Dub H
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Post by Dub H on Jul 11, 2020 6:41:08 GMT -5
this thread is a reminder that people always were and always will be horny
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Post by Perfect Timing on Jul 11, 2020 9:00:17 GMT -5
Not a rumor but I'm rememeber when I was about 11 some soft spoken Indian kid with a full moustache kept bragging about a wrestling game he didn't have and said he would bring it to me and we would swap, he said it for a few days I guess to mind f*** and every time I asked him he said he forgot.
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Post by Stu on Jul 11, 2020 9:35:51 GMT -5
I'll do you one better. Why is Gamora Here's a rumor with a legitimate source that turned out to be a prank.
It's been mentioned already, but I refer to the legend of Shen Long in Street Fighter II. Everyone swore there was a way to unlock him and that's all because EGM actually put out a screen shot of him. Little did people realize this was from EGM's April issue. As in April Fools Day.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 11, 2020 10:03:42 GMT -5
I'll do you one better. Why is Gamora Here's a rumor with a legitimate source that turned out to be a prank. It's been mentioned already, but I refer to the legend of Shen Long in Street Fighter II. Everyone swore there was a way to unlock him and that's all because EGM actually put out a screen shot of him. Little did people realize this was from EGM's April issue. As in April Fools Day. Capcom wound up using the "secret character wipes out Bison and challenges you" setup for Akuma, so this would be one of the rare occasions where a hoax inspired a later feature.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 10:38:07 GMT -5
Was it Tomb Raider 1 that had pointy tits and Tomb Raider 2 upgraded to more round ones? I was living for that nude code anyway.
Also remember searching for Bigfoot in San Andreas.
I don't remember anything that's not been said right now. I'm pretty sure I've told and heard lies about Pokemon games too.
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Post by Paul on Jul 11, 2020 22:59:11 GMT -5
Ermac being in Mortal Kombat (thanks largely in part to EGM putting a doctor'ed image in their magazine as a joke...).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2020 9:45:18 GMT -5
I remember a website that was full of bs user submitted cheats. One of my favorites due to its absurdity was “fart in the professor’s sandwich to reveal and catch Celebi.”
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Post by agent817 on Jul 12, 2020 11:49:36 GMT -5
Could unlock subzero and scorpion on NBA Jam and do their moves to the other players. you could... You could also activate "fatalaties" mode.... which while On FIRE! you can push people and cause them to light fire. This was a real thing. Midway even made a Mortal Kombat-themed arena for NBA Jam T.E. However, the people at the NBA said no to this, as they didn't want to be associated with a game that involves mutilation and dismemberment.
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Post by tankisfreemason on Jul 12, 2020 12:14:54 GMT -5
Sonic and Tails being in Melee, EGM printed this as an April Fools joke
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Post by Wardlow on Wardlow 54 on Jul 12, 2020 18:45:03 GMT -5
Mew under the truck.
Pikachu could evolve into Pikablu if you used a water stone on the sea route next to Cerulean Cave.
Luigi was unlockable in Super Mario 64.
You could unlock Street Fighter characters in Mortal Kombat.
Goro being in MK2 (that was false, right?).
Sonya and Kano being in MK2.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Jul 13, 2020 2:50:46 GMT -5
Being able to get behind Bill's House in Pokemon Red & Blue and getting Pikablu
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jul 13, 2020 3:07:15 GMT -5
Yoshi as a hidden evolution (even if just cosmetic) for the Dratini line in Pokemon Red/Blue was one I wanted to be true so bad. Ended up being from a magazine April Fools gag that someone else at school came across, but I didn't find the source until years later.
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Post by ltcproductions on Jul 13, 2020 10:58:15 GMT -5
you could... You could also activate "fatalaties" mode.... which while On FIRE! you can push people and cause them to light fire. This was a real thing. Midway even made a Mortal Kombat-themed arena for NBA Jam T.E. However, the people at the NBA said no to this, as they didn't want to be associated with a game that involves mutilation and dismemberment. And yet Isaac Clarke from Dead Space was in the 2011 game.
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Post by crankypants on Jul 13, 2020 18:43:06 GMT -5
I have a vague recollection of a video games magazine I used to read printing an April Fool's that you could unlock a team of video game characters in FIFA. The only one I can remember is that Goro was the goalkeeper.
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Post by The Foreigner™ in Playoff Mode on Jul 13, 2020 19:58:22 GMT -5
The existence of a "Mewthree," which angered me as I insisted there was no such thing.
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 14, 2020 17:55:46 GMT -5
Not as a kid, but when I was in college my friend was convinced that Jim Neidhart was unlockable in WWF War Zone.
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Post by nickcave on Jul 15, 2020 12:16:03 GMT -5
the PokeGods in Pokemon
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Post by agent817 on Jul 15, 2020 15:33:51 GMT -5
This was a real thing. Midway even made a Mortal Kombat-themed arena for NBA Jam T.E. However, the people at the NBA said no to this, as they didn't want to be associated with a game that involves mutilation and dismemberment. And yet Isaac Clarke from Dead Space was in the 2011 game. How times had changed. Anyway, not so much a kid but a teenager (I was 17, almost 18), but I remember when the second Def Jam game was announced, there was an announcement that some of fictional characters from Def Jam Vendetta were returning. Being that the character of Nyne was returning, it was said that a character named "Tenn," who was allegedly Nyne's brother was going to be introduced. It turned out to be an April Fools joke. Personally, I initially thought the character of Bo was supposed to be that character.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jul 15, 2020 16:25:53 GMT -5
Not as a kid, but when I was in college my friend was convinced that Jim Neidhart was unlockable in WWF War Zone. I know it wouldn't have improved the gameplay, but War Zone really could have used more mid-carders. WCW World Tour actually had Taka Michinoku, even if it was under a fictional name.
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Post by ERON on Jul 15, 2020 22:34:51 GMT -5
I also remember people insisting that there were mature versions of the Friday the 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street NES games where you played as Jason and Freddy going around killing people. Maybe they were having vague recollections of Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the Atari.
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