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7. "Nuclear Gandhi" Isn't A Glitch - Civilization
One of the most infamous legends in video games is that of "Nuclear Gandhi," such that it even has its own damn Wikipedia page.
The legend dictates that in the classic turn-based strategy game Civilization, a bug will eventually cause noted pacifist Mahatma Gandhi to, in a wildly out-of-character moment, "go nuclear" and fire All the Nukes.
Nuclear Gandhi went viral in 2012, two years after the release of Civilization V, and its popularity as a meme did nothing to dissuade from its canonisation as actual fact, that Gandhi has been prone to ultra-violence since the 1991 original.
But when creator Sid Meier's memoir "Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games" was released last year, it saw the man himself confirm that Nuclear Gandhi was in fact completely made up and never, ever the result of a glitch.
The first game in which Gandhi was notably aggressive was actually Civilization V, and it wasn't a glitch but instead a totally intentional joke nodding to the urban legend's widespread acceptance.