The Video Game Hoaxes and Rumors Iceberg Explained 

For Polybius, its important to mention that youtuber and professional editor Ahoy did a private investigation and found out with undeniable proof that Plolybius was created by the owner of an arcade enthusiast archive website back in 1998. So yeah its confirmed debunked but its still insane how this giant piece of media culture came out of just one guy in the 90s trying to draft traffic to his website.

Funny thing about "Luigi as a Pokemon." The "turn the system upside-down" step would actually later be used to evolve Inkay into Malamar.

A lot of these “methods” of unlocking secret characters and items are just SpongeBob’s bubble blowing technique.

Whats insane is that with Shadow of the Collosus, there was an entire group of "secret seekers" on the Playstation forums who were digging through the game and using literary analysis to try and find clues for a secret that didnt exist, and this went on for years. It took a data miner coming in and tearing the game apart to finally convince these guys that were wasnt anymore secrets in the game, only for the developers behind the HD Remaster to later add a new secret to the game anyways. Its one of the craziest stories in gaming, these guys were almost cult-like in behavior.

Fun fact about Aerith's death, relating to rumors of "revival": There does exist unused post-death dialogue for Aerith. It can even be seen in-game, if a cheat program is used to bring her back.

To add some context onto the revive Aerith rumor, the reason that this rumour existed at all was because you could find several weapons and items that could only be used by her, well beyond the point she already died in-game. People took that as proof that you could revive her in some way, but it's believed to just be an oversight in the placement of items - perhaps Aerith's death was going to happen later, or maybe it was a last minute change and the developers forgot to account for that in the item placement.

Since it was kinda blown past, the myth of blowing in a cartridge was that it would fix a misbehaving cartridge. While it was often successful, the explanation is that removing and replacing the cartridge would reconnect the pins, not that you'd actually blown dust away to fix it. Also the Stop n Swap was developed to use a stored memory feature that Nintendo was preparing but then canceled late. Presumably, Rare left it in the final product as a dig at the manufacturer.

I remember when I was like, 12 I was struggling to catch Giratina in Pokemon Platinum. My brother came up and said "You know, there's a button combo that increases your chances of catching pokemon." I rolled my eyes cause I knew that wasn't true but I handed him my DS anyways to let him give it a shot... he caught it with the first ultra ball he threw. I know it was just a coincidence but that had me questioning everything for a minute lol

honestly surprised Nintendogs (the first one. the good one) wasn't on this. as an avid player back in the day i remember especially the rumors/hoaxes around dogs dying if you neglect them for too long, that there would be skeletons laying around; and the ability to have puppies.

Watching videos that revolve around icebergs containing certain topics of mine is definitely one of the many favorite pastime activities of mine.

I actually know a little bit more about the Webkinz Killer rumor. Another version of the myth was of a rogue pet popping up in your virtual home from a mysterious black gift box. Rumor had it that, if you saw a black gift box in one of your rooms, you had to exit as quickly as possible, else the box would open, revealing a mangy street pet that would brutally murder your webkinz. Thing is, this second version of the rumor was built on some kernel of truth. Sometimes when placing down furniture in a room, the assets would glitch and display a greyed out random item, which sometimes meant you'd get a "black" gift box (really a greyed out gift box of another color). Obviously this real version of the black gift box didn't do anything, but it caused players that knew about the rumor a bit of a scare. There was also yet ANOTHER version, where instead of some rabid street animal the creature that would pop out of the black gift box would be a neopet from Neopets. Accompanying this version was another rumor that, on Neopets, there was a special page where you could input a Webkinz username to send them a black gift box to hopefully kill their webkinz with your neopet.

This Iceberg feels like it was writen by someone who also spent a lot of time watching the old 'pop fiction' show on game trailers back in the day

I think some of the "reviving X" rumors might've originated from Chrono Trigger, where reviving one of your party members is an important point of the main quest

For the Columbine one, this rumor stems from the fact that Eric Harris did make doom maps. On his website, he teased an unreleased mapset. It's believed that this was supposed to be the school, but it could have been anything.

10:28 In the case of blowing the cartridge, it works when the game is not booting. But this is harmful, because saliva damages the contacts. I use isopropyl alcohol About the toothpaste, it works on discs because you are removing the scratches. It's like waxing the car. But it can also damage the CD.

