False Memories of Golduck in Pokemon Snap (New Mandela Effect 2024)

Have you ever played Pokémon Snap? Do you remember taking a pic of the picture Golduck in the game? Well, you shouldn't, because he was never in the game. But if you do... well you aren't the only one.
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Come and explore the fascinating world of the Mandela Effect as we dive into a curious case from the beloved Nintendo 64 game, Pokémon Snap. In this video, we delve into the surprising and widespread belief among fans that they distinctly remember photographing Golduck in the game, sharing numerous accounts of such an experience. Join us as we investigate this intriguing phenomenon, unpacking why so many players share this false memory and what it reveals about our collective nostalgia for the game. Whether you're a Pokémon Snap enthusiast or just love a good mystery, this exploration into gaming's oddities is sure to captivate and surprise you.
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[@DivisibleByWaffle]

Sounds like people who were playing Pokemon Snap and Pokemon Stadium back to back and got confused.

[@Sauspreme]

That's what I'm thinking too. The 3D model of golduck that comes to mind when thinking about the question "is golduck in pokemon snap?" is the one from pokemon stadium.

[@PeperonyChease]

I think golduck is in the intro or menu screen in Pokemon Stadium so it might have been why people remember seeing it.

[@ryaquaza3offical]

That wouldn’t really explain why several unrelated accounts are soo similar though. Thinking you saw Golduck is one thing, everyone saying it’s EXACTLY evolution method is another

[@JellyFilledEmpanada]

One of them is from a "friend" one of them also claims ninetails which would be 65.....it's just human memory being spotty nothing interesting

[@rpgfanatic9719]

Maybe people just think Psyduck is Golduck because it's yellow.

[@DaShikuXI]

If it's not real, then why did I see it on the thumbnail? Checkmate.

[@Jeremo-FD]

Explain that one, Goose.

[@49ersfanMatt]

watch the video checkmate lol lol

[@quitethehandful]

Them putting a hole in the stump and having you drive past is was basically the ultimate blue ball. It looks incredibly deliberate that you’re supposed to try and knock a Pokémon into it.

[@MarMaxGaming]

Yes, hate being driven wild by stuff that should work but never does!

[@Alex-vm6ef]

I'm interested if they planned to include this or wanted to keep the option open in the original design, but ended up deciding against it or not having time, Vulpix is in a similar situation

[@FoundedScreenLady]

Not 100% sure, but there were older demos and magazines that had pokemon such as Ekans. You can find pictures of it, I don't remember if it was in that stump or not but it was on the river level. Maybe something used to be in that stump, got cut, and they just never put anything back?

[@quitethehandful]

@@FoundedScreenLady Sounds like a pretty good theory too. Better than mine maybe.

[@worldsboss]

The memory is probably caused by that anime episode where Misty’s Psyduck disappears behind a rock and a Golduck appears, making her think her Pokemon evolved. Later in the episode she discovers it was a different one and hers is still a Psyduck.

[@Quaternality]

Honestly? As someone who answered yes, this rings true. For example, I remembered it being a rock psyduck was swimming around, not a stump. Its probably a lot of things - pokemon stadium, the pattern of evolution via knocking pokemon into things, etc. I may have also just heard about it??

[@warehousedave7937]

I remember taking a picture of Nelson Mandela in Pokemon Snap I think it was on the river level with graveler you had to lure it close to the water and then hit it with a pester ball so that it falls in and then Nelson Mandela appears further down the river.

[@GamerFolklore]

There is a Nelson River in Canada, in the far north. I wonder if Golduck can be found there.

[@Jeremo-FD]

I thought Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in the Tunnel level.

[@ByoKora775]

Shame Zubat can’t evolve into Golbat in snap, no wigglytuff, no poliwhirl or wrath, no golem, no dragonair, none of the eeveelutions, why is Charizard the only Kanto starter final form in snap and no blastoise and Venusaur

[@brettrossi034]

​@@Jeremo-FDi thought that it was Morgan Freeman imprisoned in Shawshank State prison

[@esotericVideos]

@@Jeremo-FD That's a common misconception, however it was actually the Bearenstein Bear's house that was located in the tunnel. I'm sorry but Nelson Mandela was in another castle.

[@GTRagnarok]

If you think about it, Psyduck is a "gold duck".

[@SvenSierra104]

And Golduck is a psychi--Wait, its not Psychic type? Despite both of them being known for having psychic powers? I feel like Golduck being a Psychic type is the real Mandela Effect.

