History CowboyBebopAtHisComputer / VideoGames

* The Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' fiasco. Turns out that Cooper Lawrence, their invited speaker and a self-help author, hadn't even ''seen'' the game, and based her entire rant about the game's numerous, hardcore sex scenes and obsession with objectifying women on somebody in the studio telling her it was "like pornography". That comment was her ''entire'' exposure to the game. She finally apologised after watching someone play the game for two and a half hours, and after hundreds of scathing reviews of her latest book were posted on Amazon by gamers who had, of course, never read it. Another pundit on the same show referred to it as "[[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker]] meets ''Debbie Does Dallas''." Hilariously enough, ''[[MediaWatchdog Jack Thompson]]'', the guy who claimed ''VideoGame/MicrosoftFlightSimulator'' was used to train [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the 9/11 hijackers]], said there was nothing to this.

* And that same German publication also dedicated a substantial part of their review of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' to a column by that magazines secondary Editor-in-Chief talking at length why he doesn't agree with the controversy about its ending and urging people to give it a chance despite not having a ... happy ending. Only, as most people who played Mass Effect 3 (especially before the Extended Cut was released) know very well, the ending not being happy was, if at all, only a tiny part of why it was controversial.
* That same publication in 2020 also ran an article about GTA 6 which turned out to be based entirely on rumors - despite one of their own journalists ''working for Rockstars german marketing team'' (which is a whole different can of worms).

* After Website/{{Google}} unveiled UsefulNotes/{{Stadia}} on March 19, 2019, many sources erroneously reported that it was a gaming console, when it in fact is a CloudGaming service.

*** For ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance3'', it's claimed that Gemerl stays with Cream following the end of the game. As shown by how he isn't present or even mentioned in ''VideoGame/SonicRush'' (where Cream's house makes an appearance) or ''VideoGame/SonicFreeRiders'' (where Cream says hello to Vanilla and Cheese watching the Ex World Grand Prix back home), this may be false.

** This [[https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/sonic-the-hedgehog-movie-the-weirdest-sonic-charac/2900-3381/ Gamespot article]] on "Weird Sonic characters that actually exist". The most glaring factual error on display is that the author treats Antoine D'Coolette's Archie Comics and SatAM counterparts as two separate characters, even going so far as to state that "Antoine D'Coolette" (the current Archie Comics version) is not to be confused with "the other weirdly French-influenced Antoine Depardieu" (his original SatAM incarnation). He's also identified as a fox (he's a coyote) to top it off.

%%* [[https://scontent-mxp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18301628_10208696827233546_2342950737022794646_n.jpg?oh=10b49946ab37ed9a59cc8074129dff6c&oe=5974963B Some British video game magazine]], while briefly mentioning ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}'', used an illustration of [[NamesTheSame the wrong]] [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Bastion]].

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': A german videogame publication claimed in multiple previews that the game is about "fighting the undead Blight". While undead are fought in the game, they have nothing to do with the blight and - outside one main quest - never come close to have any impact on the plot.
* And that same german publication also dedicated a substantial part of their review of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' to a column by that magazines secondary Editor-in-Chief talking at length why he doesn't agree with the controversy about its ending and urging people to give it a chance despite not having a ... happy ending. Only, as most people who played Mass Effect 3 (especially before the Extended Cut was released) know very well, the ending not being happy was, if at all, only a tiny part of why it was controversial.

** Official advertisements for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' stated that without Mario's help, various characters' wishes would never come true, such as Mallow finding his parents, Geno [[PinocchioSyndrome becoming a real boy]], or Booster finding a bride. Geno is a star spirit possessing a doll for his goal of getting the pieces of the Star Road back - he never becomes human and never expresses any desire to do so. And as Booster is a minor villain attempting to take ''Peach'' as his bride, Mario does more to ''interfere'' with that than help. (Booster does, in fact, find a bride by the end of the game, but Mario himself had little to do with that.) At least the Mallow part was right.

*** The number of rings needed to enter a Special Stage in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' is described as being ''twenty'', as opposed to fifty.
*** The bird that Amy helps throughout ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' has had his family captured by Eggman, which the book claims are his parents, despite the Japanese version of the game instead indicating them to be his siblings (a fact which ''Anime/SonicX'' also went with).

*** For ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'', the book claims that Tails found Emerl after he was thrown out by Eggman, despite the game showing that ''Sonic'' was actually the one to find Emerl himself.

*** A particularly standout example from the ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'' entry is the comparison of the Mist Dragon's color scheme to Dulcy the Dragon from ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'', and that Sir Lancelot compares the Red Dragon to the Biolizard from ''Adventure 2''. Putting aside the fact that any similarities shared between the Mist Dragon and Dulcy are unlikely to be anything more than a coincidence on Sonic Team's part, it's actually Sonic that makes an indirect reference to his and Shadow's fight against the Biolizard when faced with the Red Dragon.

*** The "Relationship Charts" have several screw-ups, such as giving names to characters that don't have them (Mrs. Ruul from ''Oracle of Seasons'' is called "Inga"), not giving names to those that did (Stockwell is correctly named in the ''Seasons'' chart, but only called "Shopkeeper" in the ''Ages'' chart), failing to connect characters that are related, connecting those who have no interaction, connecting characters incorrectly, some characters being missing, and names that are just plain wrong (The ''Ocarina'' incarnation of Guru-Guru is called "Phonogram Man" despite actually playing a Phono''graph''.

*** The "Relationship Charts" have several screw-ups, such as giving names to characters that don't have them (Mrs. Ruul from ''Oracle of Seasons'' is called "Inga"), not giving names to those that did (Stockwell is correctly named in the ''Seasons'' chart, but only called "Shopkeeper" in the ''Ages'' chart), failing to connect characters that are related, connecting those who have no interaction, connecting characters incorrectly, and some characters being missing.

