Top 10 Gaming Myths | The Completionist

Growing up you've probably heard plenty of gaming myths, video game urban legends, and other game video game theories. Some have been around so long that they are embedded deeply in gaming culture. In this episode I go through my Top 10 gaming myths, the ones that I've personally connected with and experienced.
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From April Fools articles to the occasional creepypasta, gaming myths are out there in all shapes and sizes. From the infamous Kranky Kong run to Final Fantasy XII quest of denial, and some til this day have yet to be answered. There's a lot of video game secrets in the world. In my episode of Top 10 gaming myths we search for the truth. Because the truth is out there...
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[@Obiwan1994Kenobi-iv4jf]

The All Bonds mode actually almost happened, but of course it was cancelled because the game developers didn't have permission to use the past actors' likenesses.

[@PolskiChuj69]

PLEASE DO A REVIEW OF GOLDENEYE FOR N64!!!

[@nintendofan50]

Pokemon myths... you could make a whole seperate top 10 out of those.

[@superbeardbros]

There's also a myth in Pokemon about what happened to Jirard's Pikachu... #Pikagate

[@jamesa800]

Super Beard Bros Alex killed it

[@damionkelly7459]

#AlexDidNothingWrong

[@ThatOneVideoGamer]

Did that Pikachu ever exist at all?

[@TheWhiskeyDictionary]

I think we need a DefendIt about this.

[@Rkay421]

The Whiskey Dic yes we a defendit episode for this

[@ChaiGuy6]

My number one game myth: Increased chance of catching pokemon by rapidly tapping the A button.

[@IaconDawnshire]

Chai Guy Down + B w

[@ChaiGuy6]

I've heard that there where variations of this myth, Iacon, for example if I remember correctly Poke Kelz pressed A and B alternately in rapid succession as her variation. It makes me wonder how many different myths of this where out there.

[@davidtownsend6092]

It's down and B and it works

[@channeldefunkt9581]

Mine has always been tapping the b button every time the ball flashed until it clicked to say it’s caught.

[@EgoCityGamingUK]

Im convinced it’ll come out that pressing down + b caused the game to glitch like super Mario land and created some weird effect that increased the catching ability.

[@jimmyzeke13]

Anyone remember the old Melee rumor that you could unlock Toad by shooting every last name on the credits screen in Classic Mode?

[@stigmaoftherose]

I dont rember it being toad for me it was the wire frame fighters and required the credits to be in fast forward mode when the shots were fired for each one, I got all the credits shot so many times but I could never come close in fast forward mode.

[@tb.7788]

it was sonic and tails for me. i do remember hearing later about a wire frame one

[@KingTwistedD]

I know it’s been a while since this video dropped but the James Bond “All Bonds” limos turned out to be a real thing that got cut due to licensing issues because of character likeness.

[@PirateDaveZOMG]

It didn't even get "cut" per se, just disabled. Using a GameShark, you could activate it even back on the N64 as all the code and graphics are there for the mode.

[@AluminumFusion22]

The Cranky Kong Challenge was going to be real too; it was scrapped earlier on due to Rare and Nintemdo fearing that players would find the challenge too daunting, and so it was left on the cutting room floor, with the remnant being the line spoken by Cranky at the end of the game.

[@Tusharix]

There's a documentary video on GoldenEye on YT. One of the people who worked on the game mentions that they added the various Bonds in to the game and then pitched the idea. They were told that Connery would want to be paid for his likeness and once he gets paid, the other actors would hear about it and want to get paid as well. Seems like they had a limited budget so, it was scrapped.

[@patrickpope1449]

I knew I wasn't completely Mandelaing. Thank you stranger on the Internet, thank you.

[@Mathmachine]

My favorite kind of gaming myths are the ones that eventually become real, like the Diablo cows example. It's a really cool nod to the player base.

[@GTheGame]

Mathmachine Playing as Master Hand in Melee comes to mind too.

[@amarok5826]

Or the ice berg flipping in club penguin

[@anouk356]

Ermac

[@SatoshiKong]

The Bigfoot in San Andreas myth leading to actual Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) in Red Dead Redemption is probably my favorite.

[@Jared-cm2wv]

To this day, whenever I use a Marill, I name it Pikablu!

[@ThatOneVideoGamer]

#PikabluLivesOn

[@antoniojoserunez4165]

I LOVE MARILLLLLLLLLLLL!!! HE'S MY FAVORITTTTTTTTTEEEEE!!!

