of all your older content covering gaming mysteries, and such. Made me feel nostalgic. Love to see more of these, man!

[@smittzero8463]

But if L isn't real, who's this SuperSonicQ guy? I had a friend (nice girl, but a serial liar) who was convinced that dealing enough damage to a Pokemon in Yellow would trigger a unique 'death' animation, and that her mother's Yellow Pikachu had some ungodly stats after spending a decade obsessively pumping it full of EV boosters.

[@LSuperSonicQ]

If that were me, I would have spent hours mapping out how to create the strongest attack and starting from scratch again every time I failed haha

[@MaryDan]

This is such a fun and funny video topic! My personal favorite is when my younger brother tried to convince me a ‘super rare Rainbow Bob-omb’ in Smash Bros. 64 that 1) destroyed everything onscreen when it exploded 2) only appeared once per game cartridge, even if you erased your data 3) you couldn’t pause the game to take a picture of it ETA: Harvest Moon 64 and Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life were also rife with rumors! I spent so much time trying to get the legendary second photo album in 64 and adopt the chihuahua in AWL. Oh! And who could forget some of the incredibly questionable cheats in Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 for PC! Allegedly naming a guest after a notorious criminal would cause them to drop a bomb and flatten your park!

[@plumjet0930]

RCT does have name cheaters though. Try naming one of your guests Chris Sawyer or the name of the games artist.

[@MaryDan]

@@plumjet0930 oh for sure! Melanie Warren was a big one but Timothy McVeigh definitely wasn’t 🫣

[@drnickfury]

Great vid. The fake Animal Crossing cheat that tricked me as a teen was about the Gyroids. Supposedly is you got "all" the Gyroids you would unlock some sort of massive Bell jackpot.

[@beardalaxy]

It's strange how many of these playground rumors are actually based in a little bit of fact. I was convinced as a kid that you could get Tom Nook to come out of the shop past closing time in his pajamas and let you come into the shop if you had the golden shovel and hit the back of the shop 3 times. It never worked and I can't remember where I heard that. Fast forward to my early adulthood, and I find out that you can actually do something similar in Dobutsu No Mori e+. Somehow, that gameplay feature made its way to me as a kid but I could never do it because I had the western version of the game.

[@niku7297]

that’s reminds me of when i was a little kid in 2009 i asked for a wii game that let you take care of the miis for christmas, since no game existed my mom got me wii sports resort instead years later, like in 2014, i find out there was tomodachi collection in japan, a ds game that was exactly what i wanted (came out in 2009 too!)

[@adamn.4615]

In the 90s, there were many Mandela effect-like rumors involving NES/SNES/Genesis games supposedly rented from Blockbuster. Message boards would have posts from people who "clearly remember" encountering levels, weapons, etc. in a game they rented at one time, but cannot find evidence of them when they replay the game years later. There would often be replies from people saying they also remember seeing things in a "rented" game, but conveniently, no one ever had an in-hand copy of a cartridge with these supposed rare items.

[@chickensandwichmaster]

I'm gonna miss this era. I didn't grow up in it but as a kid I believed a lot of the old school ones and chased some of these myself. Its good we have easy access to the truth now but I'll always miss that mystery and whimsy. Nothing can last forever though I suppose heh.

[@GarfieldThrownOutTheWindow]

Bro it's still going on

[@timohara7717]

@@GarfieldThrownOutTheWindow no

[@moodimoss406]

Back when I was a kid I would play this game called Poptropica, it was a free to play online game similar to club penguin based where you'd complete puzzles and solve mysteries on various islands, which earned medals and points that could be spent at the shop. So there were an abundant amount of walkthrough videos. Except these vids were often faked and made to troll people, or trick them into installing awful viruses.

[@pattyaddy]

i remember poptropica, i still play it but its not as good as it used to be i dont remember any fake walkthroughs but thinknoodles has some stellar vids on it

[@moodimoss406]

@@pattyaddy Yeah they made it so you had to pay to complete and travel to certain islands even after you got the medals which is when I quit.