[@JosephShemelewski]

​@@SvenSierra104No you have to be kidding me it must have a psychic typ-......... it's pure water type... well shit my brain is broke

[@Ashley6100]

@@JosephShemelewski I was like that with Staryu. Like Starmie, it's a water/psychic, right?...WAIT, WHAT?! Next you'll tell me Seel is a pure water without any ice.. WHAT?!

[@JosephShemelewski]

@@Ashley6100 Pokémon just wants to make people question their sanity

[@dannigro8794]

The reason Golduck is pure water is because they didn’t want too many water / psychic combinations. They already had Starmie and Slowbro.

[@nict4343]

I will go to my grave believing that Dorrie can eat Mario. I swear I was killed by Dorrie as a kid and spent years being spooked by Hazy Maze Cave because of it.

[@GamerFolklore]

I love this one.

[@hurricane1nox]

you just ran out of air

[@Squant]

@@hurricane1nox I've heard this before, but the moment I mentioned the eel, they went "OH YEAH, it was the eel".

[@yokoelf1293]

Every Super Mario 64 copy is personalized

[@vaddix9980]

@@yokoelf1293 Nah.

[@darkron288]

Honestly i think what happened is that memories are combing here, probably of pokemon staduim and pokemon snap, both games use very simliar models and so its possible the two games merged in their mind as one memory.... i played both these games too much as a kid so i knew golduck wasn't in this game but i can see someone who did a one and done playthrough combing memory with staduim

[@joshuaw8873]

Not video games, but I did experience the classic Berenstein mandela effect. The Summer in between high school and college I worked shelving books at a library. We got in Berenstain Bears pretty regularly. One day when I was putting some away I noticed, "Wait, 'stain'? I thought it was 'stein'." Was a year or two later I saw some post about the Berenstain Bears parallel universe theory and felt pretty validated.

[@ErrorlVlacro]

Me I'll never forget it because when I was a kid looking at our movies I use to hear my family call it with the sound of stein. So when I sounded it out and read it as stain, I thought it was odd. So what's happening is people are experiencing what I did as a kid just years and decades later. It's that simple. People who are so 100% dead set they can't be mistaken or were ignorant it just gets ridiculous IMO. And people just like a big mystery or conspiracy. People just can't admit they could be wrong. That's what gets me. Word of mouth or heresay is the weakest form of evidence. The human brain and memory is very unreliable. We could even be remembering old thoughts from our imagination.

[@tomgar9779]

I've heard people pronounce it both ways as a kid in the 90's... or at least I've got memories of it lol? Stein is a common end to a last name, while stain is and was much less so. Our brains don't consciously focus on every letter, if it's close enough to something we've seen before our brain will fill in the gaps with what we expect to be there. The titles are also written in cursive, and while the a and e are clearly different, they're close enough I think our brains could easily mistake it for an e when considering the difference in commonality between Stein and Stain as last names. The mandela effect is super interesting to me, the one I always love to read about is the fruit loop/froot loop flip-flop. I need to remember to tape those 4 paper plates to my wall so I remember how many O's there are in Froot Loops before we switch time lines again 🙃

[@Jfrog111]

I don't care what anyone says, I was obsessed with those books as a kid and it was Berenstien...I had the same reaction as an Adult and also found out years later I was'nt alone and that it was a "Mandela Effect"....I hate when people tell me I misremembered my literal favorite book series as a kid.

[@Ycuk1989]

The mind is a double edge sword. A lie can become the truth and the truth can become a lie.

[@tpsplatinum3562]

Not Golduck, but I do remember trying to use Pester Balls to evolve Gasley

[@GamerFolklore]

Getting a Gengar would be crazy.

[@joshmaltais5322]

63 total and it’s the Nintendo 64 like come on we all thought there was another

[@Jeremo-FD]

I wished there was another.

[@Alex-vm6ef]

my family didn't get internet or a family pc until 2006 or so and mostly just replayed our existing games bc we didn't know more systems were coming out. My sister and I had been returning to pokemon snap on a regular basis for 7-8 years searching for the 64th when we thought for the first time to look it up. We didn't even believe the information we found and kept looking for a year or two longer as well It had to be intended that they would include more but ran out of time. I gotta get the second game

[@liamsgreatbitgaming]

@@Alex-vm6efekans was in beta builds, so they would have been the 64th

[@Kahadi]

