Home Alone Mandela Effect : Where is the Nintendo Gameboy ???

The Mandela Effect is a term for where a group of people all mis-remember the same detail, event or physicality. It is named after the instance in which a large group of people all shared the same memory that Nelson Mandela died prior to his actual 2013 death, usually some time in the 1980’s. The effect exploded in popularity on the internet when a peculiar example popped up where a majority of people seemed to have recalled the Berenstain Bears books as being spelled as “Berenstein” or some other variation, differing from the actual spelling as presented by evidence.
The effect is somewhat different from a false memory as it effects large groups of people, seemingly without many connections and without the same emotional factors present. It also seems stronger and harder to escape the feeling that it’s simply a mis-remembering of a detail, which is why people are so adamant with claims of their memories. As such, it’s often been hinted at that the Mandela Effect is closely related to cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance can be mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds beliefs, ideas, or values and is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values. Please note the use of “can be” as there is many purists that don’t accept the broader definition and scope of cognitive dissonance applying to memory versus reality.
Many Mandela Effects are usually trivial details about an oddly specific set of categories. These include things such as the how and when of celebrity deaths, misspellings (usually replaced or removed letters), placement of geographical locations, quotations within media, or alternate imagery.
It is also related to misconceptions in general, although, again is differentiated due to the obscure nature and odd feelings resulting from learning the reality. The solutions, explanations and reasons for the misconceptions are also cryptic and often misrepresented or unknown altogether.

[@JustJeff_LazyGamer513]

There was in fact a game boy in the scene before that one. The neighborhood kid was going thru the bags and found one while the sister was counting kids

[@DrBIeed]

It was a Tiger Electronics hand held. I remember this partially because I always watch the movie around Christmas time but I always remembered that it played a little electronic jingle after she said “A partridge in a pair tree.” since I was a child. Very distinct sounds. Maybe the confusion some of you are experiencing is from the ‘Talk Boy’ in HA2?

[@gavmorgan6432]

There was no GameBoy. He is clearly on Facebook writing a status telling everyone he's off on holidays.

[@GermanGarageGames]

LOL XD

[@nibiruthecat7652]

Love this comment!

[@gavmorgan6432]

zoe clarke 🤘

[@skyman1883]

I remember Kevin being black

[@hswan]

EvilManChild oh he isn't black? I though Kevin was played by will smith. Hmmmmm damn Mandela effect!

[@starwarsroo2448]

Gary Colman played him I swear

[@thebesttheworst2277]

EvilManChild I remember 'been' spelt as 'being'

[@MyStolenAimbot]

Interesting reality you lived in

[@joelvizcarra9391]

Beetlejuice

[@Aiur]

If you've ever handled an actual gameboy the sheer size and width of what Pete is playing in the van is in no way comparable - the original gameboy was a brick and a half

[@hcord1234]

I was watching this movie today and something seemed different to me . After Kevin tries to tackle his brother and spills all the milk I distinctly remember the uncle saying "Look what you did you little twerp " does anyone else remember it that way?

[@TheConscienceOne]

Yes I do what does he say now?

[@DemonNano]

@@TheConscienceOne look what you did you little jerk! Is what he says now

[@mira8f]

I watched It yesterday, it's still or again in the movie

[@user-yo3gu5lu9w]

Yeah, uncle said look at watcha did u little twerp,indeed🎉

[@machineofadream]

I was a huge Nintendo fanboy at that time and owned a Game Boy, AND saw the movie in theaters, and I have absolutely no recollection of a Game Boy in the movie, nor have I ever heard it mentioned until just now.

[@troyaguilar3398]

I remember buying those cheap flat game things that only played baseball or racing on them. Think thats what they are.

[@GermanGarageGames]

Was the music the same ? You can hear some game music in the clip.

[@timzahler710]

Troy Aguilar marble madness n ninja turtles

[@dandosapershing6103]

Dennis Fleaman yeah it’s similar music to the old football and baseball handheld games I had in the 80’s

[@dentonscheibal3]

They're actually most commonly referred to as Tiger games because that was the name of the company that made those cheap, mass-produced games that every kid in the 90s (including myself) had at least several of.

[@jasonpatello2183]

I remember having The Knight Rider. And although some would say “cheap”; 20 bucks a pop added up and that was a lot for its time.

