Infamous Events
In 2005, a virtual pandemic known as this "Incident" devastated World of Warcraft when a boss's highly contagious damage debuff escaped into major cities.
What is the Corrupted Blood Incident?
Encountering this famous glitch off the coast of Cinnabar Island would multiply the sixth item in your inventory by 128.
What is MissingNo.?
In the post-apocalyptic Fallout series, this specific piece of garbage functions as the primary form of currency.
What are Bottle Caps?
The cake is a lie" was scrawled on the walls by a previous, driven-mad test subject in this 2007 puzzle game.
What is Portal?
In 1993, this violent fighting game's "Fatalities" caused such a moral panic that it led directly to the creation of the ESRB rating system.
What is Mortal Kombat?
On 6/6/06, a glitch allowed players to bypass safe zones and murder other players in RuneScape, an event immortalized as this Massacre.
What is the Falador Massacre?
In Skyrim, thieves can rob merchants blind in plain sight simply by placing one of these common household objects over the NPC's head.
What is a bucket (or basket)?
To legally enslave creatures to work on your assembly lines in Palworld, you have to craft and throw these items at them.
What are Pal Spheres?
In the Borderlands universe, there can only ever be six of these superpowered, blue-tattooed women in existence at any given time.
What are Sirens?
This 1997 Square release popularized the JRPG genre in the West, featuring pre-rendered 3D backgrounds and a heartbreaking, unpreventable death scene for Aerith.
What is Final Fantasy VII?
In 1997, beta player Rainz shocked the Ultima Online community by assassinating this supposedly invincible ruler and creator self-insert.
Who is Lord British?
By clipping through a wall in World 1-2 of Super Mario Bros., players could travel down a pipe to an endless, unbeatable water level known as this.
What is the Minus World?
In 2001, pulling a Christmas Cracker in RuneScape had a chance to drop this cosmetic headpiece, which is now one of the most expensive items in the game's history.
What is a Partyhat?
In Zenless Zone Zero, Proxies guide combatants through these dangerous, supernatural dimensional anomalies that swallow up parts of the city.
What are Hollows?
The original 1986 release of The Legend of Zelda on the NES was the first home console game to feature one of these, allowing players to save their progress instead of using passwords.
What is an internal save battery?
In 2014, a single missed rent payment in EVE Online sparked a massive 21-hour space battle known as the Bloodbath of this system.
What is B-R5RB?
In Super Smash Bros. Melee, air-dodging diagonally into the ground allows characters to slide across the stage in a competitive movement technique known as this.
What is Wavedashing?
In Diablo II, this specific unique ring was duped so heavily it essentially replaced gold as the standard trading currency.
What is the Stone of Jordan?
In BioShock, this is the name of the underwater dystopian city built by Andrew Ryan where society collapsed due to ADAM splicing.
What is Rapture?
In 1980's Adventure for the Atari 2600, Warren Robinett hid his name in a secret room, creating the very first one of these in a video game.
What is an Easter Egg?
For years, players of this snowy MMO rumored that if enough players drilled together they could "Tip the Iceberg"—a myth the developers actually made real in 2017.
What is Club Penguin?
Due to an underflow error in the original Civilization, adopting democracy made this famously peaceful world leader become incredibly aggressive and launch nukes.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
In 2010, the "Mann-Conomy" update fundamentally changed Team Fortress 2 by introducing trading centered around this specific cosmetic item, categorized by "Unusual" visual effects.
What are Hats?
In the Halo franchise, this parasitic alien species was so dangerous that the Forerunners built the Halo array to wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy just to starve them.
What is The Flood?
This 1996 title wasn't the first 3D platformer, but its analog stick movement and camera controls fundamentally wrote the rulebook for navigating 3D spaces in games.
What is Super Mario 64?