[[Franchise/ResidentEvil Resident Eevil]]. The evil, resides in you (this is a Nintendo[[note]]It's [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation not]][[/note]]). Evil possesses you. You are a slave of evil, you are martyrized by evil, you serve evil and live on evil.\\

** And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2RkiF1v0so this TV article in Brazil made in the early 1990s and Super Mario Bros 3. on Brazilian TV]] It was how Brazilian mainstream media potrayed video games in the 90s, made a combo of fact check failures. Mario [[IAmNotShazam was called "Super Mario"]], he was described as an Italian firefighter that is "[[HotBlooded always angry]]", and to get an extra life, you don't have to simply collect coins, you'll have to ''[[EatDirtCheap eat]]'' them. At the end of the segment shows a [[StylisticSuck a poorly made animated 8-bit sequence]] with the reporter telling Mario about children wanting to know about the game, Mario then talks in an angry tone and kicks her like a character from a fighting game or a beat-em' up. This just really depicts Mario as {{Jerkass}} and [[WouldHitAGirl hurt women]], Mario in the sequence is depicted without his hat on, oddly enough, and his the colors of his outfit being similar to the artwork of the game, What's odder is that the segment begins with two girls playing the game.

* There is also Piotr Natanek, a controversial Polish priest (he has been officially suspended by the Catholic Church, but it didn't scare off his followers). In his infamous sermon (available on Youtube) about the occult, he warns the believers against playing "demonic computer games" such as: ''[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Diabolo]]'', ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dagones Drank]]'', ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'', ''[[RolePlayingGame RPG]]'' (yeah, it seems to be a title, not a genre), ''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pookemons]]'' and ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Kieszonkowe potwory]]'' (''pocket monsters'' in Polish – not to be confused with [[Manga/PocketMonsters the manga]]).

-->'''Reporter:''' [[TheNewRockAndRoll Young people]] spend their days in front of a screen, stuffing themselves on "meuporg." ... "Meuporg" is the barbarian name of online role-playing games where we can meet virtual friends. That's the actual name, I'm sorry.
-->'''Anchor:''' But how do you spell it?
-->'''Reporter:''' We spell it M-M-M-P-O-R-P-G.

** In ''Lore in a Minute''[='s=] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNywLPYpNYI video]] of ''Phoenix Wright'', it is stated that "Miles took over his father and became an esteemed prosecutor". In actuality, Miles Edgeworth's father was a defense attorney.

* ''Cracked'' again. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20657_the-6-most-bizarre-ways-to-lose-popular-video-games_p2.html This article]] complains about you dying in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII Assassin's Creed III]]'' (which itself is not correct. You get desynchronised) if you don't skin the animals you kill, yet you get away with murdering political figures. In doing this they miss the whole point of the series, where the Animus machine you're in allows you to see an interactive recording of the past, so you can kill these political figures because your ancestor actually did it. So you get desynchronised from this recording because your ancestor skinned all the animals he killed, and by not doing it yourself, you're straying too far from the recording.

* [[http://s23.postimg.cc/v895a0lt7/Bp8_QMIs_CQAE1_Lz6.jpg This LA Times headline]] reports on "Nintendo's White [=PlayStation=] 4", and includes a picture of Kyle Dodson holding a Wii U controller and playing the "Nintendo VideoGame/{{Splatoon|1}}" Sony creates the [=PlayStation=] line of consoles, not Nintendo, and while ''Splatoon'' is a Nintendo product, it's a game, not a console.

* Sears catalogs had some different game descriptions. ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' is a "younger children's game". ''VideoGame/LegacyOfTheWizard'' is a game where you "Destroy the planet Naju and its evil creatures as the Guardian of Earth", which is the plot for ''VideoGame/TheGuardianLegend''. ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI Legend of Zelda]]'' is a game where you "gather crystals to stop warlords." ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' is an adventure game where you can "Team up with these terrific turtles to knock heads with the nasty Ninjitsus". There are games spelled [[VideoGame/BadDudes Bad Dude]], [[VideoGame/{{Hydlide}} Hydelide]], [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Mega Man II]][[note]]there ''is'' a ''VideoGame/MegaManII'' game that uses Roman numerals instead of Arabic, but that was released on UsefulNotes/GameBoy, not the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem[[/note]], [[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Ninja Gai-Den]], Shootin' Range, and [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 Super Mario Bros. II]].

* Sony's infamous [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo E3 2006]] presentation had a guy present [[VideoGame/{{Genji}} Genji 2]] who was clearly unprepared for the role. He referred to it as an action game featuring famous battles from Japanese history, and then [[MemeticMutation made history]] by showing the GiantEnemyCrab boss. The actual game is based on ''The Tale of the Heike'', a fictional novel based on the Genji and Heike war.

* You wouldn't have thought it was ''possible'' to make a critical research failure in a listicle that consists of screenshots of video games and a single sentence of "This was definitely a game people played". But Buzzfeed managed it, with "[[https://www.buzzfeed.com/aishwaryasatpathy2/vengeance-is-mine?bftw&utm_term=.jiNRjpbAV#.phyLBRDXe 28 Old-School PC Games That'll Make Desi Kids Scream "OMG, I Used To Play That"]]" which includes a handful of console games that never got released on PC, namely ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'', ''VideoGame/DuckHunt''[[note]]Although there ''was'' at least one unofficial DOS conversion, the screenshot in the article clearly comes from the NES game[[/note]] and ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''. [[note]]None of the mainline Tekken games were released on the PC until '''2017''', with the release of ''Tekken 7''.[[/note]] (The headline quietly had the "PC" removed but [[https://twitter.com/buzzfeed/status/959490601145139200 the Twitter link]] still bears witness.)