6:13 Football guy here and I'll be able to explain each individual curse from the corresponding game Madden 01: Eddie George In 2001 following a trip to the Super Bowl in 1999 and a deep run in 2000 narrowly losing to the great 2000 Ravens defense Tennessee Titans RB Eddie George produced yet another outstanding season bringing close to Offensive Player of The Year honors (Marshall Faulk (LAR) would win) However, he would begin to suffer serious injuries following 2001 and by 2007 was on his way out for good. 2002: Daunte Culpepper Not exactly a guy to suffer this curse minus the fact that in 2003 the Vikings suffered one of the worst collapses in regular season history capped off by a 17-18 loss in a must win game to the 3-12 Arizona Cardinals. 2003: Marshall Faulk It's hard to say for Marshall, it seems that all the cursing happened more to the organization than him individually. Following their loss in Super Bowl 36 to the upstart New England Patriots Los Angeles (then still the St. Louis Rams) Hadn't exactly had much success following evident by their 15 year playoff drought 2004: Michael Vick Simply put, this guy was a illegal dogfighter and served 23 months in prison in the prime of his NFL career. He did have a worthy stint with the Philadelphia Eagles following his release but the team moved on by 2013 with the drafting of QB Nick Foles 2005: Ray Lewis One of the few athletes to never fall victim to this curse. He had a national trial for murder early in his career but following his release he continued being a staple of a sturdy Ravens defense all the way until his retirement in 2013 following the Ravens 34-31 Super Bowl XLVII victory over the San Francisco 49ers 2006: Donovan McNabb McNabbs case is a bit different, he began to severely digress in play following 2007 leading to his eventual trade to the Washington Commanders which effectively ended his elite status for his career. 2007: Shaun Alexander After an MVP performance the year prior Alexander began to suffer injuries and never recaptured his MVP form following 2008: Vince Young Vince Young was actually a promising talent but after years of repeated injury and lackluster play he was eventually canned. 2009: Brett Favre Following the harrowing end to his Green Bay Packers career Favre joined the New York Jets in 2008 and had a catastrophic collapse that saw the Jets divisional rival Dolphins led by former Jets QB Chad Pennington, in 2009 he joined the Packers sworn enemy in the Minnesota Vikings and threw a costly interception in the 2009 NFC Championship Game vs the New Orleans Saints. 2010: Troy Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald Both of these legends didn't suffer a supposed curse although Polamalu's Steelers would lose Super Bowl XLV to Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers 31-25. Larry on the other hand was just stuck on lowly Arizona teams until his eventual retirement in 2022 2011: Drew Brees Brees would continue to produce outstanding numbers but couldn't win games because of the lackluster defenses he had throughout his career. 2012: Peyton Hillis Hillis was a one year wonder and had his best season in 2011 with the Cleveland Browns. He is a true hero though although it doesn't change his NFL legacy. 2013: Calvin Johnson Megatron suffered serious back injuries throughout his career (From carrying the terrible Detroit Lions to any forms of relevance 2014: Barry Sanders/Adrian Peterson Sanders could not suffer the curse as he retired prior to the 2001 season following disputes with Detroits front office, however AP would go on to tear his ACL and be arrested on child abuse charges. 2015: Richard Sherman Super Bowl XLIX.... 2016: Odell Beckham Jr. DONT TAKE PHOTOS ON A BOAT! 2017: Rob Gronkowski Although Gronk is always "hurt" he still went on to win more Championships following his cover apperance 2018: Tom Brady Its hard to suffer a curse when you're the most decorated player in the modern era of the game but for Brady it seems his career has taken a nosedive into oblivion as he's retired for the second time 2019: Antonio Brown Suffering from the ever present CTE caused by an illegal hit in a 2015 Wild Card Playoff game between the Steelers and Bengals 2020: Patrick Mahomes This guy is one of the few to not be anywhere close to cursed and hes well on his way to Super Bowl 57 2021: Lamar Jackson Pay The Man... 2022: Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes Worst cover ever made 2023: John Madden No curse, rest in peace to the legendary Raiders head coach 🙏

I remember there being several Myths and Hoaxes regarding Undertale back in it's early days, though they were forgotten to time. Most of them were done by a Tumblr user named Scarodactyl, which included: >A halloween event >Unlocking Quote from Cavestory >And even a secret boss fight of Grillby, an npc featured in snowdin. Those weren't the only ones, though, but they're the most notable examples, others include having a Temmie one shot you in an encounter after making the shop owner Temmie mad at you, other secret bosses, etc. There are even some for Deltarune, but yeah.

