I remember rumors on Club Penguin/Webkinz that your pets could die. Wouldn't stop hearing that everywhere.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

The Webkinz killer really scared a lot of people. I think there's just an inherent fear in the idea that this "peaceful game" hides a dark secret.

@Hutch2Much

3 жыл бұрын

SAME, like if you neglected them or they got too sick they’d die. i even saw a video about that with Webkinz, which is now what i think of when i hear “hey there dililah” good times

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Dude the fact that you associate a song like that with freaking Webkins is hilarious. XD

@Hutch2Much

3 жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff it’s amazing how easily things get imprinted into your mind when you’re younger lmao

I once got fooled about someone telling me that instead of playing as Yellow and Blue toad in New Super Mario Bros Wii., you can play as Wario and Waluigi.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oof man I would've preferred that honestly. Like Toads just don't do anything for me. They're so... Boring.

@mds_main

2 жыл бұрын

In a future 2D Mario game they should absolutely give us Wario and Waluigi as playable characters though

unfortunately, the only rumor I ever believed was herobrine. as kids, i like to think we all did.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I wanted to believe it so hard because it was such a cool concept, but sadly I had been burned too many times.

@geraldpine6147

3 жыл бұрын

i also belived that, untill the multi colored steves, then the ore steves, then entity 303, the (insert block here) steves, the multi color alexes, the milti color hrobrines, and literaly all that sort of stuff, like why

@jedizombiekiller9065

3 жыл бұрын

@@geraldpine6147 oh no green tinted pink gold wing steel invisible capped steve took all my diamonds!

@geraldpine6147

3 жыл бұрын

@@jedizombiekiller9065 oh no the void monster deleted my world

@geraldpine6147

3 жыл бұрын

@@jedizombiekiller9065 by the way that sort of content was made 2 years ago and this guy(O1G)is still making that sort of content

My friend told me a rumour where you could use a gun to shoot and kill the ghosts in luigi's Mansion and I believed it

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

DUDE THAT'S FREAKING HILARIOUS.

@monke_mojo

3 жыл бұрын

Luigi’s mansion 4: enough is enough

@floppafan7278

3 жыл бұрын

@@monke_mojo king boo gets shot and dies

Some rumors I heard as a kid were absurd. -Ridley is playable in Brawl -You can fight Cynthia who has level 100 Garchomp, Rayquaza, Giratina, Dialga, Palkia, Arceus on her team on floor 100 of the Battle Tower -The Game Over screen from the Spaceworld demo of Luigi's Mansion can randomly happen -Cranky Kong a secret final boss in all the DKC games Honestly I miss rumors like these. I found them to be very fascinating and I think it just simply gave people an imagination to think how different or fun a game would be if these rumors were actually true. That's why I always loved the Pokémon X and Y internet rumors mostly because I honestly wanted to find a reason to like the game

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I kinda miss them too. Even if they were kinda frustrating, they added a bit of mystique to a game, and made the experience even more memorable.

@DavidRYates-tk2tq

5 ай бұрын

Lol we all know Ridley is too big for Smash.

I still can’t believe Mewthree ACTUALLY EXISTS. But it’s in comics, and it’s a hilarious fusion of Red’s Clefairy and Mewtwo’s DNA. 🤣

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it does kinda exist because of that. I also remember in the lead up to Pokemon X and Y, before we knew what Mega Evolutions were, everyone thought the new Mewtwo form was Mewthree. XD

@gavanscommandblock

2 жыл бұрын

I thought mewtwo was a mew evolution

@jraff2735

2 жыл бұрын

@@gavanscommandblock it kinda is tho

Metroid Prime Hunters: play as the final boss, Gorea

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

That would be pretty neat actually. Though I imagine they'd be a bit OP in multiplayer.

@mattycz123

3 жыл бұрын

2:18

@frickpool

3 жыл бұрын

Metroid Prime Hunters: the game is actually good turned out to be false

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

@@frickpool I like aspects of Hunters, but it's control scheme is rough

Don't worry, L is real now, we just had to wait until the DS remake Edit: he's not in the switch port though

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but now we're waiting for upside down L to be real instead. XD

Duo seriously needs more credit for his content, it’s beyond average tier videos

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Well thank you. I'm really trying to push myself to make better videos, but it's hard for me to judge personally whether my videos are "high-quality" or not, so I really appreciate hearing this.

i remember the waluigi one in mario 64 DS, i spent so much time trying to find him

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Same. I don't even know why I was so obsessed with finding him. I just wanted to play as Waluigi so bad. XD

THATS A LIE _WARIO’S NOT IN MELEE_

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad someone liked that line. XD

I remember one of my friends told me that you could unlock a reverse mode in Mario Kart Wii if you beat mirror mode as ever character and then you could unlock all Dixie Kong Toadsworth and Magic Koopa. (After reading this I sound so dumb)

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

That doesn't sound too ridiculous thankfully, but I feel you regardless. XD

@mds_main

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly those characters should be playable in a new MK game, and I think at least Dixie and Kamek are in Tour but Toadsworth is still MIA.

