ITT: Dumb shit you thought about video games as a little kid

>Called cutscenes "TV mode"

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>Thought the girl on runescape was real

Had various beliefs about button combos that would improve the catch rate when you throw a Pokeball. Like mashing A or holding B or whatever

Why did everyone believe that? Was it printed in Nintendo power or something and it just caught on?
And why did we all have a friend whos uncle worked at Nintendo and had told them what the next Pokemons are gonna be? Why are those so fucking common?

I thought any console you hook up to a TV was called a "Gamecube"

>thought I was playing against a random person somewhere when playing fighting games on my Super Nintendo

>game only has three save slots = I can only save the game three times

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I think it makes perfect sense that young players believe they can have some kind of influence over a completely random event in a game.
Hell even as an adult I can convince myself there's a pattern to win rates in competitive or drop rates in loot boxes.
It just makes sense as a kid that the interface through which you interact with everything about this game must surely apply to all aspects of it

Cutscenes are TV mode though, your child self had it right

Same, but about critical hits instead.

i never fell for the button press stuff but I did about the shit with supposedly getting access to legendaries after beating the league an inordinate amount of times

>holding down the button when I attack will make it do more damage

GameShark kinda ruined me on that. I had Darkrai and Shaymin with no clue how the fuck they factored into anything.
Honestly kind of sad those easily accessible cheats are gone from handheld console gaming desu. Kids today don't know what they're missing

>i thought animal crossing AI was time breaking futuristic shit
i literally thought the game was "alive", and i was too scared to cheat and fuck with the clock. i thought it was like some AI shit i was so disappointed once i figured out how games are made

Blowing on cartridges helped thme work

It absolutely does. Dust can interfere with the pins connection. It's exactly the same as wiping down a disk if its not working right

It was some shitty website about "cheats" the one which sold me the idea of holding L+R+A after selecting an move guarantees dealing critical hit the whole time. We are speaking of the same autistic kid which believes Waluigi was hidden in Smash 64 too back then.

This but with Playstation

>thought 'New Game' would actually give me a new game

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A mom wrote this post.

I was thinking about this image a couple of hours ago

my friends would call prerendered cutscenes "3D" even if the entire game was 3D we would call the cutscenes "3D cutscenes"

were you super young or just mega tarded

I remember calling cutscenes "movie parts"
playing RE4 when I was 12 years old blew my mind that a movie part could still be part of the gameplay

being poor makes your brain cope in many ways

That's not dumb though, it's factually correct
Funny how you could figure this out as a kid, but Snoyfags can't understand it to this day.

Thought the green triangle reset button on the ps2 didn’t do anything and was for show.

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At my school, holding L and R while spamming A was the rumor yes, I'm a GBA zoomer

No, moms just call every system a "Nintendo"

As a kid I thought pressing buttons harder will make my combo stronger.

I always wondered how the game kept going even when the cartridge was outside the system without any power, because of how much they played up the persistent world.

I thought overwriting a save was a bad thing so I played the first 25 minutes of Pokemon Red 3 or 4 times.

No, they call every system a Playstation

I used to do this but I had different combinations for every type of pokemon, and I could swear they worked.

Really depends whether you were a Nintendo or Sony household.