I distinctly remember watching my older brother try evolving the Psyduck into a Golduck because he had been led to believe by some of his friends it was possible. And at the start of the video, I had vague memories of seeing Golduck in Pokemon Snap... But it didn't even match the rumours, I could have sworn you saw it swimming around much like you do Psyduck, but that's it. No jumping out of the water or getting onto land, it just swam around in the water on the river level right where there's actually a Psyduck. But... That's where my memory conflicts with itself. If Golduck was just swimming around in the river level, why do I remember watching my brother trying to knock Psyduck onto one of the stumps to evolve it? And how can I remember seeing Golduck in the game if I don't remember ever seeing my brother successfully evolve the Psyduck into the Golduck? I have two memories of the game, one of my brother falling for what was apparently a rumour that people spread and one conflicting one of seeing Golduck in a way unrelated to the rumour. Clearly the rumour wouldn't be there if I had seen Golduck the way I remember, so it makes more sense that I'm just misremembering seeing Golduck. It was probably just the Psyduck at a bad angle or part of Shellder or Cloyster, or even just a mix of things from various parts of the game, since that same memory of Golduck swimming around in the game had it surrounded by splashes the whole time from how quickly it was swimming as well as the surroundings being a lot lighter... More like you see in Valley, which also has a lot of water with Pokemon swimming in it, with large amounts of splashing water by the waterfall and whirlpool. So... Yeah, it's definitely a mix of half-remembered parts of the game with the memories of the rumour. Also, regarding such rumours, hearing that a friend did something doesn't really prove it. I had a friend in middle school that insisted he had encountered the Mew under the truck in gen 1... Despite the fact that gen 4 released around the same time and people had proven that was a rumour. If a middle schooler can insist he had recently succeeded in fulfilling a decade old rumour that had been disproven countless times already, then obviously people can claim that they accomplished something according to a rumour for a then recent game with others vaguely remembering hearing about it twenty years later. It's not proof of anything except that it was a common rumour.

[@toyjesus]

My uncle worked at Nintendo and said Golduck was in the game.

[@Cjx0r]

my uncle supervised his and can confirm

[@sebastienr7852]

Lucky. Back in the day I was the only one of my classmates whose uncle didnt work at Nintendo.

[@rolandogarciajr.8703]

I was one of his classmates, can confirm

[@qui-gonbling277]

My uncle is Golduck and he said "Golduck" which translates to "I am in the game"

[@cuddlebug8106]

My uncle died of lung cancer and I have nothing relevant to add to the conversation.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Anyone who has looked at the literature on human memory knows that eye-witness testimony is the least reliable form of evidence. Our memories suck and are easily manipulated.

[@asterlofts1565]

Yeah, like... EVERYWHERE.

[@Thebdippy]

childhood memories even more so

[@CAMSLAYER13]

Yea, its nuts people would rather imply we had some dimensional merge or some shit than our memories are just subpar

[@toboe156]

That's why when I hear "Eye witness accounts" or "I saw it with my own eyes" it holds very little weight to me.

[@dannigro8794]

It’s because when we remember something and then go to sleep, our brains kind of reset so we remember it differently every day a little by little and when you remember something, you’re actually remembering the last time you remembered it.

[@Annihilation_pi]

HalloweenLett here! My comment from the Loach vid!!! Lol Thanks R! Real good stuff as always.

[@MahDryBread]

I felt like I saw one too, but I figure it's just because I also grew up with Pokemon Stadium and I for sure used a Golduck in that pretty often

[@Iliek]

My friends, it just keeps not happening.

[@Acryte]

Nope! I played the hell out of that game. No Golduck of any sort!

[@Top10WizardReviews]

But this guy needs "content" lol.

[@megamillion5852]

​@@Top10WizardReviewsYou're strongly projecting. It's just a video that happens to be about a recurring subject, which is both completely normal, and new for some.

[@melbapeach162]

​@@Top10WizardReviews the thumbnail literally immediately points out how this is not a real thing in the game, just a video discussing the phenomenon of people falsely believing it did.

[@vexxhearts]

As someone who played pokemon snap extensively as a kid and found all the secrets I can tell you golduck was never in snap. This game took hundreds of hours of my time as a child I remember opening the secret passage in the river for the first time and it blew my mind.

[@ransamfast]

I don't remember Golduck, but I do remember Ninetales

[@angrybionicle]

I happen to actually have an encyclopedic knowledge of this game. It was my first video game ever as a child and the game that made me fall in love with games. We were quite poor so couldn't afford to buy new games very often after this, so i played the absolute crap out of Pokemon Snap. I am talking I played this game for countless hundreds of hours over the next 10 years and know every single pokemon, every secret, how to trigger every pose etc. like the back of my hand. I can with 100% certainty say that Golduck was never in this game.

