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Today we’re counting down the top 10 video game myths.
We’ll be touching on some myths that turned out to be false and some true.
So let’s jump right in!
10 Lavender Town Syndrome Starting this off with a number we’ve talked
about in a few other of our Pokemon videos, we’ve got Lavender Town Syndrome.
The myth with this one is that the music that plays when you are in Lavender Town was responsible
for a ton of children’s illnesses and suicides.
It’s rumoured that about 200 children had killed themselves after getting to Lavender
Town, and the ones who didn’t commit suicide usually complained of severe headaches.
Developers adjusted the music to be at a lower frequency.
What do you guys believe?
9 Lara Croft Nude Cheat While there are other cheats in the game that
let you do things like explode Lara - check out our top 10 video games cheats list if
you want to see more - the myth that there was a cheat code that would allow you to get
a naked Lara Croft is just a myth.
Developers never put it into the games.
But, fortunately for all you nudey seekers out there, fans of the game have gone to great
lengths to make nude mods for Lara, so turns out there’s still a way for you to get your
kicks after all.
8 Super mario bro 3 is a stage performance This one started off as a fan theory but was
confirmed by Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto.
The game begins with curtains opening, shadows constantly appear as if they’re on a backdrop
and Mario always exits stage right.
So the theory was that it’s a stage play and gamers were the audience members.
When asked if the theory was true, he simply nodded yes.
7 Ever Quest Suicide Back in 2001 a 21 year old named Shawn Woolley
committed suicide after he had been playing Ever Quest.
His mother blamed the game for prompting him to do it, saying she had to tell him that
the people in the game he was encountering weren’t real.
This had spawned an urban legend that the game would force players to kill themselves,
and the game being the cause of Shawn’s suicide was further perpetrated by the media.
This one is quite false though - while what happened to Shawn was tragic, no proof of
the game influencing players to commit suicide was ever found, despite Sony Online Entertainment
refraining from looking into Shawn’s personal account data.
6 Halo Pistol Intentionally Over powered If you’ve played Halo, you’d have noticed
that the M6D Personal Defence Weapon aka the basic looking pistol is pretty damn powerful.
To the point where there was a myth circulating that developers had done this intentionally.
And guess what - the myth is true.
It was confirmed by Jason Jones in 2013 that they adjusted the power of the gun before
they shipped the game out.
5 Atari Buried Copies of ET in the desert Here’s a hilarious one.
So some of you may know that Atari’s adaptation of Steven Speilberg’s classic film ET was
a total bomb.
Some say it’s one of the worst games ever created by the company.
And to be fair it was whipped together in 6 weeks time, with a ton of copies made that
just never ended up selling.
So what did Atari do with all those unsold copies?
Buried them in the desert of course.
Like ditching a body of a person you accidentally murdered, Atari dumped a bunch of their unsold
stock in the desert back in 1983, and a documentary crew dug it up, along with other unsold games
in 2014.
4 GLaDOS bondage woman Have you ever noticed the similarities between
GLaDOS, and, well, a real life woman?
Take a closer look.
Many have speculated that GLaDOS is modelled after a woman in a straight jacket hanging
upside now.
While this hasn’t been confirmed as truthful, the makers of the game have stated that they
were inspired by Botticelli’s Venus, and wanted to make GLaDOS look like her hanging
upside down, but also, decided to go with something else and use some feminine lines
within the structure.
3 Half Life 2 Sex Monster Keeping with the sex motif here, let’s get
into something a bit more disturbing at this number.
Rumours had spread about an alien cut from Half Life 2 that raped players - it would
drag them and then force itself onto them.
Turns out this one is true - the alien was dubbed Mr Friendly, it was the size of a small
horse, ate the corpses of dead enemies, it would stand on it’s rear legs and spank
the player, and would also vomit as an attack.
Sounds like a fun time.
Oh and let’s not forget the best part.
It would drag it’s victims towards them until fatal copulation had occurred.
It spawned a discussion between Gabe Newell and Ted Backman about the use of sexual themes
to elicit a response from the innate homophobia of 14 year old boys.
Luckily they decided that having an unsettling raping creature in the game was a bad idea,
so it got ditched before the game came out.
2 Aliens in GTA V It’s been speculated since it’s release
that there are Aliens in GTA V. Aside from the grass roots Michael mission where you
have to shoot down all those imaginary aliens, that is.
This is mainly due to a plethora of alien easter eggs and hints scattered throughout
the game.
There was a an alien egg model buried deep in the code of the game, which had no scripting
attached to it or any specific functionality.
Until a recent update got people stirring the conspiracy pot again.
Through a tool called Codewalker, users discovered a bunch of unused alien props in the game,
and that Rockstar had attached hash IDs and scripts to the egg, meaning they might be
planning actually do something with it.
The mystery is only beginning to unfold.
1 Michael Jackson wrote part of the soundtrack for Sonic The Hedgehog 3
This one started out as a myth and while it seems to have been confirmed, it is still
shrouded in a whole lot of mystery.
So the myth is that Michael Jackson wrote the soundtrack for Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
Some involved with the development say that his music was dropped after the sexual abuse
allegations of his arose in 1993, with the game being released in 1994.
Whereas others say he finished his work on the game, but due to the sound quality of
the Sega Genesis he wanted to be uncredited.
Check it out for yourself, specifically the end credits music, the ice cap zone theme
and the carnival night zone theme.
There we have it friends!
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Think the unconfirmed ones are true?
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I’ve been Kelly Paoli for top 10 gaming, catch you all in the next one!