Remember all those fnaf rumors, like fnaf 3 “leaks?”, sparky the dog, and the purple guy animatronic. Nostalgia.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

That was a wild time. I kinda miss the wild ride FNAF brought everyone on. XD

I was actually scared of hero brine so much I wouldn’t even play Minecraft sometimes. The game was so quiet and calming it... scared me?

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Well you're not alone. A lot of people were also scared of Herobrine. I guess I just wasn't one of them. I thought he was super cool. XD

@Peaman42

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't play the game, when I did I never went in caves. Caves sounds only made this fear worse. I'm better now, but when I run out of torches while caving, I bolt outta there as quickly as possible.

The biggest ones I remember were Waluigi in SM64DS, unlocking Ridley and Tabuu as playable characters in Brawl and going to space to catch Deoxys in Pokemon Emerald. At least we got Ridley in Ultimate and Deoxys in ORAS I guess, still waiting for Waluigi and Tabuu tho 😂

Is Jared now someone who puts out fake leaks just to mess with people?

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly he might nowadays. He seemed like the type.

I was a kid if I don’t see it, it doesn’t exist regardless who told me

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

That was a good mindset. I would've benefited from having it. XD

@person0-016

3 жыл бұрын

Bro, same

I believed in every fucking Creepypasta ever. I would always stay up in bed wondering if Ben Drowned was gonna come and kill me.

Rumor: Steve will be in Smash Bros Yeah rumors are so fake

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Actually I don't recall people leaking out Steve. It seemed like no one saw it coming. (I was hyped as heck.)

@millythompsonfromtrigun98anime

3 жыл бұрын

That one Vergaben guy or whatever said Minecraft content would come in

@roverplush2.0

3 жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff vergaben leaked it, thats the only person who leaked it as far as i know tho

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah I guess he did. It just happened so long ago that I kinda forgot. XD

@millythompsonfromtrigun98anime

3 жыл бұрын

Most people did, it really was unexpected XD

And now I am glad I didn't really have friends in elementary to face this. Rip my social life but hey! At least I didn't stress about game rumors B"-)

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

It's probably for the best, but you did miss out on the memories these created. XD

@111paolo2

3 жыл бұрын

Sad

Rumor sonic is in melee Sonic joins the next smash Rumor: mewtwo is in brawl Mewtwo returns in next smash Rumor: steve is in smash 4 Steve joins next smash Rumor: peter griffin is in ultimate Uh oh

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I kinda hope that last one doesn't happen. XD

Don’t worry I’ve heard a lot of rumors when I was a kid. Especially The ones about creepy Easter eggs and stuff.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah I used to Intentionally look those up all the time. Freaking love Easter Eggs.

@spyishere3054

3 жыл бұрын

DuoStuff did you see the sonic cd one and the final fantasy theory one? Those would’ve made a lot of people crapped her pants back in the old times when they didn’t know it was put in on purpose.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

The Final Fantasy 8 one really hits a weird way. Like it's weirdly terrifying in an existential way.

@spyishere3054

3 жыл бұрын

DuoStuff but that’s what I love about games they make you question if some of these rumors are true or not. the ones that are real the ones that hit hard XD

AH man great video! This hit me with such nostalgia for all the fake rumours I fell for back in the day, I spent hours trying to finish adventure on very hard, with no deaths in Mario's yellow costume to unlock Wario in melee! I think we've all known at least one Jared in our lives

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man I never heard that Wario rumor. That's a new one. Must've been absolutely brutal back when you were a kid. XD

@RESRetro

3 жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff It was pure pain, I could never even get close, on the brightside it did make me better at the game 😅

Mario 64 DS was my childhood. Glad you love it as well DuoStuff.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah it's my preferred version of 64. I know the controls are technically a tiny bit worse, but 64 also controls pretty bad anyways, and all the additions (both stars and minigames) make it by far the better version for me.