* Konami instruction manuals back in the late 80's and early 90's had instruction manuals dabble into this trope. The NES version of ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', for instance, mentioned on the cover and the manual the BigBad was named Vernon [=CaTaffy=] (a parody of Libyan dictator UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi). Nowhere in the actual game is there a character named Vernon, and [[spoiler:the actual main villain is Big Boss (who, incidentally, was inexplicably renamed Commander South in the manual)]].

* An Article by CVG States that F1 Super Lap is a sequel to Virtua Racing and uses Polygon Graphics, while the actual game has barely anything to do with Virtua Racing and uses Sprite Based Graphics.
* An Article by SCMP states that ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' has a mission set in Tiananmen Square and caused Outrage in China, when in fact, no such mission existed in the first place.

* ''Game On! 2017'' stated ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is 6 hours long, but 3 endings. That is, if you count all the Neutral Endings as a single ending.

* On Volition's website, they marked Lin (From ''Saints Row'') as dying in 2008, despite the fact that the game had taken place two years prior.

** The ''2020'' edition includes a section about ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' and Sora, wherein it lists some Disney villains who have appeared in the games and served as bosses. Of the listed villains, [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Randall]] is never actually directly fought in the game and [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Emperor Zurg]] does not appear in ''III''[='s=] ''Toy Story'' world nor has he appeared in any other ''Kingdom Hearts'' game to date (let alone been able to be fought as a boss).

* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'':

** ''Animal Crossing'' players (and everyone else), find yourself something big and solid for your head before watching [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xAK-X0RA5o the biggest, most spectacularly epic case]] of CriticalResearchFailure. For those not familiar with the game, the turtle character that is supposedly a potential child molester is Tortimer, ''an NPC''. Yes, in ''Animal Crossing'', [[SarcasmMode the game itself tries to seduce your children into sending it pictures of themselves.]] In addition, interacting with other players over the internet is only possible by swapping friend codes with that particular player; [[HilariousInHindsight that wouldn't happen for]] [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons another decade]] [[UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch or so]].

** The Brazilian kids' magazine ''Recreio'' (recess in english) had a section dedicated to advertising recently-released games, one of which was for [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork5TeamColonelAndTeamProtoMan Mega Man Battle Network 5]]. Were anyone to find that page, it would surely live in internet infamy forever: Firstly, the article prominently displayed artwork of VideoGame/MegaManX instead of Megaman.EXE, the actual protagonist. Secondly, the game was [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo released with dual versions]], one called Team Protoman and the other named Team Colonel, yet the article mentioned nothing of this and referred to the game with the Team Colonel subtitle, not only making it confusing to those who ''were'' in the know, but thus not even advertising half the game they were supposed to promote. Finally, there's this gem of advice: "To gain Proto Man's emblem and defeat Blizzard Man, you must beat [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Neubla Grey]]." Blizzard Man is the first boss who requires no emblems to defeat, ''Nebula'' Grey is the final boss, and he DOES give you Proto Man's emblem in the title screen, but only in the Team Proto Man version. [[CriticalResearchFailure Wasn't this ad for the Colonel version?]] This 'tip' borders on "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance" territory.

** To add to the ridiculousness of the whole fiasco, Fox looped nearly all the sex scenes, unedited, as the B-Roll of the broadcast.

** Official press releases for ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' state that this is the first game in the regular series to feature Princess Peach as a playable character. [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 It isn't]], [[RecursiveImport not even in Japan]].

** [=GameStop=] in Italy placed preorders of ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' showing [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/Mario-Kart-8-397160071 a fan-made cover]]. The fakeness of that is blatant, with Peach, Wario and Bowser being clearly their artworks from ''Wii'' and having ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi Fawful]]'' between the playable characters. And later, when the game was released, their official review included a fake character screen made by the same author, including not only Fawful but also [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario Dimentio and Mr. L]].

* [[https://www.gamebyte.com/super-nintendo-world-is-a-gamers-dream-come-true/ an article]] on the Super Nintendo World theme park on Universal Studios Japan says that Nintendo made iconic Game and Watch 1980, and also said They've made more success in Super Mario Bros. 1983, Nintendo made their home video game console in 1977, and their first handheld console, Game and Watch in 1980, Super Mario Bros. came out in 1985, not 1983, Mario Bros. was released in 1983. In which, Super Mario Bros. was made as a follow-up to the game.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''[=/=]''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' Link is the only Hero of Time. The other Links either have different titles or no in-game title at all. And he's not an elf.[[note]]He actually ''was'' an elf in the first game, but it was later {{Retcon}}ned.[[/note]]
** Nintendo's [[http://www.zelda.com official Zelda site]] used to contain an encyclopedia that contained so many factual errors that it isn't even funny. One of the most egregious errors is the fact that the site's article on Link implied that there is only one Link. Stating exactly that is one of the worst things you can do in front of a Zelda fan. The encyclopedia's other articles include completely non-canon information that is passed off as canon. [[http://zeldawiki.org/Zelda.com#Bad_reputation_amongst_fans There are many examples of this.]]

** [[MoralGuardians Family Friendly Gaming]]'s review of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', criticized the game for its many references to The Goddess, noting that while "goddess culture is big in Japan", it shouldn't be "shoved down our throats". The reviewer apparently missed the fact that the goddess mentioned is the ''fictional'' goddess Hylia, whose actions and mythos are very important plot points to the game and is in no way a reference to any real world goddesses or religious cultures. In addition, anyone who has actually played the games could have told them that goddesses have been mentioned before in the games; the creators of the game's main setting and its recurring MacGuffin are the three Golden Goddesses.

*** The "History of Hyrule" section claims the plot of ''Four Swords'' involved Ganon tricking Link into unsealing Vaati. Ganon had no presence in the game at all.

