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Video Game Lies Bring Seedy Playground Filth To Your Browser

Posted by Derrick Sanskrit

Remember that kid on the playground who told you Chun-Li would take off her panties if you won three perfect matches in a row in Street Fighter II? Or that you could find Luigi by running up the endless stairs in Super Mario 64? Kids' imaginations can run wild, and many game lies were born from "True story! My cousin works in an arcade. He showed me!"

Well now many of the most notorious game lies are available in convenient wiki format thanks to Video Games Lies. Surprise, surprise, lots of them involve showing female characters naked. Will kids get their minds out of the gutters, please? I personally remember a kid telling me that if I dodged the first three milkshakes in stage two of Back To The Future but let the fourth one hit me head on, I would get invincibility. I lost a LOT of games before figuring out that was a complete lie.

Of course, some lies became so popular that they were eventually incorporated into later games. An infamous April Fool's prank by EGM claimed Sheng Long (seen above) was a hidden character in Street Fighter II and he was recently finally included in Street Fighter IV. Gamers struggled for years trying to unlock a nonexistant Sonic the Hedgehog in Super Smash Bros Melee only to have him joyously enter the fray in Super Smash Bros Brawl. The much rumored Animalities of Mortal Kombat 2 finally surfaced in curious effect in Mortal Kombat 3.

Clearly, developers are listening to what the fans want. Clearly, fans want ridiculous shit. Now we have a database, and since it's a wiki, you can edit it whenever you want. Who knows, maybe the next lie you make up could wind up in the next installment of you favorite game. (I heard if you get over 150 rallies in the target practice Wii Sports tennis training exercise, you unlock a Mario skin for your Mii to play the rest of the game in. Seriously.)

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Posted Mar 09 2009, 07:00 PM

Filed under: derrick sanskrit, super smash bros, mortal kombat, wikipedia, street figher iv, lies, playground

Comments

Sanagi said:

I have it from a reliable source that Nintendo didn't just stupidly forget to put a customizable Mii character in Smash Bros. Brawl. They're saving it for an online update.

March 10, 2009 12:36 AM

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