10 Video Game Moments You Weren't Supposed To See

7. Inside Of A GameCube - Shrek: Extra Large

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The Shrek video game may have been largely panned by critics, but the reworked GameCube version released roughly a year later, Shrek: Extra Large, did feature one legendary, unforgettable secret.

Using Shrek's explosive farts - yes, really - players could reach an otherwise inaccessible cliff edge and hurl themselves off, where after falling for around 20 seconds, they'd be loaded into a new area entirely.

While you might assume the game would simply reload you back to terra firma, it instead spawned Shrek inside a dimly lit room which appears to resemble an electronic circuit-board.

Some additional exploration will make it clear that you've actually materialised inside a giant GameCube, and in an apparent attempt to punish adventurous players for breaking the game, there's no way to escape the room without reloading your save.

This oddball secret has never been officially explained, though most fans seem to believe it's either a test area that only the devs were supposed to know about or a half-finished Easter egg which was never properly implemented into the game.

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