Mandela Effect in Video Games

[extermist]

Has anyone ever experienced or remembered something in a video game but cannot find proof of it anywhere online?

I remember one time in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, after finishing the main game, I did some post game missions, it's the one where you fight Queen Remedy in human form, anyways, I read it on a magazine at the time that there's a 1 in 100 chance that you can recruit her as a clan member if you bring the teddy bear key item and have Babus in the party for thr fight.

I manage to get this in one playthrough but I already had a full clan and I needed to kick out a memeber before the match even started, I did it on original hardware and never got to replicate the experience again..

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Another was while playing the 2012 Splatterhouse on PS3, I swear I could hear a remix of Cthulhu Dawn by Cradle of Filth, but it doesn't show up on any OST listings, and the song only plays at random.

 

[Cheela]

All i can say...

 

[Graw]

Not a real Mandela effect but when I played Ocarina of Time it looked like this:



And sounded like this:

And now it looks like this:

And sounds like this:

Honestly if I didn't know the story behind what happened I'd probably think it was a Mandela effect.

 

[bjork]

About a decade ago, I was playing Odell Woods on the Commodore 64 and came across a graphic of a snake that I immediately remembered. But I had only played MECC stuff on an Apple II at school way back when, and I cannot find a graphical version of Odell Woods on the Apple II, so I'm not sure if I just imagined it or what

 

[ArkenDev]

I got two stories to tell.

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My dad once got me a steering wheel for my PS2 along with a copy of Burnout 3: Takedown, I got a memory buried in the depths of my mind that there was a free roam mode where you could drive around freely. The map was set at night and there were instructions at the top of the screen showing you different methods of how you could slam into other cars, akin to what the tutorial cutscene shows you but with white outline illustrations.
I've played that game several times over the years but I've never found that mode again, I've tried digging through the menu's, starting the game without a memory card but nothing.
Years have gone by and I've seen absolutely no mention that Burnout 3 ever had a sandbox mode.
So I guess that was a complete Mandela Effect, I still haven't figured out what my mind actually remembered that day.

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My second story revolves around an old PC FPS game called Mortyr from 1999, now strap-in because this story reads more like a creepypasta.

As a kid, I used to be really dumb with how I approached downloading new games. Whenever I saw a cool game on the internet whether it'd be on Youtube or somewhere else, I'd search for it on google with a "{GAME NAME} download for free no survey" search (bricked lots of Windows XP's and Vista's with that method).
At some point I guess I decided to download that game Mortyr, now my recollection of the event is very foggy but I remember launching the game and it immediately booting and fullscreening into some sort of church level where you had a knife and some nazi soldier was in front of you. A little deeper into the church you fought more nazi soldiers and got a gun or two.
Playing it felt like a fever dream because the game just booted me in just like that, no menus, no launcher, just plopping you down into a church with a knife and nazis. Plus the HUD was either so small I didn't notice it at all or just glitched out on me leaving me with no HUD. Felt like I was playing something I wasn't meant to.
What's worse is that there wasn't even a pause menu, somewhere within the church I got stuck and couldn't find my way out, so I pressed the ESC key to bring out the pause menu so I could quit but to no avail. Then I tried quiting through the classic ALT+F4 combination but still nothing happened.
I even tried pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE to bring up the task manager but that screen wouldn't even open. If that hasn't sounded like some lame ass creepypasta already then this part will, I tried shutting down the whole computer with the power button but it still didn't work, I kept on clicking it but the computer was still running (Though I never knew about holding the button down for 10 seconds to force it to shutdown as a kid, It's possible that Windows just fucked up and took too long to shutdown).
I remember having to unplug the whole damn computer from the wall socket.
Not sure what the hell happened but I don't think kid me knew what the fuck happened either.
I don't recall ever launching that game again, in fact I don't even have a recollection of how I even installed it.

Over the years, I've tried doing some sort of "research" on this whole event but I always came up empty.
What I always found was that the first level in the actual game strongly reseembled what I remember playing, but It was never the EXACT thing. I never got far into that game so I was pretty sure my memory of how it looked like was clear, but I guess that part could've been a Mandela Effect.