* [[http://s23.postimg.cc/v895a0lt7/Bp8_QMIs_CQAE1_Lz6.jpg This LA Times headline]] reports on "Nintendo's White [=PlayStation=] 4", and includes a picture of Kyle Dodson holding a Wii U controller and playing the "Nintendo VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}" [[note]]Splatoon is a game from Nintendo, not a console.[[/note]]

* At least two Italian articles about the E3 presentation of ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends'' said that Murphy is a new character created for this game, when he actually debuted in [[VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape the second chapter]] of the original trilogy. You know, the one they keep rereleasing at the launch of every Nintendo portable console.

* Count the number of mass medias who claim ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' to be a terrorism simulator just from taking the [[WhamEpisode Wham Level]] "No Russian" out of context.

* [[http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/01/s-inspired-minecraft-takes-online-gaming-world/ This Fox News article]] states that ''Infiniminer'' was made by Markus Persson (Notch) as a prototype to ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''. ''Infiniminer'' was actually made by Zachtronics Industries; Notch only drew inspiration from it.

** In a similar vein, there exist countless instances across multiple media in which descriptions of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' label the DamselInDistress as Peach (it's Pauline; ''Donkey Kong'' is from 1981 and Peach wasn't introduced until ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' in 1985), and makes no distinction between the original character of Donkey Kong and the modern ones. The last point is a bit more forgivable, as the only noticeable difference between the original DK (now Cranky Kong) and his son/grandson of today is that the latter wears a tie with his initials.

** The Scholastic book ''[[http://www.mariowiki.com/How_to_Draw_Nintendo_Heroes_And_Villains How to Draw Nintendo Heroes and Villains]]'' contained a couple of infamous errors. Identifying Snide from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' as a villain is at least understandable, since [[HeelFaceTurn he worked for K. Rool in the game's backstory]]. Naming [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] "Kerog", on the other hand...[[labelnote:Explanation]]The name probably came from a robotic frog enemy in ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' known as Kerog; how they managed to get its name mixed up with that of a dragon-like turtle monster from an entirely different series is anyone's guess.[[/labelnote]]
** There was a newspaper article about how "Sega's mascot [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]" was more recognizable than Mickey Mouse. If he's so recognizable, how do they not know what company he's from?
*** Another case of this happened when Penguin biscuits started including trivia questions on their wrappers. "In what game did Sega's Mario first appear?" Maybe that's why they later just focused on jokes...

** The easiest test to see if someone is a gamer or not: Do they refer to the green-hatted, sword-wielding protagonist as ''[[IAmNotShazam Zelda]]''?
** Dear game journalists: ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''[=/=]''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' Link was the only Hero of Time. The other Links either have different titles or no in-game title at all. And he's not an elf, dammit.[[note]]He actually ''was'' an elf in the first game, but it was later {{Retcon}}ned.[[/note]]

*** Their most notorious theory is that Termina is an illusion based on Skull Kid's memories that he conjured under Majora's influence. This contradicts Tatl's flashback, which shows Termina existing before Skull Kid even obtains the mask. Not to mention several of the game's characters are counterparts of ''Ocarina of Time'' character that Skull Kid never met and therefore could not have memories of. The book even contradicts itself by saying that the events of the game "faded into history", which wouldn't make sense if Termina didn't exist to ''have'' a history.

*** The "Relationship Charts" have several screw-ups, such as giving names to characters that didn't have them (Mrs. Ruul from ''Oracle of Seasons'' is called "Inga"), not giving names to those that did (Stockwell is correctly named in the ''Seasons'' chart, but only called "Shopkeeper" in the ''Ages'' chart), failing to connect characters that were related, connecting those that had no interaction, connecting characters incorrectly, and some characters being missing.

** In the review of Manga/RanmaOneHalf Hard Battle, the writer indicates that all of the teenage characters are siblings, with Genma being their father. Now remember that the story is basically a romance... (cue banjo music)

** ''Animal Crossing'' players (and just about everyone else), find yourself something big and solid for your head before watching [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xAK-X0RA5o the biggest, most spectacularly epic case]] of CriticalResearchFailure. For those not familiar with the game, the turtle character that is supposedly a potential child molester is Tortimer, ''an NPC''. Yes, in ''Animal Crossing'', [[SarcasmMode the game itself tries to seduce your children into sending it pictures of themselves.]] In addition, interacting with other players over the internet is only possible by swapping friend codes with that particular player; [[HilariousInHindsight that wouldn't happen for]] [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons another decade]] [[UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch or so]].

** The official guidebook for ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' (the first one released to the west) claimed that Sonia was "human", though the writers may have been confused due to the fact that she has deluded herself into believing she was human, and constantly refers to herself as such. It is possible they did not want to spoil anything (not that it was really a ''major'' spoiler or anything), though they seemed to have no problem revealing Ephidel was one as well.

** In the British English version of ''Smash Bros. for Wii U'', the trophy for the item "Lip's Stick" claims it debuted in 1996's ''Tetris Attack''. Lip, the character the item was named after, debuted in 1995 in ''VideoGame/PanelDePon'' and wasn't even ''in Tetris Attack'': it was a DolledUpInstallment featuring characters from the ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' series. Considering the previous two games where the item appeared got this right, this is a particularly egregious error. The American English version identifies it correctly.

** ''[=GamePro=]'' printed a guide to unlocking the secret characters in ''Brawl''. In it, they made several glaring errors, such as calling [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Sheik]] [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]] (funny, considering what the two [[SamusIsAGirl have in common]]), and printing what they apparently thought was a picture of Marth, except it was a picture of Geoffrey, a totally unrelated ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' character who not only does not exist in the same universe as Marth, but fights with a [[BladeOnAStick lance]] instead of a [[HeroesPreferSwords sword]], and on horseback. Apparently, everybody with blue hair is the same person.

