From the beginning of video game history, they have been filled with Easter eggs and mysteries just waiting for you to discover them. Some are easier to find and solve. Other mysteries, however, plague their communities for months and years. Entire communities work on solving these mysteries to unlock the secrets of why they exist and what they mean.
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It’s important to understand that game developers are people, and your memory is not infallible. Not every mystery is going to give you the answer you wanted. Sometimes a breakthrough leads to more questions. Other times, it leads to a disappointing close.
8Resident Evil Live Actors
If you’ve played the firstResident Evil, you’re probably keenly aware of the live-action opening. You’re also likely aware that most of the actors in that live-action scenes have gone, for the most part, unrecognized. Several of the actors were credited under pseudonyms or their first names only. It’s a mystery that has plagued the Resident Evil fandom for a while.
However, a few dedicated gamers havediscovered their identitiesand even spoken with some of these actors. It seems some of them would rather leave it in the past, though, and move on with their lives. Most of these actors and actresses aren’t professionals and were hired on because they were conveniently in Japan at the time.
At the moment, we know the names of Chris Redfield, who was played by Charlie Kraslavsky; Barry Burton by Gregory Smith; Albert Wesker by Eric Pirius; Rebecca Chambers by Linda Rodriguez/Linda X; and Joseph Frost by Jason Wool.
7Super Mario 64’s Impossible Coin
Years after its original release,Super Mario 64still has devoted fans who are figuring new things out about it. Although the coin that spawns on Tiny-Huge Island isn’t the only impossible coin in the game, it is the most infamous.
This coin’s hitbox spawns out of bounds. This means that during a normal run, it’s impossible for you to collect it.
However, in 2014, someoneuploaded a video to YouTube, finally collecting it. User pannenkoek2012’s run needed to be tool-assisted to get through the frame transitions perfectly, allowing them to glitch out and collect their impossibly tantalizing prize.
6Killswitch
Killswitchtook the internet by storm, thought to be a genuine lost piece of gaming history. The game was believed to be a one-time play, whereupon escaping the coal mines, it wiped itself from existence, never to be played again, hence the name.
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Gamers looked for information on the publishing company, Karvina, auctions where the game was supposedly sold, and any information that might lend itself towards one of the remaining 5,000 copies.
Yet, nothing could be found. Eventually, it was revealed that it was little more than a creepypasta, published in the Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente.
5Grand Theft Auto 5’s Bigfoot
Grand Theft Auto 5is full of mysteries and Easter eggs that fans are constantly trying to find answers to,and it’s constantly gaining more. Rumors began to spread that Bigfoot was in Grand Theft Auto 5.
After 100% completion, you’re able to take up a quest to hunt down the last Bigfoot, though it’s revealed toactuallybe a man in a costume. And yet, some were still determined to find the real in-game Bigfoot.
Perhaps even you joined in on the search for Bigfoot, desperately searching for the seven golden Peyote plants that more than a few fans thought would lead to the discovery of Bigfoot. After a long hunt filled with trials and errors, players were eventually unable to unlock Bigfoot on the director’s list.
Bigfoot is technically in the game, just not in the way you may have originally wanted.
4Perplex City - A Billion To One Card
Perplex Cityis anAlternate Reality Game (ARG)that took place from 2005 to 2007, relying on card packs to solve mysteries and uncover codes. There was one card that was unsolvable and one that was considered to be unsolvable for years - theBillion to One Card.
This card pictured a man named Satoshi’s face, along with the words “Find Me” in Japanese. This card haunted those who took part in the ARG. It wasn’t until the end of 2020 that Satoshi was finally found.
It took a complex computer program to find more photos of Satoshi, and from there, player perseverance to finally get in contact. News spread quickly that after nearly 14 years, Satoshi had been found. Players were left with another clue that Satoshi was supposed to tell them, “Who died after giving birth to flames?” This quickly found its own resolution.
3Pokemon Red And Blue’s Mew
Although there is no Mew hiding under a truck near the S.S. Anne inPokemon Red and Blue, you’re able to actually catch one. Some of you might already have discovered the mystery of Mew’s presence in the game.
Through a couple of glitches, you’re able to catch your very own Mew to fight and train, and you don’t need cheats or a Game Genie to do it.
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Commonly known asthe Mew glitch, also known as the long-range glitch was first found in 2003. Aside from helping you catch Mew, this extension of the Trainer-Fly glitch lets you catch any Pokemon you want in the game.
2Skyrim’s Bug Jars
InThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you can find five jars containing bugs throughout the world. Each jar contains a different bug; a bee, a butterfly, a dragonfly, a moth, and finally, a torchbug. These jars could be found in the same spots in every playthrough.
Some of you may have even gotten caught up in this mystery yourself, searching for what they could mean or just collecting them.
However, eventually, the developers came forward with the meaning behind these bug jars. They don’t mean anything. At one point, they may have been part of a bigger quest, but if they were, it was cut from the game.
Not a very exciting end to this gaming mystery, but an end nonetheless. Fortunately for you, though, there aremany good side questsstill scattered throughout the game.
1The Evil Farm Game
Some of you might be aware of the Evil Farm game that swept the internet a while back. Originally it posted on Reddit onr/tipofmyjoystickand later gained its own subreddit,r/thatevilfarminggame.
The original poster described the game as trying to live a normal life and avoid the police after having killed your wife at the beginning of the game. The game became its own phenomenon, with many different people recalling its existence.
You might be disappointed to hear the conclusion of how this entire story turned out, however.Posted in 2021, users were finally able to get in contact with Sparta, the original poster, with some evidence that might have proved the entire thing to be a memory mashup.
Sparta eventually confirmed that their memory of the Evil Farming game was nothing. What they had remembered to be it was actually their brain mixingHarvest Moonandthis vinesauce video.
