Top 10 Video Game Hoaxes of All Time
07. The Triforce in Ocarina of Time
Any fan of the Zelda series is very familiar with the Legendary Triforce -- an omnipotent object in the world of the Zelda games that offered near invincibility to the player who wielded it... Obtaining the Triforce was not unlike a Christian Knight getting their hands on the Holy Grail.
Just before and for a while after the release of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time a number of websites were created (and more than a few articles written) about the massive Holy Grail like quest that was required to obtain it. Detailed instructions along with screen shots and expert player testimony backed up the story, and countless man hours were spent seeking the Triforce, which proved to be illusive still.
The problem was not that the players were not properly following the instructions, the problem was that the Triforce did not exist in Ocarina.It was an elaborate hoax backed up by carefully forged evidence. And even when that fact became widely known each new generation of gamers to discover the game seems to fall prey to this never-dying hoax!
06. Aeris Lives!
We have always maintained that Final Fantasy VII was the best game in the series but probably not for the reason you might be thinking... You see we were very impressed by the Chocoba and breeding ability and the mad-cap GA system that allowed for some spectacular saves in the most hopeless of circumstances...
It seems that we are unusual in that respect because the FFVII issue that is really important to most gamers -- and the subject of this Hoax -- is the death of Aeris.
Bearing in mind that through the then-cutting-edge use of mo-cap and some amazing facial animation techniques, combined with some haunting music and heart-wrenching dialogue, what you get is just the right combination of suspension of disbelief and player loyalty to a favorite character that made the death of Aeris simply too much for most players to accept.
So when rumor after rumor (Note to Self: When a rumor is BS the correct word is 'Hoax') began to appear online claiming that following simple -- or more often very complicated sequences of events, actions, and conversations -- could be completed that would prevent her death, well, of course we wanted to believe.... I mean they! They wanted to believe!
The fact that a significant percentage of these so-called Hail-Mary saves required the player to have conversations with non-existent NPCs who give the player non-existent cures, potions, or our all time favorite, an enchanted Rarab Foot -- well, when you take the piss on gamer emotions, let's just say that there is a cold place in Iceland...
05. The Goldeneye 64s Bond Reunion Cheat
The gaming era of the late 1990's was marked by the massive popularity of game cheat codes and cheat culture, with the often secret codes being built into games specifically so that they could later be spoon-fed to gamers at a later date.
There were even suspicions that some game companies (Cough-Nintendo-Cough) would create cheats and then create small publishing companies to print the magazines that contained the lists of cheats.
In the case of Goldeneye 64 however the case was far more insidious -- mostly because of the way that menus were used to display and often activate the cheats included in the games.
In this case the cheat menu appeared to suggest that there was a total of 24 Cheats to be unlocked in the game -- but only 23 Cheats were ever officially revealed, a fact that was precisely the sort of fertile ground that hoaxers just love to plow -- but in this case there was actually a kernel of truth to the rumor that became a hoax...
It seems that Nintendo actually did intend for their to be a cheat in the game that allowed the player to reunite ALL of the Bond actors / Bonds in one go -- as the 24th Cheat. That was the rumor that became a hoax because such a Cheat did not exist in the game. It did not help that early screen shots were released that depicted Sean Connery in the game -- because Sean Connery's Bond was not in the game...
Years later it developed that the game developer Rare had been unable to secure the use rights for all of the Bond actors images, and so at the last minute Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton were removed out of concern of potential legal action.
So the basis of the rumor turned out to be partly true, but the hoax? That was just a hoax.
Our next three top video game hoaxes of all time follow on the next page.
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To the Guest who has so strongly protested the issue of Mew in Pokemon Blue...
I mean no offense when I say this, but you have taken the entire issue way out of context. It is clear that you have decided that the issue at hand and what we were focusing upon in terms of the Hoax is the matter of Mew in Pokemon Blue and Red.
That is NOT what we were focused on.
What we said is that the Truck cheat in Pokemon Red and Blue IS a Hoax. And it is. You can NOT obtain Mew using it.
What I do not understand here is why you have decided to be so insulting and judgmental? You did this by recasting the issue in your terms. But that does not match the topic you are attacking.
Unless you can prove that Mew can be obtained by moving that truck, you make yourself look like a complete fool.
So CAN you prove that the Truck cheat is not a hoax? Well?
KNOW YOUR FACTS!!! I played pokemon blue, and it took 10 years for the truth to be unraveled, but getting mew is NO HOAX. I never had a gameshark, and I did the trick to get mew, and it worked. seriously, google how to get mew and try it. this article has no credibility.
I think herobrine was never in minecraft in the first place
You are very welcome - and sorry about the name spelling oddity - it is just one of those things where the fingers do not always type what the brain is thinking. I do that with the word "every" when I mean "ever" quite often as well...
