The 10 Weirdest Video Game Hoaxes

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00:00Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're taking a look at the 10 strangest hoaxes in video

00:09game history.

00:10Don't believe everything you read or hear.

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00:27Ratman Grand Theft Auto 4 GTA has had quite a number of myths enter

00:36its sphere, like Bigfoot and Leatherface.

00:39Ratman on the other hand, kind of just came out of nowhere.

00:43When a blurry photo surfaced online, players were immediately stricken with shock and began

00:49investigating.

00:50All that's been uncovered are oil stains and a character mentioning a rat infestation

00:55in Liberty City's subways.

00:57No hard proof of the character's existence has come up even after all this time.

01:02The few who still believe claim that Ratman shows up when you least expect it.

01:07That's a coincidental explanation for a character that has only apparently been seen

01:11once in a super, super blurry photo.

01:16Bowser's Prisoner Mario Kart 64

01:25We would have never expected a bizarre anomaly such as this to be in Mario Kart 64 of all

01:30Nintendo games, but fans have not been able to let go of what they call Marty the Thwomp.

01:36For years, fans have wondered why Bowser has a green thwomp locked up in his castle.

01:42While some speculated on Marty having a dark past, others took it a step further and began

01:47spreading rumors that this green thwomp could be freed and unlocked as a playable character.

01:53Funny thing is that none of the doctored footage showed Marty being playable, and would

01:58often be cut off as his cage was unlocked.

02:01Also, none of the code in Mario Kart 64 remotely suggests that Marty was planned to be playable.

02:07He is simply a blue thwomp under yellow lighting.

02:12Moo Moo Farm, not that one, Diablo

02:15Yeah, this is not the Mario Kart 64 level Moo Moo Farm.

02:24In the world of gaming hoaxes, Diablo's cow level Moo Moo Farm is perhaps the most

02:29famous.

02:30It only started as a rumor with players claiming that clicking on a bunch of cows would open

02:35a secret portal to a world filled with nothing but cows.

02:39Alas, the image that was floating around was nothing more than Photoshop shenanigans, though

02:45it wasn't for long.

02:46The rumor came true when Diablo 2 rolled around, as Blizzard took the rumor and cranked it

02:51up a notch.

02:52Diablo 2 hides a secret cow level where you will fight a horde of hell bovines before

02:58taking on the Satanic Cow King.

03:06Turning White into Purple, Super Mario 64 DS

03:15Despite being a remake of the 1996 Super Mario 64, this DS title held plenty of secrets of

03:22its own, the biggest one being a white door in Princess Peach's room.

03:27Many began speculating what the purpose of this door was.

03:30That's when someone began spreading what appeared to be an article from an unpublished

03:34gaming magazine.

03:36Princess Peach claimed that the mysterious door was where Waluigi was waiting to make

03:40his playable debut in a mainline Mario game.

03:43All you had to do was attain a 100% completion rate, catch a purple rabbit, and defeat the

03:50Rabbit King.

03:51Unfortunately, there is no purple rabbit in Mario 64 DS, and there is no Rabbit King in

03:57Mario 64 DS.

03:59The white door was simply a white door hiding a single Power Star, and nothing else.

04:10A Familiar Corpse, Danganronpa V3 Killing Harmony

04:20When rumors spread about certain characters appearing in a game, it usually comes with

04:24the claim of, oh, they're playable, or oh, they're a hidden boss.

04:29This one was simply claiming to be an easter egg.

04:32One fabricated image of Danganronpa V3 was making its rounds within the Danganronpa subreddit,

04:37showing a hanged body dangling from Tenko's dojo.

04:41Fans quickly identified the body as Ibuki Miyota, who suffered the same fate in Danganronpa

04:472, Goodbye Despair.

04:49They were swiftly deflated, and a tad upset when booting up V3, only to find her remains

04:55were nowhere to be seen.

04:57Admittedly, this would have been a cool easter egg, but why lie about something like this?

05:03It's strange.

05:04Reversing Course, Final Fantasy VII

05:13Final Fantasy VII traumatized a lot of us when we played it back in 1997.

05:18Aerith's death was so upsetting that it made some of us stop playing for a day or

05:23two.

05:24Or maybe a week.

05:25Or a month.

05:26For others, it was as if they actually lost someone in their lives, and they began their

05:31first step in dealing with grief.

05:33There was so much denial that Aerith was gone that fans started delusional rumors that there

05:39was a way to prevent Aerith from dying in a subsequent playthrough.

05:43Everyone invented some absurd method building off of the other rumors.

05:47In the end, what happened happened.

05:56Boob Raider, Tomb Raider

06:08Funny part about this hoax was that it was all started by the developers themselves.

06:13The team at Core Design knew that with their buxom badass babe, some questionable players

06:18were going to try and get the clothing removed just to see some naked triangles.

06:23And so, Core Design published a list of codes on the internet that were to remove each article

06:29of clothing.

06:30Inputting any of these codes did no such thing, and instead, caused Lara to instantly explode.

06:38Your perversion only caused pain, you sickos.

06:45A Meat Shield No More, Super Smash Bros. Melee

06:55While the Sonic and Tails hoax is more widely known, the Toad hoax is the weirdest.

07:00Roughly a year after Melee released, a Geocities website stated that Toad could be unlocked

07:06as a playable fighter if you managed to shoot every name in the credits.

07:11Two problems with this.

07:12First of all, shooting every name in the credits is next to impossible for most players

07:17to do without tool-assisted software.

07:20Second, those who already unlocked the entire roster could immediately tell this was fake,

07:25because Melee tells you when you've unlocked all of the secret characters.

07:31Guys, who are you trying to fool?

07:33Really?

07:35Resident Demon, Resident Evil 2

07:45Once upon a time, EGM was the king of video game hoaxes, and this one had so many people

07:51fooled.

07:52For EGM2's April 98 issue, the magazine published a small article about how to unlock

07:58Street Fighter's Akuma in Resident Evil 2.

08:01Supposedly, players would have to complete all four scenarios with an A-rank six times

08:07using only the handgun and the knife.

08:09In the seventh playthrough, type in Akuma into the computer console, and you'll be

08:14able to play as the demon himself.

08:16Imagine how many people attempted this and found nothing.

08:21Oh, the disappointment must have been immeasurable.

08:32Super Mario Bros.

08:37The closest we ever got to a chocolate-themed world in a Mario game was Chocolate Island

08:42in Super Mario World.

08:44Although there was nothing sweet about that tumultuous world, but back in the old days,

08:49some players believed there was a secret chocolate factory hidden in Super Mario Bros.

08:54Sounds cool, but this was a lie fabricated to protect one author's works.

08:59Jeff Rovin was known for writing a series of guidebooks called How to Win at Nintendo

09:03Games, and in one of them, he included a piece about an alleged chocolate factory level.

09:09Those who worked with Rovin say that this bit was either a joke or a means to catch

09:14any potential plagiarizers from stealing his work.

09:26But were there any other video game hoaxes that you deemed a little too weird to believe?

09:31Let us know down in the comments below, and be sure to subscribe to Mojo Plays for more

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