* Several German websites claim that ''Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima'', made by Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment for iOS and Windows, is a port of Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s DS hit ''VideoGame/BrainAge'', when it is actually an independent implementation of Ryūta Kawashima's work; Namco and Nintendo cooperated several times before, but are not known to have done so here. In fact, the DS software is called ''Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training'' – shouldn't the writers' brains have noticed the different titles?
* CNN Money (or Fortune Magazine, it's hard to tell) did a review for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, to which there were glaring issues. Those involved specifically to this trope were complaining about the 3DS using cartridges, "which weren't used on since the last Game Boy" and "to add insult to injury, it comes with a stylus, which we've last seen on [=BlackBerry=] devices in the early 2000s". Both cartridges and styluses were last used on the handheld's immediate predecessor, the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS, which was first released in late 2004 and was relevant for a good 7 or 8 years afterwards; the writer appears to have fallen victim to "The last time I saw cartridges/styluses was on the now-dead Game Boy Advance/in the early 2000s, therefore they no longer exist" syndrome.
** Otherwise the reviewer's credibility for reviewing the device was he was a "hardcore gamer that grew up on ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}''".
** And Apple's iPod, iPad, and iPhone were seen as direct competition (although technically they are capable of playing video games, they aren't marketed as portable gaming consoles).

** British Publication "Retro Gamer" once referred to Kirby as "The adorable pink puffball from the ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' series". While it was likely a simple mistake (considering Retro Gamer is a knowledgeable publication that regularly goes in-depth about Kirby), it's still rather baffling.

** Several fans (and even one commercial when it was released) for some reason refer to ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Sonic Adventure 2 Battle]]'' as "Sonic Adventure Battle 2". Of course, there was no "Sonic Adventure Battle 1", and ''[=SA2B=]'' is actually a UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube UpdatedRerelease of ''Sonic Adventure 2''. The "''Battle''" in the title refers to the slight improvements made to the two-player mode of the game.

** The word "Chao" (pronounced "chow") is both singular ''and'' plural, and thus can describe any number of the creatures it refers to. In spite of this, people still [[{{Pluralses}} try to make it plural by adding an "s" on the end]], making it a totally different word. Futhermore, the same game that introduced Chao also introduced a character named Chaos (pronounced "kay-os"), who is also directly related to the Chao, which causes even more confusion!

** Another article, "[[https://www.cracked.com/article_16983_the-11-most-retarded-fictional-weapons.html The 11 Most Idiotic Fictional Weapons]]", lists the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII gunblade]] as one of fiction's weapons that wouldn't work in real life. While good arguments could be made about it anyway, the article treats it as a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin literal gun with a blade]], as in, something that shoots bullets at a distance - something else [[https://www.cracked.com/article_21802_6-awesomely-insane-guns-people-actually-used-pt.-2.html three different writers in a later article]] preached as being [[CreativeDifferences incredibly awesome]] - while in the game it's simply a blade with a trigger that causes a small explosion to [[VibroWeapon vibrate the blade at the moment of impact]], increasing the damage you deal with your regular melee attack. Also, note that the concept actually exists, although it's antiquated and differs notably.

* The Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}} ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' fiasco. Turns out that Cooper Lawrence, their invited speaker and a self-help author, hadn't even ''seen'' the game, and based her entire rant about the game's numerous, hardcore sex scenes and obsession with objectifying women on somebody in the studio telling her it was "like pornography". That comment was her ''entire'' exposure to the game. She finally apologised after watching someone play the game for two and a half hours, and after hundreds of scathing reviews of her latest book were posted on Amazon by gamers who had, of course, never read it.
** The Fox News ''Mass Effect'' fiasco also came on the heels of an article by conservative columnist Kevin [=McCullough=] that described the game's "virtual orgasmic rape." Uh... you go with that.
** Another pundit on the same show referred to it as "Luke Skywalker meets Debbie Does Dallas."
** The best part of all this: Jack Thompson said there was nothing to it. ''[[MediaWatchdog Jack effin' Thompson]]'', the guy who claimed ''VideoGame/MicrosoftFlightSimulator'' was used to train [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the 9/11 hijackers]], said there was nothing to this.
** FNC never really learned from any of this and they still routinely give air time to the standard complement of MoralGuardians in order to sling mud at [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch games that they've never played but heard were controversial]].

* There is also Piotr Natanek, a controversial Polish priest (he has been officially suspended by the Catholic Church, but it didn't scare off his followers). In his infamous sermon (available on Youtube) about the occult, he warns the believers against playing "demonic computer games" such as: ''[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Diabolo]]'', ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dagones Drank]]'', ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'', ''[[RolePlayingGame RPG]]'' (yeah, it seems to be a title, not a genre), ''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pookemons]]'' and ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Kieszonkowe potwory]]'' (literally ''pocket monsters'' in Polish – not to be confused with [[Manga/PocketMonsters the manga]]).

* A fantastic example was created by English newspaper ''The Daily Mail'', who wrote an article about CG images of Washington DC destroyed, claiming they were made by terrorists as a "terrifying vision". The reality? The images were promo shots for ''VideoGame/Fallout3''.

* A news report on video game violence in late 2000 pronounced the title ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' as "Deuce Ecks" and said that it was controversial because it allows the player to become the killer. First of all, why choose ''Deus Ex'' of all games to epitomize video game violence? Secondly, the report acted like murdering civilians was the whole point and completely ignored the WideOpenSandbox format of the game, including the moral choices the player can make with varying consequences.