[@jmaldonado790]

I think another aspect of this is that the area Psyduck swims around in is so big and intricately designed, it looks like there should be more going on there than there is.

[@EmuEmi]

I think your explanation is perfect. Water and fire evolutions did happen so it makes sense to think this was possible, on top of many people playing Snap and Stadium back to back so you technically have a decent idea of what the model would have looked like

[@jamielishbrook2384]

Now then. On to a rumor i dont think abyone else has talked about yet. When i was a kid the really big rumor on my playground was that since pokemon snap released so close to the gen 2 games, only a couple months earlier, there was a secret stage. And if you scored high enough in a certain level it would u lock a secret stage with 12 gen 2 pokmon, including all 3 lengendsry beasts. Needless to say this scpre was ridiculously high, and needless to say i eventually beat said score and got nothing. And was severely dissapointed.

[@Linkopoop]

One kid in my school claimed it was possible to get golduck, he was very convinced it was real too. Maybe it was an online rumor at the time like Mew under the truck. Never heard anyone mention Ninetails before though.

[@zackwyrmblood]

That is weird because I somewhat remember bringing my pokemon snap guide book to school before and me and my friends drawing the pokemon from it and I thought I remembered drawing golduck from one of the illustrations but I guess not.

[@ryanlutes9833]

Oh man this one activated some ancient memories in me. I was big into Pokemon Snap as a kid. I don't have memories of ever seeing Golduck myself, but it was definitely something I remember hearing back in the day. Schoolyard video game rumors were rampant back then. There was no youtube, or huge communities of data miners, you just had to try things yourself and see if they worked. Balloon Pikachu and especially Pikachu riding Articuno were completely unknown to a lot of players even after snapping all 63 pokes. I think that was one of the big appeals of Pokemon Snap (and something the more recent revival understood wonderfully), the fun you could have discovering new special events, as well as chasing a higher score picture.

[@prowler6435]

The Golduck being found by hitting Psyduck onto the stump sounds identical to how I discovered Slowbro - which was my final Pokémon found. I only first saw it after turning around, and seeing it from a distance, and getting a poor score. Considering my story is similar to one of the commenter's comments, I think that their memory got muddled with Slowpoke into Slowbro. Makes sense considering Slowpoke is right next to Psyduck's location. Vulpix could be explained by the Charmander into Charmeleon evolution right next to it, as well as the final evolution to Charizard at the end of the stage. My theory is similar to your explanation at the 14:00 mark, but taking it one step further, by comparing what is close to both of them.

[@FallingSloths]

Worth pointing out for anyone still in disbelief, the lack of assets for Golduck really is the be-all-end-all. Without code to tell it what a Golduck is, a 64-bit computer with no Internet connection wasn't going to suddenly learn how to draw a Golduck and make it behave normally with the rest of the game.

[@vincentnoonan549]

You can get gold duck, you have to combo the flute, apple and pester ball I've done it tons of times. My sister was the one who showed me, it works. This is also for people saying you can't get Mewtwo in gen 1, yes you can, you have to get everything correctly and certain conditions to follow and a new cave will open up in an earlier area and Mewtwo will be there.

[@0dayrepairs]

Wait a minute, Ekans wasn't in Snap? I can literally picture his pose in-game in my head. You bonk him with a pesterball and he uncoils and hisses at you. I was also pretty sure you could get him in at least 2 levels (in River and Valley). Maybe humans are just super suggestible. Or trying to remember shit from 20 years ago just causes your brain to mix up games. But damn, that one got me.

[@sgillman16]

Are you sure you're not thinking of Pokemon Snap

[@fataldisco8216]

That's weird, I actually do have a memory of hitting Psyduck with an apple and him sinking into the water and coming out as Golduck. 😲

[@BigHailFan]

maybe you're confusing it with shellder as both are blue?

[@Winter_Fan_01]

was there any effect? Like lights or whatever, or did he just pop up from underneath?

[@fuckitale6407]

There was lights after you hit Psyduck and he sank into the water. I played this game all the time growing up. Golduck was definitely in it. The people that say it wasn't obviously didn't play it enough. There is a lot of secrets to it and sometimes you have to go back to the level later in the game to find new pokemon.

[@fataldisco8216]

@@Winter_Fan_01 I remember after hitting Psyduck with an apple he makes a sound as if he is passing out, like a sigh sound, and then he sinks into the water and out comes Golduck and he jumps out of the water to the river bank and just stands there looking around left and right.

