History CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer / VideoGames

* Funko Pop released the [[http://funko.com/blogs/news/85470339-coming-soon-fallout-dark-souls Red Knight]] figure from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', while it is cool to finally have a knight figure from the cover box, the description in the official blog led to a MoodWhiplash if you actually completed the game, and this enters an unintentional MisaimedMarketing territory due to Creator/FromSoftware deliberately hiding details about the Red Knight's real identity. [[spoiler:Not only the Red Knight is not the PlayerCharacter, it is everything ''but'' the hope of humanity. Specifically, he's the ''FinalBoss'' and the manifestation of every last unfortunate Lords of Cinder doomed to live inside an AnimatedArmor [[AndIMustScream for eternity]].]]

* In LetsPlay/{{Critikal}}'s ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKq4IQVos58&list=UUq6VFHwMzcMXbuKyG7SQYIg video]], he refers to Bonnie the bunny as a bear multiple times (he probably confused him with the eponymous Freddy Fazbear).

** 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 [[Franchise/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).

* Shelley Blond, the original voice actor of [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]], once claimed in an interview with the BBC that Lara was the first playable female character in a video game even though there have been many before her. The BBC later fixed their article after realising the error.

* [[http://system16.com/ System 16]] once had listings for Namco UsefulNotes/{{Arcade Game}}s allegedly titled ''Don Bear Near'', ''Rhinoceros Bar Command'' and ''Rhinoceros Berth Lead-Lead''. These are nothing but {{Blind Idiot Translation}}s of the actual titles of ''Dunk Mania'', ''Cyber Commando'' and ''Cyber Sled''; apparently a Japanese source that listed game titles in katakana was run through a machine translation that mistook parts of the titles as the Japanese words for "bear" (''kuma'') and "rhinoceros" (''sai''). Mockup screenshots of the first two mistaken games were later added to a [[http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=960 "Fake, Wrong, Made Up"]] section.

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

%%* [[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 [[SimilarlyNamedWorks the wrong]] [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Bastion]].

** While ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' is usually extremely accurate with its Spirits, the depiction of Zero from ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' is simply called "[[IAmNotShazam Mega Man Zero]]", despite Zero not being an incarnation of Mega Man. [[https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_spirits_(Mega_Man_series) SmashWiki]] also makes this mistake.

** Several fans (and one commercial when it was released) for some reason refer to ''[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Sonic Adventure 2 Battle]]'' as "Sonic Adventure Battle 2". 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.
** Gameplay footage on [=G4=] which labeled the game as "Sonic Battle", which isn't helped by the fact that there actually ''is'' a game (for UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance) called ''VideoGame/SonicBattle''.

** [[http://www.parrygamepreserve.com/images/features/catalogs/tiger/1992Vol2/1992Vol2Tiger15_M.jpg This page]] from the Tiger Electronics 1992 catalog lists the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' wrist game as an adaptation of "The popular [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] game."

** [[http://www.sonicstadium.org/2014/02/this-product-description-for-silver-the-hedgehog-is-amazing/ This page]] from an Entertainment Earth catalog has a picture of a plush of [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Silver the Hedgehog]], with the description for Silver Sonic from the UsefulNotes/GameGear and UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem version of ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Sonic 2]]'' next to it.

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

** An [[https://gamerant.com/persona-3-portable-remaster-achievement-list/ article]] on Game Rant about the list of ''VideoGame/Persona3 Portable'' achievements compared the achievement mechanics for the remastered port and the original UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable release. Anyone familiar with the handheld can tell this is wrong. There is only one official list, the PSP does not have its own AchievementSystem, and the supposed "original" list is actually a fan-made one for emulation via [=RetroArch=]. That article is a newer revision, by the way, since originally it listed said [=RetroAchievements=] as the official achievements, which in turn was mistakenly but very briefly picked up by ''Persona''-centric content creators.

** In [[https://www.christiantoday.com/article/crash-bandicoot-n-sane-trilogy-rumors-coming-to-pc-and-switch-gb-eye-and-activision-to-sell-game-merchandise/125446.htm an article talking about rumors]] involving a new game along with UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and [=PC=] ports of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootNSaneTrilogy'', Christian Today claims that, "'Crash Bandicoot' originally came out in 1996 on the [=PlayStation=]. Developed by Naughty Dog, the game follows the adventures of a mutated bandicoot named Crash as he fights the evil Doctor Nitrus." The actual villain is Dr. Neo Cortex. Dr. Nitrus '''Brio''' was simply TheDragon to Cortex's BigBad.

* 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 a 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 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.

* 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/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1989}}'' 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/{{Bad Dude|s}}, VideoGame/{{Hyd|lide}}elide, [[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/{{Ninja Gai|den}}-Den, Shootin' Range, and [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 Super Mario Bros. II]].

* 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 UsefulNotes/CloudGaming service.

* [[https://screenrant.com/harsh-realities-of-replaying-hollow-knight/#hollow-knight-is-frustratingly-difficult This]] screenrant article denigrates [[VideoGame/HollowKnight Hollow Knight]] as buggy, lacking development for the main character (A silent protagonist who is [[spoiler:revealed to be an [[EmptyShell mindless husk]]]]), and having little side content (Most of the games content is completely optional, and there are several areas that players might never visit). It also claims that the game has difficulty settings in its options menu (No such settings exist), and that the final area of the game is a gauntlet of buzzsaws that kill the player in one hit (The actual final area is a dangerless corridor, the area being referred to is completely optional and in fact does not kill the player in one hit). The article closes by referring to the main character as the [[IAmNotShazam titular player]].

** An ad for Swiss Maid Dairy Food featuring Sonic and Tails has Tails mentioning "level 10" (referring to Death Egg Zone). ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' has "Zones", most of which are divided into multiple "Acts". The game doesn't use the term "level" anywhere, and the Zones themselves are not numbered. Using the term "level" can be acceptable in some informal contexts, but it's not the official term and should not be used in an ad. It's especially awkward as Hill Top Zone Act 2 could also be considered to be level 10.

* A [[http://www.klkntv.com/story/23928921/8-year-old-faces-felony-charges story]] claims that an 8-year-old is facing felony charges after charging $800 to his grandmother's credit card in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''. Minecraft itself costs around $30, has no in-game store, and even if you are talking about the Xbox 360 version, has nowhere near $800 worth of skin packs to purchase. Guilty of this trope are: the grandmother, the boy's father, the police, and the (non-gaming/tech) news outlets who are repeating the story.

* 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, ''[[MoralGuardians Jack Thompson]]'', the guy who claimed ''VideoGame/MicrosoftFlightSimulator'' was used to train [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the 9/11 hijackers]], said there was nothing to this.

** ''VideoGame/{{beatmania}}'' held the world record for best-selling DJ game in editions around 2000 ([[OverlyNarrowSuperlative when very few such games existed at the time]]), and was described as being controlled with "two turntables and an effector" button. This is incorrect for several reasons:

*** The turntable is used for one specific type of note; the game also has 5 keys per player (or 7 in ''IIDX'').

* When ''Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2018'' named Junko Enoshima from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' the Most {{Cosplay}}ed Video Game Character, it claimed the game [[https://twitter.com/danganronpawiki/status/906297001284915201 "challenges players to investigate a fight club overseen by a robot bear."]] It's actually about a DeadlyGame in which the goal is to commit a murder and get away with it to escape, overseen by a KillerTeddyBear. Also, while it shows a sprite of Junko, the cosplay pictured is actually of [[spoiler:Mukuro Ikusaba's outfit while disguised as her.]]