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Post by parrothead on Jul 10, 2010 0:59:09 GMT -5
What are some gaming myths that annoy you? One myth that annoys me is: "E.T. for the Atari 2600 fully caused the 1983 North American Video Game Crash!" - Actually, it was trying to save North American video game business, but it was too late. Many other video games and hardware (like backward compatibility modules for playing Atari 2600 games for the Intellivision and the ColecoVision), plus some pirated ones like the Sears Tele-Games (rebranded Atari 2600) were already beginning to make North Americans get bored of video gaming and not fully understand the point of it, while Japan was still having fun with it. E.T. didn't cause it, but it didn't help much though, and it was symptomatic of Atari's attitude, "...lets rush out a licensed game for Xmas". They gave Howard Scott Warshaw 6 weeks to make that game. Also, that's a big myth about the cartridges being buried in the desert, since Atari reused cartridges that didn't sell, just like Nintendo recycling the RadarScope arcade cabinets into Donkey Kong arcades, and using left-over Mario Paint boxes for selling EarthBound in North America. So it would of cost E.T. a lot of money to hire all those diggers and waste the cartridges it could of re-used. The 1983 crash wasn't visible enough to most consumers until 1984. Therefore, many innovative arcade games of 1984 (including Tecmo's Star Force, Irem's Kung-Fu Master, Data East's Karate Champ, Namco's The Tower of Druaga and Nintendo's Punch-Out!! arcade) became criminally overlooked outside of Japan. This review and this video help prove that E.T. isn't that awful. |
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Post by TV Eye on Jul 10, 2010 1:07:04 GMT -5
Luigi is in Super Mario 64.
People...still...believe this. It annoys the shit out of me. L is real? 2401? It's just a blurry mess of pixels, dammit!
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Post by Boo Destroyer on Jul 10, 2010 1:08:24 GMT -5
Luigi is in Super Mario 64. People...still...believe this. It annoys the shit out of me. L is real? 2401? It's just a blurry mess of pixels, dammit! Seriously? Even Luigi's description in SSB N64 says he didn't appear in that game. Jesus. |
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Post by Shrikeswind on Jul 10, 2010 2:13:51 GMT -5
Easy: Any "Unlock so-and-so" in "Smash Bros. blahblahblah." That and the misconception that Type A is called "Tetris." That song's a century older than Tetris. Shut up.
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Post by kirbychu on Jul 10, 2010 6:37:09 GMT -5
Are you serious? Even taking into account how old it is E.T. is, by far, the worst video game I have ever played. And I've played Superman 64! |
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Post by Manspeed on Jul 10, 2010 11:04:04 GMT -5
The Polybius myth. Ever heard of it?
It doesn't annoy me so much as it prevents me from sleeping at night. o_______o;;;
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Post by Shrikeswind on Jul 10, 2010 12:50:35 GMT -5
I have not, care to explain?
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Post by The Qu on Jul 10, 2010 12:57:47 GMT -5
In short, the government made arcade cabinets with subliminal messages in them to make players afraid of video games. Or something along those lines- it tends to vary from telling to telling.
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Post by Manspeed on Jul 10, 2010 13:53:04 GMT -5
To be more specific, the legend states that the Polybius machine was only found in Portland, Oregon and they were highly addictive. The game itself has been either described as a Pac-Man style maze game or a Tempest-style 3D space shooter. The kids who played the game reportedly experienced convulsions, epileptic fits, blackouts, memory loss, amnesia, nightmares and night terrors. One was believed to have commited suicide while others supposedly swore off video games forever. Some say the owner of the arcade claimed to have seen men in black showing up to collect data from the machine. Others believe that perhaps the machine was connected with supernatural beings or aliens. To this day no machine has ever been seen again, but the myth still remains sort of prominent in gamer culture. It was even referenced in a Simpsons episode. If you want more info, just look at the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(game) |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 10, 2010 14:10:27 GMT -5
That Shigeru Miyamoto (or, by extension, all Japanese people) hated Donkey Kong Country based on taking a quote out of context. He is now having to correct the internet...
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Post by Savage Adam on Jul 10, 2010 19:31:07 GMT -5
Ocarina of Time myths.
Any and all Ocarina of time myths.
I swear, if you only knew how much time I spent looking for a pig in Dampe's Grave...
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Post by cheatmaster30 on Jul 14, 2010 6:40:43 GMT -5
Anything to do with Pokemon. Good grief, the amount of weird rumours and myths flying around about how to get this and that rare legendary easily, or how to get something not in the original game, or how to get to various 'secret' areas with super powerful Pokemon, or even about the effects of the various glitches. It mainly occurs with the first generation, but still, it's gotten to the point whole sites have been written about the game mechanics in attempt to dispel said myths.
And Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS. Just like the Luigi rumour, as implausible, not true and always believed by at least some people. Next person tying it to that unmarked door next to the other character doors gets flamed to a crisp.
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Post by Koopaul on Jul 14, 2010 20:30:39 GMT -5
Most myths don't annoy me. I love a lot of them. They're so crazy!
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Post by Shrikeswind on Jul 14, 2010 21:15:51 GMT -5
Ah, but Cheatmaster, you CAN get Waluigi in SM64DS! My cousin's friend's sister's daughter's playmate's uncle did it! You gotta collect all the stars after unlocking all the characters, then beat Bowser. After that, you need to get on top of the castle and use a Ground Pound where Yoshi was in the original! This will take you to a room where you'll meet a rabbit who you have to catch. Catch him and he'll give you a key, which you use on the unmarked door. When you enter that room, you have to fight Bowser again. After that, you will be given a password which may only be entered on February 29th every four years, two years after leap year. When you do this, you unlock Waluigi, who HIMSELF is capable of unlocking Bowser as a playable character. To unlock Bowser, you need to get all the stars in the game only using Waluigi, beating Bowser, then resetting your file. After that, you'll start by playing as Bowser! You then must play through the game, and you will unlock Bowser Jr., a Hammer Bro., and Petey Piranha rather than Mario, Luigi, and Wario. And when you do what's needed to unlock Waluigi? You unlock Mario, Luigi, Wario, Yoshi, and Waluigi! But you also have to set your DS on fire. Apparently, his army buddy tried it, but he didn't have fire available, so he used a mini-gun, which also worked.
Can you tell where I got bored?
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Post by 8bitretroshit on Jul 15, 2010 1:41:47 GMT -5
Those ridiculous fake secrets are awesome because you know some poor sap somewhere actually tried it to see if it works. Well I know atleast, since I wasted an hour trying some bullshit trick in Megaman 2 that'd let you FIGHT ALL BOSSES AT ONCE!! When it's in a Nintendo magazine it must be true, right? ..RIGHT? One myth that annoys me is the whole Giygas thing in Mother 3. Yeah there's a bunch of unused enemy images of Claus, two of which look much like NES Giygas and the huge red face. People seem to forget however that the end of the game is stuffed with references to Earthbound, with the retro boat ride and octopus statue you can remove for the hell of it. I'd even go as far and say the blackish final dungeon is much like EB's ice age... except it's black  . So personally I think that whatever that removed boss was supposed to be (LUCAS IN A COMA HURFDURF) it was only a reference to Giygas, not Giygas reborn or some weird fanfiction shit. (Seriously Earthbound fans try to make the games way deeper then they are) But hey I guess it'll remain a myth unless somebody can get a clear answer out of Itoi about it |
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. So personally I think that whatever that removed boss was supposed to be (LUCAS IN A COMA HURFDURF) it was only a reference to Giygas, not Giygas reborn or some weird fanfiction shit. (Seriously Earthbound fans try to make the games way deeper then they are)