[@pattyaddy]

@@moodimoss406 i somewhat remember that but i remember them being islands i didnt care about/already completed so i didnt pay attention to it that much

[@riotwire]

Peoppe actually tried to DEFEAT the piano??? 😭😭 NO way I ran put of there so fast after grabbing the coin. That shit scared me lol

[@Willowposting]

Such a nostalgic, cozy vibe from this video. I miss this kind of stuff in video games. I wish people weren't so quick to data mine and reveal every secret about a game. Its not particularly easy to avoid these days, either.

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Agree! The first couple years of the 3DS Pokemon games were really bad in that way, people data mined the entire game before it even came out in most places.

[@peyotecody5387]

I wonder who was like "what's Circuit City or Strawberries?" Are we old? 🤣

[@ExtremeWreck]

Kind of funny how this came out when me & Tgman are working on an iceberg on Western animation, which currently has like at least over 200 entries.

[@Unquestionable]

Fun and interesting, especially as I'm from an older generation so a lot of this passed me by. Really makes me recall all the weird and wacky rumors from the NES era that I fell for as a gullible 7 year old. I think the last time I really took these kinds of fake cheats/secrets seriously was probably around the N64/PSOne generation.

[@smokeyoak]

Another kid convinced me that he found a secret ending in Mario Kart 64 if you use the lightning power in DK's track on the final stretch and flatten everyone and get first place. Years later he told me he had a prototype Nintendo DS with an antenna. I wonder what stories he tells these days

[@rockk9753]

They told me if you played too much time or after dark the devil would come and play with you.... I believed that bs lol

[@yosh9192]

A rumor I remember hearing back in the day was that in Godzilla Unleashed, you could unlock King Kong. While obviously not true, Kong was actually considered as a playable monster at one point, was ultimately scrapped due to licensing issues with Universal.

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

There are also rumors saying that you can unlock Monster X, Mothra Leo, Manda, Gabara, Gorosaurus, Zilla, and even Gamera and Ultraman. They are obviously false (plus they need licenses from Kadokawa Daiei and Tsuburaya productions).

[@PyroJiro]

I remember somehow convincing myself that Boo and Dry Bones can be unlocked by completing all the Staff Times in Mario Kart Double Dash Never read it anywhere. That team combination just made sense to me, and as the time trials were the last things I had to do I figured in my dumb kid mind "those characters are too obvious, they *have* to be in the game and this thing i haven't done yet is how you unlock them!" I guess or something idk lol

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Aren't they considered a team in Mario Party 7? I can definitely see how you could convince yourself of that, especially since nobody talked about the time trials. Perfect place to hide something!

[@bewearstar9462]

Time trials did hide characters in mario kart wii too

[@br2877]

There was definitely a magic about gaming back then that just doesn't exist anymore. It's really sad

[@nikomiller]

It was a bit before my time, but I love all the playground/arcade rumors surrounding the old Mortal Kombat games and how they turned into running jokes, easter eggs and actual lore and characters in later parts. One I remember from when I was a kid was some friends claiming that you could unlock cars and motorcycles in Rayman M/Arena and that Globox used a Fiat 126p... so absurdly stupid. Another school rumor (it was around 2007 or 2008) was that Cartoon Network aired cartoons for adults with swearing, sex and violence at night in England. It's so funny, because we didn't know Adult Swim was a thing back then (we lived in a European country that had TCM at night instead). I knew TCM was a thing, so the adult cartoon thing was a fabrication. I said there was a cartoon called "Poop In The Ass" which was about a Poop with a gun who drank beer and that it was drawn in Paint. And a friend of mine actually said "yeah, I have heard of it" and pretended to know the theme song I made up on the spot. It's hilarious in retrospect. The best thing is that the image I had in my head of that fake cartoon was similar to the art style of 12 oz. Mouse which actually did air on CN at night. I had no idea that existed until years later.

