7 Incredible Secrets That Took Fans Years to Discover

These games hid their Easter eggs so effectively that it took months, years or even decades before they were found. Behold seven incredible secrets that fans took forever to find! And subscribe, why not, for a video like this every actual week.
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[@aliceg3184]

I love the Arkham Asylum one because I was on the QA team for that game and they didn't even tell US about it. Not a single one of the testers found that room on their own. I'm amazed that the room looks and functions as well as it does, considering it went completely untested.

[@blueninjanoname7338]

Why would they tell you about it? Not a secret then

[@raimarulightning]

Is that a cool feeling? I can't tell if I'd feel bamboozled or impressed if I were QA lol

[@IanWatson]

Back in 2020 (so 16 years after the release of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines), while I was diving through some of the extracted textures for modding purposes, I discovered that the texture for the pages of the Skill Books wasn't Lorem Ipsum text, but part of the original game pitch for Bloodlines. If you install the Unofficial Patch with the "patch extras" option, the pitch is now included in the VTMB Transcripts.txt file.

[@Starfloofle]

Honestly this kinda shit is absolutely what games oughtta do instead of lorem ipsum for their gibberish language ciphers, that's such a great detail lol

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Does this entail an entire fictional alphabet?

[@JunkyardBashSteve]

I genuinely forget that game runs on the Source engine and I'm surprised each and every time I remember it.

[@johannord4778]

@@Starfloofleno they shouldn't since it Will be a waste of time and hurt the game in other areas

[@Starfloofle]

@@johannord4778 ...My guy, if you seriously think itty-bitty details, especially those made with assets that already exist, actually take away from meaningful development time, you have been *thoroughly* brainwashed by the lazy corpos who say that making good games takes "too much resources" and then proceed to put all of their development into the cash shop. Lighten up.

[@RichardKelevra]

Akuma does not fight you unless you are worthy, during his free time he just sells fruits. Like this is canon stuff

[@linkholder]

Yujiro Hanma after minmaxing literally everything else

[@williamfalls]

Idk, that sounds suspiciously like Blanka.

[@mochastar3362]

My MELONS!

[@KaitouKaiju]

​@@williamfallsBlanka sells merch of himself

[@williamfalls]

@@KaitouKaiju That's Blanka-Chan, not Blanka. Totally different people. Like how Batman is Bruce Wayne's friend.

[@Monkeyzforever]

Not so much an Easter egg as it is an entire side quest, but it took over 12 years for people to discover the Nero brothers side quest in Final Fantasy IX because it requires players to leave the final dungeon over and over after each bit of progress in order to discover a new member of the Nero brothers family. You get a Protect Ring from finishing it which teaches very worthwhile abilities, but by that point in the game you probably already have a few from other less inscrutable side quests so it's not particularly worth the effort except for completionists

[@kiteamakusa]

I actually did this quest when i was a kid and i didnt know it was such a hidden quest, i backed out of the dungeon after the bosses coz i just liked playing the game and was trying to finish the quest

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

@@kiteamakusa Same here, Didnt even know it was "hidden" until my 3rd play through and using a friends Prima guide he loaned me.

[@raimarulightning]

That one still blows my mind because I had played it way after it came out and EVEN THEN, nobody had known about it. I came back to replay years later, and then discovered that what I thought had been the end was not, in fact, the end lol

[@romo4161]

7 years after it's release we found in Witcher 3 (Blood and Wine DLC) that Vivienne de Tabris really does die after 7 in-game years on Skellig. It takes about a year realtime with the game running constantly to do this so xLetalis used console commands to speed it up.

[@teaformoo6932]

I think Mike's A-Ha joke is probably the greatest joke this channel has ever spawned. And it was already a pretty high bar.

[@Greyjay254]

It was incredibly high brow, I loved the reference.

[@blinkoncebuddy]

A-ha is about as high brow and esoteric, 40 years out, as Gen Z referencing Friends

[@juliagoodwin9510]

And I got that song stuck in my head now, thanks. 😂

[@k1ngk4gl3]

Isn't _every_ joke an a-ha joke?🤔

[@stevesoo8484]

​@@k1ngk4gl3No, every joke is a ha-ha joke. At least they try to be. Easy mistake to make.

[@thatll-do7606]

Honestly, I love the Wesker easter egg. It's just an oddly funny, humanizing thing from a character who's typically distant and robotic

[@SaintGerbilUK]

I actually remember that it was found somewhat quickly around release though, I remember reading it in a magazine at the time and trying it myself.

