Top 10 Video Game Urban Legends That Will Make You Never Play Again
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Greetings gamers welcome back to top 10 gaming, I’m your host Connor Munro and today I’m
going against the purpose of this channel and acting like your local news and telling
you why you shouldn’t play video games.
Well not really, but this list may deter you.
Or make you go even deeper.
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Okay, now let get into todays list of the Top 10 Video Game Urban Legends That Will
Make You Never Play Again, boy that’s a long title.
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#10 Street Fighter II’s Secret Character Sheng Long is an April Fools day hoax from
1992.
In a February issue of EGM [Electronic Gaming Monthly] a joke based on a translation error
was suggesting that there was a secret character named Sheng Long that was unlockable in Street
Fighter 2.
After other places reprinted the joke as a fact without verifying it or themselves, the
rumor spread like wildfire and everyone assumed it to be fact.
Fake walkthroughs surfaced online on how to acquire the character and everyone was getting
frustrated about not being able to unlock it.
This isn’t really, scary per say, but it’s more of a warning to not believe everything
you read.
Even if the character would be super cool.
Sheng Long influenced the characters of Akuma and Gouken with the former appearing as a
secret boss in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo.
So I guess he is real, he lives in those characters.
#9 Demonic Killer Cows The first Diablo took place in a small town
named Tristam with a few smaller buildings, and a church that eventually led into hell
itself.
And for one reason or another, lots of cows.
If the player were to click on the cows to interact with them, the cows would moo.
If you kept clicking, they would moo more and more, with those moos becoming more aggravated
as time went on.
Somehow, the cows getting angry at people for annoying them turned into a widespread
rumor that if a particular cow or a certain set of cows were clicked the right amount
of times, you would be transported to a secret dimension filled with hostile axe-wielding
cows.
Here’s laughing cow!
Does that cow have a name?
I don’t know.
This legend got so popular that blizzard, the creators of diablo started referencing
the level in other games like Star craft and World of Warcraft with “there is no cow
level” being a cheat for starcraft and a loading screen tip in World of Warcraft.
They then included secret cow levels in both Diablo II and III.
#8 Killswitch Killswitch is the story of a woman who wakes
up injured at the bottom of a coal mine.
She must fight her way through demons, specters, undead miners and possessed machinery to escape.
The game gave you the choice to play as Proto who is the woman who wakes up injured, or
Ghast, an invisible deamon who you would not be able to play as, since you know you cant
see them.
This game is very strange because nobody can verify that it ever existed.
But while nobody can do that, they are able to recount specific details and puzzles along
with the graphic style and even soundtrack.
The game supposedly upon completion would erase itself from your computer leaving no
trace behind, and it was not able to be copied.
That’s some BS if you pay for a game and after beating that game it got deleted and
you were never able to play it again because only 5,000 copies were created.
#7 Demon Children of Goldshire When you think World of Warcraft you may think
of it’s popularity, the fact that it came out in 2004 an people still play it, or the
fact that it’s the reason your older brother doesn’t go outside.
But with such a massive world you need to expect some weird moments and little hidden
Easter eggs.
Well one of the creepiest easter eggs in this game by far, is the damn child cult in the
first town of the game.
When we go to the edge of goldshire there is typically an empty house on the edge of
the lake, however at 7 am you can catch six little kids standing in a pentagon like formation.
Doing nothing in particular.
Players have reported that standing in the center can cause slight hallucinations, as
well as auditory hallucinations like banshee screams, growling, crying, and a voice saying
*you will die* followed by an old woman laughing maniacally.
And when you enter the room, a new music track starts playing with creepy undertones.
Blizzard however has never issued an official statement.
Maybe they never included this in the game.
#6 Nuclear Playstations Back in 2000, the Playstation 2 was all the
rage.
So much so infact that a rumor surfaced that former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein had
bought up to 4,000 playstation 2s and was harvesting their CPU chips.
According to reports, these chips could be bundled together to create a supercomputer
that could be used as a missile guidance system.
Yeah, of course the story was full of bs and totally made up, but it combined what the
public wanted.
A terrifying story, that solidified hatred for the middle east and showed the evil of
video games and how they poison our world.
What a load of crap.
The only slight truth to this was that it was cheaper to harvest the CPU chip out of
a playstation than actually buy one by itself, so maybe he had a good idea.
Wreck some playstations and turn a profit, assuming you knew how to get the chip out
of course, and didn’t break it.
If this was the case however imagine what kind of games we could play.
#5 Bound And Gagged There are only 2 characters in the Portal
series (not including the companion cube.
You the player, Chell, and GLaDOS, a robot running puzzles to torture you with the portal
gun, with the promise of cake.