[@louis7347]

My list of myths that I wasted hours on: 1. Aeris resurrection 2. Catching Mew in Pokemon Red/Blue 3. Getting Akuma in Resident Evil 2 (this was an April Fool's joke in EGM I believe) 4. Hopping the fence and driving around with the cows in Moo Moo Farm from Mario Kart 64 (I read this on an AOL forum) 5. Lara Croft's nude code in Tomb Raider

[@Xetelian]

I fell for the Mew and Pikablue ones and I did try to rez Aeris and ultimately got a gameshark to add her back into the party only to realize she didn't get any stronger like everyone else with Ultimate weapons. I also added Sephiroth to my party with the same problem.

[@louis7347]

Yeah I did that too. But you couldn't control Sephiroth which was disappointing. Cool, but disappointing

[@blueclaws9894]

I'm surprised he didn't mention the big glitch that helped to give weight to the Aeris revival myth: that when you go back to her church in Midgar after she dies, for a moment, just a tiny moment, her character model (slightly ghost-like) will appear tending her flowers before disappearing to never be seen again, unless you reloaded the game to a point where you hadn't seen it yet. It was the main thing that convinced me it was possible to get our kind flower girl back!! I made at least 2 new game runs on the attempt, because we all knew you HAD to show favor to Aeris over any other character to make the res work.

[@nathanielhaven3453]

I don't know about red and blue, but you can get Mew in Yellow with a really really specific cheat.

[@kathyconner1478]

It is possible to glitch the game and keep Aeris in your party....but.... may she rest in peace

[@AustinJohnPlays]

Congrats on 900k!!!!

[@finnkoeweit]

Austin John Plays hey Austin, grabbing some inspiration I think.

[@creaturefeet3036]

It's over 9...hundred thousand!

[@inquisitorsquish5422]

This comment didn't age well 744,000 july 2020

[@Jared-cm2wv]

One of my favorite myths was in Mario Sunshine's "Red Coins in a Bottle in Noki Bay". There's this rock formation underwater that just has an unreachable book inside. It's probably just cut content or, considering how previous stuff had become big online, maybe a developer leaving something mysterious just to see if we noticed? Anyway, it was kind of the "L is real 2401" of the Gamecube generation, and I had a lot of fun trying to reach the book to see if it does anything. (Eventually, people glitched their way end and found out you can't interact with it).

[@finalfantasyfreakk]

0:29 Why Jirard's top 10 videos are ALWAYS the best

[@SwankyBox]

Did someone say gaming myths and rumors? [appears in a puff of smoke] I absolutely LOVE this stuff. It's always neat hearing what rumors were popular depending on where you lived and what you had access to. Great video all around, Jirard! (And stellar editing, Yoshiller!)

[@Yoshiller]

Hee hee, I'm glad that you enjoyed the editing! And as for you, keep up the great work, and keep researching those rumors! ;D

[@splattwig]

Woah! Swankybox!

[@Dorelaxen]

Hey, I been watching some of your videos on Night in the Woods. You guys do good work!

[@hhoop3876]

OwO what’s THIS

[@swedishcomedian7090]

@@Yoshiller not bad as sive1/brad2 editing!

[@rerunx5]

I love Pop Fiction. Didn't know about Game Sleuth. THanks

[@DanPantzig]

I remember the glory days of 1992. Browsing AOL boards and chat rooms, it seemed every other person had "an uncle who worked for Nintendo" or "A cousin who works at Midway". The "myths" they started were fabulous - Nude-alities was perhaps my favorite. The best was how, as you pointed out, Midway didn't really take any of it seriously, and ended up throwing in some of the old rumors such as Animalities and Babalities.

[@daffers2345]

I've heard about the whole thing with blowing into NES cartridges before. It's like shaking a Polaroid ... something "everyone knows to do" but it can actually damage things. I think constant blowing into the carts as well as condensation from your breath can damage both the cartridges and the pins in your system itself. The classic-game stores around here refurbish NES and fix all the pins, then sell them - they are like new. I don't think they refurbish cartridges, but if I recall, they tell you not to blow into them.

[@GameTacoFTW]

I remember one of the first experiences I had with the internet was going onto a website (Cheat Planet and Cheat Code Central) and printing off 30 pages of Pokemon Red rumors. Of course I tried them all including using strength on the truck by the S.S. Anne, using the old rod in a specific spot 250 times, and who knows how many others. If I was a game developer, I'd put all sorts of cryptic junk like that into my game.