[@PanEtRosa]

@@SaintGerbilUK yeah, it's a bit hard to believe something hidden behind only 50 button presses could've really escaped discovery for so long. compare to FFIX, where one of the earliest easter eggs in the game is hidden behind *99* button presses and was also, in fact, discovered pretty much immediately

[@ZackC]

How is it humanizing to find out that he’s been photographing teenagers in their gym clothes in his free time?

[@SyndicateOperative]

@@ZackC Well, because that's what some humans do, I assume.

[@Cyrus_T_Laserpunch]

@@ZackC It makes him seem like a person who does things other than scheme and talk like a vampire. Just... not good things...

[@Charredasperity]

I wanna suggest one I just found out about: In the ps1 version of Dancing Stage feat. Disney's Rave (A dancedancerevolution spin-off) to unlock the hardest difficulty you have to highlight 10 songs in a specific order for a specific time and then do a 20-button cheat code on two controllers at once. It took 20 years to find out.

[@Anvekeen]

This sounds so complex, no wonder it took this long !

[@shadowphoenix68]

I like the one in Legend of Zelda: Windwaker where it took fans a long time to figure out you can kill calle demos with the forest water instantly. That blew my mind away

[@justingoh3622]

In the original RE4, when Leon is on the 2nd floor balcony overlooking a group of cultists in a ceremony, if you use a rocket launcher on the head cultist, a secret cut scene plays where you see Leon fire the rocket launcher from the balcony and instakill the entire group of cultists.

[@torandi]

The more obscure ones here (especially the punch out one) seems like it was probably a developer mode, ie they were testing out multiplayer, but decided to cut it, but didnt remove the developer access code before shipping.

[@fredcasdensworld]

The picture of Rebecca was pretty much known about way back in the 90s... if memory serves me right, it is listed as something to find in flip-over strategy guide that had Claire on the front and Leon (HELP!) on the back

[@Captain_Subpar]

Yeah, back then I used to get magazines like Gamepro and even that had this cheat in it. It was very commonly known.

[@goonchenguigen9679]

i seen it in a game informer

[@thiccphone1166]

I found that picture. Didn't know it was an easter egg. Just sucks being a kid and having no clue how to beat the game and checking everything repeatedly out of frustration.

[@mightymorphingmemory6178]

It was in Tips and Tricks mag, I believe the strategy guide, and several other publications at the time. 50 times ya clicked on a desk and got the photo lol idk how this is news now

[@Tengokuchi]

Yeah I don't think that was a well kept secret.

[@vos5579]

Can’t forget the literal giant Easter egg from the Futurama game. Took years to get that unlocked properly.

[@spicyreyes]

One of my favorite ongoing OutsideXBOX memes is Mike constantly referring to games as "(insert descriptor)-em-up"s

[@kefkaZZZ]

He really loves himself those Build-em-ups like Sim-City and Denny-the-Terrace-Builder.

[@iyeetsecurity922]

*Not sure if I'd be **_bummed out,_** or **_proud of myself_** if nobody discovered my secret in a game.*

[@charliethemagpie523]

I'd be bummed if nobody discovered it - the point of a puzzle is to be solved, after all!

[@ferd617]

^ Yeah, agreed. The "success" criterion shouldn't be to hide it so well that it can never be found, but to successfully lead dedicated players to it. The clues can be obscure, but they should be _there._ If *nobody* discovers your "hidden" secret, it probably means (like the Arkham Asylum devs) you suck at clue-giving.

[@RockyPeroxide]

@@ferd617 sounds like a challenge. As a GM, I do get to experiment with puzzles that are solvable, and puzzles that absolutely aren't

[@GabrielusPrime]

"Both. Both is good."

[@ferd617]

@@RockyPeroxide Well, GMing is somewhat different. It's interactive, you can adjust on the fly. When you're writing a game, either you get the clues right or you don't. (Or you patch and/or take to Twitter.)

[@niagargoyle]

I think it took something like 27 years to reveal that in Punch-out for NES the crowd would sometimes give hints. A camera will flash in the upper-right when it was time to slug Bald Bull during his charge. A man in the upper-left will nod when it was time to hit Piston Honda and stop his power move.

[@akumuryuu]

Ancient Domains of Mystery had an entire hardest route hidden behind a bunch of unexpected points. One condition is to remember the first enemy you killed. Then, go to the optional infinite dungeon and reach the floor equal to the amount of same enemies you killed to find a unique npc there and take an artifact from him. If it was something common like a rat, yeah, you're screwed. Especially since game doesn't keep track of that or your kills. Another condition is, when you encounter a dying sage that's seemingly there just to tell you about last boss, you give him an extremely rare amulet of life saving. There's no indication that this is going to work, but it does, and he survives. Then with his help, you can gather two more artifacts, equip all three of them and beat the last boss.