It's a bit surprising how many FF related entries the iceberg has but it didn't feature the Zack in a pipe hoax from FF7 when it was like the second most famous rumor after reviving Aerith.

For the Houlihan room, I think the hoax or rumor could come from the fact that in the Japanese version of the game, the room has no text or dialogue and is a glitch room that was discovered by the staff that couldn’t be patched out, so they decided to make it seem intentional with the Nintendo power contest- hence the bizarre and random nature of the contest

im surprised the mossdeep rocket is on such a low (high?) tier, but maybe that's just because it was the big one i personally fell for as a kid. i heard it as "if you have 100 hours on the in-game clock, you can board the rocket and go catch jirachi on the moon". i remember leaving my old copy of emerald open and running overnight for days, and was so disappointed when it didn't work, lol

Holy crap I didn’t expect to see Blockland in this list. What happened was that the dev for the game made it so a creepy face (which was just a texture) would appear on dark maps during Halloween. I think it was called “prepper” in the files. The community then went a step further and created the hoax called “renderman” (probably as a parody of Minecraft, which blockland was often compared to back in the day, and obviously as a slender man spoof). The idea was that if you took a screenshot on a dark map, a creepy black figure would “render” into the background of it. The figure has the same face as the prepper, which is the connection between the two.

The Viva Pinata 2 Trouble in Paradise Wild/Unwild rumour isn't on this list, but it's one that can happen ingame. For those who have never played, you basically run a garden and try to make it inviting to wild pinatas who you can then breed and send to parties. When a new pinata is unlocked, you see a small video showing it off. The pinatas are wild at this point and their colours are just black and white paper mache. When attracted to your garden though they go full colour. There was a way to exploit within the game and get Wild Unwilds, Garden resident pinatas who still kept their wild colouration. I can't remember the precise steps, but I know it involved catching it in a crate then sending it to a seperate account whom hadn't unlocked that pinatas intro video ingame yet, and then sending it back a few times.

My guess for why the Houlihan room is on this list: From what I've heard, people came up with different methods to access the room, and nobody understood exactly how it worked since all of the methods were extremely different. But it turns out it is just a failsafe for when the game glitches out and doesn't know what room to load; the player gets sent to this room instead.

I think I can explain the GTA 5 Mount Chilliad mystery. The mural was supposed to be a cross DLC thing between each of the playabale characters, Trevor's was going to have him be a secret spy agent for the FIB or IAA, Franklin's was set in the zombie apocalypse, and Michael's was going to be the answer to the mystery which included Mount Chilliad to split in half hatching thousands of aliens to invade the city and Michael has a HUGE fear of aliens while also having to protect his family. Sadly... assets from these DLC's were repurposed into GTA Online because it made more money. :( For example: The Arena Wars update includes heavily modified cars & textures from the zombie DLC. EDIT: Apparently, it's a debate on which DLC was who's between Michael and Franklin.

About the Houlihan room, it wasnt a Link to the Past that the room was intended to be in, but an earlier NES game, Zelda 2, I believe. It never got added so instead, they added it to Link to the Past as a room that the game would put you in if it didnt know where to place you due to an error when transitioning rooms. It's very possible to reach this room in normal gameplay and isnt even that hard.

The contest won by Chris Hoolihan wasn't specifically for a hidden room in a Link to the Past. It was just to have your name featured in a future Nintendo game. The reason it's on this list is most likely because the room is not actually accessible normally. It requires glitching the game somehow to load a room that doesn't exist, which will load the Hoolihan room as a failsafe. For years it wasn't even known that the room existed. It also begs the question why Nintendo decided to include the winner of the contest in a room that wasn't even meant to be accessible in the first place.

iirc, the devs not only provided the codes to have Lara nude But the code was actually coded in game. The thing is that instead of making her nude, she would just blow up and have her body parts scattered about

Love sourcebrew going off on a tangent for a few seconds over how wild it was that guys were attracted to Lara Croft when she "looks like Minecraft" lol.