[@Focie]

You're not the only one. I think a lot of games thrive on cryptic stuff as they drive up interest and build a sort of sub culture around it :D

[@TheOjamaYellow]

Game Taco Holy crap I remember Cheat Planet and ol’ CCC. Good times.

[@Neogeddon]

Yup... I did the exact same thing, but from a website called TRS Rockin. It didn't help that it was one of the first sites that had information on the real "PokeGods" (just the glitch Pokemon with invalid IDs) that you could find via Gameshark, so I assumed everything else must be true as well; that they had special "insider" info or whatever haha.

[@o.hudson7363]

Im learning game development and Im gonna do that when i develop my first game.

[@bigz4349]

Feebas says hi

[@toastybastard9559]

You hush Jirard, blowing in the cartridges totally worked. Even with the moisture from breathing on the copper connections being bad for them. It works dammit

[@hyperdimensionbliss]

Regardless of whether it worked for NES cartridges, I will fight tooth and nail with anyone who says it doesn't work on GBA and DS/3DS carts.

[@notnobodynotknowhow8992]

I used to use the canned air like you use for cleaning computers to blow on game cartridges without the moisture issue. I still swear that doing it that way is a legitimately good thing to do.

[@michaelbuckers]

How do you know it's not just the action of re-inserting the cartridge to re-align the pins? It's not like trace amounts of dust can create connection issues - USB ports work fine without any cleaning whatsoever despite gathering dust 24/7, and so do audio jacks, display output ports, and pretty much any other data interface with stiff guide rails that don't allow any pin movement freedom.

[@LVL100RED]

Blowing the cartridge WORKS OH GOD THAT was the worst one as a kid lmaooooo

[@ABrant1]

My favorite 'myth' was the story about all the unsold ET cartridges being buried in a landfill in the desert. I love this because EVERYONE said it was a myth for years, until it was finally found! It was hilarious to actually confirm that ET was THAT bad!

[@dbpooper7512]

Blowing in game carts is so hardwired into me, I do it without even thinking.

[@Xetelian]

I was blowing into the cartridges on instinct (horrible instinct), no one had ever done it in front of me and I started doing it as a very young child. I was born in 84 and a got a Nintendo and Mario/Duck Hunt in like 86-87ish and it just was one of the things I did. Didn't ruin any of my games (thank god), but I was lucky.

[@thecommonman9524]

I never had an NES but I blow into controller ports.

[@RetroPaolo]

The 'All Bonds' myth wasn't Photoshop. I read an interview with Goldeneye devs where they said they had the Bonds in the game but had to take them out due to licensing

[@jeffdavis6657]

The myth I heard about it was it would have been Co-op and George Lanzbey would have been the chief enemy. For those unaware, 5 men had been Bond by Goldeneye release.

[@JeremiahKaneGame]

Yeah, that's right. However, they didn't fully remove them. They only dummied them. You could still get them using Game Shark.

[@jojoversus1100]

Lmao Lazenby only played him once. I doubt they were worried about putting him in.

[@jersstuff3458]

I love learning about myths like these. Really gets me thinking. Keep up the good work dude! You’ll reach 1million very soon!

[@ThatOneVideoGamer]

Thanks so much

[@jersstuff3458]

Really, I should be thanking YOU. Consistently providing excellent content that's always entertaining, informative, and inspiring. Always follow your passion Jirard!

[@natetroxide]

Dude...I am so hyped you spoke about Pikablu. I spent HOURS searching for any info i could, game shark codes, possible guides to find it, everything. This was a big one for me.

[@waywardlaser]

Shoutout to Easy Allies

[@shrimpbisque]

I always loved reading about all the different Pokégod rumors that floated around the internet when I was a kid. Stuff like Venustoise, Pikablu, Flareth, Doomsday, Mewthree, etc. One I remember in particular, that I've hardly seen mentioned at all, is Rioligity. It had something to do with getting all the badges and completing the PokéDex or something, and then someone would tell you that Professor Oak had died. You'd go to the funeral, your rival would battle you and his Pokémon would all be super strong, and if you won, Bill would grant you access to his secret garden behind his house, where you'd find Rioligity at level 100.

[@w0197]

#2 SPOILER OWL?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?

[@KyoMao]

Hoo! Hoo! Snape killed Dumbledore!

[@FFSamurai]

Kudos to you for not going the easy route and listing Shenlong from Street Fighter as your number 1. I appreciate the extra mile traveled to compose this list since I’ve no doubt you were tempted to include that one.