@Jed_the_Malamute

3 жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff You should do a video on it sometime :)

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh I definitely will at some point. Still not sure when exactly though.

A friend and I would waste our time after school looking up Pokémon secrets and trying to replicate them, this was pre-2010 and we didn't really know how hacks worked but we had tons of fun nevertheless. Thanks for bringing back some good memories!

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I had a lot of similar memories trying to get Deoxys and other legendaries that I don't think I could get the way I saw online. XD

I actually didn't do a lot of rumor stuff... But didn't stop me from believing Master Chief was in Brawl or Waluigi was in Mario 64 DS

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I actually never heard the Master Chief one, which is kinda wild. Waluigi though, oh yeah for sure.

@eviltables8510

3 жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff It was a video I watched on KZread way back in the day. I think it was just a basic video explaining how to unlock him with no gameplay footage at all. It's probably buried deep down in the tons of different video (And that's assuming the video is even still up)

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I had several different things like that where I watched a video of a rumor that I probably wouldn't be able to find at this point. XD

Even though I was born the same year as sunshine I too was able to experience the feeling of the L is real myth thanks to super Mario 64 ds. I would scour youtube looking for how to unlock waluigi in Mario 64 ds and even though I never found him and obviously if he was in the game he’d be the first result I was a stupid kid and the magic never died.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I just think it's so funny that despite the game LITERALLY HAVING LUIGI, we still got our own version of "L is real," and we all fell for it too. XD

I used to play Donkey Kong Country Co-op with my bro. In case you don't know, when you beat a level in that game, the face of the character that reached the exit will be displayed on the world map. He was DK, I was Diddy. At the end of the level, he always wanted me to switch to him. When I asked him why, he told me it would break the game if you finished without all the levels displaying the same character. I got scared and totally believed him. I must have been like 5 or something. I assume he just wanted to have all the bragging rights of finishing every level.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah for sure that's why the kid was telling you that. He just wanted to be the one to beat the levels each time.

I remember being fooled by the Waluigi in Mario 64 DS rumors, I remember this one rumor where you could unlock him by collecting every coin in the Cheif Chilly challenge stage. I never got him but that didn't stop me. Lol

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I think I also heard that one as well. Obviously though, it didn't work. XD

Ah, memories. I wasted so much time on Waluigi in SM64DS. I also believed that Shadow was in Brawl, Herobrine was in Minecraft, the beta elements of Luigi's Mansion could randomly occur and transform it into a horror game, ending on the original game over screen, Sonic.EXE was based on a hidden easter egg in Sonic CD, and the first FNaF game had extremely terrifying anti-piracy measures. Good times.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Man Shadow would've made for a really neat echo fighter. I'm sad they never upgraded him from assist to echo.

Even though I didn't grow up during the golden age of those rumors, my parents didn't really let me go on the internet, so I believed a fair share of rumors. Here's a list of some that I thought of while watching: -you could unlock Yoshi and Wario in New Super Mario Bros. 2 -Vice versa for NSMBWii -Unlock Waluigi in Mario Kart 7 -Herobrine of course -Find legendary Pokemon at ______ in Pokemon Y and Omega Ruby All of these were spread around daycare, and I believed all of them for a good bit.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man are they actually still going in daycares and on playgrounds? Glad the tradition is staying around those places at least.

I remember one for Kirby's Return to Dream Land. If you got all the energy spheres in both normal and extra mode, then refought Magolor Soul in Extra Mode, when his health was low you could super inhale the master crown off his head and fight the secret boss 03 as Crown Kirby.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

That would be rather interesting, but terrifying considering how powerful Kirby already is.

Waluigi in SM64 DS and Herobrine were probably the rumors i've believed the most. The first was because Waluigi is one of my favorite characters and i really hoped he was in one of my favourite games. As for Herobrine well... In Italy we have a youtuber that quite some years ago decided to start a modded serie with 3 of his friends and after a few normal episodes, Herobrine appeared with all his classic signals and everything. We were kids and didn't know that mods like that existed, so we really thought it was him. The serie is called Failcraft, and it's still going to this day, but it slowly became really childish and so fake to even kids eyes. The first episodes had a really good lore, even tho you knew it was fake, but now meh, he definitey milked it too much, as well as making it too family friendly

Remember those video tutorials of how to get legendaries in Gen 3 and Gen 4 Pokemon that were only available through distributions? Yeah I fell for a lot of them, the big one being Munching Orange's super old "How to Get Mew in Emerald" where so many people went along with it in the comments and I could not for the life of me figure out what I was doing wrong. I know better now, and hey, at least I have Mew in Gen 1 and Let's Go! His name is Bubbles and he's my best friend.