[@akoww1000]

Yes there was a game boy in home alone, not only did Kevin's brother played in the van, but Kevin also played with one . After home alone was released, Macaulay Culkin was on the Arsenio Hall show and they were talking about the game boy he played in the movie . At the end of the interview, Arsenio gave him a Gameboy as a gift. They opened it and played with it . Now if you go back and watch it "its on youtube" Arsenio hall gave him a turbo graphics 16 machine .

[@American_Mike]

Arsenio: What do you want for Christmas Culkin: A Turbo Graphix 16, its better than Nintendo. Arsenio: oooOOH ok. That thing that you had when you came in. Thats a Nintendo? Calkin: That's a Nintendo, its a Gameboy. Arsenio gives him a present cuts to commercial and when they come back he as the Turbo Graphics. Why would he want a Gameboy when he already had one...

[@tyler82]

There is a Gameboy in home alone. It’s in buzz’s chest in his room that Kevin goes through when the family leaves him.

[@josephbeenchanged990]

tyler82 nope just put it on theres no gameoy there either

[@goldenagepress9010]

what bout in the beginning when Kevin's mom walks in the bedroom n Kevin's is playing the game boy the mom hands him the recorder and he pits the game boy down to get the recorder from his mom

[@03bgood]

GoldenAge PRESS Second movie.

[@goldenagepress9010]

03bgood I member

[@urAnusFighter1]

GoldenAge PRESS that recorder was called the talk boy

[@victoriawelch1112]

Idk if you're familiar with this but I vividly recall Della Reese dying in the 90's but now the media is saying she just died about a month ago. I have memories of my mom crying talking about how much she enjoyed her on "Harlem Nights and "Touched By An Angel. I swear something is def not right here.

[@cyber6sapien]

The memory isn't false. The reality we live in now is false.

[@GermanGarageGames]

That's some food for thougt

[@dollyhadbraces4345]

cyber6sapien I’ve often called it a counterfeit reality

[@ShowMeSomething1]

That's called schizophrenia

[@YeshuaEllisLamb]

Studios and copyrights change films.

[@dollyhadbraces4345]

Joshua Lamb but how would they change it in the original version? I get if they lost the license?

[@legoyoshi-lg4zw]

Mandela effect = bad memory

[@nb3860]

legoyoshi 2001 hahahaha YES!!!!

[@fattiger2000]

You guys are just like Scully in Xfiles. She was usually wrong...

[@iseesaturn.anderson.7956]

Could be all the metals sprayed daily.

[@iamnotthedroidyouarelookin5298]

Joe Barry no...just no

[@Mattology1]

legoyoshi 2001 you=not woke. you just haven't remembered one yet. probably because your dumb. why are you watching these videos if I think every one is wrong. I know for a fact some things are different.

[@aarongreenfield9038]

I distinctly remember him with a PS Vita!

[@GermanGarageGames]

LOL this comment made my day XD

[@ChiefHitemBong]

Really? I'm fairly certain it was the Nintendo Switch..!

[@iwillchange3680]

Liars all of you ... it was an Xbox-two-720-8k-portable .. I know because I was there..

[@BarbozoTheClown]

I remember him playing.........outside

[@aarongreenfield9038]

Albert Dunisch. Maybe it was a switch!

[@edwardzod3183]

what the fuck.. I coulda sworn I remember him playing the Nintendo Switch... mandela effect.

[@kxlla3457]

There was no Nintendo switch then bro...

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

To be honest... and I say this as someone who have watched this film since at least 1991 and been a fan ever since... there never was a Game Boy in the movie. It was always a generic LCD game with fitting piezo-speaker beeping sounds in the movie soundtrack. The kind of LCD game sounds that were rather typical. I never saw an actual Game Boy in the movie a single time. Don't confuse this with the infamous "Home Alone 3" where the boy had a yellow Game Gear. THAT was a film where there actually was an actual licensed handheld in the film. Sorry, no Mandela Effect here.

[@robertgoldman1579]

The movie Home Alone was never actually made.

[@dadtronic]

In my reality only Home Alone 2 was made and we were all extra confused.

[@ElectricPharmacy]

I went to see this movie in the cinema, Iv'e seen it countless times on various platforms since and not once did i think the hand held game was a Game Boy..

[@kmurph2451]

Isn't it just that you looked at whatever he is playing when you were a kid and assumed it was a Gameboy so then forever thinking that he plays a game boy in the movie...