[@DIASTCartoons]

I remember 2 Super Smash Bros Melee playground rumors growing up: 1. A friend of my younger brother mentioned a method on unlocking Toad in the game that had a requirement to shoot all credit text in the game. At the time I was in middle school and Melee was a 10 year old game at the time, so I didn't believe him. People who posted KZbin videos about it mentioned it was a hoax. 2. I remember around 2004 or 2005 that my cousin mentioned a challenger approaching silhouette in the game's instruction booklet that never matched any of the characters in the actual game. I remember my older brother, cousin, and I codenamed the character "Zigzag" since the silhouette resembled a lighting bolt to us at the time. No game sites ever mentioned anything about this character. I remember us doing wierd inputs such as holding "Z" when we ended the result screen hoping the challenge screen would appear. I just looked at a scan of the game's instruction booklet before leaving this comment. The silhouette still looks odd, but it could have been a poorly captured or smeared Luigi silhouette.

[@Nathan-mu1pz]

Yeah I know what you are talking about with that challenger approaching silhouette. I'm sure they just edited it so as not to give away any surprise character

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Interesting thoughts about the smeared silhouette! I always believed it was like a placeholder meant to represent any of the characters. Shooting the credits for Toad was a classic though, that one made the rounds on every gaming site haha

[@N.i.E.M.O]

One of my most frustrating childhood gaming moments would have to be Crash Team Racing - notably, unlocking the game's final boss, Oxide. Arguably, the (actual) most difficult character to unlock in the game is N. Trophy, who is unlocked after beating his ghost times in Time Trials. Thing is, after you beat his time on a specific track, you get the ability to race against Oxide's ghost - which tended to be super difficult. Naturally, my assumption was that if I managed to beat all of Oxide's times, I'd unlock him too, just like N. Tropy. After weeks of pure frustration, I managed to beat all of his times on every track. The reward? Nope - not Oxide. You get the 'Scrapbook', which was essentially a short video detailing developer Naughty Dog's development of the Crash series. Kinda cool... but it wasnt Oxide. What frustrated me even more however, was the fact that almost every legit, official gaming magazines back then (Tips and Tricks, Game Informer, EGM, etc) would erroneously claim that Oxide WAS playable if you beat all of his Time Trials - but they often included the disclaimer ("May not work in some versions of the game"). I will never forget this blatant lie. But seeing as how I was a kid, a the fact that the internet wasn't what it is today, meant that I was convinced that I somehow had a 'incomplete' version of the game. I mean, official gaming magazines wouldn't lie, right? I seriously contemplated buying another copy of CTR, but wound up moving on to other games. Many years later, I would eventually discover that, yes, all of those gaming magazines were indeed incorrect. Oxide could not be unlocked no matter what version of CTR you had. Go figure. Needless to say, my excitement to play as this character drove me to purchase the game's (underwhelming) sequel, in which Oxide is essentially 'demoted' to standard racer. Same goes for the CTR remake (a much better game) from a few years ago. I even managed to complete both 100% (yes, even all the Developer Trials).

[@InvocationOfSebastian]

For Star Fox: Assault, there were actually fake GameFAQs or IGN threads about unlockables like the rest of Star Wolf, the Wolfen Landmaster, and General Pepper's Flagship too. I personally fell for those and was really disappointed when I didn't get them.

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Oh wow so people did make fake cheats for those unlockables? I thought I was the only one who believed such a thing haha

[@Falco2762]

Played that game so many times back in the day, my brother said the same exact thing. Can't believe I fell for the rest of Star Wolf as playable characters in VS mode. I was 12 back then in 2007. 😅

[@theoneandonlysessy]

With the internet, most questions especially with gaming are a click away from being answered. Man when I was a kid it was always so awesome hearing about things in games and you had no idea were in it! Just the idea of finding out there was something in a game you hadn't yet discovered and needing to then figure out how to unlock or find said thing really takes me back. Spent some weekends off from school looking through strategy guides and trying tricks my classmates recommended. Learned a lot of neat things about games just from word of mouth

[@londoncintron680]