The cake is a lie.
At the end of the game you finally get to see the real GLaDOS and she actually had a
body and isn’t just some omnipotent AI.
You fight her and win game over yadda yadda yadda.
But take a close look at GLaDOS At first she looks like a mess of machinery and cables,
but look at her without the background and she sort of resembles a human, that’s hanging
upside down at least.
That’s actually intentional.
The art director of Portal Jeremy Bennet said “eventually we settled on a huge mechanical
devide with a delicate robotic figure dangling out of it, which successfully conveys both
GLaDOS’ raw power and her femininity”, first of all when I think of something dangling
in relation to a human I don’t think female, secondly she is a robot.
According to Bennet, she resembles an upsode down version of “rise of venus” but in
reality, if you look at it presented in game, she looks like someone who has been bound,
gagged and hung upside down.
That’s weird and oddly confusing.
#4 The Hall of Tortured Souls According to some people on the internet,
Bill Gates is the devil and wants your soul.
And has been leaving clues all over his products.
A popular urban legend claims that sames like Bill Gates, Windows 95 and MS-DOS 6.21 add
up to 666 but like honestly what?
Another one says that there is a game hidden inside word 95 called The Hall of Tortured
Souls.
It’s a creepy first person game with doom-esque graphics.
And if you made it to the end of the path, it would reveal a secret about Microsoft.
This isn’t true in fact, there is no hidden game in windows 95.
Its in Excel 95.
If you open a new excel file in this program, go to row 95, select it all, tab over to column
B, go to help/about, hold down control-alt-shift and click on the support button a window will
appear called Hall of Tortured Souls.
If you make it to the end you will see a load of Microsoft developers recreating what seems
to be the last supper.
Yeah, it’s creepy.
Even without the religious connotation.
Perhaps Bill is the devil, and he’s calling out his pops.
#3 Morrowind Mod So a mod is scary?
How so?
Well a user made mod called Jvk1166z surfaced and was thought to be a virus at first, causing
your game to stay at the loading screen for and hour before just crashing, currputing
your game and all your saves.
Eventually users figured out a way to run the mod, but then things just got scary.
The mod started controlling the game entirely.
Mountains of major NPCs including all those required to complete the main quest died.
And their corpses never disappeared.
As you kept playing, more and more characters would die, causing every town to scream with
silence.
Nobody knew why.
Some Npcs who didn’t die immediately would step outside at night, look up at the sky,
say “watch the sky” and then say nothing else, even if interacted with.
The player’s health would slowly deplete, going faster if you stood still, because the
player was being hunted.
By a shadowy figure some say they would see out of the corner of their eye but then would
disappear.
Some people who played this mod for a long time, even started seeing the figure in real
life.
#2 Daisy is Deformed Daisy.
The peach rip off was included in Mario Kart Double Dash for GameCube, but only had one
line she could say.
*Hi, I’m daisy!* She would repeat this over and over like a murderous psycho.
But this isn’t what im talking about here, if you can play Super Smash Bros. Melee, go
to the trophy gallery and zoom in until the camera clips under her hair.
You will se something that may be disturbing.
A potential modeling error causes Daisy to HAVE A THIRD EYE ON THE BACK OF HER HEAD!
IT DOESN’T EVEN LOOK LIKE HER NORMAL EYES, It bulges out of her head!
This horrifying discovery was use in her character in M.U.G.E.N, a freeware fighting game that
takes random characters from different franchises and pits them against each other street fighter
style.
And apparently it shoots lasers.
So there’s that.
#1 Fallout 3 Predicts The Future What’s scarier, a creepy legend about a
video game or when it starts affecting the world around us?
Well if you answered yes to this question, you didn’t listen to the question.
In fallout 3 the player is able to receive radio transmissions which will occasionally
read out numbers followed by Morse code.
Among these transmissions were *1-2-5-5-2-8-2-0-1-0, What you talkin’ bout?
You will be missed” and “9-4-5-4-2-0-2-0-1-0.
Accident in Gulf, several dead.
Oil spill apparently averted”.
What you talkin bout was a catchphrase made famous by Gary Coleman, who died at 12:05
pm, May 28th, 2010.
1-2-5 12:05, 5-2-8, May 28th, 2-0-1-0 2010.
And the other prediction corresponds to the bp explosion at around 9:45 9-4-5, April 20th
4-2-0 also in 2-0-1-0 2010.
They also predicted that Britney Spears will win an academy award in 2023, so it that comes
to pass, prepare for a nuclear wasteland full of mutants people.
There we have it ladies and gents the Top 10 Video Game Urban Legends That Will Make
You Never Play Again.
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