Fun video! The only “rumor” I remember seeing as a kid was about Paper Mario TTYD. I was looking up “cheat codes” for the game and came across this site that listed a bunch of random tips, tricks, and secrets about the game. Well, one of them was this absurd wild goose chase for the rarest badge in the game. It was ridiculously detailed and ended by saying you needed to stand still next to the train in Rogueport until the train moves off screen, revealing a secret Toad from the other side who gives you this OP badge. I was too gullible to not believe it, but also too lazy to try it xD.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

It's probably for the best that you didn't believe it considering the train doesn't move without you making it move. XD

I don't think any kid from the early 2000s didn't get fooled by these things. I was fooled thinking that waluigi was in Mario 64 ds and me and my brothers ate up all the conspiracies and a the infamous "purple prizes" fake image and really thought he was in the game. in Mario kart ds my brother had finally got online to work and we saw a waluigi player thinking he was hacking because we didn't know that waluigi was in mario kart ds. My eldest brother used hacks and got a herobrine skin to make us think that we were being hunted by herobrine when in reality he was just using hacks.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

It's kinda wild how what felt like such a "my own friend group" thing (Waluigi in Super Mario 64 DS) was such a big part of a lot of other's experience with the game. Just like you, I was sure Purple Prizes was a real thing. Although I did know Waluigi was in Mario Kart DS, so I had that going for me. XD

@edgelord8337

3 жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff we eventually unlocked all the characters but I remember freaking out thinking that the person was hacking. Even though it was a hoax it was some truly amazing memories.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the memories that game from these events are always entertaining. XD

The dumbest rumor I believed growing up was that you could find Spider-Man in a dumpster in GTA IV, and that he would ask you for crack and then run away

I remember saying “ I m g a y” out loud on my uncles computer to summon herobrine.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Lol that's great actually. XD

I wasted so many hours with that Waluigi in sm64ds thing! The thing that kept fueling my interest was a youtube channel called Wwwwario that made videos talking about this guy who showed him some really convincing pictures!

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I also remember watching those videos. I looked for basically any proof I could find on the internet, leading to even more wasted time. XD

The one that I distinctly remember as a kid (in 2008) was that in Kirby 64, if you beat the game and got 100%, replay the first level, then start from the end and beat it backwards, you can get access to 4 abilities to combine. If you combine 4 bombs, then you get Nuclear bomb kirby and he would destroy the planet that you were on and you would get access to a new world that was post apocalyptic themed. Another one was that in Mario Party DS you could walk around in Bowser's party and play as bowser if you talk to him and offer him food. Then he would be playable in Mario Party 8... Yeah I don't even know why I believed that but hey, it led to me beating the story mode with every single character praying that I could play as Bowser.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I've never heard of either of those, and so it's kinda neat to hear two completely different rumors like that. The Kirby 64 one sounds rad though. XD

I can hear some Scott the Woz influence in your commentary, and that's awesome!

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah he is one of the inspirations in regards to writing, so I take that as a compliment. =D

@IAmAleksha

3 жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff It was intended as one. I love the channel, and your Reviews one too.

I remember hearing a Sunshine rumor as a kid where if you can take Yoshi to the red coin field, then you can unlock green Yoshi. I also remember hearing a rumor about a helicopter nozzle but I dont think I ever heard on how you supposedly unlocked it.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I find it interesting that a lot of people really wanted a green Yoshi. The other colors in Sunshine never really bothered me.

I remember a (pretty well put together for the time) video of brawl, where someone showed off geno, but the game crashed as soon as the match started. there was an arrival animation and everything, a full model was made for him. you can't find the video anymore, but you can find screenshots of the assets if you look hard enough.

@saladplainzone

3 жыл бұрын

twitter.com/aaronitmar/status/1237110243764600836

@saladplainzone

3 жыл бұрын

Also, I grew up with SM64DS too, and totally fell for the waluigi stuff!

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Man I hope one day we just actually get Geno in Smash. He's still my most-watched newcomer for Smash. We'll see what happens though.

I remember hearing about a different method to unlock Waluigi in SM64DS. I don’t remember very much about it, but I do remember that you supposedly had to fight a rabbit king to get a key. The key would have been used on a door which would replace the blank door that you get a star from in the character selection room.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I vaguely remember that one as well. I remember seeing 2 different theoretical boss fights to unlock Waluigi: the rabbit king as you mentioned, and a giant Piranha Plant boss fight.

