10 Video Game Mini-Games Discovered YEARS Later
6. ZX Spectrum Emulator - GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 is such a beloved video game that it's impossible to believe that it hasn't been thoroughly examined with a fine tooth comb from top to bottom, inside and out.
But in 2012, some 15 years after the game released, a user of The Rare Witch Project Forums going by the handle "spoondiddly" revealed that they'd found an entirely functional ZX Spectrum emulator hidden in the game's code, which came complete with 10 playable games.
Each of these 10 games were not-so-coincidentally developed by Rare - the developer of GoldenEye - for the ZX Spectrum back in the day, and the emulator made it into GoldenEye as part of a test to see whether or not the N64 could run it.
Rare disabled the emulator before the game went gold, but of course players found a way to reactivate it with mods while emulating the game on PC.
Granted, at that point it's surely much easier to just cut out the middle-man entirely and get a native ZX Spectrum emulator for PC. But still, some folks love a challenge.