10 Video Game Fan Theories That Became Fact

10. Civilisation - Ghandi On A Rampage

The iconic Civilisation series revolves around the idea of bringing your selected civilisation into the modern age. To give the game a layer of realism, the developers tweaked each individual civilisations stats to reflect the leaders personalities.

What they didn't count on, was that on reaching the modern age, serial pacifist Mahatma Gandhi, controlled by the AI, would frequently declare war on the player and 'pacify' them by nuking them from orbit.

So how could this happen? The developers programmed Gandhi's aggression level to one out of ten, the lowest value. Choosing to become a democracy in the modern age decreased a civilisations aggression level by two. But in doing this, Gandhi's aggression level couldn't be less than zero, and therefore defaulted at maximum aggression.

Although this didn't happen in every scenario, Gandhi's' itchy trigger finger became synonymous with the series. With every follow up Civilisation title, the developers would not only keep the code in, but would allude to Gandhi's aggression in various in-game events.

By Civilisation 5 & 6, players noticed that Gandhi's stats had been reduced to normal, thus concluding one of the longest running jokes in gaming history.