Great vid man

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

In first couple years of using the internet and KZread growing up, I fell for several fake Pokémon tutorials. I remember one about how you could get ho-oh in the celestial tower in black or a shiny zekrom in dragonspiral tower.

I vividly remember unlocking Baby Mario in Brawl. I don't know where he went 😔

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Karen took him and the rest of the kids. That or, y'know, he was never there to begin with.

I remember some kid saying that in Luigi's mansion 3 you'd be able to use your house as a map. Dark moon didn't even come out yet.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Lol that actually does sound like a neat feature theoretically, but also that sounds kinda illegal. XD

I remember that one of the rumors to unlock Waluigi was that you had to have all the bunnies (especially the shiny white ones) and the 150 stars to unlock the canon outside the castle, then use it but instead of the roof you had to point to the peach stained glass, and then you would be teleported to the world of bunnies, something like the missions to unlock the other characters, and then defeat the king bunny and he'll give the key to unlock waluigi And i believe all of that of course 👍 Still sounds legit if you ask me

I told my friend that Luigi was behind the door at the top of the main floor of Peach’s Castle. I never unlocked that door. I remember my friend telling me that there was a Thunder Mario powerup and that you could access it by going through the hole where you exit the Vanish Cap world.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

So I see both of you were telling each other fake rumors about Mario 64 then. XD

@super8bitable

3 жыл бұрын

It’s weird to me now since it was around 2009 when it happened, so either he had an N64 as well or he was playing the DS version 😂

I had a very different reaction to Herobrine than my friends did when I was little. For some reason, I had a crush on him? And for the life of me I?? Don’t know why??? I genuinely can’t recall what prompted me to catch feelings for a ghost in the form of a block man, and to be honest, that might be scarier than the myth itself.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

This comment is honestly wild. To be fair, you're probably not alone, it's just a little surprising that it was Herobrine of all characters. XD

I just know im always in for a treat when U upload a new vid

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Well thank you. I hope you enjoy this one too then. =D

@cgnfake6721

3 жыл бұрын

DuoStuff back in my playgrounds we had rumors that were actually legit. Like no one knew you could switch colors on characters until this kid came over to my house and we picked the same character lmao. The only one that was bullshit was the waluigi one. Though I found a glitch with the help of utube where you could dive into the tree near the cannon and use it way before you are supposed to

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I was never capable of doing that specific glitch, so I just used my handy dandy action replay to unlock the cannon while playing as flying metal Luigi. XD

@cgnfake6721

3 жыл бұрын

DuoStuff i got a little story about action replay... that fuckin thing destroyed my sm64 ds cartridge somehow. I forgot what codes I tried to enter but when I went to play the game I heard waluigi and then he jumped out of the screen and then punched me in the face and then stomped on my cartridge. Purple bastard

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Lol for a moment I actually thought this was gonna be a real story. But I actually used the Action Replay a lot with SM64DS to do things like see the test rooms. XD

I got told that I could unlock ShyGuy, Drybones and daisy in Mario Kart 64 by taking out the game cart, placing it back in the console and shaking the N64 and I believed it

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Lol well at least it was very easily disproved. XD

A friend of mine once told me he found out how to exit your vehicle and punch people in Euro Truck Simulator 2, I never looked it up, but I believed it for a long time

This is a rather new one compared to the others, and I didn’t hear it that often, but there was this rumor/creepypasta going around about a videogame for the Gameboy called misfortune which was supposed to be hidden inside other Gameboy games like Links awakening or Pokémon red. It was a puzzle game, but the puzzles were only solvable through luck, and if you failed, you’d get a game over screen with a weird sound/song in the background that would cause anyone who hears it to die (similar to Lavender Syndrome). I didn’t believe the YOURE GONNA DIE part, but back then I also recently heard about Totaka‘s song and so the possibility of hiding a small game didn’t seem too weird for me. Also let’s be real, who didn’t believe the Wah is real rumors?

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Huh, that's a new one. That sounds almost like a creepypasta with how it progresses. XD

When I was younger I was told by one of my friends that there was an app that you could download where there would be four puzzles and if you failed one of them then it would drain all the power in your device the first time you failed and if you failed again then your device would be unusable and I believed it... And then I found out it wasn't true after trying to find it for several weeks I decided to go round my friends house to see the app and it had been magically deleted...

