This was before I subscribed to EGM, so I hadn’t seen it before:
Goddamn, six A rank knife-and-handgun-only runs sounds brutal as hell. I usually replay the RE games a ton but I take full advantage of NG+.
Also, I got curious and was looking up other game magazine April Fool’s pranks and realized that I had gotten pranked by EGM without even realizing it! 23 years ago I heard a playground rumor that you could unlock Sonic and Tails in Melee if you could defeat 20x enemies in Cruel Melee. I spent many an afternoon trying (and failing) to do so–don’t remember my high score (and sadly, a friend “borrowed” my memory card with all my Gamecube saves many years ago and never gave it back…) but I wanna say it was like 13? Turns out the origin was this EGM feature in the April 2002 issue:
Gotta say, they did a damn good job with those fake screenshots (very cheeky making the unlock date April 1st) and mixing it in with a bunch of legit tips. Supposedly it spread so far that Nintendo Power directly debunked the rumor, although I flipped through scans of the April through August 2002 issues and didn’t see anything of the sort. Did get a little misty-eyed looking back through those old issues, though…wish I had hung onto a few.
I did find a podcast where they interview the guy and (among other things) ask the author, Chris Johnston, about the rumor (segment starts at 34:38). Ngl, it wasn’t super enlightening, so it’s not a must-listen (at least for that segment–haven’t listened to the rest of the podcast), but it was still nice to hear about it from the man himself.
This was before I subscribed to EGM, so I hadn’t seen it before:
Goddamn, six A rank knife-and-handgun-only runs sounds brutal as hell. I usually replay the RE games a ton but I take full advantage of NG+.
Also, I got curious and was looking up other game magazine April Fool’s pranks and realized that I had gotten pranked by EGM without even realizing it! 23 years ago I heard a playground rumor that you could unlock Sonic and Tails in Melee if you could defeat 20x enemies in Cruel Melee. I spent many an afternoon trying (and failing) to do so–don’t remember my high score (and sadly, a friend “borrowed” my memory card with all my Gamecube saves many years ago and never gave it back…) but I wanna say it was like 13? Turns out the origin was this EGM feature in the April 2002 issue:
Gotta say, they did a damn good job with those fake screenshots (very cheeky making the unlock date April 1st) and mixing it in with a bunch of legit tips. Supposedly it spread so far that Nintendo Power directly debunked the rumor, although I flipped through scans of the April through August 2002 issues and didn’t see anything of the sort. Did get a little misty-eyed looking back through those old issues, though…wish I had hung onto a few.
I did find a podcast where they interview the guy and (among other things) ask the author, Chris Johnston, about the rumor (segment starts at 34:38). Ngl, it wasn’t super enlightening, so it’s not a must-listen (at least for that segment–haven’t listened to the rest of the podcast), but it was still nice to hear about it from the man himself.