10 Video Game “Mistakes” That Were Totally Intentional

10. The Dumpster - Half-Life 2: Episode Two

There’s a sequence in Half-Life 2: Episode Two in which the player comes across a dumpster with a headcrab zombie seemingly hiding out inside. Some of the rubbish in the dumpster is moving around and we can hear banging noises coming from inside, so plenty of players decided to throw a grenade in there to kill the zombie.

However, with this particular dumpster, any time you throw a grenade in, it gets thrown right back out. Many players thought this was a glitch or mistake in the game’s programming, but it was intentional, coming about thanks to a freak accident.

During testing, a particularly unlucky player threw a grenade into the dumpster, only to see it bounce back out at them. This was a total accident and the grenade had a one-in-a-million chance of bouncing out like that. But it happened, and the development team thought it was so funny they decided to actually program it into the game’s code. Kerry Davis, one of the programmers who worked on the game, revealed this amusing anecdote during the in-game commentary.