Ways to save Aeris, fix cartridges, get Lara's clothes off and find Bigfoots in San Andreas are just some of the video game urban legends we believed when we were kids, back when bigger kids could convince us they were true because they had uncles who worked at Nintendo. Take a watch, share the urban legends you believed for way too long, and subscribe for a video like this every Thursday: http://www.tinyurl.com/SubToOxbox

History will remember 1996 as the year that gave us Dolly the cloned sheep, Tupac Shakur album All Eyez On Me, the launch of the first Tomb Raider game and, a few days after that, the first time someone wondered if they could take Lara Croft's clothes off. Spoiler: you couldn't.

Rumours spread in playground whispers of the holy grail of a secret Tomb Raider nude cheat: an arcane sequence of button presses that would whip those adventuring hotpants off faster than Lara on laundry day.

It didn't help that a fake nude cheat was published in nineties gaming mags as an April Fool's Day joke, spreading yet more unverifiable misinformation.

Even further back in the mists of time, when videogames came on cartridges, they would occasionally freeze or crash. Being tiny children with no concept of how games were produced, how cartridges worked, what a cartridge was, or how to put our shoes on properly, we instantly knew how to fix a duff cartridge: blow on the little metal bits inside to remove the bad juju or dust or whatever.

Despite this being universally acknowledged as truth by anyone who owned a cartridge-based system, it turns out in the cold light of 2017 that, the moisture in your breath could actually corrode and contaminate the connectors that allowed your console to read cartridges.

In instances where you'd blown on a cartridge and it had started working again, what most likely happened was apparently just the action of taking the cartridge out of the machine and putting it back in again setting things right. Next you'll be telling me Smarties didn't come in different flavours according to their colour.

That's to say nothing of tales of Minecraft's resident ghost Herobrine, how to unlock the precious gore in Mortal Kombat on the SNES, or how to save nice nurse Lisa Garland from her fate in Silent Hill.

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