{"id":63891,"date":"2014-05-01T08:58:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T06:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63891"},"modified":"2014-05-01T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T07:01:10","slug":"gaming-urban-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/63891-gaming-urban-legends","title":{"rendered":"Gaming Urban Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63783-the-atari-e-t-landfill-legend-is-true.html\">recent excavation of discarded E.T games from a New Mexico landfill<\/a>, a gaming urban legend has been put to rest.<\/p>\n<p>To honour this momentous occasion, we have tallied some of gaming&#8217;s best urban legends that are still around today.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Lavender Town Suicide<\/h3>\n<p>After the release of\u00a0Pokemon Red and Green in 1996, the child suicide rate in Japan went up, while many fell sick and passed away from their illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The strange thing about this statistic was that all the children who fell ill or died did so after reaching the same point in the game &#8211; Lavender Town.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the score from the game used when entering the town resulted in depression, which lead to sickness or suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The score was then changed when the game launched internationally. If you are brave enough, the original score is below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-sOadAaGiq4?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Polybius<\/h3>\n<p>Back in the early 1980s there was a game that mysteriously started appeared in arcades.<\/p>\n<p>The black machine had standard joysticks, and contained games like Pacman and Tempest, but when gamers had a go on it, they suffered various afflictions such as: amnesia, blackouts, nausea, seizures, headaches, nightmares, and, in some reports, committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>A freaky government experiment, or an old urban legend that won&#8217;t die?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63913\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/polybius.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63913\" class=\"wp-image-63913\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/polybius-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"Polybius\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/polybius-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/polybius.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polybius<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">3 Shadows in Hell Valley<\/h3>\n<p>While Super Mario Galaxy 2 is one of the best Mario games ever made, it is also one of the creepiest.<\/p>\n<p>During a level named Shiverburn Galaxy, 3 figures stand on a hilltop looking down at you &#8211; apparently some gamers went digging into the code and found out that the level was actually called Beyond Hell Valley, and the figures were trees from Hell Valley itself.<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly the Mario we know and love today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MyH2uFgyyys?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">GTA 5 and the ghost of Los Santos<\/h3>\n<p>Have you seen the ghost of Los Santos? If you visit the website\u00a0whokilledlenorajohnson.com in the game you come across a site filled with fake newspaper stories that lead players to an in-game murder scene.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased is an actress, killed during the golden age of Vinewood Cinema.<\/p>\n<p>The murder is alleged to be\u00a0based on a real murder case, though, which took place back in the 1940s and was called the &#8220;Black Dahlia Case&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you find the in-game murder scene and visit it an 11pm, you will find the ghost of the slain actress,\u00a0Jolene Cranley Evans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IkGyfM9O8Jc?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Which gaming urban legends keep you awake at night? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63901-playstation-4-update-1-7-is-out.html\">PlayStation 4 Update 1.7 is out<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63869-dark-souls-linked-to-murder-again.html\">Dark Souls linked to murder, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63853-sa-gamers-can-get-watch-dogs-for-free.html\">SA gamers can get Watch Dogs for \u201cfree\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are these myths, or is their some truth to these gaming legends?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":63917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[625,21,323,777,12369],"class_list":["post-63891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-grand-theft-auto","tag-headline","tag-mario","tag-pokemon","tag-polybius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63919,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63891\/revisions\/63919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}