* Another ''GTA'' example: the Quebec newspaper 24 Heures claims that ''GTA: Chinatown Wars'' is focused on "the Asian gang" (The Triad) from ''Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City''... Even if they meant ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories Liberty City Stories]]'', ''CW'' is part of the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' era, which is as unrelated as possible (plotwise, anyways) to the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' era (which ''LCS'' is a part of; and for the record, the Triad did appear briefly in ''GTAIV''). They also managed to switch around the text caption for the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' screenshots on the same article as said goof.

** Most notable though, is the [[CriticalResearchFailure infamous]] Creator/FoxNewsChannel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZiD8WkL2vo coverage]]. [[Franchise/MassEffect You'd think they'd learned a good lesson by now]], did you? Not this time.
** A fan-based variant: Ask someone to name the armaments of the AC-130U from ''Call of Duty 4''[='=]s "DeathFromAbove" level, and they will tell you its smallest weapons are a pair of M61 Vulcans. Even though ''the intro to the level blatantly tells you that is not what it's using.''
** In a lesser example, some people mistakenly believe that the BigBad of ''Call of Duty 4'', Imran Zakhaev, uses a [[BlingBlingBang gold-plated]] [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]]. The golden Desert Eagle is only in the multiplayer of the game, but apparently some people conflate its existence (being the only one of the golden weapons in multiplayer that a player is guaranteed to get with regular gameplay) with Zakhaev being the only character in the singleplayer portion to use a Deagle.
* In the same fashion, fresh and new case here people: another anti-gaming segment on Alan Titchmarsh show ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryH2WemACIM hit the link]] for more details). You can see some very interesting claims such as:
** "Video games are not rated" - Apparently missing ''both'' relevant [[http://www.bbfc.co.uk ratings]] [[http://www.pegi.eu boards]].
** "increased levels of depression and low self-esteem were linked to playing violent video games" - [[http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2010/mar/vvgeffects Erm... no, where did the Iowa State Uni give that conclusion?]]

* President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez once said on his radio show that "Those games they call '[=PlayStation=]' are poison. Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, 'you've got to find Chavez to kill him.'" No mainstream games existed at that point in time that featured Hugo Chavez's likeness.[[note]]''VideoGame/PostalIII'' featured him as one potential option for the FinalBoss, but that was in 2011, a few years after his statement.[[/note]] This was in relation to ''[[VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} Mercenaries 2: World in Flames]]'', in which the player must battle Venezuelan soldiers and ultimately assassinate the nation's leader, though as above, said in-game leader is not Chavez, or even a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of him.

* An old defunct Polish video game magazine for kids, ''[=CyberMycha=]'', would avoid reviewing games with violent or otherwise harmful content to children, however, it made two exceptions in order to warn children about their violent content: ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'' and ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry: Fists of Furry'', both of which got instant negative reviews regardless of their quality. The reviews in question were entirely fueled by [[ThinkOfTheChildren moral panic]], with the reviewer talking utter nonsense: in the former case, the reviewer claims to be a huge fan of the show, and was outraged that the game, instead of taking him into the "wonderful, colorful world of the Simpsons" is a violent GTA clone which [[RewardingVandalism rewards the player for vandalism]] - which leads one to wonder if he watched a different show, as ''Franchise/TheSimpsons'' is hardly a wholesome kids show (apparently, it doesn't help that the show at one point aired on Fox Kids's Polish feed), and the game's content was definitely in line with it. With the latter game, the reviewer was outraged about its level of violence, including the fact that it was a fighting game at all - as if ''Tom and Jerry'' was not ''entirely founded on cartoon violence'' in the first place.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKoahtmcHY&feature=PlayList&p=UdMzgejDH1w This]] "What if Video Games Were Real" sketch features a joke based on ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', in which Snake is instructed to "Infiltrate Otacon's new base". For those not versed on the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, Otacon is pretty much the only character who is always on the same side as the player. Nor has he ever had a base, unless the airship they live in in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'' counts. It's entirely possible they meant ''Ocelot'', TheDragon in ''Metal Gear Solid''.
* Another Midwest Radio example: during a competition to win a copy of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', the same DJ referred to the game - ''constantly'', and presumably never realizing his mistake and/or not having any of his colleagues point it out to him (either that, or he did realize and just hoped that no-one would notice) - as "Mass 2 Effect".

* Creator/{{CBS}} reports on the 2011 Sega Pass hack incident: "UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis [[https://www.vg247.com/cbs-sega-genesis-hacked Hacked!"]] Of course, the console doesn't have anything to do with the incident, and hasn't even been in production since 1997!

* When ''VideoGame/RuleOfRose'' was released in Italy, people started talking about it everywhere as a game where little girls bury alive other little girls to win. The main character is not a little girl, the bad guys are. There was also outrage over the assumption that the player would be murdering children in the game, derived from the fact that the villains are indeed children. While child deaths occur in the game, they all happen off-screen, and the player isn't responsible for a single one of them. Incidentally, it's also the player character who gets (briefly) sealed in a coffin -- she's the victim, not the instigator. Even when you get past the perversion of the game's premise, you still get this. Apparently, Jennifer has to bury a little girl alive to continue; this never happens, the game is about finding items for little girls (who are in control all of the time). It's easy to see where this comes from, though: every chapter's events are explained by "storybooks". The storybook for ''The Funeral'' explains that "a girl" (after reading the other storybooks, it should be obvious that this is Jennifer), who has to bury her best friend to survive. There are three problems: first, the little girl who apparently has to be buried alive is Wendy, who isn't Jennifer's best friend. Second, this storybook is the most vague of them all, only hinting at the chapter's events instead of outright spoiling them. Third, Jennifer's actual best friend, Brown, [[spoiler:''is'' killed so that Jennifer can survive, but Jennifer doesn't actually kill him, and he's a dog (which, considering the sort of people who write these kinds of articles, would probably remove the impact if they'd realized).]]