[@Sesshomaru3700]

Aerith turned an entire generation of people into Edward and Alphonse Elric, lmao.

[@Loponstorm]

Oh my god, thank you for turning me towards Easy Allies and Game Sleuth, I loved Pop fiction and always felt it was way underappreciated and I was so sad when it stopped being created. I had no idea they started something else up, I'm so happy right now.

[@ariwl1]

[Final Fantasy Spoilers Ahead] Many of us who had played the FF series before VII didn't get our hopes up for bringing Aerith back. We'd already lost all hope trying and failing to bring back General Leo.

[@VanessaVersus]

Or Galuf. Or Tellah.

[@ariwl1]

Or half the cast of the NES FF II. XD

[@interceptorismydogproducti756]

Leo is my #1 myth. It still hurts LOL

[@TheBattlechicken]

At least we can save shadow

[@ariwl1]

I failed at that the first time...

[@VirtualFoxP]

I'm really happy you added Pikablu, Pikablu was also one of the first gaming myths of my childhood

[@amm6112]

I love you so much dude thanks for always bringing me joy when I see you on my dashboard. Edit: my comment got a heart from the completionist. You just made my day complete *CRINGE*😅

[@Collecter128]

One of my favorites were these myths about Banjo Tooie having an area called the "Ridiculously secret area" and a lot of other myths surrounding it and Banjo Kazooie

[@comradebear1676]

I shit my self when you mentioned Pop fiction. That was the series that got me into gaming on KZbin years ago. I love them!

[@joshnibert4511]

Oh man, Diablo II was my first in the series and is still one of my all time favorite games. I saw rumors about the infamous Cow level and was only told I needed that leg. I spent many weeks trying to figure out how to access the cow level. My older brother ended up helping me though.

[@DanDoesGame]

I like personal top 10's anyways....... Anyone can use google, nobody can choose what you think

[@ThatOneVideoGamer]

That is kind of you to say.

[@wowza935]

Until u realize it's the same shit everyone else did.

[@DarkDragon1889]

My #1 Gaming myth was the "Secret Colossus Temple fight" from Shadow of the Colossus. I was absolutely OBSESSED with this game in junior high, and the--now obviously fake--"I found a secret!" and the flub/rp SOTC channels were really what got me into gaming channels on KZbin. For is SOTC lovers, the idea of a hidden Colossus battle--primarily, the unnamed dragon colossi that was cut before the final product--on the roof above the Secret Garden (the place where the game's ending cutscene takes place, which IS actually accessible legit if you play through the game enough times and increase your grip meter enough to make the INSANELY long hidden climb up and around the side of Dormin's temple). I tried for HOURS to use the parachute glitch to get myself to the highest point of the temple from the secret garden, and when I finally pulled it off...Wander just falls through the roof because that area wasn't coded to be solid. Biggest letdown ever. 😂😂😂

[@SymphanyinSorrow]

I love me some Easy Allies!

[@JTRogue151]

I like his pose art next to every number he looks forward triumphantly saying I FELL FOR ALL OF THESE!

[@fuegonintendo9117]

All those hours trying to get to Bill’s Garden.....

[@leviwarren6222]

"No low hanging fruit!" Proceeds to blow into cartridge.

[@niklaskraus1030]

"I did not want to make this easy" "Only picks myths he already knows"

[@LittleZbot]

Pretty sure what he actually meant was he didn’t want to make it BORING.

[@Prosper_Dean]

I got a jack in the box commercial too 😳😉

[@dialaskisel5929]

Great list! Thank goodness for not dwelling on the low hanging fruit and actually going towards lesser known myths. Some of them could have used a few more details, but... of course they were just myths (for the most part)

[@toongrowner1]

giving a spoiler warning to final fantasy 7 is like giving a spoiler warning about that Darth Vader is Lukes father, or that the titanic hits an iceberg at the end. XD

[@TheRezro]

Still, hard to blame him..

[@luxnomster]

Wow. The Pikablu myth critically hit me with forgotten nostalgia. Thank you.

[@will4not]

I love how personal you make your top tens. I subscribed to your channel because of your personality, so I enjoy that you are not trying to give an objective truth to what is no. 3 vs. no. 1 based on some scientific rigor, etc; rather, it comes from you and your life and your history with these games. It also makes me think, "What would my top 10 list be?" instead of "How could he not include [insert thing here]?!"

[@danielturner1891]

The spoiler warning for ff7 is pretty classy. I’ve had it spoiled for me as I never played it and was waiting for the remake. Some don’t hold back.

