Most outlandish gaming urban legend you believed as a kid

[AznKhmerBoi]

I heard from a friend back then that if your win 250 matches in MK2 you could unlock pong. So being a kid and have plenty of free time, me and my sibling set out to test the urban legend, sure enough it work and felt a sense of accomplishment .

[Yancakes]

I was told that you could get to the secret island in Goldeneye without cheats. I spent fucking DAYS looking first all across the dam finding the path... then the entire rest of the level rubbing against the walls, looking for somewhere that maybe I could clip through. I don't know. I finally gave up and punched my friend Felix in the stomach for being a liar.

Without cheats you can jump over the pole in smb.

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[Jamisonia]

Someone once told me to get 100% in Super Mario World there was an additional Special Special World with the remaining levels. In order to get to this world you had to find the secret invisible cannon. I don't remember where they said it was. Then you had to find the secret invisible cannonball in a different level.

Once you had both of these items you went to Funky in Special World. Thats the level that is at night. Once there you had the cape, and flew to the top. This next part is true, and I suspect how the myth got started. If you fly at the top, normally you can't see Mario. There is this one part in the middle of the level, that you suddenly get knocked down, so that at the highest point you can fly you CAN see Mario. The kids said that this marked a special wall. You had to take this invisble cannon and cannonball and blow through this wall. I don't remember how you're supposed to do that, since you can't ever know for sure you actually have the cannon or cannonball.

Anyway they said blowing through this wall takes you to another world. In this world are the rest of the levels, and another battle with Bowser. I spent months trying to figure this out. But never did... because its bullshit

[retrosportsgamer]

This begins and ends for me with "If you plug the zapper into controller port 2, you can shoot Mike Tyson".

Alas.

[pankakes123]

My friend told me that there was a secret underwater area in the lake of the first world in Super Mario Sunshine, the one with the giant water striders. He said if you found that area and beat it Nintendo would send you a special Super Mario Sunshine Gamecube controller. I wasted many hours later that day trying to find the secret area.

[odie182]

I remember trying to get Laura Croft on top of her statue near the pool of her mansion in Tomb Raider 1 to see those bare polygons. Kind of embarrassing. horny 13 year olds are shameless.

[hashiriya1]

[Nemoide]

I was a pretty gullible child back in the day. I totally assumed that "nudalities" in Mortal Kombat were real.
I also remember a kid telling me about a Game Gear game called "Kill the Teacher" where you go through a school and have to kill teachers and avoid girls who would try to kiss you. It might seem far-fetched in this post-Columbine world, but at the time it sounded plausible and awesome.

One thing I never bought into were rumors about Sonic games. Sonic & Knuckles for Game Gear (not Sonic Triple Trouble), Sonic for SNES, Sonic for Game Boy. I was a hardcore Sega fan and I didn't believe those for a minute.

In middle school, I remember a kid claiming he could "hack" my copy of Sonic & Knuckles to make it do other things (I don't really remember what) but after getting it back, I figured he was just using a dishonest/roundabout way to borrow my copy? Not really an urban legend.

[BoringSupreez]

I just remembered one I forgot: I had a friend who claimed that some PS2 games also worked on PS1. Apparently he believed it himself, because he brought his copy of LotR: The Two Towers over to my house (quite a ways away) to play on my PS1. Didn't work, of course.

And a different kid I knew insisted that Halo 3 was so advanced and hardware-intensive that it was going to be a PS3 exclusive by necessity. He said he had a friend whose dad worked for Sony, and that's how he knew. I was old enough by then that I didn't believe him for a second.

[WallCrusher]

I fell for basically any Pokémon-related rumor back during the RBY days. Mew Truck, Togepi, Pikablu, all of that stuff. Reflecting on some of that is rather humorous nowadays. Pikablu, man. Pikablu.