Retro Gaming Urban Legends, Hoaxes And Lies

[c0nfu53d]

Polybius

Said to be an arcade game released in the early 80's which caused insanity and suicidal tendencies in all who played it. Data from said machines was then collected by "men in black" from the US govenment.

Turning your console on and off repeatedly will wipe your gamesaves

This one sprung from Nintendo being over carful in there SNES manuals. I can remember spending 5 mins as a kid turning my snes on/off rapidly to see what happened. Nothing. The most that will happen is you'll break the switch or burn out the SNES internal fuses (if your really unlucky) but you game saves will be intact


So anybody got any they would like to share?

[Antiriad2097]

Oh no, its back, why won't it DIE!?

[Tepid Snake]

Polybius

Allegardly an arcade game released in the early 80's which caused insanity and suisidal tendencies in all who played it. Data from said machines was then collected by "men in black" from the US govenment.

But Polybius is totally real!

[martyg]

What's a hoxes?

[Megamixer]

"You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance"

[Commander Jameson]

The desert island on Jet Set Willy.

The Trailer for the moon buggy in Lunar Jetman.

And my favourite, the GTA: San Andreas Bigfoot!

[retrojc]

The desert island on Jet Set Willy.

The Trailer for the moon buggy in Lunar Jetman.

And my favourite, the GTA: San Andreas Bigfoot!

Rockstar don't deny it

[c0nfu53d]

What's a hoxes?

It's the official term for "when the internet steals your letter a "

[GigaPepsiMan]

"You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance"

[SexyWayne]

Not really a hoax as it's real... the great white shark in GTA Vice City... surely someone besides me has seen it???

Every single person I've spoken to about the game has never seen it and reckoned I was bullshitting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uCzK7iki8s

[martyg]

What's a hoxes?

It's the official term for "when the internet steals your letter a "

Sorry, but when it's followed by "Allegardly", "suisidal", and "minites", claiming "typo" seems to be a bit of an urban legend in itself.

[DPrinny]

Who can forget.
Ultimate fighting Universe
http://tooptroop.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/cvg-21.jpg

[JazzFunk]

Never heard of the Polybius thing before, very interesting.

Though not a massively obscure hoax, I do remember when Your Sinclair gave 'Advanced Lawnmower Simulator' a Megagame award, then later included it on a covertape (all part of an elaborate April Fool's joke). Not really in the same league as Polybius, mind.

Back in 1989, I once created a fake cheat for Wonderboy In Monster Land (weeelll, Bikkuriman) on the PC Engine. I lent my PCE to a friend and told him that if you jump up and down on top of the first 'hut' in the game exactly a thousand times (no more, no less), then you'd get both infinite health and infinite cash. He actually tried it and asked me what he was doing wrong the next day, I said you've got to do it EXACTLY a thousand times. He tried it over the next couple of nights, he came back to me again, I told him it was a lie, he looked extremely hurt and went all quiet and rather than feel the jolly jape-master, I felt more like some sick, guilty weirdo for subjecting his poor mind to something so perplexingly misleading.

[c0nfu53d]

Never heard of the Polybius thing before, very interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(game)

Though not a massively obscure hoax, I do remember when Your Sinclair gave 'Advanced Lawnmower Simulator' a Megagame award, then later included it on a covertape (all part of an elaborate April Fool's joke). Not really in the same league as Polybius, mind.

Back in 1989, I once created a fake cheat for Wonderboy In Monster Land (weeelll, Bikkuriman) on the PC Engine. I lent my PCE to a friend and told him that if you jump up and down on top of the first 'hut' in the game exactly a thousand times (no more, no less), then you'd get both infinite health and infinite cash. He actually tried it and asked me what he was doing wrong the next day, I said you've got to do it EXACTLY a thousand times. He tried it over the next couple of nights, he came back to me again, I told him it was a lie, he looked extremely hurt and went all quiet and rather than feel the jolly jape-master, I felt more like some sick, guilty weirdo for subjecting his poor mind to something so perplexingly misleading.

You've got nothing on Offical Nintendo Mag and their SNES Mortal Kombat blood code... New super fatalities looked very convincing in the screenshots. I wish I had a scan of that artical

Sorry, but when it's followed by "Allegardly", "suisidal", and "minites", claiming "typo" seems to be a bit of an urban legend in itself.

Hoxes was a typo but the others were spelling mistakes lol Need to be more careful...

I blame the forum for not having a spell check.

[Sureshot]

The Polybius Thread was forever immortalized in this topic: http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtop ... =2&t=18118