Back in Pokemon's Black2 and White2 era, I was told a playground rumor about what were called "X Evolutions", which could only be accessed if you managed to complete the national dex or something like that. These would be more or less a secret evolution of a a Pokemon, a sorta repackaging of those early rumors of Pokegods. They'd be called stuff like Latios X (I remember wanting to obtain this one) or Raichu X. Funny that X and Y would release a year and have two Mega Evolutions called Mega Charizard X and Mega Mewtwo X

[@Voyager141]

Me and my sister were convinced that, in Animal Crossing: Wild World, you could get to Boondox if you kept exiting without saving. Goodness, the amount of times I’ve read Resetti’s dialogue in an attempt to be shipped off to the rumoured town. I’m very lucky I didn’t corrupt my cartridge!

[@JayDonagh]

That violent piano creature was frightening enough as a child that I literally bolted from him without ever trying to kill him off.

[@orangepop30]

My one friend back in Elementary school ALWAYS lied about random shit but I was gulliable and believed her. I remember her saying stuff about Animal Crossing City Folk. She claimed there was a level up system in the game and at a high level you would unlock another part of the city which was Paris. I believed it and I would always wonder what laid beyond the city. Another Animal Crossing City Folk thing she told me is that a fox made of fire could move into your town and would burn down Nook's shop. I was so scared this fox was gonna move into my town 😭

[@ddsnag]

when lets go pikachu first came out, my friend brought his switch to school and was begging everyone that he had mew, he said you can somehow glitch under the truck and you would find this lab, i later went home and played lets go pikachu and tried my hardest to get mew, i remember seeing a somewhat fake video of this guy going under the truck and going into this lab and getting like a potion or whatever

[@stapler942]

"It takes a mad man to approach the mad piano, and an ever madder man to defeat it." -Franz Liszt, "On the Various Temperaments of the Piano"

[@thethrashyone]

Two rumors I was duped by as a kid: -Unlock the Wolfen in Star Fox 64 multiplayer mode, "achievable" by beating the game on Expert with no deaths, no teammates down, and an absurd number of kills. -Fight "Gold Weapon" in FF7, a hidden Weapon boss who was allegedly encountered on Cactus Island after defeating at least 100 Cactuer enemies.

[@skyqueen3]

Oh wow, Game Winners, that takes me back. Back in the very late 90's or early 2000's some kid at my school used to claim there was unlockable stuff in Super Smash Bros 64 and Melee that was unlocked with a thing called a cheat chip. (It seemingly explained unused sounds from the games sound tests.)

[@Minkfang]

I was convinced nintendogs could have puppies, literal kids on youtube would upload videos of the game they jailbroke with an R4 and made the dog models smaller. Then they made up how to get a "puppy" dogs had to have the same calm personality, you couldnt walk the female, you had to feed them only milk. thE AMMOUNT OF HOURS AND DAYS I TRIED THIS OMFG

[@LSuperSonicQ]

I remember that too! It's so hard to dispute photo evidence when you're a kid and aren't familiar with how to hack a game haha

[@kennethkay7226]

Nintendo power's screenshot of Melee Peach with shorts confused me for years, I was starting to think it was a false memory, thanks for finally clearing up that it was from an early version of Melee.

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Those beta screenshots blew my mind when I first discovered them, especially since they're not widely documented.

[@MJTRadio]

Most of my "playground" rumors were just untrue things my older brothers told me about games I didn't know the finer details of. Two in particular I remember- - Samus and Captain Falcon are siblings. I think this just came from the fact that they shared a stage in the original Smash Bros. There was no Metroid or F Zero in our house growing up, so conclusions were just drawn. - And the details that A) Mega Man was a human who was converted into a cyborg and B) It was Dr. Wily, not Dr. Light who was responsible. When I watched them or played Mega Man myself as a kid, we always skipped past the opening cutscenes, so I wasn't aware there was much in-game plot and assumed they just read all that in the manuals that were long lost. Don't know where my brothers got those ideas themselves, possibly playgrounds of their own. That alternate Mega Man lore remains close to my heart. That like Robocop or something, Mega Man was once human, he was turned against his will into a cyborg to be a servant of Dr. Wily, but then he ends up defecting and ruins the evil doctor's foul machinations. It still remains a little disappointing to me to know the actual canon.

