10 Best video game myths

Myths, legends and stories are all an integral part of movies and TV shows. When it comes to video games it’s on a different level altogether. Most of these myths seem to be true, or atleast you want it to be true. Except, they’re not. Some of them were even said to predict the future or predict the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In this list are such gaming moments which created a lot of buzz on the Internet.Check out the Top 10 Video game Myths :

#10 Tomb Raider Nude Code

The most famous game in the mid-90’s was the Tomb Raider. It was a full action packed adventurous game which had a woman in the lead role. The tale about this game was that there was a “nude-code” which was apparently some kind of a cheat code which would unlock a hidden content of the game in which Lara Croft would be baring it all. It actually turned out to be a gaming phenomenon and players were disappointed in the end wasting a lot of time finding the code.

#9 Killing The Dog In Duck Hunt

Duck Hunt was one of the most favorite games in our childhood as it had some real action involved with a laser gun shooting at the ducks that appear in your television screens. Its pretty obvious that all people who have played this game must have noticed a Dog happily applauding you when you sucessfully kill a Duck, but if you miss he used to giggle at you which definitely made you angry and made you take a shot at him. But the game was not designed in a way that you could shoot the K9.

The myth about this was that it was actually possible to Kill That Dog by reaching Level 99 or by playing the arcade version of the game. At the end it all seemed to be hoax and you couldn’t shoot the dog.

#8 Deus Ex Predicts 9/11

Deus Ex was a game which was set in New York City in the year 2000. It made news when 9/11 terrorists attack happened in 2001. The interesting fact, was the game released a year earlier than the attack and did not show the World Trade Center towers when viewed from Liberty Island. This was actually because of the limitations in the game-engine that made the developers to crop the towers.

Then the game was also related to the prediction of a major terrorist attack on New York city, because the game first mission starts with a terrorist organization known as the NSF attacking the Statue of Liberty.

#7 Final Fantasy VIIIs Squall Is Dead For The Second Half Of The Story

Squall, the main character in Final Fantasy VIII, and the legend about him was that he was dead. This news emerged at the end of disc one where he seems impaled by an ice shard while fighting Edea, but when you start the disc two he seems to be normal and no signs of wounds too.

So many people thought that Squall was dead and what we see in disc two is simply a dream Squall is having. The game also seems to be far from real in the second half supporting this fact. At the end of the game we also see a collage of images, among one is a picture of Squall with no face, which gives something more for the fans to discuss.

#6 There\'s a Sex Minigame in \'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas\'

Rockstar Games' "Grand Theft Auto" has always been a controversial series, and a huge scandal erupted when "Grand Theft Auto: San San Andreas" had a mod called Hot Coffee. In that mod, the protagonist goes to have coffee at his girlfriend’s place and naughtiness ensues. Soon, there was a media outrage and the politicians also joined the bandwagon which prompted the game to be re-rated from Mature to Adults-Only.

But the point is almost no one could actually play the minigame. It seemed like a myth as the gamers couldn’t find and play it. The gamers had to modify a lot in order to access it.

#5 Super Mario Bros Flagpole

Accept it, we all have tried to jump past the flag pole in Mario. It was one the most often attempted tricks in the history of gaming. The two actual possible ways to do it was :

One involves a glitch on World 1-1 that abuses the vertical and horizontal looping that occurs when playing the game on a widescreen TV and the Second was the less “cheaty” way, involves using a platform on a string on World 3-3.

We all believed that it was possible to do it at the end of every level, but it was not true.

#4 The Madden Curse

There was a belief among the NFL fans that if their star player Madden was featured on the Cover of the NFL video-game , their team would be cursed for the next season. The curse would hurt the players, destroy their careers and would take a toll on their performance.

But practically speaking American football is a dangerous game and players would definetly get hurt playing it. This was nothing but sheer coincidence but it created so much buzz that it had to be featured on this list.

#3 Fallout 3 predicts the future.

The myth about Fallout3 goes that the game actually predicts the future. It all started in the game’s radio station called as the 'Galaxy News Radio' controlled by a man called Three Dog, if you kill this man, he will be replaced by his assistant called Margaret. Then when you skip past this level and then destroy Raven Rock, GNR will occasionally turn into a 'numbers station'. These allegedly exist in real life - radio transmissions which are heavily coded, most likely relaying military data.

These supposed numbers station's codes were different and were interpreted as dates, before talking about things in our world. The below mentioned were the supposed meesages buried in the game:

• “The Queen has died today. The world mourns, as on days like these we are all Brits.” 4:02 March 19, 2014
• “Have you watched my YouTube video yet, I uploaded myself kicking bums in the nuts.” 24:16 December 24, 2012
• “I can’t believe Britney’s actually won an Oscar!” 21:33 February 27, 2023
• “I can’t believe they’ve actually done it. Not long left. They were warned, but they just had to keep pushing the boundaries of science. The noise. I can’t take the noise anymore. And the light, dear God! The universe is slowly unraveling around us. I’m not going to wait for death. I have a pistol in the attic.” This is actually the only message not preceded by a string of numbers.

#2 Lavendar Town Suicide Spike

All these Pokemon games were a massive hit during the 90’s and it ruled the Gameboy market. They also had several mysteries and secrets that the players were interested about, the mystery of mew and using cheating methods to unlock the 151th Pokemon are to name a few.

But a major issue which created news is the “Lavender Town Syndrome”. As the game was first released in Japan and it supposedly correlated with a huge spike in suicides and illness in children ranging in age from 7 to 12. The myth was that the children did not fall ill or commit suicide until reaching Lavender Town in the popular game. The game’s music was blamed as it created Headaches, Nausea and causing Suicidal tendencies in children. Eventually the game authority had to change the piercing tones of the music in that particular level before the game was shipped overseas.

Above video shows the original music which was in the Japanese version of the game.

#1 Bringing Aeris back in Final Fantasy VII

Aeris’s death was one of the most heart touching scenes in video game history. Even though you want to bring her back to life , no amount of Phoenix Downs you use can revive her.

The myth about this was that it was possible to bring her back and there was an appearance in the church in Midgar resembling her. None of this was true and we had to digest the fact that she was dead and how much ever we try using the cheat codes, she ain’t coming back.