Can You Match The Glitch To The Game?

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Video game glitches can be found in many games and are generally relatively minor in consequence. Your character might be able to stick his head through a wall due to shoddy physics, or may be able to turn in a quest without actually having completed the necessary requirements for it. In some cases, glitches may even mildly enhance the game, even if the provided enjoyment is unintended and essentially at the developer's expense.

Other glitches can be game-breaking however, preventing players from progressing in the game or ruining some element of their playthrough. When these glitches are copied into the history books (the game is saved), they can permanently mar a save file. While some glitches may be completely random or otherwise rare, others are permanent elements of some games which there's nary a way to avoid.

In this quiz we're going to test your knowledge of some of the most notorious glitches that have been found in games. The list includes both classics and modern games (which tend to be glitchier due to their complexity). Are you ready to get your glitch on? Head to the first question and good luck. Oh, and if you spot any glitches in our quiz, like spelling errors or poorly crafted double entendres, feel free to report them; we'll patch them out pronto.

Question 1

Which Game Had This Glitch?

The Pokemon series just so happens to have one of the most notorious glitches in gaming history (and we don't mean human glitches, like people falling off cliffs while playing Pokemon Go). MissingNo. was a game-breaking "Pokemon" (really just a pixelated mass) that could be found, one which could break the game's graphics, but which could also duplicate items. Needless to say, many gamers sought out the glitch and their chance at 99 of whatever item their heart desired (probably balls to catch more Pokemon, the ruthless...people). Which game had the MissingNo. glitch?

Question 2

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This Mario game has some famous hidden warp rooms that can be used to quickly jump to other worlds. It also has a glitched one, which lets you warp from 1-2 to 5-1 if you choose the middle pipe. However, the other two pipes lead to Groundhog Day - Water Version, featuring a recreation of level 7-2 that's stuck on an endless loop (the pipe at the end drops you off at the beginning again). Sorry Mario, but the Princess is not inside that glitch. Which game is it?

Question 3

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This Assassin's Creed game became well-known for some crazy glitches shortly after its release, including NPC's routinely getting stuck in/under the streets or within other objects, sometimes while madly running in place. However, the hideous faceless characters (faceless that is save for floating mouth and eyes) that would occasionally spawn in its world are undoubtedly its most notorious and gruesome glitch. Nothing ruins immersion like staring in horror at a talking set of teeth and one floating eyeball that's supposed to be a beautiful woman. Which Assassin's Creed game is it?

Question 4

Which Game Had This Glitch?

The Madden NFL series has spawned dozens of incarnations and has consistently ranked as the top football game on the market (when it's had any competition at all) and a stalwart of excellence. However, it's not been without its share of major glitches. One of the weirder glitches would result in Cleveland Browns player Christian Kirksey occasionally appearing on the field as a Mini-Me version of himself which nonetheless retained his ability to tackle and make plays, to much visual hilarity. Which game was it?

Question 5

Which Game Had This Glitch?

The Grand Theft Auto series has had plenty of wacky, annoying and hilarious glitches in its time, and this game's swing set glitch is definitely near the top. By driving your car up a swing set located in a small park in the Firefly Projects area of Broker, your vehicle gets launched into the air like it was shot out of a cannon, sending you twirling across the sky to crash miles away. After dusting themselves off, most players looked for the nearest car to steal so they could drive back there and do it again. Which GTA game is it?

Question 6

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This portable Zelda game features a somewhat randomly-generated dungeon, which would be amazing (endlessly unique Zelda levels? Take my money), only problem being that it's a glitch; and not really random. Nonetheless, the "doghouse/kennel glitch" is repeatedly exploited by speedrunners looking to gain a quick advantage in their runs, as the powerful contents and other glitches found across its sprawling expanse have been mapped out by players. Depending upon how many enemies you kill before executing the glitch, you'll get a different version of the dungeon that it tosses you in, with different content. Which game was this glitch found it?

Question 7

Which Game Had This Glitch?