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's funny how they always seem to magically "delete it" or "lose the game" right when you ask to see it... XD

Some kid told me that killing the three legendary Pokemon Uxie, Mespirit, and Azulf was okay because after I beat the Elite 4 they would reappear.

fun fact, the glitched whale shadow can rarely appear when sailing with Kapp'n to islands, though it wasn't believed for a long time since its so rare and was a feature fewer people would try out. you can't catch it though, it just appears in the water beneath you in the cutscene. i believe LSuperSonicQ has a video talking about it and other weird hidden video game things.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I found that out years ago after believing it was just straight up fake for years. Now the catching a whale part was obviously fake, but it's rather neat that there is some legitimacy to the rumor.

When I was younger, a kid on the playground told me that an evil Black Toad would appear as a secret boss in New Super Mario Bros Wii if you manged to beat Bowser with a Star. I'm pretty sure that wasn't possible considering how long the corridor up to him was plus the duration of the Star. Though a little Toad fan could dream...

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Huh, didn't know there were huge Toad fans. Good thing you didn't hear the Melee Toad rumor. XD

When I was a kid I remember someone said you could unlock the big penguin in Sherbert Land as a playable character if you managed to to reach the centre platform. Why did I waste so many hours on this...

I thought the getting the triforce in ocarina of time was one of my favorites, or getting into the gerudo town as a kid

this might say something about me, but as a kid, i remember hearing about obtaining the ashbringer in vanilla wow, going to the emerald dream through some "green fire" which was on mt. hyjal, going to mt. hyjal itself, and getting the bengal tiger mount and peeps whistle

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

It's kinda wild that since I actually never played WOW, I legit couldn't understand much in that comment. Sorry. XD

I had Smash 64 on my Wii when I was younger, and I remember seeing a method of playing as Metal Mario where you circled around Mario I believe, like, 99 times, and I tried this for nearly an hour thinking I was doing something wrong.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh no... XD That's just unfortunate. Metal Mario was cool though , so I get it.

Rumours I believed: Animal Crossing Wild World: If you reset your game too many times, Resetti would delete your town My cousin's insistance that Static, and later on Wolfgang, confessed his love to her character My cousin also said that if I completed the museum and the catalogue, a "celebrity" would visit your town. I assumed this celebrity was Ms Nintendique for some reason. Pokemon: Pressing the A button just at the right time increased your odds of catching a Pokemon My cousin once again insisting something crazy: She swore to me that her Budew was one she stole from Gardenia during the gym battle? First of all, she didn't use a cheating device of any kind, second of all I'm pretty sure Gardenia doesn't use Budew in her gym battle, and third of all, she traded me that Budew and it said she'd caught it in Eterna Forest. And of course, I tried catching a trainer's Pokemon and it didn't work.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Seems like your cousin made up a lot of rumors to try and fool you with. Though I also remember believing something similar with that whole pressing a button while catching a Pokemon thing.

I grew up on the 3ds, so I only remember one rumor that in Pokémon X if you did a bunch of stuff then headed over to geosenge town you could fight a legendary that can KILL Pokémon, they couldn’t be used anymore, they were dead

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a creepypasta. Regardless glad there are still some rumors getting spread about games. The tradition is being kept alive! XD

I unfortunately didn't hear many rumours as a kid. Most of the kids at my school only played one game series (Call of Duty) so I didn't really have people to talk about video games. When it came to the internet, even by 2008 it was pretty easy to tell what was a real and what was a poorly made fake. Only fake rumour I ever REALLY fell for was Artsy Omni's Rayman in Smash Bros.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I do remember a point where it felt like the only thing people were playing was CoD. I played a little of it (mainly the zombie mode), but not nearly as much as everyone else.

I'm probably very late but I specifically remember hearing there was a Latios and Latias event based on the movie for Pokemon HeartGold, and that apparently you COULD unlock Metal Sonic in Sega All Stars Tennis is you hit him with a ball when he's in the background while playing a match against Shadow as Sonic. Edit: Both of these came from a friend of mine who was very similar to yours

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh no, you had a Jared as well. Man, sorry about that. Also interesting that it's Pokemon that everyone seems to have heard rumors about. Wonder why. XD

One rumour that I’ve never seen anybody talk about but it was a playground thing, my best friend said that they were making a “sonic heroes DX” where the second boss is tails doll and he apparently uses enemies called “sonic doll” “Amy doll” and “knuckles doll”

