10 Video Game Mistakes Left In To Troll You

Everybody makes mitsakes. It's a simple fact of life, and nothing to be ashamed of. Obviously it's not ideal if you're the captain of a cruise ship making unexpected anchorage with a rocky outcrop, nor if you're a surgeon who doesn't know the difference between the heart and the appendix, but hey, so long as you hold your hands up and say "sorry", all can be forgiven (following the resultant, multi-million dollar lawsuit anyways).

Of course, pride is tougher to swallow than school dinners, and many people simply can't own up to their errors, no matter how obvious or enormous they are. They'd much rather hide from them, or better yet, pretend they meant them all along. "Just kidding!" they say, as a gullible populace gulps down another goblet of highly toxic substance thanks to advice from the President.

In that context, video game glitches aren't exactly life or death scenarios, beyond their capacity to kill your on-screen avatar. And so, sometimes when a developer cries wolf on their 'bug', they actually meant it. It wasn't a bug at all, but left in for your - or rather, their - amusement.

The PlayStation Crash Bandicoot trilogy could be a right pain in the marsupial at times, demanding pixel-perfect platforming as the eponymous hero ran and span his way down what were effectively a series of themed tunnels. The bosses were hardly any easier, as anyone who succumbed to Tiny the Tiger's disproportionately diminutive pride of lions in Crash 3 will attest.

Luckily for hapless players, there was a neat trick: planting Crash in one sweet spot in the top left of Tiny's colosseum made him entirely impervious to the caged lions - even as they mauled through him - reducing the challenge by half. How do you like those wumpa fruit?

Anyone with a good memory for bad memories would have presumed this exploit had been excised from Vicarious Vision's otherwise faithful 2017 reproduction of the PS1 classics. But no: proving the tiger cannot change its stripes, the strategy works just as well - only now, the audience mockingly lob wedges of cheddar at players cheesy enough to try it.