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6. GoldenEye 007's Multiplayer Was A Last-Minute Experiment

Picture this: You've built your character models, the environments, the weapons. You've perfected gun combat for the time and you're sitting, twiddling your thumbs in anticipation for release day.

Why not - without even telling your bosses you're doing it - play about with the game's code and by complete accident, perfect console-based multiplayer shooting, right there and then?

Such was the case for Rare's coding department, who in the final three months of development, implemented and fully coded the game's multiplayer, only showing it to their higher-ups and Nintendo just before the game went to be pressed for retail.

Those in charge had no choice but to say "F**k it, why not?!" and thus, one of the greatest multiplayer games of all time was born.