8 Incredibly Dark Video Game Secrets You Wish You Never Found

8. A Very Creepy Billboard - California Speed

It's very rare for a video game Easter Egg to eclipse the title that it's actually from, but when it does happen then it's probably for a good reason.

Case and point California Speed, an otherwise fun but rather unassuming racing game that made its way to the N64 in 1998. Players were content to speed around the numerous tracks in bright blocky cars, but it soon became clear that there was something rather sinister going on underneath the hood.

Players began reporting sightings of a Billboard that wasn't plastered in the usual gaudy logos and text of fake in-game brands, but instead came with a message that read:

"SoMETIMES

God TaKes MOMMIES

aNd PuPPIES AWAY…

And SoMETIMES…

Just SoMETIMES…

I do."

Okaaaaay. That I could have probably done without ever seeing ever. Yet unfortunately, this was now burned into the collective conscious forevermore.

Somewhat taking away from this secret however was an interview with one of the games art directors, who said he put the image there to remind other artists to change it to something more friendly for the game, however thanks to poor quality control it made its way onto Nintendo's grey beast and terrified unsuspecting players.