[@salvatorecasto2730]

Nice video keep up the good work 🇨🇦😎

[@camross2971]

Product placement in movie isn't always what it seems. Sometimes it's added in post production after the scene was shot. Therefor, that CGI image is dropped after a certain time period or on a later released DVD version, you no longer see it. There are examples of this everywhere. Another example is "The Island" filmed in early 2000s. In a futuristic shot, there is a phone booth that advertises "MSN search" in the original theatric and DVD version. But when the movie was televised several years later, that advertisement is gone.

[@lodown505]

The dad is Oprah rich, but he only gave the kid a knockoff gaming device. Cheapskate...

[@GermanGarageGames]

lodown505 LOL he got it from his uncle

[@skipstang]

It would be great to know what the actor(s) in that scene have to say. Their memory of these events would be very telling? Wonder what did the script and stage directions say (maybe: "plays GameBoy in the van). With as many comments that are on here, somebody has to know how to reach this guy and the others in the scene. KZbinrs require answers! Time to ACTIVATE the power of the internet :-)

[@WSlegalservices]

Omg. Dude they film 9 versions of every scene some go to differnt cuts. These movie Mandela effects are so remidialt stupid cause you guys can't underarand that differnt scences are edited in the theatre or DVD Fuck you

[@dadtronic]

I seriously doubt the script was that detailed as to even mention the kid playing a game in the van. Unless it has some profound impact on the plot those kind of things are usually passed on to the pre production team to flesh out.

[@stackstheboxbreakerbeatbox7849]

Look Up The Lead Singer From Panic At The Disco. The Wordes Of The Chorus Were Changed. And He Even Came Out & Said "I NEVER SAID THOSE WORDS, THAT FIRST PART WAS NOT IN THW CHORUS & NOR DID I SING EM"

[@The-Bridgewater-Triangle]

Count me in.. let’s Harass him until he comes forward

[@SolidSnail21]

The kid is from the future, it's an android mobile Iphone.

[@zinnmaster9135]

The only Gameboy I remember was when the neighbor kid was going through the bags inside the van to the airport. I think its a yellow Gameboy color.

[@ekahnoman7331]

Nah, that's how it always was. I watched Home Alone alot as a kid and I remember knowing it was some sort of Tiger Electronics game. You just thought it was a Gameboy because your childhood memory is that of a grey-book shaped-handheld gaming device. And what else could be like that besides an original Gameboy.

[@GermanGarageGames]

could be...PS love your KZbin avatar.

[@chiefsean16]

It's a calculator, he's putting in "80085".

[@ItsaRomethingeveryday]

I remember the game boy being in this movie also,how strange,liked n Subscribed

[@GermanGarageGames]

Thanks for the sub and comment ;-)

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Perhaps it's the fact he was playing something _like_ a Game Boy, getting muddled up in your head with the name of Kevin's cassette tape toy from Home Alone 2 (the Talkboy), which _was_ pretty prominent product placement in that film?

[@afloyd4976]

Generic Radio Shack LCD game. If Nintendo had paid for product placement, it would have had some clear shots.

[@jaysmith-sq4dy]

Yes I typed that 20 seconds before I noticed your comment. Running off a watch battery probably.

[@youtubisashoe]

Always the useless details, I'm still waiting for one of us to wake up mega rich

[@completesentences2125]

I always remember him playing that whack-ass generic handheld...NEVER A GAMEBOY

[@LovesGreatness]

I saw the Mandela Effect Movie on HULU. They talked about the Mandela Effect happening in 2008. My dad passed in 2008. I wonder if the Mandela Effect didn't happen, whether my dad would still be alive.

[@jamessteven711]

You probably thought it was a gameboy when it actually wasn't

[@DanielS2001]

BTW it looks, the game the kid is playing is some sort of LCD game. There were a lot of them circa early 1990s, not just Tiger Electronics brand either. As for what game it is, hard to know for sure.

[@BlackAlienTV]

Thus this day forward he shall be named ....Handheld Jeff

[@Cornerstanding]

You can hear the video game sounds in the middle of that seen but seems the kid is holding something the shots don't line up, whatever he's holding now certainly is holding the kids attention.

[@Jeffari1]

Dude trust me, as a kid who literally watched this movie every single day and literally memorized every single line in the movie before the age of 8, that was never a game boy, there never was a game boy, it was a tiger electronic type of game or maybe a game and watch of some sort, I just always assumed it was a tiger electronic game of some sort.

