Most outlandish gaming urban legend you believed as a kid

[HungryGarou]

probably not an urban legend, but when i was little, i was told (and believed) that if you record footage form your system to a VCR, the recorded data would be lost from the game forever.

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[Haoie]

Pikablu! Back in 1999.

What is it with Pokemon and fakes?!

[jfe2]

The Pokemon ones with Pikablu and Mew definitely got me. I also remember trying to get Lara Croft naked... I'm not proud of that one.

[D.D.D.]

I did the requirements to fight Sheng Long in SF2... That was the most time I've ever wasted on a game. There's a special place in hell for those EGM writers.

[Gunstar Green]

5. Sonic & Knuckles - A friend and I rented a ton of games to insert into the top of this cart to try and unlock some sort of secret game. I dont even think we played most of the games we rented because we were so focused on finding that perfect cart that would let us get a new Sonic game to play.

Oh yeah, every game I rented or bought back then went into Sonic and Knuckles before anything else. I always thought one game had to contain an incredible secret. Of course it was always just another blue sphere level.

[Flekshin]

I'm only 20 but I remember when I was first starting high school one of my friends thought there was this door in Halo 2 that was supposed to be the gates to hell, another thing was in Halo 3 there was supposed to be a recon skull hidden on the last level, I spent so much time trying to find it. There was even a spot where you could get out of the level where there was supposed to be a hidden area with the skull and I looked all over for it.

[BoringSupreez]

Pikablu! Back in 1999.

What is it with Pokemon and fakes?!

It's because so many of the fans were kids. Kids are jerks.