[@DeathbyProxy]

I remember my friend telling me that if you got a friend's Skylander and took the bottom off with a screwdriver, you could take the chip out and put it on your game and unlock all the hats that your friend unlocked. Glad we never tried it...

[@mannyomega713]

takes me back...in mortal kombat 1 a green ninja would appear on screen..many rumors were spread about him and how you get to fight him..heres the way to do it.... To fight Reptile, the player must get a Double Flawless victory in single-player mode on the Pit stage and finish the match off with a Fatality, all without blocking. There must also be a silhouette flying past the moon, which will occur every 50 matches. pretty crazy but some of the rumors were even crazier...then came Ermac

[@TrillMurray]

This just reminded me that my friend and I 100% Tony hawk underground because we heard that after that, the black censorship bar covering the Mardi gras girls flashing would disappear

[@Tenaciousghosty]

Upload days never miss 🔥 These kinds of vids are always super interesting and the nostalgia you manage to bring out in each one is incredible

[@TheRealPentiumMMX]

I remember lurking websites in the late '90s-early '00s, and seeing all kinds of fake cheats; like claiming you could unlock Wario in the original Super Smash Bros by beating the game on the highest difficulty level as Mario in the yellow costume, in under 15 minutes, without dying.

[@tboogz284]

Man, two big ones that got me over the years. Teleports in roadrash 2 & 3, there were a couple, but soooo many fakes. The other being Mew in Pokemon Red. I spent many hours trying to find the fake "right" trees to teleport to secret levels, and months trying different Mew spawning tricks.

[@EsquedaDouble]

Gengar evolving into "Spooky" has to be the best 😂

[@JamesLawner]

Kinda game-related, but call it “Classroom Rumours”. About 20 years ago, there was this classmate of mine who claimed he got one of those portable PS1 screens just by redeeming soda bottle caps (Can’t remember if it was Coke or Pepsi, but maybe it was Pepsi, and it was supposed to be bottle caps from large plastic bottles, not glass ones or anything like that). I didn’t believe him at the time, because I was not aware of any promotion like that going on (there were promotions where you could get a free burger at a fast food place if you collected like 3 bottle caps, but I think something like that happened after the fact, but there were promos similar to that beforehand).

[@Kazooples]

My main memories of fake cheats or rumours are that in banjo Kazooie you can turn into a dolphin(this was when the GameCube was code named Dolphin so i fell for it), and unlocking adult link in Majoras Mask

[@bigsmoky3985]

"Yo, I unlocked Adult Link in Majora's but why is he white? I think there's something wrong with my game."

[@Kazooples]

@@bigsmoky3985 even better were the supposed cheats to be oni Link outside of boss battles, I know some people did manage to achieve it by wiggling the cartridge around, I wish I had GameShark back then

[@bigsmoky3985]

@@Kazooples there are some glitches that allow it, never knew the wiggling cartridge technique

[@thediamonddust]

Fun times. One of the funnier rumours (in hindsight) from childhood was that Hulk Hogan was dead - a camera blew up in his face. Six year old me totally believed it.

[@Apocalypso64]

I didn't realize that Toad/Toadette, Petey Piranha/King Boo, and the Special Cup were even part of Double Dash until a few years ago, because I had never played anything higher than 50cc, and evidently, neither did my brothers. However, when I played Mario Kart 7 and saw there was a GameCube course called Dino Dino Jungle in the retro course selection, I was greatly confused. I naturally assumed there was another GameCube Mario Kart game that I didn't know about that that course came from. It never occurred to me that for my entire childhood, I was missing out on a quarter of the game. To this day, I have never been able to play those four characters and that cup, because I haven't returned to the game in years.