One of the most notorious glitches was unleashed upon this MMO on September 13, 2005, when boss character Hakkar the Soulflayer was introduced with a highly contagious debuff skill. The effects were not meant to leave Hakkar's lair, but players soon discovered their pets could be infected with the skill, dismissed from the party, and then brought back outside the dungeon with the infection still in tow. Chaos ensued across the game's servers, as plague swept through the playerbase, relentlessly killing most players who came into contact with an infected player, pet, or NPC. The glitch was corrected a week later. Which MMO had this glitch?

Question 8

Which Game Had This Glitch?

A "Banter Bug" affected one of BioWare's RPG's, causing the characters in the party to start giving each other the cold shoulder and not carry on with their usual banter. This bug was particularly annoying as players really had no immediate way of knowing whether they had the bug or not. That is, if they noticed at all and didn't play for hours without the party making a peep. Harmful glitch or some glorious peace and quiet...? That was rhetorical. The real question is, what game was it in?

Question 9

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This classic N64 shooter produced a funky glitch if the game's cartridge was not inserted well enough. Characters, enemies, and even objects like planes would spin around wildly at random, making for a hilariously chaotic experience. This glitch was immortalized forever in meme form when a video accompanied aurally by the Japanese song Promise by Hirose Kohmi was made showing various characters "dancing" in all their spastic glory. Which game's glitches inspired that video and the geddan meme that followed?

Question 10

Which Game Had This Glitch?

The arcade version of this game in a famous fighting game series had a notorious glitch (or rather, supposed glitch) whereby players selecting either Scorpion or Reptile would instead get a "character" named Ermac, which was a red-paletted version of the original. However, it appears the supposed glitch may have been nothing more than a few hoax sightings (or some gamers were popping acid before they played), one which nonetheless became so legendary that Ermac eventually became a real playable character in the series. Which game supposedly had this glitch?

Question 11

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This classic arcade game comes to a messy conclusion (kill screen) for those skilled enough to get that far (in other words, not me). As the level number was stored in an 8-bit integer, which can only hold 256 values (or 0-255), the game would glitch out upon reaching level 256, with the right-side of the screen becoming a jumbled mess and preventing you from getting enough pellets to continue playing. Because of that glitch, the game's max score also has a limit, of 3333360 points, which only a small group of people have achieved. Which game is it?

Question 12

Which Game Had This Glitch?

One of the greatest thrills in playing the NHL series is lining up a player and smashing them into the boards. Then stealing the puck. Then scoring a goal. But mostly the smashing. Well, this version of the series featured a notorious glitch which allowed you to take your smashing to 11. If you checked a player near the door in the player's bench when that team was making a line change (the door was open), the player would get launched through the bench or even up into the crowd. The "Hercules Check" was found in which game?

Question 13

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This old-school Nintendo game is one of several which are notorious for having "kill screens", which is basically the game giving up on trying to stop you fair and square and killing your playthrough with a glitch. The audacity! For this game, that glitch happens on its 22nd level, where the player is given so little time that they can't even make use of a different glitch (ladder trick) to beat the level in time (oh, how ironic that would've been). Which game is it?

Question 14

Which Game Had This Glitch?

One of the first characters that would greet players in this game was Doc Mitchell, whose head had a penchant for glitching out and spinning around in place. Since it happened at the very start of the game, some people thought it was intended (it is set in a post apocalyptic world where people often suffer strange mutations, so why not a head spinning mutation?). Alas, it's just a glitch, and there is no overarching head-spinning plot element to the game (more's the pity). Which game is it?

Question 15

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This simulation game lets you experience the joys of juggling a career and family; until your virtual wife gives birth to a mutant baby that makes you want to forsake humanity and live alone in the mountains as a Buddhist. The mutant baby glitch resulted in all manner of horrific monstrosities being born, from babies with their heads in their stomachs to babies with appendages that stretched for dozens of feet and ended in feral claws. The problem seemed to result primarily from downloaded clothes being improperly categorized. Which game is it?

Question 16

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This shooter contained a glitch where a character called Mei Suen, who would give the player quests, would appear as a mannequin-esque version of her upper body, with missing arms and head; basically just a pair of breasts sitting on a floor. Players could still interact with the character and hear it talking, through something that could only be described as voodoo (cause again, no head). The glitch would happen at random (seemingly, there could always be triggers which haven't been figured out) and wasn't overly common, but for those who did witness it, they left a lasting impression. I mean, it left a lasting impression. Which game is it?

Question 17

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This beautiful shooter has a notorious glitch in it that sees you running for your life from waves of sharks chasing you. On land. The fun starts when you kill one of the sharks peacefully circling in the waters nearby, because you're kinda rude like that. More sharks come and these ones are angry (they don't like rude people), chasing the player onto land by swimming through the air. Apparently, after 400 million years of no evolution, all it took was you killing one for them to instantly evolve the ability to fly. Maybe you should try killing more things. What game was this glitch found in?

Question 18

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This SNES game's famous mockball glitch allowed players to reach certain areas of its labyrinthine layout before they were supposed to. That allowed them to reach some items before they were supposed to as well and is a necessity in speed runs (and if you're interested in glitches, do check out speed runners in action, they know all of them). Basically, if players time their transformation into ball form properly, they can turn it into a super high speed dash that can bypass otherwise impassable objects. Which game is it?

Question 19

Which Game Had This Glitch?

Given how tactical first-person shooters pride themselves on realism, it's certainly a major glitch when a couple swipes of your knife can destroy a house. That was the glitch that was discovered in this popular shooter before it was eventually patched out. The player could destroy a certain M-com Station on the Isla Inocentes map by destroying the little picket fence behind it with a couple swipes. Cause really, what's a building without a picket fence around it? A soulless hunk of brick and wood I say. Which game had this glitch?

Question 20

Which Game Had This Glitch?

Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of his generation, but surely not even he can stand on water while hitting a golf shot...right? Wrong, according to this version of the Tiger Woods PGA Tour games (which are now the Rory Mcilroy PGA Tour games, probably because Tiger was cheating...in the game I mean, cheating in the game. Nope, no allusion to any other kind of cheating there, no siree). While this glitch probably wasn't encountered by many players, it became famous for the fact that EA and Tiger himself actually made a humorous video in response. Which game was the glitch in?

Question 21

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This classic SNES RPG has a massive 99-floor optional dungeon in it for the intrepid heroes to explore, one which is randomly generated each time you play it. That is, random except for one giant glitch: the top floor in the NTSC version of the game was glitched out due to a tileset being inexplicably removed from that version. Basically, congrats on spending hours (without being able to save) climbing to the top of this dungeon, here's a giant glitch for you as a reward. How thoughtful. Which game is it?

Question 22

Which Game Had This Glitch?

In this PS1 RPG, a famous item duplication glitch using heal berries allowed you to create 255 of any item in the game, which was just brilliant considering there were items to permanently boost your stats. The result was the ability to give your team godlike strength, defense and magic that you let you tear through your enemies with ease. Oh, and then there was the whole get rich quick aspect of the glitch. "Yeah, I have 255 Gold Swords for sale. Don't ask me how I got them." What game is it?

Question 23

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This highly-rated game from Chunsoft, which appeared on both the 3DS and Vita, had a devastating bug on the 3DS version. Saving in certain rooms could corrupt and destroy your save file, which is bad enough under normal circumstances, but when you only have one save slot total? Basically, it's a recipe for unmitigated disaster and broken cartridges. The game was eventually patched so that saving wasn't possible in the room which was the greatest offender to glitching. Which game is it?

Question 24

Which Game Had This Glitch?

A glitch in one of this sci-fi-themed MMO's expansions led to some players' /boot.ini files being deleted, rendering them unable to start their computers on subsequent attempts. Don't ask us why a game could so easily delete a system's critical files, but regardless, people were miffed. The developers apologized profusely and did everything they could to help those affected restore their computers, and that game is still going strong to this day (that happened a decade ago). So, which game is it?

Question 25

Which Game Had This Glitch?

This entry isn't even technically for a game, but for a demo of the game found on the PlayStation Underground's Holiday 2004 Demo Disc. Sony quickly warned players not to touch this particular demo, as it formatted players' memory cards, wiping out potentially thousands of hours of gaming blood, sweat, and tears, all so it could be sure to have enough space to save your 30-minutes of action on the demo. Oops. We hope you're enjoying being a member of the PlayStation Underground. A demo of which game led to memory card formatting?

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