Glitches. They happen sometimes, and they can be pretty frustrating when they're game breaking or just plain unfair. However there are times when they're funny, or on the rare lucky occasion, they can actually help you.

This recently happened to me while playing The Golf Club on my PS4. I had just started a new season and it was going really badly. I was something like +5 on a course and my game crashed while pulling up the leaderboard after I had just gotten another bogey (+6 now). When I started it back up and loaded the game from the point where it had crashed, it registered me as being even (0) and on hole 15. So you're taking six strokes off of my score and launching me into first place on the home stretch? Sounds good to me.

Then it got weirder...
I play hole 15 and get, you guessed it, a bogey (this new course is nasty, man). The scorecard pops up and says that the bogey (which adds +1 to my score for the uninitiated) took my score from even to -4. Again, no complaints here! lol No, I actually quit, abandoned the season, and restarted just to be fair.

A few other issues it caused were the scorecard showing that I had skipped the first 14 holes, my personal scorecard giving a score showing me as being five strokes higher than the leaderboard did, and the game registering me as playing a round against myself. Fun times.



So have you ever had a game glitch and actually help you? More than one? Name a few even.

I had a game glitch happen in Super Monkey Ball Deluxe for PS2 happen one time! It was the Expert stage skip glitch ,helped me out in my favor!

I think I would have kept going in Golf Club, just to see how crazy it would get.


Would those game breaking input speedruns be considered glitching? There's examples of people like SethBling on Youtube beating Super Mario World in less than 3 minutes, or using the original Zelda's # of resources per screen to 'make' Zelda appear and beat the game.


I've had bummer online poker experiences (not for real money) where the drawn cards sometimes don't register, showing a blank space, so there's no idea what you have.

Sometimes I'l test people's home-brew games and its easy to find some beneficiary glitches in those, such as cheating my way through a 'avoid x' game by making the game not register your cursor, when it is clearly there and still racking up points for you.


The original NES Double Dragon had some very different glitches, in they were just cosmetic, it was ridiculous stuff like picking up a dropped weapon that was about to disappear, and turning it into a weird object like a stack of of pink tin cans.

Well the glitch I had that helped me (I think it was a glitch anyway) was back on my Sega Genesis 3 which was like the original Sega Genesis 
but smaller and came with 6 button controllers. The game was Sonic 3D Blast there was a level that had a bridge that had a space under it but the space didn't lead anywhere you just couldn't see Sonic anymore if you went there. All of the sudden it tells me I found a level skip or select or something I don't remember all the details was back when I was a kid. This menu of all the levels came up  and it even let you play the bonus levels and I found if you pressed all the buttons on the controller at the same time you would instantly clear the level. After I shut the game off I lost the level select and even when I went back to the place I found it I was never able to find it again.  

The weirdest glitch that worked out great for me was in Super Mario World. It was in world 1~2 and as big Mario with Yoshi, as I ate the first green koopa before the Chargin Chuck, I sort of pressed down to slide, (my memories a bit fuzzy, as this was when the SNES was new) meaning I lost Yoshi AS I ate the green Koopa. Next thing I knew, Mario/Koopa/Yoshi were frozen and my lives went flying from the handful I had, increasing. And fast. Luckily, I had beat the level once already, I was just getting power ups for the next courses, so...*start* *select* ANND BAM! I had about 80 or 90 lives! I have tried to replicate that glitch many times, to no avail. It must have been a one in a million shot.

I found out in Beyblade G-Revolution (for GBA) that by walking a certain way during a story event, you can skip a significant part of the story itself...which isn't very deep. A bunch of battles strung together. And the game is among the easiest I've ever played. I enjoyed the mechanics, though, which were solid.