I wont spoil anything, but the reason the Stanley Parable entry is so vague is because the game intenionally defies expections for videogame mechanics, which includes endings. As such, some objectives can only be accomplished by doing things that either make no sense, would be impossible for a real human playing, or require actions in real life outside of the game. One in particular requires you to play a minigame in a certain room for 4 continuous hours without failing even once. About halfway through, the narrator suspects that you've setup a cheating program and left your pc/console idle. He then amps up the difficulty to mess it up.

I’m so glad the Webkinz one was on this list. I remember being eight or nine and everyone gossiping about how to save our pets on the playground lol.

31:46 WELL ACKSHUALLY 🤓... Yeah, they DID make a playable Master Hand eventually. At the end of the World of Light in Smash Ultimate, there's a section where you get to play as Master Hand. It's really cool that after all this time they made him playable, even if only briefly.

48:14 I can actually add to this entry: The entity, originally based upon a creepypasta (The Renderman creepypasta) inspired by a creepypasta (Slenderman), can actually appear in-game via modding the game. Renderman used to be a very favorite gamemode a few years back. The Prepper refers to an event in the mod where a floating image of one of two Renderman's faces appears for a split second.

Just a note: There's a SotC fanproject in the works called Beyond the Forbidden Land that's looking to recreate all of the known cut colossi from the game. They've made some seriously cool progress iwth the boar Sirrius, there's interviews on RU-vid about it. Looks very promissing

I love video games rumors and hoaxes. They’re always interesting.

Toothpaste is a mild abrasive that basically buffs out big scratches into smaller ones which can make the disc readable again. I remember discovering it as a bit of trivia and telling my parents, only for my dad to immediately get mad at me and tell me to never put a disc I had cleansed with toothpaste in the computer. I'm not sure if he thought I meant to put a disc with toothpaste on into the disc drive, or whether he thought just having put a disc in that had been cleaned with toothpaste would somehow short circuit the computer.

Great video! Thanks for not including stupid creepy music or jumpscares, definetly helps the watch time!

4:57 We knew Luigi was always meant to be in the game even before the gigaleak. The gigaleak only just gave the model.

It's always a great day when sourcebrew covers an iceberg video.

Great work man. I always look forward to your videos. Keep it up!

30:56 In Smash Ultimate, Master Hand is playable during World of Light. You have to keep both sides balanced and defeat Master Hand and Crazy Hand in the Final Battle realm. Once you've done that, Master Hand and Crazy Hand should appear to make a rift, when entered, will allow you to play as Master Hand.

Man you’re killin it with the content lately

Hell yeah new sourcebrew iceberg! All of your videos are great man especially these long ones keep up the good work, you’re one of my favorite channels!

10:43 the reason toothpaste works on game discs is because is basically just polishing out scratches on it since its abrasive

I can never get enough of these. Perfect background listening

I would LOVE a video on PokeGods man I was SO into all the discussion about these back in the day, it really brings back memories : ' )

Once you play the Stanley Parable make sure you get the Broom closet ending. The Broom closet ending is my favourite.

From what I remember in regards to the Houlihan Room one, while the Nintendo Power competition was real, it was never stated who won the contest, and the Houlihan room is a room the game sends link when it detects an error in links placing. To quote the Zelda Wiki: “It is believed that Chris Houlihan was the winner of a Nintendo Power contest held during September and October of 1990, where the winner would have their name programmed into a future NES game. This was first stated in the December 1994 issue of Club Nintendo, the official Nintendo magazine for Latin America. *However, the winner of the contest was never revealed by Nintendo Power and Chris Houlihan has never been confirmed to even be a real person.”*

about Polybius, a band called Nine Inch Nails which has been around since the 80's used Polybius as a concept for the music video they did for one of their songs called "Less Than"

Listening to these "unlock" methods nowadays it's almost painful how obvious it should have been to us that these methods were fake and yet we bought into them anyway. I couldn't tell you how many fake Melee fighters I hunted.

despite constantly trying to prevent it, i always find myself leaning left or right while playing racing games

9/10 iceberg video. All topics are interesting, no boring parts, and overall I loved this one.