That was until a year ago, when I finally got some sort of "closure".
After retelling this story to my friends, we went snooping around on the web to see if anything like that has ever happened to anybody.
Amongst similarly asked but completely unrelated topics from forum posts, we were able to find a video that was showcasing a "Demo Loop / Attract Mode".
Whatever this "Demo Loop" was, It was EXACTLY the thing I remember playing as a kid.
It wasn't a Mandela Effect after all, this "Demo Loop" level used an early version of the first level which is why the one that's in the final product looked so strange to me.
Here's the link to the video if you're interested:

 

[Lokgamer]

It's not a case of mine, but my best friend swear he had spiderman (psx) dubbed in spanish, which doesn't exist. Pal and NTSC versions have voices in english.

 

[Raggs]

The freakiest one I have is playing Eye of the Beholder on SNES when I was a kid. And I freaking swear I have concrete memories of pulling up the mini map. I beat the game on SNES. No idea how I didn't get lost (as, you know, there's no in game map!). It blows my mind how I remembered this so wrong.

 

[Nidstang]

For some reason I distinctly remember the Final Fantasy VII continue screen having a feather instead of the Buster Sword

 

[UnDubious]

One time I was playing FFVII and Cloud died in Aeris' arms instead and then she married Sephiroth cause he's a bad boy but he treated her bad and after 10 long years of a tumultuous marriage she finally left him and got a restraining order cause he kept showing up at their old house drunk but he broke it so he ended up in jail and then the judge raised the alimony payments, all of this was actual RPG gameplay, like you had to go through a dungeon to get the restraining order, I distinctly remember all this

 

[Trix_]

Oh man, I actually believe in the Mandela effect. Years ago I tried to investigate some of them because even the Shazam thing seemed real to me. It's like I had memories of it.

Anyways, this isn't exactly a Mandela effect, but I have vague memories of a game I played when I was really young, about 4 years old. It never left my mind, but it doesn't seem to exist.
My memories are about this game for SNES or Genesis. I found it scary at the time.
I recall that there was a cutscene of a character falling off a building or maybe climbing it. The building in question was made of glass (?) and the graphics were detailed. The background was black as if it was set during the night time. The character could have been male or female. For some reason I always had the impression that you played as a spy.
A while back I found something similar, but it didn't seem to be 100% right. I don't remember what title it was. One of the Valis games has a cutscene where she's falling off a building, though I feel like that's incorrect because in my mind the scene was a cinematic and not part of the gameplay.
This video kinda made me wonder, however (go to 0:44):

Another one that I can find no evidence of is a beat 'em up that was very similar to River City Ransom, but with a bluish colour palette. It was set in a city that had police cars and buildings. It had a co-op mode because I used to play it with my brother. I tried asking him several times and he had no idea what I was talking about.
It was probably released on the NES.
I asked online and tried searching for it with no luck. I thought it might have been Urban Champion, but I forgot that one is a fighting game.

 

[ArkenDev]

One time I was playing FFVII and Cloud died in Aeris' arms instead and then she married Sephiroth cause he's a bad boy but he treated her bad and after 10 long years of a tumultuous marriage she finally left him and got a restraining order cause he kept showing up at their old house drunk but he broke it so he ended up in jail and then the judge raised the alimony payments, all of this was actual RPG gameplay, like you had to go through a dungeon to get the restraining order, I distinctly remember all this

I think that might've been real, I think it was a Japanese special version allowed for sale to only divorced couples. Ultra rare.

 

[UnDubious]

I think that might've been real, I think it was a Japanese special version allowed for sale to only divorced couples. Ultra rare.

I just looked into it through the dark web rumor site and it says they sold 100 copies at a special event then 99 houses burned down in Japan the next day, there's no proof the two events are connected but one time Kazushige Nojima alluded to "barbecuing 99 motherfuckers" in an interview but wouldn't clarify. Either way they say the prime minister of Japan had the last copy before he was assassinated?

 

[HyperTurboFox]

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