[@JDREDITZ11]

Its NOT false memories. Its changes in reality.

[@1Plassy]

What it is showing is that we now and only for the last 100 years or so have recordings of events, films and personal stuff plus photos, where's before that we couldn't do this. So what it's doing is showing us that making Recodings of our past and for the first time we can really look back and see that changes are happening which has been the case all along now that we are now picking up on it, its telling us something is manipulating time all the time.

[@RebelJew777]

Buzz was his brother which is not the kid you shown, that was Jeff which i think is a cousin. Anyway i'm pretty sure the one kid is on a GameBoy outside of the van when his sister is counting heads. Then again it could be the first one when a kid is playing on a GameBoy and we're confusing it with the second one. But i'm pretty sure it's in the second one, i think it's outside of the van though not in it for the part of the movie.

[@4Bang9Gang]

Dont remember a gameboy but I do know kevin used a talkboy so I can see how you may have gotten them mixed up.

[@javierowo]

There could be some theories revolving on time travellers altering our past and our time line being affected by those changes. It might not affect our complex brain much being as the mandela exists.

[@johnnydark22]

Also it could be a handheld tiger electronic there was a homealone 2 game made by tiger as well as the talk boy and I remember the person playing the game boy was the kid who robbed before they left

[@Xiox321]

Anyone remember the handheld game system that only played 1 star wars game where you shoot droids, sort of like space invaders? And the system itself had a big Droideka on top of it.

[@funnyguy9711]

They never paid Nintendo for the rights to use the Gameboy. Therefore it was removed in the video version.

[@Cornerstanding]

Not sure if it was a game boy but either a video game or some kind of reading material such as comic or dirty magazine.

[@everfreebrumby8385]

I remember that the sound of the game is still the same. Someone should track down the game he was playing to find out if it was a Gameboy game or something else

[@vinnyvox7173]

I only remember the talkboy not a game boy in the movie

[@GermanGarageGames]

The talkboy was in Home Alone 2 ;-)

[@thamirivonjaahri6378]

Share the memory. I remember him HAVING a Gameboy (we mistakenly believed it to be the Tetris at the time)

[@iluminumfalcon8619]

If you look at Dashboard of van behind the mom 91 close to 911 anyone any thoughts???

[@ethandumas6937]

i seem to remember this movie comming out years after i got a gameboy and shortly thereafter (about a week) broke the screen as usual with all my expemsive gifts, i was so bumbed to have to explain to my parantz i already broke it

[@urAnusFighter1]

I think youre thinking of the talkboy by tiger

[@Hoodie_Harlem]

looks like them old tiger games from the 90s those black and white ones with the static background

[@mikeh4775]

Looks like a calculator. He had to do quick maths

[@goldenagepress9010]

Hey Dennis check out humanity's major Transition by Gary Lite just amazing video. There was a game boy! Sin Bad Shazam is gone also?

[@GermanGarageGames]

I'll look it up later today :-)

[@goldenagepress9010]

Dennis Fleaman let me know your opinion please ?

[@brewmasterwayne]

There was no Shazam with Sinbad. It is Kazaam with Shaq. I remember watching it in theaters. My brother and I kept saying shaq attack on the way to the theatre.

[@goldenagepress9010]

yes we agree there is no Shazam no more

[@shadako2]

simple, they cut it out... they are not getting product placement or Nintendo arrangement ran out. eg they need to get a licence to mention the company for the dvd or new edition. A lot of movies are cut alot now... I saw "yes man" and several scenes were missing, he has to say yes to his male friend for example.... and there's a memorable scene where he has to keep ordering food at the cafe.

[@mfrandlett]

These impossible contradictions seem to stir up old memories, and I don't know why, but the pyramids come to mind... It feels like a situation like this happened before.

[@SodomSmurf]

where is that gameboy ??

[@paulkessler9180]

Remember what you want but I never recall a gameboy in those movies

[@alyfepoisonbunny2716]

His brother was Buzz. I remember a Gameboy. It was half the reason I begged and cried for my mom to get me one but she got me the Game boy pocket later. I then traded it for a clear Game boy with a line through the middle of the the green screen. Michel Torpe...I'm still salty about that.

[@moudschilder2263]

I also got a gameboy for Christmas because of home alone..now it's not in there ??