[@SpicyPunkRockerOfficial]

@@fataldisco8216I kind of remember that too

[@WalkerSunriseChannel]

There are few things like hearing about a Mandela Effect that you do not have yourself nor ever heard about but it sounds just plausible enough that you can understand where people got it.

[@saute7447]

Golduck and wigglytuff are definitely in my memory but I was young so I don’t remember them counting it.. It was probably just us hanging around as kids claiming we’ve found something in it and then we just rolled with it and spread the rumor to next kid lol

[@Mnemoniforma9.00]

I've played Snap for as long as it's been out and not once have I heard this lark. This is absolutely a new one on me.

[@SpectraPrime]

I swore there was a golduck at the same point, i couldnt remember the details through, but the stump did seem to be part of it, but realised it wasnt on my recent playthrough.

[@professorplum7025]

I owned Pokemon Snap, and I legit remember Koffing in game. He was in the Articuno stage and evolved the same way that Magneton, you had to get three Weezings in the same spot with the gas bombs, and then they combined into a Koffing. I must be crazy tho. Dont remember Ninetails, or Golduck. I do know you can evolve a Poliwhirl into a Poliwrath later in the stage, and that you can knock those Metapods into the water to get Butterfree. Please tell me I didnt imagine those too.

[@GamerFolklore]

Omg that is a crazy account, but makes so much sense! Lmao. Getting the three Koffing together would have been insane.

[@Chrismedrano93]

Not to be rude, but you can't even remember Koffing and Weezing's names. You got them reversed. Koffing is in the game, Weezing is not. I would buy some air tags for your belongings if I were you, lmao

[@IndependentWhistleblower]

I got pokemon snap the same christmas it released with a giant strategy guide. I played the hell out of that game. I cant say I specifically remember getting golduck. But i can say when i replayed river a few years back i remember thinkihg something was missing and kept trying to make something happen with psyduck. Something seems off with that level for sure but it was always a trippy level

[@horrisnorris6478]

I hadn't realised Speedlore was officially ended. Gutted!

[@yesidoskate]

gonna be honest, i played that game heaps as a kid and never remember seeing golduck

[@flouserschird]

I seem to recur that memory as well. It was that very first Psyduck. You knock him into the stump and his upper torso and face quickly pop out. I seem to remember his big face. The interesting thing about Mandela Effect is people having the same false memory. You make a good point, people don’t have other similar false memories of other Pokémon evolving.

[@darklordojeda]

7:52 when the Shellder jumps it sure looks like the head of a Golduck jumping and it's in the exact same area. There's already 2 Shellder in the air but that last one jumping is only on screen for a very short time. Seems like this could be a very possible culprit for the belief that they saw Golduck and it was just a quick little bottom of the screen shot that could have been mentally registered as something it wasn't.

[@yokoelf1293]

Exactly what I thought.

[@tayze_t4020]

I am constantly remembering things "wrong" but I keep having near-death experiences and I swear I shift to an alternate reality instead of dying... Help...

[@kylespevak6781]

I've had this thought before

[@KeiranTrick]

What if it's not *instead*...? 😢😂

[@dannigro8794]

Between this game and Pokémon Stadium, there’s so much confusion

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

WAIT NINE TAILS ISNT IN SNAP I had no idea, but gold duck, I never thought that was true.

[@brandonpiatt5625]

Not hearing peach say “here we go” is so jarring. I’m actually going to old videos, running your title card or whatever you want to call it and then coming back for the new video.

[@GamerFolklore]

I'll bring it back next time.

[@mattdog1000000]

My brother and I both have a shared Mandela Effect for Pokemon Gold & Silver, where Lapras had an evolution, and the Pokemon they evolved into was pink and had a very dressy wavy style to it, not unlike Blissey, the Chancey evolution... Later, we thought it must've been us confusing parts of Lapras and Chancey, particularly how they both have the curly ears, and simply misremembering Blissey themselves as a Lapras evolution, somehow, but man... it's still pretty vivid, this image of a larger Blissey-like Lapras evolution. And strange that my bro remembers the same thing.

[@weebsquit347]

I have a weird memory with Pokemon Fire Red specifically. On Mt. Ember, I remember encountering a Machamp and being pretty hyped to capture it. Unfortunately I ended up fainting the thing which bummed out. I remember i spent a good few hours on Mt. Ember, encountering Pokemon over and over, hoping to encounter Machamp again, but no. I checked the pokedex and found out you can't encounter it, so i convinced myself for the longest time that there was probably just 1 Machamp per save. Apparently no such encounter ever existed, ever. But i remember encountering a Machamp on Mt. Ember specifically. Now I'm wondering if i accidentally did some kind of glitch or something that spawned a Machamp.

