Video Game Myths and Rumors

**The-Real-Link** · 04:10 PM

I was thinking that it would fun to start a thread like this. This is where we can discuss our favorite myths and rumors involving video games. There are three specific myths that I remember very clearly from my early gaming days.

The first was the "Behind Bill's House" from the original Pokemon games. A graphical error made it seem that there was a path behind Bill's house. There were many myths regarding what was back there. The one that I fell for (I was about 7 or 8 at the time) was the "Mew Town" myth. Basically it goes: In Pallet Town, the girl standing outside of your house is actually Lugia (Yes, Lugia....who was not even in the pokedex yet). She had been transformed into a person. If you talked to her over and over, eventually she would get mad and attack you. Defeat her in battle and she would tell you to go back to the cave where you fought/captured Articuno. You would go back into the cave, and there would be a different colored Articuno. If you defeated it, then it would use its beak to drill a hole in the wall behind it. Inside the hole was an item called "The Articuno Bomb". You would use this bomb to blow up Bill's house, and then take the path behind it. Down that path there was a secret town called "Mew Town" this town would be inhabited by nothing but wild Mews. I remember spending like two hours talking to the girl in Pallet Town before I realized it wasn't real.

The other myth from Pokemon was the one concerning the truck. Most people who play pokemon, now know about the truck that you could find near where the SS Anne was. This truck does absolutely nothing. Way-back-when, there were about a gazillion myths about what this truck was. People said if you used strength on it you could move it, and there was a Mew under it. Some people said that you could drive it to a secret town. The craziest thing I ever heard was that if you went to the truck when your play clock said EXACTLY 100:00 hours, then a guy would be standing there with a shipment of masterballs. You could then get 99 free masterballs. Like I said...there are about a million different versions of this myth.

The third has to do with obtaining a secret ocarina melody, finding a secret dungeon hidden inside the Temple of Time, and later getting the Triforce as an item in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time....but I think most of know that myth.....it would take me about an hour to type up that whole thing again! What I find really interesting is that Nintendo must have heard this myth and used it for some ideas in Twilight Princess. The myth stated that the entrance to the secret dungeon was through the back window of the Temple of Time. Sound familiar?

Bahamut · 07-22-2009, 04:48 PM

I remember hearing the first one actually, or a variation of it. Don't quite remember the details though. i think i remember someone telling me about a myth in Final Fantasy 7 also, but once again, i don't remember it.

This is kind of off topic since it isn't a myth, but I used to think Life 2 and Nuke were just a myth in the first Final Fantasy, but i was bouncing off the walls when i accidentally found them (i was like, 6 years old).

JrvUnleashed · 07-22-2009, 07:31 PM

Halo 3:

The secret to getting the Recon armor variant is hidden under the sand in the multiplayer map sandtrap.

AS90 · 07-23-2009, 07:33 AM

I remember that pokemon truck one. I'm still wondering, why the hell there's a truck if it does absolutely nothing??

**The-Real-Link** · 07-23-2009, 10:44 AM

Things like the truck are often found in games. They are what's called a "dump". Basically the truck would have been part of an area that was originally in the game but was taken out do to one reason or another. Rather than deleting these areas they often just "hide" them. It's easier and more cost effective to hide them rather than delete them. It also gives gamers little bits of stuff to find everyonce in a while. I know where several of these areas can be found in several different pokemon games, in several zelda games, and in several other miscellaneous games.

**MelloSinfonian** · 07-24-2009, 02:05 PM

Great idea for a topic...I remember the one about the Pokémon truck quite well. The one that always haunted me was from Final Fantasy VI, though. Fight 4,000 battles (or some other ridiculously high number) in the Tyranosaur Forest, and you'll get a Resurrection Egg. Take it to General Leo's grave in Thamasa, and he'll come back to life and join your party!

The funny thing is, I probably fought at least the number of battles required for the sheer joy of building up my characters to ridiculous levels.

Indra777 · 07-26-2009, 06:52 PM

I remember the Raichu myth with Smash bros; how you could get a thunderstone somehow and have pikachu evolve...among other things, lol.

JrvUnleashed · 07-26-2009, 09:15 PM

There were many SSB:M myths, such as the existence of special moves, much like in brawl, that required secret button combination.

**The-Real-Link** · 07-27-2009, 05:39 PM

Well, there actually was one secret move that could be performed by fast characters such as Marth and Sheik. I don't remember exactly how it worked, but it was actually a glitch that would allow you to warp across to the other side of a flat stage such as "Final Destination"

**MelloSinfonian** · 08-01-2009, 12:58 PM

I'd forgotten about that one in Melee! I actually saw that performed a few times on Final Dest...I think it involved hanging on the ledge a certain way.

That, and the amazing black hole trick. Have you guys seen that? A few friends and I did that multiple times on Hyrule Temple. There are videos of the glitch on YouTube.