I absolutely love this. US gaming magazines would frequently run "April Fools" jokes in their pages, where artwork had been digitally manipulated to make it seem like something or other had happened which really didn't (Simon Belmont being a playable character in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game on the NES, or the "Nimbus Terrafaux" fake hidden character in the first Mortal Kombat, for instance). Reader letters could also be the source of rumours and speculation, where someone asking a question about the existence of something or other being played down by the editors without being outright denied, thus sparking debate amongst readers which then passed to the community, some of whom weren't aware it was just a rumour or had already been disproven: the "Nude Raider" code said to be hidden within the original Tomb Raider game is a perfect example, which people persisted in believing even after the full texture set of the game had been extracted by the community and no nudity discovered.
It's refreshing to see it wasn't only US gamers who got to enjoy these kinds of urban legends in the pre-internet era! š
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Even though it's fake, it's simple and creepy. I'd love to know what the other ghost stories from that issue were.
I know about this game thanks to Rockman 4 Minus Infinity.
It has a kickass soundtrack for its time.
I absolutely love this. US gaming magazines would frequently run "April Fools" jokes in their pages, where artwork had been digitally manipulated to make it seem like something or other had happened which really didn't (Simon Belmont being a playable character in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game on the NES, or the "Nimbus Terrafaux" fake hidden character in the first Mortal Kombat, for instance). Reader letters could also be the source of rumours and speculation, where someone asking a question about the existence of something or other being played down by the editors without being outright denied, thus sparking debate amongst readers which then passed to the community, some of whom weren't aware it was just a rumour or had already been disproven: the "Nude Raider" code said to be hidden within the original Tomb Raider game is a perfect example, which people persisted in believing even after the full texture set of the game had been extracted by the community and no nudity discovered.
It's refreshing to see it wasn't only US gamers who got to enjoy these kinds of urban legends in the pre-internet era! š
Awesome video. This is my favorite series
This is like the grandfather of cursed game creepypasta
This is like a pre-internet creepypasta
Iām interested in the other fake ghost stories in the Famitsu issue.
Mysterious games make the best stories! š
Have you ever done a video on that supposedly "dark web anime" Honestly I think it's super fake
That has got to be one of if not the earliest video game creepypasta.