[@Wourghk]

My parents had a habit of obsessing over documentation for new products, so whenever they'd purchase a new video game, they would also purchase the corresponding Prima guide, believing it to be important. I was usually the one dispelling urban legends among my friends because of those guides. No fun allowed. Needless to say, the Pokemon Snap Prima guide did not mention any way to obtain Ninetails or Golduck.

[@inthefade]

I really hope that some day we find weird limited cartridges that somehow made it into production and only a few kids got. This is a near total impossibility, but it would blow so many minds.

[@nigeblud99]

There was a rumour at my school that once Trev has gone down to the platform in Cradle, you could shoot him without going down there yourself. I tried and tried, but you can't even see him until you go down there yourself

[@Katastrophe9009]

I played Pokemon Snap for N64 extensively back in the day, and this is not something I remember at all or even ever heard of. There has to be some other Pokemon media or something where a Vulpix or Psyduck evolve by falling into lava or water or something. The details from people stories match up too well, but I know for a fact that does not happen in Snap N64. Crazy how this stuff happens. Maybe something like this happens in the anime when they meet the character from Snap?

[@evbable]

I don’t have a Golduck story in snap, but I remember convincing myself that Vulpix would summon Ninetales. In the beginning area with the Vulpix if you lure them near a lava stream there’s a spot where they stop walking and start clapping their paws and chanting “Vulpix.” I would painstakingly lure all three there, but nothing ever happened.

[@PM-James]

I don't remember Golduck in SNAP but I do remember thinking the log thing would work and trying to get that to happen over and over. Never did.

[@johnbalkin8223]

Golduck is one of Nintendo favourite pokemon. Appearing in all mainline Pokemon games. It is quite odd the pokemon does not appear in Snap.

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

I am here to be the killer of fun. I used to play this a lot as a kid. I remember psyduck very well. I dont remember golduck ever appearing.

[@Neogeddon]

Same, and I still play through it every once in a while just because it's so easy and short. I think it's goofy that this video even had to be made; literally just play the game lads

[@uemochi9316]

I remember this myth from when I was a kid....but I don't recall it being a Mandela effect, I recall it being one of those standard pre-internet "friend from school told me" gaming urban legends that were all over 90's childhoods....it's funny it was traded around so much that it's now fully gaslighted people and become a Mandela effect

[@Enderpig124]

I encountered a Mandela Effect a while back, when I found out that Lopunny doesn't actually learn the move Acrobatics in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl & Platinum. Yet I distinctly remember that it should be able to. Though I recently did some research, and found out that it must have been that one time my starter was Chimchar. Since it can eventually learn the move. I usually play through the game with Turtwig. Every time I catch Buneary, except that one time when I choose Chimchar.

[@AdventurerAlm]

I also remember Golduck being in the game, in that exact same way. BUT, I also have a theory as to what might be why for folks. It's a MASSIVE stretch, but maybe some modified and not quite legal carts got put out there that looked legitimate - and had Golduck in it? Since it's really weird that so many people - with no contact between them - remember the exact same thing.

[@brad6557]

I played this game for countless hours as a child and I do not have the false memory of Golduck 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Procedurallydegeneratedjohn]

Wait...he wasnt in snap? I thought i remembered psyduck turning into golduck when hit with a pesterball 😢

[@StarkMaximum]

"Well yeah, of course I got a picture of Golduck in Pokemon Snap! Gold-Duck is the yellow one, right?"

[@Jonathan-Anderson]

Theres a video here on KZbin called "6 FACTS AND SECRETS from P.S. you didn't know" and he list Golduck as one of the 63 at the 3:06 mark. So that proves it.....right? 😂...he also has on the list Ponyta, Flareon, Vaporeon, Jolteon so he can't be wrong!

[@jakegriffin7002]

New Pokemon Mandela Effect: Shelder in Pokemon RBY could once clamp onto Slowpoke from menu to evolve to Slowbro at any level(similar to Abra teleport to Pokemon center)

[@mr.cook5]

enjoyed the analysis in this one a lot, thanks.

[@Spaget99]

I didn't hear anything about Golduck but someone told me there was an Onix in the cave behind the waterfall as a kid

[@lepopcornnaisseur546]

It's interesting this seems to be one of the few Mandela effects where most people agree it can be attributed to a poor memory.

