Since the early days, games have had glitches. Some are good, some are bad, and a few are just downright annoying! All gamers at one time or another have encountered a glitch while playing their favorite games. And Nintendo has had its fair share of glitched games since the beginning.

Probably the most famous glitch in video game history comes from Nintendo themselves. The original Super Mario Bros. is very well known for its Minus World glitch. This world is accessed by breaking a few bricks at the end of World 1-2 right above the exit pipe and jumping at just the right spot allowing you to go through the wall to the Warp Zone area. And if you just go down the first pipe without moving any further, you will be taken to the  Minus World. This world is basically just a never-ending version of World 7-2, but the game calls it World -1, thus getting the title “The Minus World.”

Some people spend countless hours on games trying to exploit these unintentional little bugs to make a game more enjoyable. Some glitches can cause a player to cheat; such as The Spire Glitch in Metroid Prime Hunters which allows Spire to hide inside the wall in Alinos Gateway. This glitch is was a cheap but easy way to win the match back when the game first came out. But now, almost everyone knows about it, making it much harder to get away with.

One Nintendo franchise that is no stranger to glitches is The Legend of Zelda series. Ocarina of Time had many glitches that made the game that much more fun! Remember how you could turn any of your weapons into bottles? Sure, you end up losing most of those items for good, like I once did with my bombchus, but it’s still fun! And don’t forget the Unlimited Gold Skulltula glitch where you can keep going back and collecting the same Skulltula from the grotto by Hyrule Castle. All of those glitches, although unintentional, were just added bonuses to the game. And Twilight Princess is another prime example of Zelda glitches. I know people who have said that the most enjoyment they got out of that game was from exploiting its glitches. I can’t say that I’m one of them myself, but to each their own right?

But then there are the evil glitches. You know, the annoying little bugs that plague some of your favorite games. Well, today was the day I had the pleasure of encountering one myself. You may have heard of this happening before. Hell, maybe it’s even happened to you. But it is a very annoying glitch that will haunt Spirit Tracks players for years to come. I’m talking about the Stuck Behind Zelda glitch.

This pesky little bug is achieved while fighting the final boss, Malladus. By getting hit by one of his fireballs in just the right spot, you’ll be knocked back off the screen behind Zelda, leaving her and yourself helpless. Once this happens, all you can do is either die or restart the game. So when this happened to me, I pulled out my crappy old webcam and began recording. Here’s the video of how it all went down.

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