Top 10 Video Game Rumors That Turned Out To Be True

The gaming world is full of rumors, but sometimes they turn out to be true. For this list, we’ll be going over the folklore and gossip about video games that was eventually proven to be real. Our countdown includes Catching Mew in “Pokémon Red & Blue” (1996), the Mass “Grave” for “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” (1982), The Pistol was Overpowered By Design in “Halo: Combat Evolved” (2001), and more! If there’s a video game urban legend/fact that you heard from your uncle who works at Nintendo, let us know in the comments!

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[WatchMojo]

If there’s a video game urban legend/fact that you heard from your uncle who works at Nintendo, let us know in the comments!

[marckempe]

Actually, to fight against Reptile in Mortal Kombat, you did need a double flawless victory without blocking and a fatality in the pit stage, but the green ninja would only appear if the previous mentioned requirements were fulfilled but also if a silhouette passes the moon in the background of the the pit stage.

[danielferrieri]

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[ilovegarradors]

I remember hearing the rumor from a friend that in Pokémon emerald, the mossdeep space center would let you go into space and catch deoxys once it reached a launch success of 100....so many weeks wasted waiting for that to happen. Deoxys is one of my all time fav legendarys. I'd like to thank Nintendo for making this lie true in the hoenn remakes.

[magnusm]

Finally clarity on the last 2 ones.
Mew was a rumor from all the dozens of lore and facts videos and MJ was a vague mystery nobody could clarify for certainty.

[jackcoleman]

Pretty sure you guys got the Reptile one wrong. You have to achieve a double flawless on The Pit but you can do it when a shadow flies across the moon which happens every so many times you play there. That's the point of the clue "look to la Luna" which you even have clipped in this video.

[ryanbennett]

Honorable mention from me: Cheats were 'created' by developers and not meant to be found. Hence why you can 'cheat' in any game (No, not the codes. Actual cheats enabled in co-cop that were no accessible normally).

Back in the original DOOM (1993) it was not intended for there to be certain things that could be done. What we often see in single player dev kits, command lines, and debug menus were locked features in early games. Especially ones with co-op and multiplayer.
Though these dev tools have remained in games since well before 1993, DOOM was among the first games to have players actively discover how to unlock these 'features' implemented by people who worked on the game.

Obviously devs need to test many things in their games, include game breaking bugs. This is why things like dev rooms and sky boxes exist in open world games, and some linear single player ones.

Multiplayer games are no exception. Bethesda was notoriously awful at hiding their dev secrets. Be it merchant chests in Skyrim, or the Fallout 76 dev room which people could glitch into.

Obviously cheating has gone to new heights over the years, but a lot of this is due to people finding what the devs used in their tests and then unlocking it to abuse it. Be it in single player in something like Witcher 3 with the debug console. Or multiplayer dev rooms and skyboxes.


TL;DR - It may seem like a rant about cheaters, but it isn't. It is just a fun fact that the first 'cheats' and glitches were people discovering what devs hid from them.

[SlyFrye]

This was awesome to see! I pretty much knew about all these rumors except for like number 10 I think

[CloneScavengerVulpin]

Mario 64 was a classic, i enjoyed playing it as a child, on my old nintendo console.

[ebesonen]

Finding Yoshi on top of Princess Peach's castle was amazing, after collecting all the stars in Mario 64 you could shoot yourself up to the roof of the castle to find Mario's pal Yoshi, he gives you 100 extra lives and an invincible jump, it was one of the coolest things I did as a kid and I'll never forget how fun it was to do on the N64 🎮

[TudominotheGreat]

Brad Buxer even had a band called "The Jetzons" that played a song that sounds exactly like Ice Cap Zone called "Hard Times"

[AndersonNeo]

Awesome video. Mystery content is just amazing ☺️

[Majora_]

You really should have included L is real 2401. It was a rumor that said you could play as Luigi if you did a whole bunch of things that never worked. It was finally solved back in 2020 when there was a huge leak of nintendo source code that revealed luigi's model. Funnily enough it happened around 24 years and one month after the game's original Japanese release.

[sonicguyver]

On the back of the box for Goldeneye you could see partial pictures two other Bonds on the character select picture.

[trexadvent]

Are we going to see more rumours about video games which are true in the future? Which one of these rumours do you think is the most shocking?

[cadeevans]

Love this video awesome mystery rumores on our favorite video games

[ZombifiedBuizel]

Speaking of Mew my ex-friend and I were talking about Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu before it released. We learned Mew was going to be obtainable but now how. We brought up how funny it would be if you actually did find Mew under the rumored truck. Of course Mew was obtained by using a Pokèball controller.

[boycottactivision]

FUN FACT: Mario 64 was originally supposed to be a Yoshi Game developed by Argonaut Games. Nintendo rejected it, then fired Argonaut but kept the Concepts and Made it into Mario 64

[emiebex]

The 3rd Flute in Super Mario 3 I always knew about 2 of them...but The 3rd in Desert Land I thought was a Joke. Especially since you only needed 2 to warp to world 8.

[jeremygilbert]

The Mew glitch was a bit more complicated than that. First off, you need to find a trainer that's offscreen that you haven't fought yet. There's few of those to begin with by the time you can use Fly outside of battle but your best bet, at least for me, is one on cycling road. You need to move one tile over into their visible range but pause before they "see" you and fly away. If done right you'll see an exclamation point appear over their head before you fly off. Then you need to encounter and beat or flee from a Pokemon with a special stat of 21 which can be tricky. I fittingly used a Ditto outside of Fuchsia city that I had copy one of my Pokemon with a 21 special stat, then return to the glitched trainers area but DON'T get ANY other encounters or you have to start again. At some point upon approaching the trainer the menu will open up on its own. Close it and BOOM, there's your Mew.