Lara...not Laura or Lolra
Besides this, thanks for this superb article
The Pokemon and Minecraft entries are in fact hoaxes. Just because you can obtain Mew using a glitch does not mean that the widespread widely shared hoax is not just that - a hoax.
The pokemon and the minecraft ones were not hoaxes
I found hero brine and he sacred the Sugar Honey Iced Tea out of me.
I completed all the pokemon and got all the pokemon in red and blue I have mew
Mew actually is obtainable in red/blue. You can either use a gameshark, do the mew glitch, or you could have just gotten him legit by doing that contest thing nintendo did...
Mew is actually coded into the game. It shares an almost identical setup to ditto. Here...For this method, the player first needs a Pokémon with a Special stat of 21. It doesn't matter if the stat was naturally leveled or boosted with stat experience, as long as it's not due to an in-battle Special-stat boosting skill. The player needs to find any Trainer in the game that will engage in battle the moment the Trainer is on screen and the player is in the Trainer's line of sight. The player then needs to take one step down closer to the Trainer, but make sure that the Trainer does not see the player, and then immediately press the "START" button. Once the player has pressed Start and the menu appears, the player needs to Fly or Teleport elsewhere. The location being traveled to must have a path via which the player can walk both to a place where there are wild Ditto (Route 15RB or Pokémon MansionY) and a Trainer to fight. This is because the Start button will no longer work until after
Yes it is LARA not LAURA... I apologize but the thing is that my fingers and my brain are not always in synch. I often type every when I mean to type ever, and Laura when I mean Lara - and because they do not get flagged by the spell checker, I don't always catch it and am not always aware of it.
Sorry that ruined it for you...
The triforce is actually in OoT... It's power radiates from the Temple of Time into Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf.
Also, maybe a tongue-in-cheek reference to Nintendo anticipating this rumor, a triforce symbol can be found under Zelda's courtyard in Hyrule Castle (viewed using GameShark hover cheats of course).
Herobrine CAN'T be real; the coding of minecraft doesn't allow it.
For the love of everything people hold sacred! Her name is LARA not LAURA! jeez! if it had been once okay, but you're repeating it every 2 lines on the last page!
I don't know why this wasn't added, but what about supposedly being able to revive General Leo in the World of Ruin after he was killed by Kefka in the invasion of Thamasa?
That thing caught fire fast, I remember trying to do it on the SNES many times..
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For Goldeneye, the other Bond actors images actually were in-game, and you could unlock and play as them in multiplayer - but only with a gameshark. Trouble was, they all still used the same Pierce Brosnan character model.
you forgot about the unlock-able akuma in re2 rumor
mew is cool and canbe found in nugget bridge as 4herodork hes a gaming ghost mostly called aglitch you can find him if there is something strange in your game
GTA San Andreas:
IT'S OBVIOUSLY A MOD! C'MON!
"Laura" Croft, LOL
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alright yea i tested it out. takes a while to get to the nugget bridge but I did get a mew. Used the red version. Not a hoax. The game just sometimes does this.
I was going to battle my "enemy" that you meet at the beginning of the game and instead a mew faced me in battle. took 3 pokeballs to catch it at low hp. came at me at level 16.
So no, not a hoax.
i went here just to say that you can actually catch mew. Got it in pokemon red and blue. I never tried it in yellow, however. It's very random, I don't remember the steps to how I came across one but I know I didn't use a gameshark. I'd even go out and buy the game again just to show people
It's like getting that weird missingno pokemon, that I am pretty sure was a glitch, or getting a level 490-500 pokemon on that island, which would fall to level 99-100 after using it in battle, but you could always get another one.
As for real hoaxes, the hoax I always spread around was the "121st star" in Super Mario 64. Annoyed a lot of people with that one when they kept trying to find it in the game :D
the video from game theory isn't about aerith being alive, it's about Cloud being the one responsible for her death.
"in flagrante delicto" does not mean what you think it means
Herobrine is fake, I don't know who came up with it but I do know Mojang only said they removed him as a joke cause they knew the hoax was getting bigger
Yup
How is stop and swap not on here?
There actually is a way to catch Mew in Pokemon Red and Blue (And yellow) without using a gameshark.
You need to teleport (or fly or dig) the exact second specific trainers spot you (the most popular being the trainer in the grass near nugget bridge). Then you walk up nugget bridge and you'll end up in an encounter with a Mew.
Other FFVII ones I've heard: Play as Sephiroth after the initial flashback sequence with him. Find Aeris alive and well if you beat most of the game (including all weapons) without certain items, like the gold chocobo and knights of the round.
As for Herobrine I sure as heck have seen him. Scared the hell out of me. I don't care if it's supposed to be a hoax or that I WAS playing at 4am, I SAW HIM.