Funny video game bugs you discovered

[ddaniels]

Two video game bugs that I remember from my youth involved Intellivision Baseball and Intellivision Hockey.

 

Baseball - If I had a guy on third base and there were two outs I would start to run home as the ball was being released by the pitcher. If I knew I was going to be out at first I would stop running home (timing was critical for this trick) and watch just as the first baseman caught the ball for the third out. Just at the same moment the out occured I would push the disc to the right (causing the runner to start running home again). If you timed it just right and were close enough to homebase that runner would cross homeplate and count before the rest of the players exited the field. It came down to the timing of when to move the player and being close enough to homeplate so you could score before the players exited the field. This was a stunt that I could repeat time and time again so I would argue it wasn't some one time fluke.

 

Hockey - I remember while playing against my friend if one of his players without the puck was right in front of my penalty box and I checked him causing a penalty you would go to the penalty box but all of a sudden I was able to continue to skate around the ice as that player as if I never got the penalty. The odd thing was I was skating around the ice in the sitting position which was hilarious. Normally, when you went to the penalty box the graphics of the guy were drawn that you were in a sitting position and had to wait for two minutes. That was a bug that we tried to repeat but I don't think we ever were able to duplicate it again. That was hilarous to see your player in the sitting position moving around on the ice.

 

Any other Intv owners come across these bugs or videogame bugs in general?

[Epyx_Fail]

So I found this bug one time. It's called "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial".

[AtariLeaf]

I found a funny Bugs game, is this close enough?

 

[opeygon]

Here is a threadI started over 3 years ago about a Tecmo Super Bowl (NES) glitch that I found (pic included).

 

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/120437-tecmo-super-bowl-glitch/page__p__1454533__fromsearch__1#entry1454533

 

All of my starters turned into Tim Rosenbach!

[A_Locomotive]

Was playing PGR3 and suddenly fell through the ground, the room immediately erupted in a cacophonous roar and my Enzo accelerated out of control. I easily broke 999mph and had my speedo roll over many times.

The interior of the car was truely something else, it was like I was traveling through another dimension, everything was warping and changing shape quite rapidly.

Eventually it ended and I came slamming down hard back on the track at the point I'd fallen through.

 

I wouldn't call this a glitch so much as purposely breaking part of the game. Was playing Halo 2 with my brother and on the level were you first encounter a scarab we decided to see if it was possible to take the warthog farther then the game creators intended. It was totally possible, we drove it up all the winding staircases and through buildings. It ended with up attempting multiple times and eventually succeeding in landing the warthog on the scarabs back. When we did the warthog hovered in midair over its back attached to it. When we hopped out we quickly discovered that being anywhere near the stuck warthog was a death sentence as it would randomly and very quickly shift in random directions with lethal force before settling back into its original spot.

[+thegoldenband]

I've seen a bunch of similar bugs in the original Mega Man that involve the Magnet Beam, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone specifically point out that you can skip a small chunk of the Fireman stage by jumping into a pseudo-pit. You have to be running to the left, and hit it at just the right angle, but if you do it right you move down a screen and get ejected from a wall to the right, saving a fair bit of time (and energy).

 

I found this bug when I first played the game as a (pre-?) teenager, and was pretty excited about it!

 

Edited June 1, 2011 by thegoldenband

[+iesposta]

I found the unused grasshopper sprite in Centepede (arcade).

It's not so funny, but it is a bug!

[+atari2600land]

This one is pretty interesting. It lets you walk, not hop, around the canopies in Super Mario Sunshine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRQfwSBykcs

[Animan]

I found Big Rigs at a computer store once.