You have the perfect type of voice for these type of videos. I loved this btw

I remember the toothpaste thing! I had to use it to fix my Oblivion because the Shivering Isles disc was scratched up and that shit works

Awesome. Your content is so underrated, it’s always a great time!!

If I remember correctly, the whole L is real thing turned out to be more true than just the fact that Luigi was in the leak. Now, I’m not 100% sure but the leak came out on April 1st, 2020. 4/1/20. Which is just a reworking of the number on the original sign, 2401.

When people pronounce the 'é' in 'Pokémon' that way I do wonder why they even bothered putting that accent over the e to signalize a different pronunciation when people just ignore it lmao

I remember growing up there was a rumor about a game that focused around Silver the Hedgehog similar to Shadow the Hedgehog. Looking back on it, it was totally bogus but given how Sega was treating the franchise around the time it wasn't totally unbelievable. I'd say the part that really clued me in that it was a hoax back then was the "fact" that the game was rated M and that the game would have side content that related to relationships between certain characters. Which is all especially funny given how Silver as a character has been characterized nowadays.

22:36 It still is infamous!! The theories still are amazing!

during the undertale demo, there was a rumor going around about a "real knife" counterpart to the toy/fake knife. this did not exist at the time but may have inspired the actual item, which existed in the final release

Disappointed he didn't mention how the '2401' part of L is real was also true because the leak happened 24 years and one month after the game's release date

I have this distinct memory of reading in either a handbook or on a YT comment that in RE4 if you shot every single portrait of Osmund Saddler you would get a secret weapon and ending. I told my friend at school and we discussed what the ending would be. We both tried for so long to get it but of course it was all nonsense.

"I remember my dad doing this..." Welp...guess I'm officially old...

The Mount Chiliad Mystery is widely considered to be 'solved'. I say 'solved' like that because it's not solved in the sense that the mystery's puzzle itself has actually been solved, but more in the sense that it's been determined that there is no solution to the mystery in the game. There are two main theories behind the Mount Chiliad Mystery: 1). It's already been solved in its entirely and people are just looking too deeply into it, expecting there to be more to the mystery than is actually there. The clues were only ever intended to lead to the UFO that appears at Chiliad after 100% story completion and there is nothing more after that. 2). The puzzle itself was left unfinished. It was intended to be continued with the singleplayer DLC that was originally planned but then scrapped when Rockstar chose to switch their focus to creating multiplayer content instead. The puzzle was therefore abandoned by the devs, similarly to Banjo Kazooie's "Stop N Swap". I personally lean more towards the latter of the two.

9:25 I know a lot about this one so allow me to explain it a bit. So as we all probably know in the first Mortal Kombat there was a hidden fight with Reptile with him also leaving clues on how to fight him sometimes. I bring this up because in the games audits menu under "Reptile battles" was "Ermacs" which led people to believe that there was another hidden fight which led to a bunch of rumors which led to the the EGM article. The rumor was probably so widespread that the developers had to confirm that it was fake and even took jabs at it in Mortal Kombat 2. For one Smoke and Jade (two characters in MK2 that had secret battles like Reptile) both had clues that said "Ermac who?", secondly after beating Shao Kahn there would be a word scramble that when unscrambled says "Ermac does not exist". This saga would finally come to a close when Ermac would be added as a playable character in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.

Herobrine, L is real, Mew under the truck. The holy trinity of gaming hoaxes

W content man i cant wait for the new ice berg tier! thank you very much for the good watch

I love that Sora ltd acknowledged the playable Master Hand rumor and actually added a level in Smash Bros Ultimate where you actually get to play as it.

58:00 I think what the Chris Houlihan room hoax entry talks about where it's actually located in the game. In the American and European copies the room is used as a failsafe if you go in a room with an invalid number, but there were many posts and even articles in Club Nintendo theorizing that it could be acceded via a hidden house, the top of a pyramid or by talking to an NPC that would teleport you there

Theres more to the Aerith revivable theory. Most notable is the data dump of the games code that revealed Aerith has dialogue as far into the game as the final battle in the crater. Couple that with "Aeriths ghost" a real bug that exists in the original game that causes Aerith to appear after her death as a single frame as you enter the chappel where you first met her in sector 7.

