8 Hidden Video Game Modes You Never Knew About

8. Play As Luigi - New Super Mario Bros.

The modern instalments of the Super Mario Bros. series are largely geared towards local multiplayer, i.e. playing with your friends. If you don't have any friends, however, or they're all too <i>cool</i> to play video games, it's the single player experience for you. Not a bad thing by any stretch, but in New Super Mario Bros., if you were getting your hopes up to play as your favourite Mario bro, Luigi, you're gonna be in for some disappointment.

Unless you know the hidden trick to unlocking him, that is!

By holding down the L and R buttons while on the file select menu and then clicking on your save file, you'll hear the green-clad plumber himself cry out, "Luigi!", and then sure enough, it's him in the spotlight from that point on!

This mode is so simple to unlock, but equally easy to miss, since the game doesn't tell you about it anywhere. If you're one of those people who prefers to play as Luigi but could never figure out the secret to unlocking him...join the club, my friend.