*** On a similar tone, the Italian Official Nintendo Magazine's review of ''Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth'' stated that Kay was a recurring character from the franchise who appears once again in this title, when in fact this game was her first appearance.

** Many sources dealing with ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'' (such as the Wii Virtual Console description) often claim the six Robot Masters were created by Dr. Wily, and not Dr. Light. To be fair though, [[AllThereInTheManual you wouldn't know that from just playing the game itself]]. A similar example happens with ''VideoGame/MegaManV'' - some English sources (usually early ones) claim that Wily created the Stardroids using [[FinalBoss Sunstar]] as a basis, whereas the truth is they are ancient alien robots with little to no relation to Sunstar.

** Then, there's the North American instruction manual for ''Mega Man Legends 2''. The Casketts' surname was misspelled again as "Casket" (although they got Barrell's given name right, this time), Teisel is still "Teasel", Tron is called the "eldest daughter in the Bonne family" even though she's the ''only'' daughter, Bon is still "Bomb", and finally, Von Bluecher and Klaymoor are called Von Muller and Bancoscus, respectively ([[DubNameChange which are actually their names in Japan]]).

* One children's atlas, in its section on Japan, lists video games as a notable part of the country's culture, including an image of an iconic game character. This'd all be fine and dandy if they hadn't used VideoGame/CrashBandicoot, an '''American''' video game. Although to be fair, while Crash was probably not the best example to use, the series was actually BigInJapan.

* In a strange example, an [[http://www.ff7citadel.com/press/pr_ff7-salesrecord.shtml official Sony press release]] describes ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' as "bringing back characters from previous games", listing Cloud, Cid Highwind, and Chocobos as examples, while featuring new characters like Aeris and Barret. In actuality, as each ''Final Fantasy'' game takes place in its own separate universe, the game does not truly feature any characters from previous games. Chocobos can be considered valid as they're a series mainstay (though they are a race, not a character), and the confusion for Cid possibly stems from the fact that he both is an airship-related man named Cid (another series mainstay) and has a last name calling back to Kain Highwind from ''IV'' and Ricard Highwind from ''II''. Saying that Cloud is an older character, however, is just plain wrong.
* After a British [[BadassArmy Special Boat Service]] action to rescue hostages in Afghanistan, the ''Sunday Times'' [[http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/sunday-times-uses-cod-image-for-real-life-story-1070405 ran a picture of an "elite SBS soldier" with his face blacked out "to protect his identity."]] This was unnecessary, however, as his identity was already known to millions of gamers around the world: it was actually a picture of [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty John "Soap" MacTavish]], who is in the SAS (later Task Force 141), not the SBS, who is only once shown doing anything special involving a boat, and perhaps most obviously, who is a fictional character. Worst of all, the picture was not one of those cinematic promotional images that ''might'', in the dark, after a double shot of Scotch and with your eyes closed, look like a photograph. No, it was a clumsily done screencap, with visible pixels and ''his equipment clipping through his gun.''

* Before and around its release, several articles claimed the UsefulNotes/WiiU to be "a new controller for the Wii". First of all, the tablet device is ''not'' the console, it's just the main controller that comes with it. And secondly, it's an entirely new console, and its controller and games cannot be used on the Wii (though Wii games can run on the new console and use the new controller's ''screen'' while doing so). This has led to criticism...but not of the media outlets, but of ''Nintendo''. It's a widely held belief, even by Nintendo themselves, that the company should have given the system a different name to avoid the confusion, with said confusion being partly to blame for the system's failure.

* When the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' FPS was released on the Nintendo 64 in the UK, ''The Guardian'' newspaper chastised Nintendo for bleeping out all the swearwords. What they didn't know was that this was the ''norm'' for the show at that time: F and S words were bleeped out, even on UK channels where they didn't have to be after 9pm (the show was never on any earlier than that anyway) and even the PAL VHS releases at the time were still censored in this way, essentially meaning the game was just following the format of the show. Matt and Trey were interviewed on a documentary on Channel 4 where they even stated themselves that they thought the show was funnier with the bleeps and had been happy to leave them in. Though later episodes have been allowed to have more of these words to go uncensored, as well as being released on DVD without any bleeps, back in 1998 that wasn't the case at all. And considering that Nintendo would later publish ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' three years later, Nintendo probably would have allowed the game to be uncensored.

** Another Lore in a Minute example: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNywLPYpNYI in their Phoenix Wright video]] it is stated that "Miles took over his father and became an esteemed prosecutor". In actuality, Miles Edgeworth's father was a defense attorney.

* ''Cracked'' again. [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20657_the-6-most-bizarre-ways-to-lose-popular-video-games_p2.html This article]] complains about you dying in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII Assassin's Creed III]]'' (which itself is not correct. You get desynchronised) if you don't skin the animals you kill, yet you get away with murdering political figures. In doing this they miss the whole point of the series, where the Animus machine you're in allows you to see an interactive recording of the past, so you can kill these political figures because your ancestor actually did it. So you get desynchronised from this recording because your ancestor skinned all the animals he killed, and by not doing it yourself, you're straying too far from the recording. Basically, Cracked seemed to not realise that ItMakesSenseInContext.

** These articles exist (and are identical) for just about every game under the sun.

* The website of the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', one of the most prominent newspapers in Germany, once did a report on Creator/RemedyEntertainment. It described their BreakthroughHit ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' (a ThirdPersonShooter) as being considered less violent than {{First Person Shooter}}s such as ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. ''Max Payne 2'' is rated 18+ in Germany, and the first game had been outright indexed (restricted), whereas ''World of Warcraft'' is rated 12+ and a MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame, not a shooter at all. The article went on to state that ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' would only be available for Microsoft's X-Box and not for the "Nintendo Playstation", pretty much confirming that the author had no clue whatsoever about video games. The "World of Warcraft" and "Nintendo" blunders were fixed following a lot of ridicule, but the part about violence was not.