48:42 The "prepper" actually was in Blockland for a short amount of time during a secret halloween update by Badspot, which spawned particle effects of one of the games faces, called "ascii_terror". It was secretly included in a halloween bricks add-on and then removed later on.

These videos have unironically gotten me through my exams because they're interesting enough that I'm paying attention but also informational enough that I can do my work while listening to it so thank you

I remember someone suggesting Brutus the Bulldog should become a real villager in the future but have him introduced as someone who's just misunderstood.

26:26 When the first game came out I was super little and I was sooo sure that sparky the dog was real and I had fan art of him as my phone's wallpaper lmao

I think one of my favorite rumors I grew up with was the rumor in Destiny of the Ahamkara on Venus. While eventually debunked and revealed to be a kind of wildlife known as Batadactyls, the mysterious flying creatures above Venus in very obscure spots really was a fun time to be a Destiny fan. I miss those old days of Destiny where we knew almost nothing and everything was so up in the air on what things were, where things were, and how things were. Even if now we have Riven, a real live Ahamkara in Destiny 2: Forsaken, the Batadactyls above Venus' skies will always be _my_ Ahamkaras. Or Marty the Thwomp. For a while Marty got a redux in Mario Kart Wii, the Mario Kart game I grew up with. My brother and I would spend days trying to figure out how to save Marty and even if he wasn't playable, just to release him and see what'd happen, if anything. There was also another ""rumor"" I thought up myself back then that if you did something on Ghost Valley 2 as King Boo, the Boos in the background would actually assist you by shoving other racers off, jamming their karts, stealing items, etc. At least I predicted the Boo stealing items thing that'd happen in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (I didn't know the Boo item were in a previous game, much less did that until way later) lol.

I've been watching a lot of Iceberg deep dives lately and each one warrants me subscribing to the user, which you sir have earned. In terms of gaming mysteries that impacted me, it was definitely Waluigi being in SM64DS and the Hanging Luigi shadow. The former one is that I've wasted many hours doing nonsensical stuff to unlock the myth himself and the latter one heavily impacted my childhood mind as I was going through a "dark" period of my life.

The PokeGods rumors came about because people hacked Pokemon past the original 151 in the game. It seemed to lend credibility when the first Pokemon movie came out and it featured more Pokemon. Back then we didn't know there were going to be more games after Red/Blue, so it all seemed very mysterious.

Funny how Luigi got leaked 24 years and 1 month after the release date for Mario 64.

i think evil otto was partly to blame for that heart attack victim. not for any supernatural reason, but because it is legitimately terrifying. get an emulator and try it for yourself, it's crazy how scary ~16 pixels can be in the right context.

I remember a *very* long time ago, while watching videos on Ocarina of Time, i found a poor quality video explaining how to activate God Mode in OoT, which included a cool black tunic and the ability to fly. To trigger the mode you had to use the infinite bomb hover glitch to exit out the upper-right corner of the door to the Temple of Time as adult Link, which would magically turn the game into Super Mario 64. From there, you had to do something in Bob-omb Battlefield to change the game back to OoT with god mode enabled.

I guess the shadow of the colossus legend is TECHNICALLY somewhat true. The colossal enemies were basically guarding pieces of the colossus shadow (from what I understand) hence the name... Shadow of the colossus (singular) so you become the colossus at the end having absorbed it's shadow. You're technically the last colossus, maybe the only real colossus.

Interestingly enough, for ocarina of time their is an speedrun category that is for triforce%. Where through the use of a lot of arbitrary code execution allows the player to actually complete multiple oot hoaxes in game like that of the running man. With it ending with the player not only getting the triforce but also getting an cutscene of botw link in oot. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend you do - it’s honestly pretty cool.

The Thwomp isn't even green it's just the lighting

It doesn't surprise me that people tried to revive Aerith and Leo considering how many dead party members you can revive in FFIV.

As a Zelda fan, I remember some people talking about accessing some temple or something as adult Link below the frozen ice in Zora’s domain. It was around the time I was hearing about the Unicorn Fountain and Sky Temple when I was a teen.