[@LittleBoxOfWeird]

Oh man, Chao Island!!! Seeing that awakened so many childhood memories for me lol. I was obsessed with making a Neutral Chaos Chao but never quite managed it 🥲 Good times. Also, I DEFINITELY remember hearing about those "rare character chaos" so it's cool to hear the real story behind them!

[@captainweekend5276]

Unlocking missingno in pokemon red/blue definitely made me put a lot of stock into pokemon rumours that were not true. I remember once spending an hour trying every HM on the SS Anne truck trying to get Mew which I was certain was underneath because I saw it on a video which was of a ROM hack, not knowing that at the time of course. I also love the "bowser room" rumour that Oney made up because it's the exact sort of ridiculous thing that those sort of secrets usually are.

[@earthhippie]

I needed a little nostalgia tonight.

[@draculactica]

My favorite childhood gaming rumor? My buddy in 1st or 2nd grade insisting that he could play everquest on his Gameboy. Even as a dumb gullible child, I remember thinking "oh, he's lying to me"

[@SharkandMinno]

I remember one rumor that Panther is unlockable in the Star Fox Assault multiplayer, just like Wolf. You needed to get gold on all the single player missions, which was incredibly hard, but I believed it.

[@noaht2005]

What a great video! It’s always interesting to look into another person’s childhood, and old gaming culture is always fun to look back on

[@toonandyslab]

Sooo trueee

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Glad you enjoyed! I agree, this kind of thing will never really exist like it used to.

[@happyhealer2684]

i'm 25 and playing sonic adventure 2 for the first time and until i saw your video i totally believed that the character chaos could be raised by the player. its crazy to think that to this day they're still being passed off as so

[@TylerRakstis]

Funny how you brought back an old topic you did when you were just starting on KZbin, Plus it's funny how some of them do have some sort of truth to it, like either were deleted content or obscure Easter eggs in the game.

[@Impstar]

Few more I heard were "How to unlock Sonic in Melee" "How to change colors of Drivers in Super Mario Kart" and "How to play as Luigi in Super Mario 64" I also heard that playing around with codes in Animal Crossing in Gamecube would have a few codes that would mute your music, delete your memory card, crash your game, make Brutus appear, spawn the ghost (wisp I think their name is) in the afternoon hours, and give you max bells. Idk how many of that were true, but I did get a ton of hidden items from using codes that were unobtainable through gameplay so all of this "random code entering" was entirely possible. (=

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

"As a kid I guess it's fun to have a virtual pet." *Me looking up from playing Neopets*

[@slimcognito383]

I remember hearing you need a red Chao have it wear a red eggshell and give it all red chaos drives and it will evolve into a knuckles Chao. Never tried it since my gardens were always so full

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Same, I had to migrate some of my older Chao to a second memory card to make room. Unfortunately I don't know what happened to that card so I guess the Chao are lost media now haha

[@slimcognito383]

@@LSuperSonicQ I have the memory cards just not the disk. I lost that on the way back from my cousin's place when I was a kid

[@Mr.Glaube]

My playground rumor was that in the final night of five nights at Freddy’s you could go into the managers office and meet a new animatronic named “purple freddy” and hide from him until 6am

[@octoaori6549]

>That GameWinners screenshot Holy cow, that brings back some *serious* memories... I miss that site like you wouldn't believe!

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Even though the site tricked me a lot, I still went back to it haha. Very nostalgic

[@zazakoolaid]

The bits about misinformation in the Nintendo Power Strategy Guides could be a potential copyright trap. Think like paper towns on old maps or dictionary entries for words that don't exist. At the time, there were other unofficial strategy guides from companies like Brady Games, Versus Games, and Prima. It could be that in an effort to prevent people from copying their guides (or to catch companies in potential legal mishaps for a big pay day) Nintendo Power included erroneous information to catch plagiarism.

[@jennie9820]

I remember back then, there was a cheat code I found in a website about final fantasy 9. It said that in Burmercia, there was a fallen statue and by pressing either the x button or a sequence of buttons could unlock Beatrix as a playable character. I stood there like an idiot mashing buttons only to be disappointed by a fake cheat. 😂

[@SuperGameEskimo]

2:18 - “Which sounded very believable since they were main Mario characters” Toadette made her debut in this game lol.

