So if you have played any game from the past decade or so, you have most likely seen a glitch of some sort. I have seen wide receivers run straight through a safety in a game of Madden, encounted a missingno while playing the first generation Pokémon games, and even was one of the unlucky few who had to send my SD card to Nintendo to fix my Metroid. Yikes, bugs!
Some glitches are true game enders. Does anyone remember when we were told to send in our copies of Twilight Princess when we saved in the wrong place? Â That wasn’t fun. I remember back in in the good old ’90s when I figured out you could mess with the mirror warping mechanics in A Link to the Past. See some bugs are fun!
So I ask you world of Infendo, what glitches have you encountered recently?
Best glitch ever for me was on ISS Soccer 2 on the Gamecube.
Me and my old housemate used to get stupidly competetive on this game (England v Wales grudge matches) and it got to a ridiculous stage where if we scored a really crappy or jammy goal we would celebrate elaborately just to piss each other off.
One memorable match was decided by a goal for Wales that was seemingly headed in from a corner by an invisible player. Nobody was anywhere near it but for some reason the ball was deflected into the net.
Much celebrating followed and my housemate was thouroughly annoyed for weeks. I still bring it up to annoy him even now…happy days…
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First one I ever knew about. I thought it was part of the game and could never figure out what quest involved a character named error.
I also remember thinking it was a glitch the first time i saw someone run above level 1-2 to the warp zone in SMB. Course, in retrospect, that must have been programmed.
Right now my entire xbox is a gaming glitch. It's begging to be sent in for repairs but I am refusing to give MS more money. As such, I can't play any games without installing them first and it still takes about 15-20 mins for it to read a disc. My Nintendo systems never have this problem….
I still haven't finished Twilight Princess, the first game I got for the Wii, because of that stupid room. Saved in the wrong place, and then got so frustrated that I'd have to start all over that I abandoned it. I'll eventually return, though. I think. Probably. Maybe.
I'm relieved that I didn't get stuck in Twilight Princess, especially since the odds were pretty high that I would. I'm a notoriously unlucky person, and I was playing the game without any walkthrough, help, or general information in order to keep things from getting spoiled. So I didn't know about that glitch until I'd played through the whole game.
My favorite glitch as a kid was the screen glitch in Link's Awakening on Gameboy. I forget exactly what it was; I think it involved hitting Select just as you were crossing into another screen. I know the result was that you would end up on the same tile in the second screen, thus allowing you to access parts of the world or parts of dungeons you either weren't supposed to get to yet, or that required a lot of effort to get to. I think that's really the most cheating I ever did that didn't involve just reading a walkthrough. I definitely got stuck sometimes, though. Whoops.
I've been fortunate to not have encountered most of the game breaking/ending glitches. I do remember one in the original Super Mario Bros, though.
In world 4-2 (one of the underground ones), I jumped diagonally between two blocks as small Mario and got stuck there until the level timer ran out.
Oh, yeah–missing no. in Pokemon. I intentionally found that one so I could multiply my rare candy. Whatever item was in a certain slot in your backpack would have 1 extra than what it previously had after you tried to catch missing no.
Playing Jet Force Gemini back on the N64, the graphics would glitch constantly and the characters would grow giant spikes all over their bodies. Also always jumping through the first staircase in Mario 64 every time I went up to save some time.
anyone play the original red steel for wii, there are some messed up gliches in that. although one of my favorite glitch is in sonic adventure 2 battle in the chao garden with sonic/shadow you can jump of the edge
Horrible game, but I remember in Farcry Vengeance there was a part of the game where there was a bunch of gunfire and yelling all around me….but I was all alone. Sound glitch.
My favorite glitch is in Ocarina of Time when you go to Hyrule castle and go in the grotto that the golden Skulltula is in. If you kill it the use the boomerang to get back the token, then do a back flip right before it hits you into the portal up you get the token and you can go in and get it again.