What is the most ridiculous rumored video game secret you believed as a child?

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Of course, but at the time many believed it was rumored to be possible to get Janus, like literally the character when he was a kid, as a member of your party.

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I
 absolutely believed this one too. I dont think I ever saw that specific image but I definitely bought in to being able to play as Slippy and Peppy with some kind of cheat at the very least.

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Easy one. Cow level in the original Diablo. I believed it was real until something like 5 years ago. I didn’t realize that the cow level in Diablo II (“revenge” of the cows) was really a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment of the rumor that went around for the first game. Those Blizzard folks are a cheeky bunch.

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I believed that there was an item in Phantasy Star Online called “god equip” that would allow you to use any weapon in the game.

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Minus World in SMB1 had an ending where you saved a mermaid. Upon completion, if you took a photo of the final screen and sent it to Nintendo, the good folks there would send you EVERY NINTENDO GAME EVER MADE.

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I never really believed it but I really wanted to believe that Chapter 3 was hiding somewhere in Metal Gear Solid V. :frowning:

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How is the Mew truck in Pokémon Blue/Red not mentioned in here?

That truck is one of the most enigmatic things in that game and is so completely out of place that there had to be some weird secret about it.

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I didn’t buy into this personally, but my cousin was hell-bent on “finding the tri-force” as an item in Ocarina of Time. I’d wager he spent multiple hours per day over a summer break finding theories, trying to execute, and then failing over and over.

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A person at school told me if you got 100% in gta 3 it would unlock the city from the opening cutscene, Carson City. I never got to 100%, but another friend (who also believed) did, and we were very disappointed to find out it wasn’t true. Then his brother deleted the 100% save cause he ran out of space on his own memory card. Weird memories.

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I spent a lot of time during my teenage years searching for Bigfoot in the rural areas of San Andreas.

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My best friend who was a hellacious liar managed to convince me that his ps1 could print money
 for about 10 seconds.

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I have loved reading all the responses in this thread; really makes me appreciate and marvel at what weird imaginations kids have and how much wonder games seem to inspire in them.

To that end, a question: will the internet as it currently is ruin these sorts of rumors for kids of today? I believed a lot of the rumors I heard in the 90s and early 00s because I didn’t have sources I could confirm information with. On occasion I would bike to Borders books and look at whatever magazines were available and not shrink wrapped, but beyond that I don’t recall AOL really providing a good forum of game reporting. While there is a lot of fake stuff and hoaxes on YouTube, there are also a plethora of videos documenting and deconstructing games in detail. So, do you think the era of outlandish rumors has passed or will it always find a way?

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tbh based on my own social media experience i feel like the era of outlandish rumors still lives on because lots of people won’t bother to do stuff like check snopes

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 that there was a satisfying conclusion to Commander Keen’s “Goodbye, Galaxy!” series.

C’mon ID, don’t leave us hanging!