10. GTA: San Andreas - Hot Coffee
Starting off with one of the most obvious inclusions on the list; the Hot Coffee mod from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Although I personally never bore witness to such a thing (I was content mowing down hapless civilians with Guns n Roses blaring away in the background), the fact is that something such as a hidden patch never meant for public consumption once caused so much widespread hate for a game that had already fallen into the torches n pitchforks category, especially in America. 'Hot Coffee' got its name from the ability in the game to go on dates with a variety of women who, upon returning home from a trip to wherever, would ask you in for a drink. Now in the final game you would accept or decline, the former leading to a menagerie of moans and groans, but all very funny in GTA's own little way. However PC players discovered a hidden piece of code buried in the game that showed these scenes were initially going to be fully playable, with animated sexual positions and button prompts guiding character CJ through the event. Naturally things got blown way out of proportion, with the hidden code becoming a mainstay of the general San Andreas vernacular, so much so that sensationalist Fox News ran stories on it as if the scenes were also a regular occurrence in the retail version of the game. It proved to not be the first time the gaming medium would be drastically misunderstood, as well as showing what depths the likes of Fox News and their contemporaries would go to for the sake of a story about something they clearly did not understand.