Kyleripman
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I've seen a thread on here about bad hoaxes. But what are the most legendary? My two picks are from the N64 era (and many of you probably will know what they are already).
First up is Luigi in Super Mario 64. Countless photoshops, countless crackpot theories, and I wanted to believe all of them.
L is Real 2401/2041! You just had to run 64 laps around the Boo courtyard!
But that was one of the better and later fakes (actually a rather good April Fool's joke). Many of the originals were less convincing.
Some of the theories were hilariously convoluted and yet so tantalizing to my 10-year-old brain.
And so on... (more here).
This shit was so out of control that IGN actually put out a bounty on Luigi. Of course, eventually Super Mario 64 DS would be released and Luigi would become a reality, though it seemed a little less cool in the end.
Next up is Obtaining the Triforce in Ocarina of Time.
Many people realized that the other collectibles in the inventory screen did light up once you had collected them, leading to the question of whether the Triforce might be collectible, too.
This led to some simple photoshops:
IIRC, it was also tied up with an old beta video of Ocarina that did actually show the Triforce.
But some stories were, like Luigi, very very creative. The best IMO was the Ariana Almandoz version, which you should read in its entirety (archived here).
I personally remember finding this one really convincing at the time.
It seems like this stuff is harder to pull off in this day and age, but I for one would love to see any other examples. And be honest GAF...how many hours did you waste on trying every theory for these two in particular?
First up is Luigi in Super Mario 64. Countless photoshops, countless crackpot theories, and I wanted to believe all of them.
L is Real 2401/2041! You just had to run 64 laps around the Boo courtyard!
But that was one of the better and later fakes (actually a rather good April Fool's joke). Many of the originals were less convincing.
Some of the theories were hilariously convoluted and yet so tantalizing to my 10-year-old brain.
And so on... (more here).
This shit was so out of control that IGN actually put out a bounty on Luigi. Of course, eventually Super Mario 64 DS would be released and Luigi would become a reality, though it seemed a little less cool in the end.
Next up is Obtaining the Triforce in Ocarina of Time.
Many people realized that the other collectibles in the inventory screen did light up once you had collected them, leading to the question of whether the Triforce might be collectible, too.
This led to some simple photoshops:
IIRC, it was also tied up with an old beta video of Ocarina that did actually show the Triforce.
But some stories were, like Luigi, very very creative. The best IMO was the Ariana Almandoz version, which you should read in its entirety (archived here).
I personally remember finding this one really convincing at the time.
It seems like this stuff is harder to pull off in this day and age, but I for one would love to see any other examples. And be honest GAF...how many hours did you waste on trying every theory for these two in particular?
I am a dumb