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I'd like them to do more with the Tails Doll, but the idea that it would be in a new version of Sonic Heroes is kinda funny to me. XD

The rumor I fell for a lot was Mii Outfit C in Mario Kart Wii. I even had a cheat code book that said you needed to get a bunch of points in VS mode to unlock it.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Wait an official book had a fake rumor? That's kinda wild. XD

For me as a kid, I was forever on my quest to find the Triforce and the Unicorn Fountain in Ocarina of Time. Eventually I decided to get a Gameshark Pro for my N64, turn on the beta quest code, and search by using that. Of course, I never found it. Not quite a rumour, but I do remember trying to look up cheat codes for Ocarina of Time and one site claimed that if you slice your sword against a wall, it will get sharper. But I was smart enough to see through that lie though.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

The triforce thing was always strange to me. I didn't really understand the idea of getting a full triforce when it works differently in Ocarina of Time. Though that game had a ton of rumors anyways.

Grew up as a Pokemon fan believing you could get Mew under the truck in the original games I wasn't even born when Red or Green was released, I just never knew it was fake 🤷🏽

Once again, I am back for serotonin

@dingbat232

3 жыл бұрын

Also, I really like this topic, good choice

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Well I hope you get some here. XD

@dingbat232

3 жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff Of course! that's why I keep coming back

I didn't have very many friends that spread fake rumors when I was a kid. In elementary school I had a pretty close friend in my neighborhood that we'd have sleepovers and play Mario Galaxy together for hours. He let me borrow his copy so I could finish the game, but then his family moved out of state and I still have that copy. The similar thing happened with my younger brother and his friend's copy of Galaxy 2. We accidentally stole both games hahaha

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I remember I had a friend named Austin who left his GBA SP at my house and moved without coming back for it. So I ended up with a whole free GBA. XD

My school had “Reggiefire” too but people claimed it was “only in Japan” but “could be hacked in” There was also a rumor than there was a small chance Yoshi would kill himself if he got “she loves me not” in the SM64 DS mini game. It was weird I know!

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Omg that freaking SM64DS rumor is freaking hilarious. Also I'm kinda surprised that Regifire wasn't just in my friend group. XD

when I was a kid, my friend and I thought you could get the Dark Ball that the villain in the 4th pokemon movie uses. if you caught a pokemon with it, it supposedly boosted their level to 100 and maxed their stats immediately. we uses to discuss which pokemon we'd catch with it, I think I settled on Groudon.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Huh, I don't think I got to watch the 4th movie. (I missed a lot of the Pokemon movies.) So I never could've come up with that one. XD

According to my friend Sam in elementary school you could download hypercam 2 onto your DS and somehow use it to get an Arceus with unlimited HP into Pokemon Pearl

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Why would getting hypercam 2 do that? Like I straight up don't see the logic behind that at all. XD

We had the EGM magazine back in the day and I definitely fell for the sonic and tails one. But a guy a summer camp told me that there was a secret fire emblem level you could get by beating all star with Marth or Roy without healing or dying I forget which. But I never did it, but I did learn a lot of random ass quirks of the game going through that gauntlet over and over

@DuoStuff

Жыл бұрын

Kinda surprising there *wasn't* a Fire Emblem stage in Melee considering we got a whole 2 reps from the game. But yeah, I learned as a kid eventually that if the requirement was something ridiculously hard, it probably wasn't true. lol

@Roshuwah

Жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff I don't think any of the secret characters got a stage besides game and watch, I never thought about it. But yeah you're right lol, but the challenge was too tempting. And I learned Roy technically does have a spike in melee, the third hit on the up version of double edge dance and Marth the third hit on the down version. So the more you know 😂

I remember trying to unlock pac man, bomber man, Miis and mewtwo in Brawl because of rumors

the first time i ever got rickrolled was in a video claiming how to unlock yoshi as a playable character in super mario galaxy. didn't stop me from trying out the instructions in the video description anyway.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Man that was the time. I remember I used to get so mad when I got Rick Rolled, but now I kinda like it. XD

I remember watching some KZread video about unlocking Bowser Jr in Brawl that in hindsight was very obviously fake but me and my brother still attempted it.

I swear I tried every single method to get waluigi. I remember looking through tons of forums for all the different steps to unlock him and 100%ing the game on all three profiles. I love super Mario 64 but I just gave up after realizing it was impossible lol. One interesting thing is, rumors usually gave a lot more replay ability to games. Something I value nowadays

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Well it definitely DID give replayability for games, I just would've preferred I actually got Waluigi for all that trouble. XD

I never really believed stuff like this but I did convince myself that were things in games that weren't there a lot.