[@blankwavemessiah]

I had this with ninetails in the volcano

[@carlosnieve1225]

I’ve never understood why we put so much stock into these “distinct childhood memories”. I have memories of *not* seeing golduck. My friend had the guide and I remember that we spent time trying to fill out all the stamps pages.

[@GymnopedieTornado]

This was probably obvious, but--also, the trunk/dirt mound *looks* like a hole! If you’re playing a game that centers on your aim and timing, of course you’re going to think something should go in there--especially if you‘ve seen similar results before! Same with the Vulpixes--they’re so close to the edge with the lava beneath them, and you know it works with Charmeleon…it makes sense our kid legend senses came up with those ideas. A lot of old game legends are based I think on us reading into these graphical things like this. You remember the ‘secret entrance’ at the bottom of Zora’s Domain in OoT? There’s literally nothing there, but darn it it *looks* like an entrance--you’ve spent the whole game trying to get to entrances you couldn’t before--it makes sense in a way to fixate on it like that

[@PeperonyChease]

My biggest question is how did two people used the term 'straddling' to refer to whatever they were trying to say it was doing.

[@PeperonyChease]

Whoops just realised it was the same person giving two accounts of the same thing. Still weird though.

[@jimoshirakka]

@@PeperonyCheaseyou’re not alone

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

Some childhood memories I am not sure where dreams or real life. Also for me the color of objects in memories are hard. I know not to trust it.

[@djinnspalace2119]

i think its just the way youd THINK the game was designed. so many levels have pokemon evolving after interacting with their pre-evolutions. it only makes sense that golduck would be in the game after completing the shooting minigame with the psiducks. this reminded me very much of the charizard evolving. then theres also the fact that we have the models of all the pokemon since golduck was in pokemon stadium. you have a vivid memory of an animated golduck, and you have a level with a weird amount of psiducks in a game where different pokemon evolve. many pokemon with those myths are pokemon that would make sense to have evolutions. psiduck is a prominent pokemon from the anime too. theres also the fact that pokemon like menki dont have myths about them since they are next to other pokemon that evolve, so having 2 pokemon that evolve next to each other would seem rather weird.

[@anoncyclist2131]

when you see the picture of what it would be in the game, it doesnt ring a bell, but talking about it i can imagine it

[@MarcusMcGrizz]

For whatever obscure reason, I had two copies of snap 64 as a child. And I played them A LOT to say the least. I distinctively remember it only having 63 pokemon. And I do not remember Golduck, and I most DEFINITELY don't remember Ninetatails.

[@professorhaystacks6606]

11:30: I've heard the Dodrio one actually, though not the method, just someone going "Oh yeah isn't there Dodrio somewhere?"

[@zeusalternative1270]

Is easy to make a false memory for yourself, just imagine something and repeat it over and over again. If some kid heard about the golduck and ninetales, believed that it was possible and imagined it, after being told the same thing over and over they can get the imagined scenario saved as a memory instead of a thought.

[@Kswish13]

I'm sending out the Goose signal! I need your help! To get the best Zubat, you have to do a weird timing/pester thing at the end of the cave, and three zubats fly out of the end portal. I can't find any Feketerigo, Sukige, or Roundy videos online about it. Where do you find those?

[@GamerFolklore]

Sukige has been making some tutorials (follow the link to the Psyduck vid in description). But it's possible that there simply *is no Zubat tutorial* that has ever been made!! Such is life in these smaller, niche games. Try the Pokemon Snap discord (maybe find the link though Speedrun dot com)? Hope this helps!

[@hotdogturtle]

dfyuApwRZ74 Are you sure you didn't Mandela yourself into thinking that you checked those channels but you actually didn't?

[@kevindavidtz]

You have to play the overture of sages on the pokeflute to get golduck to appear

[@GamerFolklore]

Now that would be amazing.

[@jranimations5955]

I have a Mandela effect revolving Golduck, I COULD HAVE SWORN GOLDUCKS’ SHINY WAS PINK, DIS ANYONE ELSE BELIEVE THAT??? Idk what it is, I forgot, but I remember checking a month ago and figuring out that his shiny was not pink.

[@nightfallalicorn4246]

I remember seeing Pokemon Snap but I never got it. I was more than happy with Pokemon Stadium. I was lucky to get Pokemon Stadium 2 considering it's very rare.

