10 Video Game Cheats Found YEARS Later

10. The Piracy Code - Alien Resurrection

2000's Alien Resurrection game is best remembered for its innovative - and at-the-time wildly divisive - analogue stick control scheme, but it more recently earned itself a place in history for an altogether more shocking reason.

Last year, YouTube channel Modern Vintage Gaming revealed that the game contains a cheat code which allows players to play "import" or "backup" game discs without the need to modify their PlayStation console in any way - such as with a modchip.

If we're being real, it basically lets you play pirate PS1 games in the easiest way imaginable, as the code effectively turns the Alien Resurrection game disc into a boot disc, letting you swap it out for your totally-legal backup game.

This hidden cheat was told to Modern Vintage Gaming by Martin Piper, the developer who secretly included it within the game code without the knowledge of his team or, more brazenly, Sony.

As for why he did it? He simply wanted to see if the PS1 could load different discs without resetting the console, which evidently it could. Needless to say, he didn't dare reveal his sneaky secret until long after Sony had moved on from the original PlayStation.