10 Creepy Video Game Easter Eggs You Can't Explain
6. Star Fox - Hidden Level
The hidden black hole level is well known amongst Star Fox aficionados, but there is another (far more disturbing) secret level hidden away in the game. By playing through The Asteroid Belt, Route 3, you can shoot and destroy a massive asteroid on your right, causing a giant interdimensional bird to fly onto the screen. Flying into the bird unlocks the other dimension level.
The level itself is a distorted mess of warping and bulging images, with the game stretching and shuddering. It writhes and pulsates as creepy planets with grinning faces fly past, leering over you in a bizarre and unsettling way.
It is a really weird level, but it is a joy to play through. It is a self-contained psychedelic and completely meaningless drug trip, through which you fly shooting at distorted images. Harkens back to the days when developers just including absolutely mental stuff because they could.