[@zacharysmith4856]

As I am very much a casual, I have no super secrets of my own to add, but the writing for this list was fantastic. Well done, as always, Oxbox!

[@slimedrawsnear]

Not sure if it counts but I remember it taking years for people to learn that Draygon in Super Metroid could be killed by letting it grab you and then using the grapple beam on the broken turrets to electrocute it.

[@UltimaGabe]

That was definitely discovered within a year of the game's release, it may even have been in the Player's guide. I remember hearing about it by my second playthrough.

[@ultimatecalibur]

@@UltimaGabe I believe it even appeared in one or more of the game's advertisements.

[@jpfoland01]

@@UltimaGabe It was absolutely in one of the player's guides. I still have a copy myself, read that thing over and over growing up.

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

@@ultimatecalibur It along with many other "secrets" were shown during the games "idle sequence" when you just let the game sit on the main menu for an extended amount of time. Many of Samus secret abilities were shown here, but never told to you IN game.

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

Honestly, He could make an entire Episode, possibly even series, on the hidden things with Super Metroid. Part of the reason its one of the best speed run games even to this day.

[@YukaTakeuchiFan]

I remember that there was a debug menu in the SNES version of SimCity that apparently wasn't found for at least 15 years or so. You just selected "end" in the save/load menu (which just forced you to turn the game off or reset it so why would you ever bother), and then punched in a long code on Controller 2 that there's no way you'd just randomly guess. But once you did all this, you had a sound test, as well as the ability to turn off disasters, turn off the need to spend money, turn off the ability for RCI demand to lower, and turn off the water from existing and thus getting more land to use. If only I'd known of it back when I went for that Megalopolis I never achieved...

[@ryutheslayer123]

Wasn't there an Easter Egg in the Atari version of Donkey Kong that was hidden for 26 years? The requirements of which need players to set a new high score of 37,000, 73,000 or 77,000, lose all your life but die by falling on the last life and set a new game to the hardest difficulty to find that the Easter Egg is.... The Programmer's Initials, LMD

[@QuickQuips]

Final Fantasy 9 had a few. That last subquest involving ghosts was only a few years ago and changed every 100 percent walk throughs.

[@Roofgeese]

Ghosts??

[@majinnemesis]

what ghosts?

[@seraphonica]

The best cheat in Goldeneye? playing as Oddjob

[@Trollkiller]

Fun easter egg that's probably actually overused would be the depressed bridge troll used in oblivion and so many games you could absolutely make a list of 7 games that have a depressed troll Easter egg. These I believe do but I'd have to go back and check, kingdoms of amalur reckoning, Skyrim, barony, and fable.

[@turtlequeen2641]

I love how the developers must have put so much work into some of these and no one even knew about it while the games were famous

[@blad...]

Love? It's so sad. Lives would be so different if these were known by the kids who played them.

[@JRBDWD]

You will never be a woman.

[@rioghander2te]

@@blad... especially the Super Punch-Out local multiplayer, yeah

[@ZeusBrown]

1:52 "I am power made fleash!" So goodly Englishing.

[@kefkaZZZ]

Such incredible great “me can’t fail englermpish! That’s Unpossible!”

[@Teallen96]

There was a small easter egg in Call of Duty Black Ops 3's Der Eisendrache Zombies map where you had to do a very precise set of instructions in the starting room, and when completed when you left the starting room, there would be a picture of one of the devs and their wife in a heart frame next to the door. Took a long time (and I think some datamining) to eventually find it.

[@IHateNicolasCage]

IIRC the dev himself actually let people know about it

[@Sunprism]

They asked me if I was going to ever stop singing Wonderwall. I said Maybe.

[@kefkaZZZ]

Will…. ………. YOU BE THE ONE TO SAVE ME!!!???!!?!!?!?!!!?!?!!?????$$$$$)))()&&!!!!!?!!?’vvb?? ?????? BUT AFTER ALL YOU’RE MY WONDER WALL!!!!!

[@seanbordenkircher7854]

There's one I remember finding as a kid, in original NES duck hunt, you could control the single ducks on screen with the d-pad, with a controller in port 2

[@gwishart]

Does it count as an Easter egg when the manual tells you about it?

[@seanbordenkircher7854]

@@gwishart does it? I was single digits in age playing this, by the time I was old enough to appreciate the manuals for my games, it was long gone.

