Video Games Myths, Legends etc

[LGH87]

I read about a game called Kill Switch yesterday, that allegedly only let you play it once, if you died or completed the game it would erase itself and would never let you play again.

There is a lot of mystery surrounding the game and there's talk it may never even have existed.

Kill Switch Myth

This got me thinking, has anybody else come across anything strange or know any other interesting myths or conspiracy theories surround any games?

[The Drunken Communist]

That was never real, LGH. Fuck me in 1989 I'm sure I was playing games like fucking Manic Miner or summat, that game you're on about has got a depth to it that some games today don't have

[ukcstokie]

I seem to remember that in Elite there was suppose to be a space ship that was miles long. Never did see one.

[chigstoke]

Modern-ish game wise - People were obsessed with finding Bigfoot in GTA: San Andreas. Never existed in the game, but people were adamant it was in Mount Chilliad.
Pokemon's Lavender Town theme that supposedly drove a bunch of Japanese kids to suicide due to the tone of the music. Confirmed as fake.
Destiny Vault of Glass has a final hidden chest or secret, Bungie forced an employee to redact a statement about the final secret. Was pretty much confirmed on a livestream.

Blowing old NES and Mega Drive carts etc.. always made games work. Always worked for me anyway

The best one is Saddam Hussein ordering around 4000 PS2's, combining the CPU's together to make one big WMD. Funnily enough it was true. But Iraq didn't have the right tech to make the software.

[ashleyscfc]

GTAV Jetpack ?

[marwood]

There were all sorts of rumours about hidden rooms and Easter eggs in the original Spectrum version Jet Set Willy, back in the 80s although I must have spent years of my life on different versions of that game and never seen any.

And there were more than enough myths and legends about JSW Programmer Matthew Smith for years before he eventually resurfaced in early noughties and realised he had become an internet urban legend.

I know it's not a video game but I remember hearing that an early version of Microsoft Excel had a hidden version of a flight simulator in it but I don't even know how that would work

[ukcstokie]

Mar 12, 2015 16:03:07 GMT marwood said:

There were all sorts of rumours about hidden rooms and Easter eggs in the original Spectrum version Jet Set Willy, back in the 80s although I must have spent years of my life on different versions of that game and never seen any.

And there were more than enough myths and legends about JSW Programmer Matthew Smith for years before he eventually resurfaced in early noughties and realised he had become an internet urban legend.

I know it's not a video game but I remember hearing that an early version of Microsoft Excel had a hidden version of a flight simulator in it but I don't even know how that would work

[Boothen]

Mar 10, 2015 12:29:26 GMT ukcstokie said:

I seem to remember that in Elite there was suppose to be a space ship that was miles long. Never did see one.

Generation Ships. They're mentioned in the original manual (still have mine to hand) and I believe there is a short story about them, but in all my time playing Elite I never saw a single one. That said though, given the fact that they travelled at sub-light speeds through normal space coupled with the sheer number of systems made possible in Elite by to the procedural generation algorithms I wouldn't be surprised if they'd never been seen at all.