Did 90's gamers really believed that if you'll put a coin on a SNES Mortal Kombat cartridge, you'll somehow unlock the blood? I heard it somewhere and it sounds pretty wild
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Probably. There was tons of rumors about it back then.
There was no internet so kids had to use their imagination.
There was internet when I was young and rumors like this still went around. Circa 2006 I fully believed holding B after throwing a Pokeball would "tighten" it (increase capture rate) and holding A "loosens" it (decrease capture rate). Took a few years to realize it was all bullshit. I'm sure these kinds of things must still be going around, not all kids have unrestricted internet access (not if their parents are competent anyway)
>holding B after throwing a Pokeball would "tighten" it
People actually still believe this.
Who is it actually hurting anyways?
It's about the timing.
>I fully believed holding B after throwing a Pokeball would "tighten" it
That's stupid. You have to hold DOWN as well for that to work, duhh.
By 06 that Rumor was already circulating for 8 years, lol. Seriously you can dig up old usenet Pokemon posts and find out all these rumors and discoveries. Missingno. was discovered a month in.
Everyone knows you need to tap A on the rhythm of the Pokéball shaking duhhhh
It was RL shitposting
Kids believed all kinds of stupid shit, there was no fact checking back in the day. Where do you think the uncle works at Nintendo thing came from? We just lied our asses off.
Ahh yess things are much better nowadays we have thousands of reposted facebook posts and clickbait articles to check our facts
It tended to pertain to insignificant little things back then. The internet was on the edge of society back then, so a lot of it wasn't really serious or important, while these days, the web is integral to society as a whole, so the dynamic is completely different.
Probably, yes.
My friend insisted you can unlock fricking Jade in MK1 on SNES
>DUDE you have to Double Flawless with NO blocking on Warrior Shrine with Sub Zero
>we wasted an afternoon trying this
The crazy thing is that MK is so saturated with secrets and easter eggs and ascended memes and glitches that any of those rumors could be true or become true.
I'm sure there's someone who believed it, lots of stupid stories like those went around in schools and on playgrounds, kids are gullible and imaginative. The amount of completely false stories about Pokémon alone would be enough for a whole encyclopedia of its own.
The lacking access to good internet connections in some places, especially on the spot like now, made it harder to just go online and research the rumor, it wasn't just a few clicks away.
Likewise, for people who did have good internet connections, it wasn't necessarily easy to just go and find large and centralized sources of good information, a lot of the time your source of information here were posts on bulletin boards and forums, as well as smaller personal fan sites, and these were not all that reliable.
So some kid could tell you that you needed to beat Elite Four like 50 times without saving and without turning off the game, and you'd unlock Sonic, and on its face that sounds completely bullshit and moronic, but it's also not like you could go on the web and find answers swiftly (likely you'll find more crap), and it's not like you're gonna sit down and try that shit out.
tl;dr it was a very different climate from today
>unlock Sonic
I love how these were on the cusp of obvious bullshit, yet so outrageously enticing you'd still consider trying.
That Kid is a real phenomenon, and the stories can be a real doozie. I knew one who straight up was just a compulsive liar and would make up outlandish shit about anything and everything, not just videogames.
I don't know what website you read this on, but nobody was that moronic.
Even I heard the my uncle works at Nintendo and the hold B to up the capture rate thing. I always wondered how these memes just sort of spread. I went to school in a pretty no name town without a lot of new kids and dialup internet, still the same lies there as you'd get on the opposite side of the country.
Any euros get the same effect?
Everyone believed in some variant of what you were supposed to do when catching, hold down + B, tap A, etc.
It seems this myth may actually still persist.
OP I’d never heard that but now I really wish there had been a cartridge game which had snuck under ESRB’s radar with a built-in slot in it the size of a quarter.
No acknowledgement of it anywhere in the manual or the game, save for one line in the end credits
>“CONGRATULATIONS. INSERT 25 CENTS FOR BLOOD, CUSSING, AND BOOBS.”
If any angry parents write in about it or try to sue, just say that their kids modified their game in an unofficial and non-endorsed manner, so it’s on them.
If such technology existed in 90's, industry could've been introduced to standard of having DLCs way earlier
Ah, dreams...
I thought everyone knew the only way to get blood in SNES MK was to use a game genie code to change the palette of the sweat to red
My siblings thought there was a way to turn on the blood in SNES MK. I think they heard about the blood code from their friends but no one knew it was exclusive to the Genesis port.
I always found the
>do these ridiculously convoluted series of steps to unlock this ultra secret thing
things pretty funny, because the Pokemon Red/Blue Mew one was actually real but it sounded like absolute horseshit at face value
but there was a million of those, like unlocking Goku in Smash 64 lol
>BRO
>YOU GOTTA USE STRENGTH ON THE TRUCK
I wanted to believe in that one so bad, because it just seemed neat, even if Mew being hidden that way feeling kind of stupid.
Never heard this moronic shit in my life
Did hear that you could unlock Scarlet if you did some bullshit combo but I don't remember the details