[@pug6312]

Daniel Turner you’re going to be waiting for like 2-4 more years. Might as well play the original

[@Xetelian]

Yeah, good call to put a spoiler warning for the generation of kids that were born AFTER FF7 came out and the few people who own Playstations but don't play the JRPGs. Remake is going to be a huge let down so I would also suggest playing through the original. I personally put over 99 hours into FF7 when I was a kid, I got a playstation and FF7 for Christmas because a friend had it and it looked amazing. I didn't know you needed a memory card to save the game (I was used to Nintendo cartridges) and played the first 3 or 4 hours of the game a few times before finally talking my mother into getting me a memory card. Then I proceeded to 100% the game and play the mini games for hours.

[@JerryLantz]

Yeah, I'm not excited for the remake at all. I absolutely love VII, and from what I've read, they're completely changing it.

[@SatoshiKong]

I think 20 years exceeds the spoiler statute of limitations by a long shot, to be perfectly honest.

[@FelixFFern]

Oh my God, I'm so happy to hear you talk about Pikablu!! I remember how fucking crazy so many of us went back in the day over that.

[@ryancarless7921]

Nice video! Top 10 Platformers possibly?

[@nolandrummond6365]

Ryan Carless would have mario everywhere but heres my list 10.mario 1 9 donkey kong country 8 sonic 1 7 mario 2 american 6 mario 2 japan 5 donkey kong country 2 4 sonic 2 3 mario world gameboy version 2 sonic 3 1 super mario world original

[@stephenmitchell4230]

There was a myth that circulated in my neighborhood concerning the original Super Smash brothers. We were under the impression that you could unlock Mew as a playable character if you successfully hit him with a pokeball. Needless to say, my friends and I spent a minimum of 5-6 hours attempting to make this happen. A fruitless endeavor, yes, but we still enjoyed every minute.

[@hulkamaniac55]

Why the hell wasn't your last video in my sub box? Youuuutuubbbeee

[@strain42]

I used to work at a retro game shop, and Jirard, thank you for bringing the myth of blowing into your games to life. A lot of the times why that works for people is that the spit that gets blown into the cartridge helps form the connection, but yes, it can absolutely rust and ruin your games. Believe it or not, a little sandpaper works wonders, so long as you don't go too deep with it.

[@LukesGamerRoom]

Whars,funny about number 8 is there are the other bonds portraits in the game. And you can unlock them via,gameshark I think (I did it once) as they were supposed to be in the game but couldn't get the,l rites

[@Goleon]

Yeah I was going to point that out. It was meant to be there but sadly things didn't go the game designers way. I believe Guru Larry talked about it. So this magazine basically took that would of been concept and used it to piss off players who didn't know it was almost a real thing.

[@LukesGamerRoom]

spot on. There were several things like that in golden eye. The original ads had early weapon skins that never made it in that always drove me nuts. Though you could use the shotgun one with the all guns cheat. And another one i recently discovered is the original release of the game the manual calls the klobb the spyder. That DROVE ME INSANEE. I was like where the hell is the spyder! Later release manuals correctly call it the klobb

[@jignjorf9076]

Yeah it was all of them except for George Lazenby for some reason. They ended up being cut near the end of development for, as you said, legal reasons. Though amusingly enough, before cutting them from the game, some of the developers played as all 4 of them in one final deathmatch to 100 kills, which took about 3 hours.

[@cconnorss]

I LOVED the ffVII Game Over theme at the end. Thank you so much for being who you are.

[@joeforti596]

David Wise = Composter lol

[@ThatOneVideoGamer]

Somehow our collective eyes glazed over this several times.

[@evknucklehead]

Who knows, he might do some composting at home when he's not busy making music...

[@Alias1-23]

One of my personal favorite myths as a kid was in Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. In the Mossdeep space center, there's an NPC who counts the number of successful space rocket launches. The rumor was that if the counter reaches 100, he would let you ride a rocket up to the moon and that would allow you to fight and catch Jirachi and Deoxys. On the topic of Aerith's death, the visual novel Hate Plus has a fun little easter egg referencing it in its achievements. One achievement is called "Level Four Revive Materia," and the requirement for it is to reach the end of the game with a certain character still "alive." It's actually impossible to get, though, like how it's impossible to revive Aerith.

[@SomeHeroAlex]

My favorite myth ever: Does Bruno Mars is Gay?

