10 Video Game Hoaxes That Completely Fooled Everyone
6. Tomb Raider - Naked Lara
If you were a gamer in the nineties, I guarantee you will remember this hoax all too well, and if youre a bloke, youll likely have attempted more than once to unlock this sacred mystery once and for all, only to give up in frustration when it just couldnt be done. When Tomb Raider was first released, rumours circulated wildly that there was some code, some cheat, that would allow you to strip Lara Croft naked and get a first-hand glimpse of those gloriously-rendered (at the time) 3D boobies whenever you wanted, perhaps even a bit more too. I myself, owning it on the PC, remember finding a file labelled Kextract in the installation directory and became convinced Id found it. See, 'kecks' is British slang for trousers and voila; 3D nakedness should've been right round the corner. Suffice it to say, if I could go back, Id slap childhood me around the earhole for being such an idiot. There is, was and never will be an embedded code to remove Laras clothing, although Eidos did hint at it in TR2 with an over-too-soon shower scene, but thats about it. What propagated this hoax more than any one source was a global community of super horny teenage boys who believed it only because they wanted so much for it to be true. That said, mods have been made that forcibly change the code of the game to reveal Laras goods (because of course they have) but for believing Eidos would be that risqué in the first place, well, we really are a bunch of gullible idiots.
If you were a gamer in the nineties, I guarantee you will remember this hoax all too well, and if youre a bloke, youll likely have attempted more than once to unlock this sacred mystery once and for all, only to give up in frustration when it just couldnt be done. When Tomb Raider was first released, rumours circulated wildly that there was some code, some cheat, that would allow you to strip Lara Croft naked and get a first-hand glimpse of those gloriously-rendered (at the time) 3D boobies whenever you wanted, perhaps even a bit more too. I myself, owning it on the PC, remember finding a file labelled Kextract in the installation directory and became convinced Id found it. See, 'kecks' is British slang for trousers and voila; 3D nakedness should've been right round the corner. Suffice it to say, if I could go back, Id slap childhood me around the earhole for being such an idiot. There is, was and never will be an embedded code to remove Laras clothing, although Eidos did hint at it in TR2 with an over-too-soon shower scene, but thats about it. What propagated this hoax more than any one source was a global community of super horny teenage boys who believed it only because they wanted so much for it to be true. That said, mods have been made that forcibly change the code of the game to reveal Laras goods (because of course they have) but for believing Eidos would be that risqué in the first place, well, we really are a bunch of gullible idiots.