10 Insane Video Game Secrets You Had To Cheat To Unlock

The most precious of cheat codes in real time strategy games tend to be of a more bombastic sort.

Sure, you could give yourself tons of resources or unlock your entire technology tree.. But why not go the extra mile and spawn in a bunch of stuff that shouldn’t be there?

Age of Empires as a series gained a reputation for so-called “cheat units”, that could only be used by inserting certain codes into the game and were basically designed for the pure mayhem of it all. They became a staple of the franchise and included a space man and a crown-wearing Alpaca (yes, really) but few things will ever be as memorable as Big Daddy.

Getting tired gearing your Greeks up to take on the Sumerians? Simply type the code in and spawn what appears to be a Camaro with a giant gun on its roof. The “Winsett’s Z”, as it’s known, is the fastest unit in the game for very obvious reasons that include horse-power and petroleum and its gauss cannon attack is more than strong enough to take out any infantry in the game.

Poet John Lyly once said that “all is fair in love and war”. We expect that the Egyptians in Age of Empires being bombarded by future technology feel different.