I remember as a kid falling for a video that was a fake trailer for a Mario Galaxy ds port

I'm a bit late but could you cover sunky.mpeg, a parody game of sonic.exe? there's also silly.tiff, a parody of sally.exe.

I genuinely believed that Herobrine was in Minecraft. I also believed in the Lavender Town Syndrome myth.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if I ever truly believed Lavender Town Syndrome, but I wasn't taking any chances. I would always turn off the music when I got to Lavender Town, even though I was playing the GBA remake... XD

The online internet rumor that I actually fell for was because my older sister told be and also believe this rumor. The rumor was for an old toy to life game called Webkinz. The rumor was there was this murderer in the game that would kill your Webkinz. So my sister and I stop playing Webkinz for like... 2 weeks and we used to play that game religiously.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man the Webkinz killer. I remember hearing about that. Kinda crazy that rumor spread so far. XD

I still remember waiting for Splatoon Legends...

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh no you fell for that one! Man, I actually wouldn't have minded that at the time. I've always had a weird fascination with bizarre handheld ports like Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and the like.

Still got my thoughts on the Waluigi one, like bro what was that fourth door for😤

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I still don't really get that. Like it really seems like there was supposed to be something more significant there then just a single star.

I don’t think anyone else heard this, but I used to always hear about a secret fourth evolution of the pikachu line, kaichu, apparently if you got a raichu to level 100, and then released it, the next Pokémon you would encounter would be kaichu, the strongest Pokémon ever. I never found a thunderstone so I never could do this.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Lol probably for the best though. Could you imagine how terrible it'd feel to spend all that time getting Raichu up to level 100 only to lose and and not get Kaichu. XD

Some notable ones for me were Herobrine, ultra-nuclear Rayquaza(cannot remember exactlu what it was called), MewThree, amongst many other rom hacks for Pokemon that I thought were legit.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

The worst thing about a lot of Pokemon rumors is that they usually had some kind of footage, even if it was fake. XD

I don't know what's funnier, that Luke and Vader would be in Smash or that the Moon would be a playable character with a full moveset

@j.c.dicklegproductions9248

3 жыл бұрын

and the Hulk lol

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's just such a strange choice for a roster. XD

I remember back in x/y the rumours about the three mythical pokemon being in the kalos power plant

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I don't actually recall that one. (Though honestly I don't recall hearing much about XY rumors besides the Missingno one.)

@jaydenc367

3 жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff I remember the missingno one...sinc elike x/y was mymf irst pokemon game and that was around when I started seeing more pokemon videos I really remember seeing and hearing rumours about where the three mythical pokemon may be at

Yeah, why wouldn't Batman be in Melee? Batman Vengeance came out on the GameCube, so he is a Nintendo character.

A fellow Ster Ling fan I see.

Dude I remember my friends and i hunting for waluigi, then we got the internet... and nothings ever been the same

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, things have definitely changed since the internet got more prominent, but eh, I'm still glad I got to experience it. =D

One rumor I heard about Mario 64 was that after beating the level with Dorrie (Nessie) on 100% she would be in the moat swimming around

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah I remember hearing people talking about that. Seems like it would've been a little bit of a downgrade for Dorrie though considering there's a lot less water there. XD

I was also scared of Herobrine, it was a really cool idea at the time

I was actually one of the many who saw Waluigi in SM64DS videos and was like "Holy crap, it's real?" I then tried so hard to unlock him, considering I'm a Waluigi fanboy, but failed. Also heard about Waluigi in Super Smash Bros Brawl. Again, I tried, but failed. It was a fun train ride though. Oh and also I thought Brawl was the first Smash game, considering it was my first Smash game. It wasn't even a rumor, it was just my belief. I was a dumb stupid stupid dumb kid.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Man you tried to get him in Brawl AND Super Mario 64 DS? Oof. That must've been a rough time. XD

@professoreisner1851

3 жыл бұрын

@@DuoStuff Yeah, it was really sad to find out it was fake. Had a good time trying though.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I mean getting some enjoyment out of it is good. Can't say I always had the same experience. XD

I remember hearing a rumor that Luke Skywalker was in Melee

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

That's actually amazing. XD

I actually had a friend in middle school who would tell me fake stuff about Skyrim and I always believed him like a idiot.

@DuoStuff

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I feel you on that one. Looks like we both had a "Jared." XD