[@bewearstar9462]

Yes but he did hear this in 2005

[@axeoseilez3207]

This is quite fascinating. More of this please

[@charcolor]

so excited to watch this!!! i love videos about video game rumors and hoaxes

[@ChicagoMel23]

Surprised Mew under the truck wasn’t mentioned. That was the biggest Pokémon rumor. Also there were rumors about the grass behind the fence in Pallet Town. Later there was the rumor you could ride a rocket into space at Mossdeep City. And my young cousin kept insisting there was Arceus in BW’s abyssal ruins

[@lmno567]

I'd say the bigger lie was that mashing A+B while catching a Pokémon to increase the chances of catching one.

[@SaintSentry]

(Loosely connected to this video's topic) In grade school, one of my classmates who I would sometimes talk to at recess would always take about this game called "Cryptonix" (assuming that's the correct spelling). According to him, the game would make you hallucinate after playing it, and would basically have you tripping balls for an hour. He would swear up and down that it was real, but when I asked him to prove it, he would just make excuses. I forgot about it for a while, but the talk of playground rumors at the beginning of this video reminded me.

[@magicalbooknerd]

OoT could be it’s own video! I remember spending hours looking for the Triforce, trying to unfreeze Zora‘s domain, hunting for the sky temple, etc. It seems so silly now, but I really believed those rumors as a kid! 😂

[@kingnewcomer2029]

Yeah, I've definitely fell for several of these video game rumors back in the day as a kid. XD Regardless, I've had a lot of fun experiencing 1990's, and the 2000's once more! :D Thanks again for the nostalgic memories, LSSQ!

[@Mud-Brain]

Man I've still got my original copies of SA2B and Phantasy Star Online from my childhood, and a memory card with 6 tails chao and 4 (formerly 5) chaos chao, numerous jewel tones, and some invisible/transparent chao too. Today's gaming will never compare to the Chao Garden.

[@Sunborne475]

I love the Tails Chao so much. It's adorable 😭

[@kailiahseekings]

Maybe you'll cover lost media relating to Boomerang and Boomeraction

[@kennethkay7226]

My best friend growing up (and still my best friend now) used to be the King of playground rumors, He convinced me there was a cheat to replace Pichu with Raichu in Melee, and a way to unlock the Yoshi Copter in Double Dash.

[@singletona082]

Infancy of the internet era gaming rumors were the best. That convoluted 'get the triforce' rumor. The Mew Truck. L is Real. And then the bizzar cheat codes that used to be in games. I remember this one racing game that let you race as a T Rex. A few other things. and even a toilet.

[@princessofthebog2053]

I remember being so scared by that piano as a kid that I felt like how you do after watching a horror movie after

[@lunardragonify]

I actually made one of these stories up in my mind…and then managed to convince myself it was real lol. I thought that if you set your gamecube clock to as far in the future as possible, then played animal crossing, you could see a ufo flying around and all the trees would be cut down. I always kind of though the og Animal Crossing was a little spooky and mysterious, so maybe thats where the idea came from.

[@LSuperSonicQ]

That sounds awesome haha. I'm pretty sure I heard something similar, if you played on December 31st in the farthest possible year the game would delete your town once the date changed to January of the next year.

[@Mornings]

This always reminds me of the wrtp video where they talk about how they would troll eachother in elementary school over unlocking characters in melee. Shoutout to Ness little brother Echu which "sounds a lot like Pichu over the phone tho so..." lmao also bigups to anyone who got an all S chaos chao in adventure 2 battle

[@MednaTheFox]

I'm always fascinated by these kinds of rumors

[@toonandyslab]

Since I grew up in the DS/Wii era, I heard a lot of stories like this...I wish I could remember them all. They always pop up in your mind at random times

[@novelezra]

Pokemon for sure is the Grand Master of school rumors. I didn't even play the games when I was a kid and I was still surrounded by 'MEW IS UNDER THIS TRUCK!' and 'OH MY GOD MISSINGNO'

[@philversion1383]

Kind of similar. There was a Rumour that in WWF in your House on ps1, you could unlock Diesel and Razor Ramon. This was because somehow a fake cheat for the game got printed in a UK games magazine (Which I had), suffice to say, it didn't work nor exist.

