8 MORE Hidden Video Game Cutscenes You Weren't Meant To See

1. A Hidden South Park Episode - Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99

Remember when the Tiger Woods games were on top of the world? Many at the start of the 2000s even had Matrix-style 360 camera shots and slow-motion wind-ups before you sunk that drive.

Those were the good ol' days, but something that almost got directly in the way of this success, was one rogue game developer, who decided it'd be hilarious to secretly include an episode of South Park inside every copy of Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99.

Simply put the disc in a PC, explore its contents and you could find a file called "zzdummy.dat". Open this and you can watch "Jesus vs. Santa", a precursor to what became South Park in full, but still featuring Stan, Kyle, Cartman etc.

Obviously this violated MANY rules as to what customers thought they were buying, and EA called the act "objectionable to consumers", pulling 100,000 copies from shelves in January 1999, to try and salvage their reputation.

I can't imagine the levels of pure tee-hee that went into smuggling an episode of what was then a hugely controversial show into a game, and it makes me wonder if there are any other games with secret TV episodes, undiscovered to this day.

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WhatCulture's Head of Gaming.