Last year, I wrote an article on the 7 Top Video Game Urban Legends.  I got flak for some of them, (jumping over the flagpole in Super Mario) and some we well remembered.  I figured, I’d bring back the post with some much needed fixup.  So without further ado…

We all have heard of them, swore to have done them or know someone whose cousin has. That’s right, I’m talking about Video Game Urban Legends (VGUL). No, I’m not going to talk about the munchkin in the back of “Wizard of Oz” who supposedly hangs himself from the tree. Not also talking about how there is a ghost in the window in “3 Men and a Baby” who died in that house. Not Bigfoot or Loch Ness. I’m talking Video Games…. I’m talking Urban Legends in Video Games.

I have searched high and low to bring to you, our latest installment of these Urban Legends, and finish up with a wide known but not seen VGUL.

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Just announced at the GDC 2009 by Satoru Iwata, the highly anticipated and rumored Zelda is in fact named “Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks” and it arrives later this year on the Nintendo DSi.  Link has the ability to control/create enemies and make them fight enemies. Railroad mechanic is an extension of Phantom Hourglass boat system — riding a rail and shooting cannon.

Very Phantom Hourglass like, but hopefully with new and fresh ideas. The new weapons and skills look like a good start, but Link looks kind of odd in his little conductor’s outfit. It will be a fairly traditional Zelda portable game, with puzzle dungeons and Phantom Hourglass-style touch mechanics. The train basically works like the boat in PH, running along the overworld (presumably on a rail defined by players). Enemy control mechanics look pretty nice — link distracted a big Zora with a controlled shadow guard, then snuck around to hit it from behind.

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Where can you find a car for $500 nowadays? At a little town called Corvallis, Oregon that’s where! I am sure you will get all the ladies in this ride, do not forget to add hot rims, neon lights and disco ball! That will sure get the women flocking your way. Check you out with the wind in your cone hairstyle, looking all fly! Seriously though the price tag is great and all but I think this artistic masterpiece was wasted on a 1978 Ford Fairmont.

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