10 Great Developer Jokes Hidden In Video Games

6. John Romero's Head On A Pike In Doom 2

The end of Doom 2 is absurdly difficult to say the least. After fighting your way through the multitudes of Hell's demons in the previous levels you now come face to face with the Icon of Sin. It is a huge demon face that constantly spawns enemies from the game to kill you. Not only does it keep spawning more monsters every second, but there is also only one way to kill it. By jumping on a platform and shooting a rocket at just the right time, three times in a row. Sound stupidly hard? Yes, it was, but there is another way to beat Doom 2. By using the cheat IDCLIP on your keyboard during game play you will enter "no clipping" mode. That basically means you can walk through walls. If you're a purist, who thinks cheating is for losers, just know that there are certain parts of Doom 2 that were designed so that they can only be reached with IDCLIP. Meaning if you didn't cheat you wouldn't beat the game 100%. When you reach Icon of Sin by using IDCLIP you can take the space marine through the demon's head, which reveals the game developer John Romero's head on a spike. Some evil sounding gibberish is spoken that when played backwards will sound like, "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero."