Tell Me Lies, Sweet Video Game Lies

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Tell Me Lies, Sweet Video Game Lies
Matt Peckham

Mar 4, 2009 7:06 am


Did you know you could see Lara Croft in the buff in Eidos's Tomb Raider games? That renaming Final Fantasy VII's Aeris "Slut" would make her purr like a fille de joie ? That leaping over the flagpole in Super Mario Bros. doles out infinite lives? That if you collect all the fire flowers in the game, Mario gets a helicopter?

Lies, damned lies, each and every one. You can't run up the "endless stair" in Mario 64 and find Luigi. You can't make a Mii that looks like Shigeru Miyamoto in Mario Galaxy and received special missives from Daisy instead of Peach. There's no code to unlock the missing blood and fatalities in the censored Super Nintendo version of Mortal Kombat. And no, whatever WebMD wants to claim about the stress and cardiovascular benefits of sex, you can't get horizontal with the dancing strippers in Duke Nukem 3D and recover lost health points.

These lies and more are laid out in full at

videogamelies.wikia.com

, a curious little repository for what it dubs "[a] unique bit of video game culture."

Of course being a wiki, it's easily editable by any passerby, thus prompting the disclaimer "This is not a wiki for funny lies about video games that you just made up, or satirical articles about fake video games." I have no idea how many are quick-scribbled graffiti versus honest-to-goodness archival whoppers. What the site's missing is a sourcing system, though where you'd source from given the headless nature of viral heresies is anyone's guess.

Best lie?

"Duke Nukem Forever will be released one day."

Favorite lie?

"The Phantom. 'Nuff said."

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Uhm the Lara Croft one is a lie on the site, sort of. Not all the games allowed you to have a nude Lara but the original playstation games did. My friends and I loved to go into wal-mart when they had that game on way back when and put in the cheat for it so that the game would have a nude Lara running around. The look from parents who saw their kids playing it was hilarious and on top of that you could never get it off without resetting the game.

Also some of those supposed "lies" are for in game cheats but with a gameshark or other such device for the respective system was possible. The Smash Bros. ones are a sort of lie as well. You could never play as a character but people did use cheat devices to change skins. So you would play with one characters skill set but they would look like other people. I had a friend use it one time but we banned him from doing it after it caused the game to crash.

Another not listed is in the game Kingdom Hearts. The first one has a secret menu one can unlock with a gameshark that supposedly lets you summon the big dragon aeon from the FF series Behemoth or whatever the name is (I am not into the FF games so excuse me for not knowing the name). Why this is sort of true you can get the option to summon him but if you click on it the game instantly freezes. The rumor is it was going to be a secret summon but got cut from the final game. Rumors still circulate the the Japanese version of KH final mix has this summon though I have never seen conformation.

My favorite lie of all time for a video game came from the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time in which the creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, released a poem that he said would lead fans to the Legendary Triforce that they could pick up from an island in the sky. So many gamers spent hours trying to decode that poem and find it. Come to find out to the disappointment of the fans who believed it Shigeru Miyamoto released the poem on April 1st and it was simply an April Fools Joke

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The title got me thinking of Fleetwood mack !!!!
though the post is nice TY !!

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A lot of the Smash Bros lies are based on speculation. In Smash Bros Brawl it's feasible that Geno (from Super Mario RPG) was originally planned to be in the game. Hidden with in the games coding you can find Mushroom Forest music which was the section of Mario RPG where you first met Geno.

The games producer has said that a lot of new Brawls characters did not make the final cut. He also mentioned that they were unable to use some know Nintendo characters due to legal issues. Square created Mario RPG so it makes sense that they would still retain some rights to characters original to Mario RPG.

There is no way to tell if something that was said to have happen during production is a lie unless there is proof.