[@cuddlebug8106]

I’m sure I at least spent a few hours trying to get a Golduck as a kid.

[@UltimatePerfection]

Maybe they were playing some romhack with swapped Pokémon? While not as common as in the NES and SNES era, bootleg carts and romhacks for N64 did exist back in the day.

[@faceurhell]

My friends, I was very lucky on this video. I saw a video upload was 6 seconds ago. That has got to be a Goose's Gamer Folklore world record.

[@GamerFolklore]

You were actually the Second comment!

[@faceurhell]

@@GamerFolklore Still the 6 second world record for the video! 🤣 But still, great video. These urban legends for Late 90's Nintendo games were wild. I remember spending hours in Super Mario 64 looking for urban legends of secret boss fights, including another Bowser. What is funny is I did find one eventually (the Wiggler fight) that was super obvious the whole time in the the Tiny Huge level.

[@bluerockcandy8344]

These false memory examples are so neat to look into, for something that never existed XD unrelated to pokemon but I have one of my own, my brother and I both share a false memory from our childhood playing Duke Nukem 3D as kids; we both vividly recall a 'death' cutscene where Duke gets his brains sucked out of his nose by a protozoid slimer, an enemy that climbs onto the screen and drains your health. There ARE cutscenes in the game, but only after defeating bosses and never for dying to anything, and that description I wrote is exactly what it says in the manual about those enemies. But it's amusing to have this thought in your head your brain wants to convince you was true when you know it's fabricated nonsense.

[@ryobibattery]

No

[@SnackCakes]

Even flashbulb memories can be wrong. But it's easier to say it's an alternate universe than admit our memories aren't accurate.

[@Top10WizardReviews]

It's actually way harder, theoretically, to say it's an alternate universe considering we know far more mechanics of human memory than we do the nature of existence. But ok. If you want metaphysics, start with the collective consciousness.

[@SnackCakes]

@@Top10WizardReviews Jungian, I can dig it. I more or less just find it cute that people can't accept their memories are wrong because the brain isn't perfect. But it does a great job of appearing to be from our point of view

[@demiraichan]

I rented the crap out of snap before I got my own copy. To this day I can still remember every location, stage triggers, the rainbow road sign photos. This is silly. They may of saw part of a poliwag in the water, but not golduck.

[@jamminjester5248]

Did the people who looked through the game files happen to look through the block buster demo stations of the game or even Japanese cartridges? I don't have the memory of a Golduck or Ninetails but it would be interesting to know the differences if any between versions. Personally, I didn't have a N64 growing up but I do remember playing a demo cartridge at a K-Mart or some store as a kid and it would boot you out before the halfway point and load a different level each time you played. Would be interesting to see if things were added or removed before release.

[@Waxon178]

Will there be no more DLTK Speedlore then? It was fascinating.

[@GamerFolklore]

I pretty much covered all the levels. There might be the very occasional, random SpeedLore still.

[@mattlandry]

This game did not come out before online message boards. I remember neoseeker at this time mentioning how to evolve golduck. It was full of fake unlockables. Smash 64 said you could unlock slippy by beating the game with peppy and vice versa 😂

[@BlackKoiRecords]

I'm 35 and I'm just hearing about this. Pokémon Stadium does have a picture feature but Golduck was never in snap.

[@mathprodigy]

Interesting video man, investigating this Mandela effect in our memories! Me personally, i swear i moved the truck in Yellow and found Mew 😅

[@jesuizanmich]

someone should distribute a mod of the game that includes golduck after knocking psyduck into the stump, and you can only take the picture from afar so Oak barely recognises it, just to mess with the people with this collective false memory.

[@TheFounderYosh]

Sure people didn't just dream about Golduck? I have a memory as a child of ocarina of time where adult link in castle town was surrounded by skeletons and not redeads.

[@damianporter942]

thought this was a very easy question but then i realized not everyone does a 100% playthrough of pokemon snap every year... edit: it only takes like 2 hours, its like a fun night with snacks and a fun pokemon island

[@GamerFolklore]

Yeah it's a quick game. I recorded a "Longplay" last year to get clean footage of the game for these videos, and it only took me about 95 minutes.

[@targuscinco]

I clearly remember playing gold turducken eye 007. I played it just before work today.

[@cmndrkool321]

I know Golduck isn’t in the game because I had the guide for every Pokemon in the game when I was a kid.

[@psychologicaldream8126]

wait what ninetails was 100% in the game i know this, i think the way i did it was with the legendy pokemon did it thats how i remember it psyduck don't remember that one.