* Another example from the ''Red Eye'': The review for ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' identified it as "Borderlands: the Prequel".

* Cracked do so love making mistakes, don't they? [[http://www.cracked.com/article_22670_the-5-most-unbelievably-sexist-quests-in-video-game-history.html Here's one]] from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. They complain that a quest involves you shaming a woman (Haelga) for having lots of sex. They, of course, fail to mention the bit where all the men Haelga slept with were married, and she knew it.

* The article [[https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/video-games-not-much-fun-bbab/ "Video Games—Not so Much Fun After All"]] implies that ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', the "most popular game of all time", is a rape simulator, and that "it's not the only one". Of course, you cannot actually rape anyone in ''Grand Theft Auto'', nor is it the most popular game of all time.

* Even close to a decade later, most fan-based outlets discussing the Film/JamesBond game ''VideoGame/BloodStone'' seem convinced that Greece is a major part of the plot and that the terrorist Bond takes care of there, Greco, is the BigBad - in the actual game that is basically the tutorial level, and nothing from it comes up again. Grimly appropriate in that ''Blood Stone'' [[CreatorKiller was the last game its developers made]], and people are still unintentionally showing why that is.

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' [[TheNewRockAndRoll was accused of causing the suicide]] of a 15 year old boy by the boy's father and some British tabloids. Said tabloids referred to it as an "online game" which would supposedly ask the player for their phone number and send them text messages. Perhaps they confused it with ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger''?

* ''[=STTR1=]'' (the original (unauthorized) ''Franchise/StarTrek'' game, which launched a thousand clones) contained the following line which the unfortunate player got for completely running out of energy: "The Enterprise is dead in space. If you survive all remaining attacks you will be reduced to the rank of private." Author Mike Mayfield was still in high school at the time, which may explain the problems with this:

** The "captain" of naval vessel is a "commissioned officer," who has gone to a military academy and received special training; a "private" / "crewman" is an "enlisted" personnel who has gone through boot camp (or the naval equivalent). They're totally different ranking systems; for a "captain" to be demoted to "private" is a little like a medical doctor losing their license and being demoted to [[NotThatKindOfDoctor archaeologist]].

* [[https://www.metacritic.com/user/KillByleth?myscore-filter=Game/ This Metacritic reviewer]] must really get "creator, developer, and/or writer of the game/anime" with "the voice actor of one of the main/major characters" horribly mixed up, as they claim that Creator/ZachAguilar is the creator of ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' not to mention the manga/anime ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', and that Creator/LauraBailey is the creator of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'', ''VideoGame/MarvelsAvengers'', and ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelsAvengers''. In reality, Zach only voices Aether, Byleth, and Tanjiro, while Laura voices Abby and Black Widow. Also, the same reviewer's ''Genshin Impact'' review weirdly says that the game is about "using real money to assign fictional characters as your slaves". Though considering the content of their reviews and what they have to say about the games (and movies) that they review, it is likely that they are a troll reviewer.
* The German pop science TV show ''Galileo'' once produced a feature on the alleged correlation between violent video games and school shootings (and, predictably enough, the feature careened into MurderSimulators territory from the get-go). To illustrate its point about video game violence, ''Galileo'' curiously showed gameplay footage from ''VideoGame/Swat4'', which - while technically a FirstPersonShooter - is more to the point a ''police procedural'' [[TacticalShooter simulator]] that both actively ''penalises'' players for shooting and killing their 'enemies' and incentivises them obeying professional police protocol (that is, taking suspects into custody with ''minimal'' violence) at all times. In other words, ''Galileo'' used arguably the worst possible example for video game violence in the then-contemporary FPS landscape.

** The video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66C3Ef2r3o 10 Pokemon That Actually Exist In Real Life]]'' by Facts Verse refers to the series as "Mario Smash Bros".
** [https://www.engadget.com/2008-04-17-louisiana-resident-wins-gamestops-smash-bros-brawl-tournament.html This article] refers to ''Brawl'' as an "indie title" and "that little game nobody paid any attention to"... even though it's anything but.
* Several German Web sites claim that ''Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima'', made by Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment for I-OS and Windows, is a port of Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s [[VideoGame/BrainAge DS hit]], when it is actually an independent implementation of Ryūta Kawashima's work; Namco and Nintendo cooperated several times before, but are not known to have done so here. In fact, the DS software is called ''Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training'' – shouldn't the writers' brains have noticed the different titles?

* ''VideoGame/CityConnection'': Destructoid claims that the game’s soundtrack consists of multiple unique licensed soundtracks, including Deep Purple’s “Highway Star”. Apparently they had not played more than 5 seconds of each of the stage (read: they have only watched the demo, which rarely lasts more than 5 seconds), or they would’ve realized that this is absolutely untrue. Sadly, The Other Wiki chose to parrot this incorrect fact and fends off any attempt to correct this.

** ''[=GamePro=]'' once claimed that Bowser was a playable character in ''Mario Party 2'' in their preview. While there is a rare [[https://www.mariowiki.com/Bowser_Suit Bowser Suit]] item that you can win that puts the character in a full bodysuit but leaves their head exposed, the King of the Koopas himself is unplayable. [[HilariousInHindsight Funnily enough]], ''Mario Party 4'' has Bowser playable in the [[https://www.mariowiki.com/Beach_Volley_Folly Beach Volley Folly]] minigame, ''Mario Party 10'' contains a special mode where a fifth player controls Bowser and tries to destroy everyone else, and ''Super Mario Party'' [[PromotedToPlayable promoted Bowser to a normal playable character]] three years after that.