I don't know if anyone else remembers this, but back around Portal 2's release, there was a hoax video that claimed that if you did a series of very specific actions, you would find a massive secret room where a giant screen would "reveal" that Half Life 3 would release in 2014.

The Chilliad Mystery has been solved for a while, the three symbols on the drawing resemble Michael, Franklin, and Trevor. You are required to complete all the missions, once you do that the UFO will spawn on top of Mtn Chilliad, that is it. The stuff in Doomsday Heist and beyond were just added for the fans.

The tomb raider code reminds me of something, back when I was a kid, games like that did look real to us, just as real as new games when you got immersed. It’s weird. Outside of bad games, PlayStation games and beyond felt like the graphics were amazing and you could get lost in them. Angelina Jolie is exactly what we pictured so the movie added to it

For the Justin Bailey one, I just searched this up, but there are multiple Justin Baileys on Earth. For the ones I searched up, one is an ice hockey player from New York who plays for the Bakersfield Condors and another is a former professional basketball player. I don't think anyone named Justin Bailey have worked on Metroid since I never played it or even heard of it until I saw this video so I'm not sure, unless a developer was a fan of the ice hockey player Justin or the basketball player Justin.

One hour. TIME TO GET THE POPCORN BECAUSE THIS IS GONNA BE A GOOD ONE!

when Pokemon GO was popular i tried to start a rumor that rubbing the PokeBall after catching something would increase ur chances of catching it. it didnt catch on, but i still rubbed the ball up until i stopped playing lol

Thank you for not wasting 2 minutes of my time explaining what an iceberg chart is

The toothpaste was essentially waxing the DVDs or CDs to fill in the gaps that would keep the game from working correctly. We blew out our 8 & 16-bit carts to clear dust or debris from the connection points.

47:00 Fun fact, Baldi's third question actually would in theory be answerable if NULL did not exist. In the game, it is revealed in the Classic Remastered edition that NULL has been pulling the strings in an attempt to force the game to die by making it unbeatable, however, when his first trick did not kill the game (which was scrambling the third question on all 6 notebooks past the first one, a good theory explaining the delay is that NULL takes a minute to "boot up" and register a player as playing the game, just long enough for them to finish the first set of questions and get the Quarter) he resorted to more direct approaches, scrambling the player's game entirely, giving the player cryptic messages in person, and when all else failed, he replaced Baldi in an attempt to end the game himself, which ended in him deleting himself from the game.

The Roblox hacker one is true, actually, although it wasn't 1x1x1x1. In 2012 a user called Ellernate gained access to an admin account on a Roblox-adjacent site used for testing site features called SiteTest3. Ellernate had the ability to do things like change the website warning banner [a bar at the top of the site that normally had stuff like server shutdowns in] and making other users admin. They also made the face item "c:" amongst other things, which is now pretty infamous. But yeah, it was real, i remember it happening. Fun times.

Bloody hell, this vid's BGM is great But this was simply the vid that made me sub, hope u get to 100k cuz you've been putting in the work, you whippersnapper

Awesome vids recently!

I was an active hoax chaser when i was a kid. I didn’t have internet at home until 2010, So when something suddenly came to mind in a game, or you remembered to look for something a friend told you about, You had ZERO ways to confirm it other than trial and error, Until i later discovered other people online looking for a confirming/debunking things in games. The san andreas sasquatch chase brings me back…. Many, MANY weekends spent at my friend Marcus’ house. We’d stay up all night, until his parents woke up and sent us to bed. We searched every pixel of the rural areas of san andreas. When we finally found out the myth was started because somebody made a mod for PC we couldn’t even play for ourselves…. We were sooooo cheesed lol Y’all kids need to start telling your friends in the school yard that you unlocked something fake in a game, Just to keep the spirit of this stuff alive haha

I was literally wishing last night that someone would make an old internet hoax/video game rumor ice berg and I wake up to this!! Awesome video.

28:22 the book was supposed to be the coin collection mission but was changed later in development I think in the files in the game the text for the mission is still there so go look it up

This video woke up my 10-years old me. A throwback to 2012, so amazing