[@joenesvick7043]

​Some don't have manuals when they buy the game used, I remember buying used NES games at a local thrift store with my allowance

[@KFCuser]

Too bad there was no code to allow the player to shoot the dog dead when he laughs at you 💥💀

[@grayboats7741]

4:19 I did find this on my own. On first play. Walls explosives, old habit from doom and chainsaw on walls.

[@WFierce]

So many games of the 90s required a second controller to input cheats. It's such a weird thing to turn up so often.

[@MunchKING]

I don't know. Those are so well hidden it might take me YEARS to find them and watch another one of your videos!!

[@zomburgerchef9587]

Rocketsloth did a video about a halo Easter egg that wasn't discovered until a couple years ago, in fact no one actually discovered it until a dev told everyone that it was there. The mario kart Easter egg.

[@StageRight123]

I just discovered that channel about a week ago. Those guys are really good!

[@Zelysees]

That Disc 4 Nero family side quest in FFIX that was pretty recently fully discovered comes to mind

[@ryokuhasu9699]

Rune Factory 4 has a lot of hidden rooms, like a ton. And some of them weren't widely known about until years later when Rune Factory 4 released with a new game mode that had all the maps in the game revealed, including hidden rooms. This made it far easier to find many of the hidden secrets the game has to offer. This was after certain crafting cheats were found years after release such as upgrading your tools with the best fishing pole gave them more range with an extra chare tier. Or upgrading spells with the rainbow waterpot gave them the fastest possible base charge speed

[@riksweeney]

Finding some of these cheats is one thing, achieving the finger gymnastics to activate them is another.

[@leafandryly]

This is the thing I would kill for as a game designer. Something amazing, interesting or just down right different taking work to find. Now a days developed seem terrified that players will miss something, or, someone will just go through the code and find everything. I guess I just like mysteries and the diving thereof

[@JRBDWD]

Sadly,the Internet killed the cool feeling of easter egg hunting

[@leafandryly]

@@JRBDWD right? One of the many terrible things about the Internet

[@MSte21]

I mean, some of these were only found by people going through the code. I don't know how anyone was supoosed to figure out, say, the Shin Akuma unlock.

[@cameton_youtube]

I'm stealing the "It should clear up in a ~day or two~" line to torment my friends with, thank you

[@bherb1204]

The RE2 one was known almost at launch. I got the game when it first came out. I remember finding out about the film online when I went to check if I got everything there was to get.

[@Tengokuchi]

Yeah it was in gaming magazines at the time.

[@howdy4504]

I'm sorry but that announcer easter egg is so funny. I would play literally any game with an announcer saying that shit to me.

[@mr.mystere4999]

I would have thought that the Naboo Starfighter from Rogue Squadron would have been an honorable mention. That one went undiscovered until the devs revealed it prior to the release of Star Wars Episode 1.

[@azuredragoon2054]

List Idea: 7 Bosses who ran from you Perhaps they're cowards, enjoy playing tag, or just don't want to take an L before they should. Hard Corps: Uprising has you chase Leviathan in the Capitol Building level. You had to run after him while he dropped bombs and occasionally slid into you trying to shoot you. After this chase portion, you fight him in a mech with another health bar.

[@CyberDragon10K]

I feel that golem from Starfox 64 on the way to Fake Andross is a shoe-in too.

[@ASpooneyBard]

Micolash too. Screw that guy.

[@madalice5134]

​@@ASpooneyBard"A hunter is a hunter, even in a dream!"

[@KaitouKaiju]

The Pope in assassin's creed II

[@johnafirth]

I remember when I got Shenmue II on the Xbox, a good while after playing the first two games to death on the Dreamcast, and used a walkthrough for the first time. Turned out there was duck racing hidden away, along with a mission to get Fangmei a birthday present. Despite having played it multiple times on the DC, I'd been completely unaware of these. Sadly, when they got reissued a few years back on the Xbone and PS4, there were no trophies/achievements for them, which was a shame.

[@masonsykes2240]

We need a Wreck-It Ralph spinoff about Shin Akuma and how sad he is that nobody got to play with him

[@Vincent-2057]

In the original blood omen there was a boat that you could teleport too if you flipped a bunch of invisible switches. The boat even was in soul reaver before it got found. Something like 14 years later it got found

[@bobrong9645]

Gouki/Akuma's probably the safest member of the Street Fighter series to be around: his only purpose in life is to fight strong opponents, thus he might not be the nicest person, but at least, he would totally ignore you (unless you're a good fighter).