[@WeskersPlayhouse]

I remember in the late 90s there were so many myths for so many different games and shows it was ridiculous. Every kid had his own Geocities or Angelfire page with crazy things that were always so vague and hard to do. Some more Pokemon ones I remember seeing were in Red and Blue getting HM06 Blast to blast your way through the fence in Pallet Town to go to a new area (probably to catch Mew or Pikablu or something along those lines) and in Gold and Silver talking to the guy whose Itemfinder responds in Cerulean where the Dungeon used to be an arbitrarily large amount times would do various secret things. It is nice living in a world where we almost always know what is and isn't true about a game for sure, but it does eliminate that mystique that was there when you were a kid.

[@krock90]

Waitaminnit, wasn't the other Bonds originally legit planned to be playable in *Goldeneye* multiplayer? I feel like i saw somewhere that there were remnants of that plan in the game code. Am i wrong?

[@JorWat25]

tcrf.net/GoldenEye_007_%28Nintendo_64%29#All_Bonds Yes, there are remnants of it in the game.

[@vroomvroom969]

Noice video my dude. This took me back when all I did was watch stuff about myths in video games. One of my favorites was a way to access a secret ending in Shadow of the Colossus. Keep up the good work!

[@bedsidecargo]

We almost 1,000,000 bois

[@ThatOneVideoGamer]

#RoadtoaMillion

[@Silentgrace11]

In the same vein of the FFVII myth, I don’t think it was ever an official myth, but as a kid I was completely convinced there was a way to bring Lavitz from Legend of Dragoon back after he died. I had this whole convoluted plan surrounding the ghost ship. Little did I realize (two years later, because my blonde butt was stuck on a level because I didn’t notice a door I hadn’t gone through in the area) that his death becomes relevant to the plot later, and seeing that made me realize having him accessible in the game again was just a pipe dream. ...doesn’t stop me from having fun now and again and manipulating the functions of what creates the New Game Plus glitch and try to merge saves to where he’s an active member of the party after he dies, but that’s just more of my love of glitches and learning their limitations than my vacant need to bring back the first of many characters I grew attached to only to have them be the first to die ;u;

[@west3Dgaming]

"Blowing in cartridges doesn't work" . . . *Turns off video*

[@CornerstoneMinistry316]

Oh it totally works! NOT A MYTH

[@RyluRocky]

No it does work but what hes saying is that it causes a lot of harm to your cartridges.

[@Fire5]

It works at ruining your game over time so yes it does work whether it’s the way you think or not.

[@tarrker]

Oh it absolutely works. Removing dust from the contacts will definitely have a noticeable effect on its connection to the console. But blowing on a cartridge with your mouth will remove dust and add moisture which corrodes the contacts. Get a can of air :)

[@seekingfreedom9020]

Yes this works for me almost every time

[@Salmon_Samurai]

Music in #2 never fails to give me goosebumps. Such a beautiful piece.

[@AaronLoving]

Pikablu is freaking stupid name. Fans need to try harder

[@darthlobster]

We were ten.

[@abledkey]

Pikablu I see what you did there XD

[@Darkbeast42]

Pikablu at least it's better than Super Saiyan Blue.

[@AdiG1]

Super Pikblu Super Pika

[@poyoboyo2788]

Poyo

[@rickglp]

Thank your Jirard for the Easy Allies plug. I loved those guys in the Game Trailer days and since then I've been wondering where they were. This is amazing!

[@mundane_in_the_membrane]

How about uh...Top 10 Video Games Worth Completing? Maybe? Idk...

[@ThatOneVideoGamer]

Nice

[@omegagilgamesh]

Hey yeah! I can only think of two games Jared has done that he gave a "Complete It" rating to, so having a list of his most recommended "Complete it" games would be awesome! I wonder how many of them will be from the taken down videos.

[@CostaCostaCosta]

That's a great idea.

[@glox30]

yeah, and it would be nice to do two videos, one for top 10 classic games, second for modern games like after 2005

[@NinjaKIngAce]

I heard that same rumor about Sonic and Tails in Melee, from my neighbor, as a kid. I was 90% sure it wasn't true, but that 10% was enough for me to at least attempt to unlock them. Unfortunately, I was nowhere near good enough at Smash Bros. to get 20 kills in Cruel Melee, even after hours of playing, I was lucky if I got past one kill. For what it's worth, I applaud you for being able to do this as a kid, as I can only imagine how hard it must've been.

