10 MORE Video Game Secrets That Took YEARS To Find
6. Naughty Secrets - The Apprentice
Here's an especially obscure one. The Apprentice, not an American reality TV show originally hosted by the world's worst human, is a forgotten platformer for the abysmal Philips CD-i, with a cutesy art style and some slightly out of place anime girls.
In 2007, 13 years after its original release, a former CD-i developer revealed that some codes had been hidden in the game that would... alter the appearance of said anime girls.
Punching in the button combinations on the game over screen would activate animations involving Protagonist Marvin: bloodily killing some kind of monkey-like creature, complete with a Mortal Kombat-style "Marvin Wins - FATALITY", or turning one of the anime girls into various animals - creatively called an "Animality".
This may all sound just a little like plagiarism, but it's where the apprentice went next that truly stands out.
Other codes would cause the original anime model to disappear in a puff of smoke, to be replaced with... the same anime girl, completely naked. Uncensored. In a cute cartoon platformer aimed at children. And they're called "nudalities". I'll just let that sit for a while.