9 Developers That KNEW You'd Break Their Game

8. Sega - Secret Credits (Sonic The Hedgehog)

Speaking of well hidden secrets, the original Sonic the Hedgehog had a really cool environmentalist message that went largely unknown for decades. Revealed in a 2010 interview by creator Yuji Naka, it just wasn't the done thing to be espousing these sorts of thoughts when developing a video game in Japan across the early 90s.

Noting that this was why you were freeing animals from a Robotnik "using pollution and creating machinery which desecrates the environment", Sega were also adamant that Sonic be made by "Sega" as a collective, and refused to give the team a credits sequence to show their own names.

Not ones to be beaten by such a bizarre rule, Naka coded the game to actively hide the team's credits, only unlockable by using a specific button code on an otherwise black screen.

Do so and the colours invert, revealing the people really responsible for bringing you one of gaming's most iconic mascots, adding to the idea that there's way more to Sonic than you might think.