[@WinkDaMan07]

The Luigi rumor was my all time favorite! And some of the "cheat codes" were downright ridiculous!!! -Fly down to the cannon without touching the ground -Run around in circles 64 times I can't remember the rest but you get the idea!!

[@ergoth154]

I have no idea why but as a Kid I believed if you 100%d Donkey Kong 64, that Door in The Fairy House would open up and allow you to play multiplayer in Story Mode. No clue why I believed this but Kid me truly felt it in his heart.

[@StanleyG23]

Never had a Nintendo console in my childhood and I mainly played Lego games so most of these are new for me. Good video!

[@pilmo6790]

i made up one of these rumors back in the day too ... i told my friend that if you go in the dark garden in sa2, sometimes this big worm thing would come from the ground and would kill your chao and you couldnt stop it. i think i was thinking about the worm enemy from shadow the hedgehog and kind of blended it with the dark garden for some reason lol. then when i went to his house one time i saw he did not even unlock the dark garden because he said he didnt want to get the worm LOL

[@yotetoob]

This is a dope video idea man, cheers!

[@LSuperSonicQ]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed!

[@rubybadger223mainchannel9]

Oh man, i still miss these childhood rumors so much

[@hpalpha7323]

I think the "Nintendo is lying to you" concept came from the fact that Goldeneye was explicitly stated to have no hidden cheat codes, until some data miner hacked the rom and found them

[@lumenlights3384]

that's so sweet of your dad to print strategy guides out for you. i love supportive parents

[@LvlGenesis]

Speaking of Mario Kart Double Dash, my sibling’s friend convinced me that you could enter the angry mountain’s mouth at DK Mountain. He told me that if you used a mushroom right before the cannon, you’d have enough speed to make it to the mouth. I tried so many times as a kid but alas, I never was able to pull it off.

[@LSuperSonicQ]

That is exactly the kind of thing I would have fallen for too haha, precise tricks that you want to see for yourself.

[@maverickREAL]

Reminds me of the time I checked the GameFAQs cheat code page for Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots because I was too tired of the game's difficulty to 100% the game legitimately and wanted the bear toy secret character. Someone added fake achievements to the game for unlocking their OCs as characters. No, not the cheats to unlock them, or anything actually ABOUT them, no no, that would make sense. Nope, just... the achievement names. I'm fairly sure they're still on there if you look.

[@decentteaspoon]

In the early 2010s, I remember hearing that you could unlock Taboo as a playable character in Super Smash Bro Brawl if, during the boss fight, you captured him with one of those trophy discs. I remember trying for hours, but obviously it never worked. Not sure how I even found out about this, it was probably due to some edited KZbin video.

[@gblargg]

My neighbor friend would always talk about the infinite lives trick in Super Mario Bros. but he told tall tales all the time. Then one day I saw it demonstrated and was blown away. This is the trick on 3-1 I believe where you jump net to a Koopa on the stairs at the end and you keep bouncing and getting 1-UPs.

[@jzer21]

Playground rumors lol… well, I can assure you, those same rumors existed, getting high and drunk in college dorms as well.

[@smellthel]

I miss when games were able to have rumours like this.

[@dianacat5966]

I remember the miniserie that was on Jetix and Disney Channel back in 2004 and 2005 called Spooky Sisters. I found some episodes on KZbin and dailymotion and I had been searching to find the other episodes. I thought the other episodes were lost forever until I found all the episodes on vimeo.

[@thatonehandguy]

i wish i had what you guys did. i learned of all rumors from the internet since none of my friends were into video games like i was.