20 Video Game Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Urban Legends to Celebrate Halloween

Haunted cartridges and epileptic seizures for all.

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Mind control? Check. The hand of Satan? Check. Enough conspiracy theories for an entire season of X-Files? Check.

From haunted arcade cabinets that may have actually been thought control devices funded by the U.S. Government to a cartridge graveyard in the middle of the New Mexico desert, urban legends surrounding video games are about as old as the medium itself. Remember all those NES cartridges you blew into like you were auditioning to be the lead fluffer on the XXX remake of Game of Thrones (Game of Bones, last we checked), turns out you spent years actually ruining those old copies of Duck Hunt.

Nightmares, epilepsy, missing children, and visists from actual men in black all form some of the most enduring and pervassive urban legends surrounding video games. Here are 20 Video Game Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Urban Legends to Celebrate Halloween.

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20. 4Chan and Majora's Mask

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19. Why is a ten year old running around unsupervised?

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18. Squall is actually dead for the second half of FF VIII

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17. Lavendar Town Suicide Spike

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16. Nuclear proliferation is adorable, it turns out.

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15. Killswitch

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14. So, you guys are Nazis in real life?

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13. Blow me.

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12. The Mark of the Beast

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11. Fallout 3 predicts the future.

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10. Lara Croft is totally naked.

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9. New Mexico is home to more than just Area-51.

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8. GlaDOS is actually a bound and gagged woman.

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7. GTA V and the Black Dahlia.

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6. The Seventh Circle of Hell is in WoW.

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5. The mystery figures of Hell Valley.

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4. Saddam Hussein and guidance chips for a WMD.

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3. The Madden Curse

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2. Hail Satan?

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1. Government Mind Control and Weaponized Epilispy

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