[@tyler82]

It was in buzz’s chest in his room.

[@chrisgurl3043]

Alyfe Poison Bunny Shadow Isn't there a scene where in Buzz's you chest the Game Boy is in there too

[@alyfepoisonbunny2716]

chrisgurl30 if it was in his chest then what is the boy in the van playing? Tiger electronic handheld had a very different shape and it was more colorful. My husband says it like a phone case and one of those dummy phones in the store u see today. This is strange.

[@Mattology1]

Alyfe Poison Bunny Shadow exactly, these people saying no are really annoying

[@duncanmatthews5942]

I remember him plyin the gb and he was pressing the buttons extra hard too

[@cartridgegamer5224]

I enjoyed the video,good topic.How about the gameboy game"who framed Roger rabbit.There is a sunsoft version and a capcom version,but both are on the same console and play exactly the same because its is in everyway the same game.Its as if the company's worked something out.

[@patrickeldridge4420]

i remember a gameboy as well. i also remember the reunion between Kevin and the mom being different.

[@xEricTheGothx]

It looks like a Tiger handheld electronic game. I, personally, can't tell you if I remember a gameboy or not as I never paid attention to him playing the game

[@AudioReplica2023]

I remember the GB cuz I used to want one

[@philosopherartist2095]

I used to watch home alone repeatedly, over and over, all the time and I clearly remembered that it was a Gameboy he was playing. After watching this video I got out my old copy of the home alone movie I used to watch and my video still showed a game boy. Then just hours later when I was talking with friends about the whole issue we put home alone on again and it had CHANGED to the generic handheld!!!

[@Deep_Armageddon]

Judah Hart hmm.... r u sure?

[@worken360]

The Mandela effect only effects you if you have heard or seen something about it. Once you know about the certin effect it change in your reality.

[@chrismarroquin7347]

WTF is going on I remember too. Why does he have a tablet so weird. Cool video.

[@saturnknight4573]

dude I had to rewatch my copy because I remember it being a game boy as well yo. I remember saying to my sister in the theatre "product placement". lol

[@spartan-023]

He's playing electronic football? You can hear it

[@joechaney2015]

One of those old tiger electronics hand helds maybe

[@Lipi19821]

Home alone during hollidays has become modern day curse...my hair stand up whenever i see it on tv around holliday time...

[@CDTucker336]

Are you confusing Gameboy with Talkboy?

[@jphillips4620]

It wasn’t a Game boy, it was. Talk boy. He used it to scare the burglars.

[@StreetSoundsSwirln]

What's weird......is that personally i remember, as child back then, noticing this and arguing with friends that the kid wasn't playing a gameboy at all o_0......

[@Relaxitsonlyacomment]

i don’t remember that truck either. i remember a beet up van one color like a bluish purple

[@a1locc25]

So your video is about a part of the movie you forgot about

[@ComptonChuckz88]

I remember the kid with the glasses that pisses the bed playing a game boy but not Jeff I can’t remember that part...

[@conspiracionesy]

He is playing with a Tetris device, I am 33 now and I used to have one back in the 90s, they were really popular This was a long time a go, I was just a kid then, but I believe when I watched the movie back then I thought to myself he was playing.with a Tetris device, so dont think this is a Mandela effect, but I encourage you to check out The Jackson 5 mandela effect, that one really freaked me out

[@balf1111117373]

During the 80s, 90s they had little handheld battery powered gaming devices that had 1 game on it. I had a sonic one and a car racing one as a kid. Doesn’t have to be a game boy it could literally be one of the 100 & 1000s gaming devices made during the time

[@Warvvolf]

Isn't that one of those old digital games that only had a few animations for one specific game like baseball and stuff? I remember I had a Batman one. They were poor kid Gameboys :)

[@nasainsider4143]

He never played the gamboy in the van he was allways playing video poker

[@GermanGarageGames]

or football ?

[@nasainsider4143]

or football yep.

[@dentonscheibal3]

It looks very much like one of those cheap Tiger games that were VERY common and they made tons of based on hit movies, TV shows, cartoons, video games, etc. that were popular at the time.

[@TheDeadrabbit71]

Who is Mandela?

[@U-TubeSurfer45]

Lol no he was never playing a game boy. I am so happy this showed up as one because I actually simply remember this scene when I was little because something profound happened to me making me remember it. The scene is always been like that

[@GermanGarageGames]

Then the question is : wich handheld is it ?

[@jackd4]

Obviously it’s just a prop that’s supposed to represent a game boy or whatever handheld gaming system. It is similar to a game boy which it probably was supposed to look like and when you watched it you just presumed it was but then you later realize it actually wasn’t.

[@Jtava182]

Can you see if Marv or Harry say this place gives me the creeps when outside the church on the VHS version

[@artfluegge]

I think I may have an answer. Back then, in the US, you either had a gameboy, a Sega Game Gear, OR one of those cheap hand held helds with fixed backgrounds and limited movement. For example, games like poker, solitaire, slots, etc. However, one Christmas when I was a boy I got one.... It was home alone 2 themed... It wasn't as tall as what he was playing with... Hes probably holding a prop. As far as the Mandela effect, you're not (home) alone... lol

[@zombielovedome2563]

Don't forget we had a lot of one game handheld s at that time I think they were tiger electric or some thing but I had a lot of them used them in the car alot game boy drained the batteries on long trips this was the time before kids had every thing getting batteries was hard enough feel super bad gutted my og Gameboy as a teen to hide cigarettes and other things from my parents 😢

[@cheddar07]

honestly, don't think it was ever a gameboy seeing as this movie came out just over a year after the gameboy did accounting for casting time shooting editing and paperwork needed for product placement, I doubt nintendo would have used this mvie to promote the handheld. just saying. Maybe you just assumed it was as a child since that was the big thing.

[@plissken3336]

The other kid was playing one, not any of his brothers but the neighbor boy when she was counting them, come on now...

[@PANTA-Music]

For those who have a bit common sense left, and a scientific approach on things, hear my opinion in a small essay format. ( in terrible english ) If not, you are free to skip. Everyone watching Home Alone in that era was a young kid. I suspect everyone here commenting about it, are between 25 - 35 years old. How old were you when you have watched that movie? I was 10 / 11 / 12 years old or something. And watched it hundreds of times. So much times, and even now, I cannot know all the details anymore. Simply because my brain is having other priorities now. It doesn't need to remember everything from the movie anymore. Honestly I too thought it was a gameboy. But I can't remember seeing it specifically on the screen. I also accept the fact that I am wrong, because I was a kid back then. And kids are still learning and make mistakes, while being wrong multiple times. It's called puberty, and there are molecular things happening with your brain and body during that period. So your perspective was not right all the time. Kids believe it was a gameboy because it looked like one. Or you maybe had seen an gameboy advertisement by some cast member of Home Alone but screwed up the details. Or even weirder: You never noticed it, but you heard a friend of yours talking about it once, but forgot that moment with your friend, but kept remembering the gameboy story. Now, older and wiser we know it isn't a gameboy, yet our nostalgic kid in us contradicts us. Something we remembered falsely. And it is not so strange that you aren't the only one. Everyone was a kid, and kids talk with eachother. They motivate , help and inform eachother, even when they are wrong at times. And not everyone is so unique as we think, all kids see a different perspective than adults, who are wiser. No one excluded. It's a steep learning path. And it came to my attention that 'almost' all supposed mandela effects are from the same era. And almost all people who say they believe in them are around the same age. Funny eh? I've never seen people talking about the effect when they are 60 years of age. Or 12 year olds.. Don't you think a supposed shift in reality would affect everyone? Not just 25-35 year olds? And strange how the mandela effect becomes a thing in 2016 - 2018? Why have no one mentioned it earlier, even under another name? How come we accept that mandela is a part of reality / dimension shifting, but there is not even actually one single proof of alternate realities / dimensions in the first place?! Mandela effect is nothing more then a childs perspective of false intrepetation. Just like the world looked a lot bigger than it looks today. ( Look, another feeling that LOTS of people share in common! Strange... No, it's actually not.) Or the same about time perception: Time seems to go slower as a kid. Lots of people thought it was a gameboy because they really believed it as a kid. But suddenly you are older, but your child memories contradict you. This has nothing to do with alternate realities or dimensions, this has everything to do with the human brain. I do think this 'feeling' of awkward, false memories fits in the same category as 'Deja Vu' , which is actually a malfunction in your brain. It needs more research to fully understand, And I am actually quiet interested in the results. But I am not second guessing these results like some of you do. We are not scientists. We are just looking for answers, but we are naturally not patience by default, so we already make up a fictional story to fill that empty gap. And like every other 'conspirancy' theory, it gets forgotten or solved because the real truth and facts are overwhelming. This is just a phase... There is absolutely no evidence to be found about the 'dimension' theory. I admit, this effect is weird, but nothing links to the fairytale story about alternate realities and such. ( we all love to hear from time to time, that's why it is so popular ) I love how people try to make science fiction around a subject that doesn't have much information, because of the lack of science. It even affects healthy thinking people... Look everyone is entitled to think what they want. I just wish people really tried to solve it, without bringing the extra ordinary all the time. Why not study to become a scientist / psychologist, and try to find the answers? And this entire theory / story comes from ONE source. And that person knows he/she is bullshitting, and laughing his/hers ass off, about what is happening now. That leads me to a question: Why create a story based on a theory and present them as facts? Why? Can't you see how damaging that is for yourself and surroundings? ( And if on a big scale, even damaging for humanity? ) And with all that it mind, do ( and this is genuinely factual ) consider that bringing doubt is actually a form of wanted entertainment. That is why people love to see dramatised, actors pretending like they are haunting ghosts on History Channel. Gullible enough to consider it entertainment. For a while people actually believed it, untill it turned out to be another hoax. This youtube video makes use of the same format. ( Uploader could be even unaware of that fact. Yet he is probably aware of the views it will get since it is a popular subject now. There is money involved in this... ) If you are still reading, thanks for hearing me out. Keep in mind that everything I said also applies for most ( if not all ) other mandela situations... Again excuse my english grammar and sentence building. I am not a native speaker and did my best. But despite my lack of english knowledge, I love to use my brain to be realistic and see entertainment as something fun (and fun only), instead of a possible 'worst case scenario' reality.

