10 Cryptic Messages Found In Video Games We'll Never Understand
9. The "Anal Land" Sign - Perfect Dark
The glorious opening cutscene to Rare's legendary FPS Perfect Dark features a bizarre Easter egg message which has tormented players ever since.
During a sweeping pan through Chicago's futuristic cityscape, for fractions of a second a crude faux-advertisement is visible on one of the skyscrapers: "ANAL LAND 11 10 129."
For a full two decades fans continually speculated on exactly what the damn message was supposed to mean, refusing to let it go even when the 2010 Xbox Live Arcade remaster replaced ANAL LAND with "CLUB LAND."
In a Eurogamer interview last year, the game's weapon animator Chris Darling shone some light on how the peculiar text made it into the game, albeit without confirming its precise meaning once and for all:
"We were like, 'Oh f**k.' The general viewing public was never meant to see it. It was always a bit of an in-joke with us. It was one of the first things people spotted about the game."
Beyond simply assuming Anal Land is supposed to be a sex line of some kind, the mystery rages on...