10 Hidden Video Game Characters You Weren’t Supposed To See
4. T-Rex - Need For Speed II
In the time before unlockables, entering in a cheat code always felt like you were actually… Well, cheating, hence the name. Inputting that code you got from a friend or a book that came with a magazine felt like sneaking your way into a treasure trove. It was like being Indiana Jones, grabbing something illusive you perhaps weren’t supposed to see.
Need for Speed II, released for PS1 and PC in 1997, features plenty of cars to pick from to race around in but if you wanted to mix it up the game’s bevvy of cheat codes had some wonderfully weird things to choose from. Fancy flying around courses as a UFO? Or, perhaps, as one of the game’s many props such as wagons or typically inanimate boxes?
The best of all of these is the T-Rex. Pair it with the similar cheat that turns all of the in-game traffic into dinosaurs and you’re in for a hilariously unique time.
Whilst you take control of the T-Rex, it’s best described perhaps as “driving” it rather than playing as it as though it were a sentient being. The very well-trained king of the dinosaurs stays very still as you careen round corners on what we can only assume are wheels underneath its feet.
Sadly, if you lose a race there’s no option to eat your competition out of malice.