[@CJ-hz1uj]

PANTA, a long rationalization, like an oyster trying to make a glossy pearl in response to an irritant or a foreign body. You didn’t hear the term “Mandela Effect” until after Fiona Broome coined it in about 2010. The term gained more attention after Mandela’s passing in 2013, perhaps his passing striking many as odd given they remembered the reports of his death in prison years earlier, and the funeral and ceremonies and mourning broadcast on television. Cognitive dissonance would work in the reverse of how you said. people would just adjust their memory to the new reality, or if the memory persists they would just dismiss it as mistaken. It doesn’t mean what is now called Mandela Effect didn’t happen before the term was coined. Most people noticing this phenomena seem to be over 60, so they were not children when the “Home Alone” franchise began. It seems there are too many people like Dennis Fleaman here who just make these poorly done videos as clickbait without any understanding of the phenomena. Some things are properly classified as possible evidence of the kind of reality shifts that are being noticed, and the term “Mandela Effect” has been useful for that, but as will happen with such things, the cultural processes of folklore, and the more commercial popular culture, will work to change meanings. Let us try to preserve the distinct value of the term “Mandela Effect” as much as we can. It is not to be confused with false memories, the induction of which one of my professors was the world authority on. Elizabeth Loftus was often expert witness for the falsely accused, a very different issue than the Mandela Effect. It is not scientific to be incurious or to deny the reality or even possibility of a phenomenon just because we do not yet have a satisfying model for it or because we are too comfortable with an accepted view to seek beyond it. If one is truly scientific in it’s highest and best sense such phenomena, even if beginning in folklore or popular culture, should inspire or at least provoke us to further expand our understanding. To that end you might refer to the more advanced physicists, including people like Nassim Haramein, Vadim Zeland, and many others who must be necessarily controversial sometimes in their pursuit of scientific truth. You could even go back to Max Planck, the quantum physicist who said consciousness is fundamental and all else is derivative, to begin to realize the implications. When your model of reality no longer holds up in accounting for the observed phenomena, it is anti-scientific to not adjust the model or theories to at least try to account for what is experienced. There is no such thing as settled science, if it’s settled it’s not science.

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That’s what happens when they can’t pay Nintendo ... so they had to change it.

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He’s probably playing on one of those crappy tiger electronic handheld

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Since iv learned about the Mandela effect iv become a gambling man..

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In part 2 Kevin now has a Walkman instead of a talkboy.

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I remember noticing it wasn’t a game boy when I was younger, having thought it was at first. So perhaps it’s just a common mistake. if that’s worth anything

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Now we just makin up Mandel effects

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My Mandela Effect was that I remember Pillsbury’s neck tie being blue not white.