[@ninjasec]

Jealous of people getting heart comments

[@ThatOneVideoGamer]

Envy no longer

[@omegagilgamesh]

That's one way of getting it.

[@wowza935]

What a bundle of sticks

[@redtexan7053]

Number 3 persists to this day. In fact it does so so well, that I didn’t know it was a myth until watching this video.

[@fruustles]

There is a secret cow level in Diablo 3 iirc

[@PKSandman]

Yeah, it's called "Not the Cow Level". Of course, Whimsyshire and Whimsydale are also both available.

[@flattestsoup6790]

Thats not a myth its a fact lol

[@JerryLantz]

I remember most of these myths from my childhood. Especially the Pokemon ones. I spent so much damn time trying to move that truck to find Mew. I was so glad when I got the internet and finally found out how to get it legitimately.

[@1meengreenie]

"The Raichu you traded me went and evolved!" is basically the result of translation issues. In the Japanese version of Blue (the source for the text), the Pokemon you trade is Kadabra, which does evolve from trade. The localization team didn't catch these inconsistencies, thus, the start of the "Pikablu" rumor. At my school, the biggest rumor we had was "Crystal Onix." Someone at the school had found a shiny Onix in Gold (none of us understood what shinies were aside from the Red Gyarados), and after telling everyone where they found it, everyone kept looking for it in the same cave for weeks on end until we got sick of searching for it.

[@aozgolo]

In Classic World of Warcraft, there was a dungeon called Stratholme where the last boss had a very rare mount you could get drop from him. It had an extremely low drop rate, leading to multiple theories that in order to get it you had to do very specific things such as make sure the boss died within a circle pentagram in the boss room, get to the boss within a certain time limit, or even kill every other trash mob in the level (the dungeon was huge). These kinds of theories spread on to other dungeons and rare loot drops, since people hated the idea that they had zero control over a very tiny drop rate and farming a rare item was made more tolerable when you thought doing certain actions changed the drop rate.

[@Natromat]

All I could think about during the vid was Pop Fiction and the Allies, so cool to see you shout them out!

[@Shmandalf]

I remember the PikaBlue myth too, it was all the rage on the playground honestly. It really was bigger than the mew thing, since at the time most of my friends had already tried for themselves!

[@AgentLane13]

2:06 I love that David Wise was the composter for Rare, and Grant Kirkhope wrote music.

[@thombeacock5001]

Personally, my favourite in-game myth is the secret 5th chest in Destiny’s Vault of Glass Raid. When the Raid first launched, there were 4 hidden loot chests in the Raid. Soon after, a rumour spread that suggested there was a 5th chest somewhere in the Raid. Over the years, various theories have as to how to obtain the chest have circulated: Some suggest beating the first boss without letting it perform a certain action, having 0 deaths prior to and during the first boss fight, finding a way to activate a certain Vex Warp Gate (a ring-shaped portal), or some combination of these and other actions. This myth became so popular amongst the community, that an in-game achievement was added for beating the first boss without it performing the certain action referred to earlier! When the Raid was brought up to the current Light Level last year, the developers put in a 5th chest, though it has been referred to as the 6th chest due to the fact that Bungie has never officially called it ‘The 5th Chest’. To this day, people still hold out hope that Bungie will confirm the existence of this legendary reward!

[@ThoroughlyBaked]

The one I remember from Melee was the one about being able to unlock Toad as a character. After a while it just become a way to troll people on the GameFaqs board when they asked the question. It's been years but I remember one of the "solutions" being you had to beat the single player with every other character while taking no damage, and then shoot 100% of the names in the credits mini game. It also had it's own obviously faked "proof" posts on the message board that wouldn't even get a second glance these days, but in '01... well, those were simpler times.

[@zoenicoletv]

One for me and my bro We were always curious as to why Resident Evil 4 kept track of the number of times you saved. We mastered the game, compleating it 10s of times 100% nothing else to do in the game, yet we still were curious as to why it kept track of that number. We thought maybe if we beat it with a REALLY low number we would unlock one last super weapon. Wrong Sure this maybe wasnt a popular myth but we couldnt have been the only ones who tried this. In our teenage hearts we were so sure it would have lead us to something, much like the Cranky Kong run in Donkey Kong Country. (Which I also fell for when I was a kid)

[@Kafkaesque3]

I remember hearing as a kid, that in Super Smash Bros 64 you could unlock Raichu if you beat 1P Mode on very hard with pikachu and 1 life. Raichu's character box was said to be split with pikachus, never was able to do it lol

[@Xetelian]

I fell for the Pikablue myth as a kid, I tried everything, and the Mew one. I was reading Angelfire and Geocities pages with instructions like "Catch 99 pikachus" and other ridiculous stuff, I didn't attempt all the methods to catch a Pikablue or Mew but I did end up trying a few and it made me put many many more hours into one of my favorite games so no harm done.

