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When I was in grade school, kids SWORE if you hit the start button at exactly 1:30 during the second round of Mike Tyson's Punchout, Mario would come out with a gun and shoot him (At the time, it seemed like the only possible way anybody could ever beat Tyson). Others said he would come out and knock him out or just declare you the winner. Naturally, I tried it to no avail.

I didn't think about it again for at least 10 years, when I was talking over old games with my roommate in College. He grew up in El Paso, TX which is as far West in Texas as you can get. I grew up in Tyler, TX, which is almost to the Eastern border of Texas. Somehow Tyson came up, and to my complete amazement the same Legend had been circulated around his school when he grew up as well. Now Texas is a pretty big state and that's quite a distance.

So I'm curious. Did anybody else ever hear this tale growing up and if so, where in the country did you grow up/hear about it?

Never heard that before. Sounds like prime urban legend material to me.

i dout it cause the system couldnt tell time

Originally Posted by CaptainObviousXl i dout it cause the system couldnt tell time

1:30 left in the second round, not 1:30 a.m./p.m.

oh lol

Never heard this one but it reminds me of the "Sonya fights naked" code for mortal kombat 1. Everyone swore it existed, but no one could ever quite do it right of course...

Anyone else remember all of the fake cheat codes for NBA Jam? How about the made up Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat characters? The hundreds of methods to catch Mew in Pokémon? Luigi in Super Mario 64? There's always that infamous "Nude Lara" cheat code too...

These things just don't exist...until someone hacks the game and makes them.

The "nude raider" hacks have been around for ages... and they suck. I hear the nude MK fighter busness too but thankfully because I had common sense I didnt beleive it.

I never heard the Mario shooting Tyson urban Rumor but I DO remember the old Sheng Long Story about beatins Street fighter 2 CE with all perfect victories.

Sheng Long was the first EGM April Fools joke... so it at least had some validity.

Well, there was the Samus "naked" cheat in Smash Brothers that was correct (sort-of), and the hand-cuff Guile trick in Street Fighter 2 was also legit. I was able to make both of those work, as well as the NBA Jam tank-game freebie that was bizarre and impossible at the same time.

Yeah, I fell for the Luigi in Mario 64 as well and never was able to find the guy.

I'm disappointed though, nobody ever heard the rumor about Mario shooting Tyson in the NES game?

Nope, but a midget killed himself on the set of the wizard of oz and you can see him in the background at one point.

That's an urban legend and isn't true.

IT ISNT TRUE?!?!? DAMNIT

well, the "Mikey likes it" kid from the life cereal commercials died after eating pop-rocks and drinking soda at the same time.

Ah,

My sarcastic humor detection is working again. Very good

Nope, I never heard it either.

Originally Posted by Gothic_Walrus The hundreds of methods to catch Mew in Pokémon?

Oh yeah. Except there is an actual way to catch Mew w/o using a Gameshark or other cheating devices now.

http://db.gamefaqs.com/portable/game...mew_glitch.txt

I've seen a video of it working. Freaky.

Originally Posted by grayghost81 IT ISNT TRUE?!?!? DAMNIT well, the "Mikey likes it" kid from the life cereal commercials died after eating pop-rocks and drinking soda at the same time.

lol that isn't true!

You can't die from eating pop rocks and drinking soda.

THAT ISNT TRUE EITHER?!?!?

well, Life Savers candy was so named because its inventor's daughter died from choking on a non-holed mint.

No, they were shaped because they look like a life-saver you monkey bubble.

edit-What the HELL is a monkey bubble?

So now I've been called a stupid monkey ass as well as a monkey bubble. I love my life.