Re: Might be OT: Game hoaxes

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From: Mark Asher
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:56

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On 18 Jan 2001 07:53:59 GMT, htn...@cs.com (Htn963) wrote:

>     For some reason, while washing the dishes, I thought of the undead settler
>hoax in Master of Magic and was chuckling.  (The hoax claimed that if you turn
>a settler unit into undead, it can then build an undead city from which you can
>churn out all other undead units.)  The only other notable hoax I can recall
>from my gaming experience is the claim that one can resurrect Aeris from Final
>Fantasy 7  by going through extremely detailed set of fool steps.  Can anyone
>name any other, just for my own curiosity?  Thanks.

Probably the most famous hoax was the cow level in the first Diablo.
Then Blizzard put in a real level in the sequel. Heh. 

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Mark Asher - http://www.quartertothree.com/
"Doubletime" interview with CliffyB and Levelord

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