[@alexrush4140]

Biggest game myth for me was hearing you could resurrect Leo in Final Fantasy 3 (or FFVI as it is now known)

[@seandobbins2231]

Yeah, that was the myth for me too. Spent too much time on that one. That said, FFVI is what it's always been known as, at least outside of the NA SNES release. Guess they thought that numbering them according to their NA release wouldn't be confusing, esp. after the FF anthology release.

[@missspark4652]

Dunkey and Completionist crossover! LET'S GO!!!

[@robmortimer4150]

Back in the early 90s a newspaper gaming column made several references to an extra level on Super Mario World that could be reached by collecting all the Yoshi coins and dropping through a hole in the floor on the sunken ship. I’ve never seen it referenced since though...

[@OneColdMonkey]

My favorite myth was that you could get a fire flower in Super Mario Bros 2. When I was in elementary school we went nuts looking for it. We wanted to see what Princess Toadstool looked like with fire power!

[@BeatleJWOL]

Fun fact on the NES blowing myth: part of the problem is the front-loading design of the American NES. The Famicom doesn't have this problem, being a top loader, but the NES will gradually have its contacts bent downwards and out of alignment after many, many controller presses down. It's possible to open the NES up and bend the pins back into shape. Supposedly the change in design was due to the US video game crash in the early 1980s, so Nintendo redesigned the NES to resemble a VCR, to make it more appealing. No idea if THAT part is true, though.

[@blacksapphirehorse]

Lol, probably a REALLY obscure gaming myth, but one I tried for ever to complete: it was claimed that, in Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town on the Game Boy Advance, if you befriended Barley, the owner of the neighbouring animal farm, he would borrow your dog and one day bring you the puppies that his dog and your dog produced. It took me a LONG time to accept that there was no way to get puppies in that game 😅

[@iiRPM]

So while working on DKC, David Wise just decomposed various things, while Grant Kirkhope made all the music by himself? Impressive.

[@adamb6646]

I remember reading a bunch of red-on-black angelfire sites about the Pokemon myths: pikablu, Dreamland, poke-gods, extra evolutions, etc. Funny thing is, they all eventual became reality in various sequels.

[@elijahperez71]

Dude thank you for bringing up game sleuth/pop fiction, they seriously are amazing and great.

[@RainTreeNecro]

The EGM April's Fool that got me the hardest was unlocking Simon Belmont in TMNT The Arcade Game.

[@Nitroxity]

Nice to know Pop Fiction isn't forgotten... definitely need to check out that spiritual successor now!

[@ghostgurlgamer]

I remember the PikaBlu myth!!! I completely forgot. In my school, we didn't think it was a Raichu evolution, but a Pikachu evolution using stones.

[@terrific4715]

10:14 Are you kidding me? To this day, for FOURTEEN YEARS I have been spending all my breath blowing into a cartridge, not just an NES one, thinking that it actually helped. Wow, Thanks Jirard.

[@RanCossack]

Quite the interesting list. I always wondered what it was about the blowing on the cartridge myth that caused actual problems, glad I didn't do it too often as a kid. And sadly, like so many others, the myth of saving Aeris / Aerith will forever be naught but that. Who knows what will happen in the FF7 remake.

[@AzureZero20XX]

Mega Man 9 Secret was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this video. So glad to see it #1.

[@MrZachtheKingsfan]

Was half expecting the Sasquatch myth from GTA: San Andreas. Never in my life did I hear so many of my friends from school swore they saw that thing, but it’s another example of how it was originally a myth, but then became an actual thing in the later games.

[@PikaLink91]

I love gaming rumors. They keep the conversation going, gives you something to think, wonder, and speculate about. And real or not, it keeps the game's legacy alive.

[@ruyman90]

In my school when I was a kid was all about zelda myths. Some were real like the biggoron sword or the Hyrule Loach which i found later in life. Some other where fake like getting the triforce or beating the running man. Surprisingly the one that resonated with me because I found it by myself and I spread it in my school is that if you manage to touch a butterfly with the point of a wooden stick it will transforms in a fairy.

[@Solidlink69]

ruyman90 "finding"ways to beat the running man was a big one for me too.