mew's under the truck

I once knew somebody that traded me a Mew & I traded it back just to get all 151 on my Pokedex in my old Pokémon Blue cart which I sadly no longer have anymore :(

we never got to see or participate in those rumors, but that “I wish anything was possible” feeling is very real

it’s impossible to make a game where anything is possible and almost impossible to make a game that can still feel like that after you understand it

we actually straight-up quit playing dragon age origins because we knew, without asking, that it wouldn’t be possible to take the actions we wanted to take, that the story had given us a situation but no GM we could lay out our plans to, and who could understand them and respond

Ah, this brings back so many memories. ♥

Back in 2000, my freshman year in college, I had a Game Genie *and* the code that would spawn Mews into the game, and I made a pretty penny by selling them to my classmates (and even a couple professors!) for €10 a pop. ;)

Also, anyone remembers that goshdarned cheat that supposedly allowed you to play as the bosses in the original SNES Street Fighter II game, that then turned out to be fake? I spent so many hours in front of my SNES compulsively trying to make it work... ;_;

How can a tiny jam game make me happy and sad at the same time so easily <3. Awesome game

I think the really sad part is that we don't get the the hilariously-blatant fake kind of rumors anymore either.

wait there wasnt a mew under the truck? 

The rumors I remember from my childhood:
~A kid who said if you mailed your Pokemon game to a person, when it returned, you could travel to a new island that had a fat nurse joy and a Pokemon that doesn't faint other Pokemon, but kills them by devouring their souls.
~In Super Mario 64, if you got 100 coins, Mario would pick his nose. Also, in addition to Bowser, there were Bowser family members who had their own unique boss battles. In one battle, the Bowser family are doing a line dance and you have to trip them doing the crouch attack move. Also, a weird fight against a Baby Bowser where you make him cry before Mama Bowser jumps in.

This made so many forgotten synapses in my brain to fire at the same time... thank you! I also miss paper magazines as the primary source of game guides. That's probably why I bought the enormous hardcover Dark Souls strategy guide, even if you can find any number of people who show you how to 100% it on youtube.

I definitely prefer the old rumors spread by actual people over the false information regurgitated by SEO-optimized websites today

I also feel this way about intentionally obscure game mechanics that aren't meant to be fully understood and just meant to be experienced. For Pokemon, it's very easy now to go online and find the exact formula for how exp gain works and all the ins and outs of manipulating your stats, right? But the game never explains that stuff. You're not really meant to know it, the way it was designed.

you may be glad to know it’s teeechnically possible to find mew under the truck, on an original cartridge, without any cheating devices

even technicallier: triforce in ocarina of time

"nowdays,  a quick search will tell you the truth"...usually!  We all know the internet can be an unreliable source at times...:P

Playing this brought back to memory a "bogus faq" written for FF6 (FF3US) that was a tongue-in-cheek compilation of fictional secrets in that game.  I remember having a good laugh at that!

The interesting thing about this is that you CAN catch mew in pokemon gen 1; There are all sorts of obscure (and maybe not so obscure) glitches in these older games and sometimes reality has an interesting way of being just as incredulous as playground rumors.

As someone who runs A Link to the Past Randomizer for speed, some of the tricks that I pull off on a semi-regular basis really do sound like this sort of crazy thing!  "Shoot three arrows into the wall, then lay two bombs, and jump into the water, then you can swim without the flippers!"

Maybe that is something that really appeals about speedrunning and glitch hunting, it feels like you are going through these games and having the experience of actually having these "secret tricks" be real! (and not just urban legends that never seem to pan out)

What if Mew was under an other truck all along ? Waiting in Red's Mom's Garage.

I miss that with the last Smash Bros, thinking about maybe unlocking new characters with weird conditions like in SSBM.

Rumors might exist for less popular games, i guess, with elements game dev can make emerge weird lore for fans. An unique truck near a boat.

Yeah, there were times when we simply believed and did not even think that something might turn out to be untrue. After all, this is all the magic, and now sometimes this magic is missing. Nice short story!

As someone who was utterly enchanted by video game mysteries and rumors back in the day (and still has shades of that wonder), I loved this little nostalgia-riddled tour of thoughts by someone who feels the same way. :')

Ohh, this made me so nostalgic... Your environments here are absolutely killer; it evokes the exact vibes of a gameboy as you make your way through pokemon red. Beautifully done!

So fun! I read the whole thing aloud as I played it to my husband, who is currently playing Pokemon yellow for the first time! Thank you for the great game.

Did anybody find the secret glitch room?

Beautifully done. I miss that old feeling of "anything is possible" too sometimes.  Sometimes playing an indy game at launch before anyone's documented anything almost scratches that same itch for me. xD

Tbf, it was SO weird for the game to just have a truck there and nowhere else.

What a cute game! Love the colour palette used, and the art is all very charming!

I also heard this rumour too, but I heard you had to go into the SS Anne, then let your party get wiped out after getting Cut, which stops the boat from leaving. Then, you go and grab Surf and Strength, swim to the island where the truck is and push it to find Mew underneath...

I also did that, but of course, it didn't work haha ;;

It's pretty interesting how this specific rumour became so widely circulated; I wonder where it originated from...

forgive me, i'm extremely sorry but i Must allow the itching urge to do an Actually and correct -- no, no, you don't get Surf on the ship, you get Cut which you need to progress the game, and then the ship leaves, and you only get Surf much later. BUT! if you traded from a friend a pokémon that knew Cut! you could just keep going without ever letting the ship go! and come back when you could use Surf! And in the version of the rumour I knew, you needed Strength to push the truck.
and i actually did all that as a kid, and it didn't do anything :( you can't even interact with the truck.
and I still told myself that I must have messed up something, and there really was a Mew under there, I just couldn't get it.

I did meet Missingno. tho, but iirc I couldn't catch it.

Anyway, deep apologies for the fact-nitpicking, and thank you so much for provoking it, for sharing and reawakening these thoughs and feelings and knowledge I never think about :') What a sweet, yearning nostalgic moment. I miss the gaming magazines you would write to to ask for help when stuck with a level...