[@Afroman_Gaming]

I had the strategy guide for re2 as a kid and found the film of Rebecca and was like wtf is this for. The guide had a list of guns that I don't even remember being in the game as well. Some of which were probably too op anyway. This is coming from a game that allowed you to have unlimited ammo from the start of the game by simply hitting the select button to open up the games controller configuration screen and on this screen, holding all 4 shoulder buttons and tapping the square button 10 times.

[@fredclasson7865]

I can only imagine what any teenager watching this may think. Secret codes? Hidden content? Needing a second player to find things? Unheard of!

[@kefkaZZZ]

Mild Smile - Screaming with Laughter!!!

[@silvernsmoke]

The film canister in RE2 didn't take long at all. I remember finding it with friends back on the original PlayStation console.

[@ASpooneyBard]

That's what I was thinking. I feel like I've always known about that. If anything, it was only months before that was discovered.

[@iandoddsblah]

Yeah, I definitely saw a guide with it in magazine.. presumably at around the time it came out

[@Rusty84CV]

🤥🤥🤥

[@silvernsmoke]

@@Rusty84CV Fool

[@PhoenicopterusR]

probably just one of those things that didn't get enough fanfare to stay memorable, so it was forgotten by the majority of people, then rediscovered years later.

[@waterinmyotter6245]

DK mode needs to make a comeback in gaming. I want big head Aloy, big head Spider-Man, and big head every Dark Souls enemy.

[@Michael_Lindell]

And thanks to this video it will take YOU minutes to learn the same!

[@niofo7713]

in witcher 3 there is this one ending of a side quest when the character is cursed and you can uncurse her, but she has 7 years left to live, which she agrees to. and then if you do some console commands to actually have her travel to skellige and then manually meditate for literally 7 years, she actually does die. (courtesy of xletalis' videos, he also found out that in the worst ending ciri actually survives bcos in the epilogue there's this one shot of the tapestry showing the tower where the final scene takes place, and you can see a swallow flying away from there - so ciri survives, just decides not to come back to geralt after he treated her awfully)

[@Roariken1]

Suggestion for a list: 7 Side Quests that Took Multiple Games to Finish. Example: the Howard mission that recently concluded in Spider-man 2😢

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Huh, how very interesting, i wonder if there’s any more secrets like this? By the way, about Sharp’s Secret Room, how do you think he himself entered it?

[@bryceschafer321]

I’m just here to say that that “Take On Me” joke was really dang sharp and whoever wrote that deserves a pat on the back

[@Icam_here]

i did always wonder that about Goldeneye, why it looked like there was a missing cheat and now i finally know

[@BuildinWings]

It took me 60 hours of Civilization to find an easter egg. That's almost half a game.

[@kefkaZZZ]

Only 60 hours? My buddy JD could sleep through 2 games in that time!!

[@ArchHippy]

Whoever chose that thumbnail can't judge Wesker too much tbh.

[@TheSunnyOne]

I'm a little confused as to why the RE2 Wesker Desk search is on this list. It was known about the same year it came out, and was often listed in magazines and cheat guides at the time.

[@worldsboss]

In Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, a metroid was hidden in the level Amiss Abyss. It took players almost five years to find it due to the really obscure method of making it appear.

[@andrewwright3281]

That RE Easter egg was in a magazine right at launch. The first time I rented it I did it. 🤷‍♂️

[@HereForTheStory42]

That jet ski game egg made me laugh, because i LOVED to play The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour where the main villain mocked you constantly

[@MiamiSunrise]

There are some amazing secrets out there and i just love videos like this, thanks OX!

[@LarryTheWanderer]

Well I know what's going to be stuck in my head for the next couple of days......thanks Mike!

[@kefkaZZZ]

TAAAAKKKeeeeee mmMmMEEEeee ohhhhHONNNENNN! Illlllll BE GONE!!!! INTO YOUR HOOOOOO….. ad nauseam

[@Alsebra]

If I had to guess, the "mysterious figure" is either one of the crew (placed there as a fun little thing) or the winner of a "Be In A Video Game" sort of contest (kinda like the whole Chris Houlihan thing).

[@scorpix96]

New games - make you pay money for a multiplayer DLC Old games - Hides fully functional " player mode so deep in the code it takes 25 years to find. Truly the world has become a sad place

[@DevilboyScooby]

The one that makes me laugh is the Game boy puzzle game 'Klax', which the developer hid a proposal in; the fiancée gave up on the game before finding it and didn't see the message until FOUR years later when he published a tip in a magazine and left it out for her to see 😂

[@cloudnaeris7]

we knew about the film in weskers desk pretty early on. i remember getting it when i was a kid.

[@scottneil1187]

Wonder how many people known what the RE2 Easter egg is referencing?. It's copying a poster of Alyson Hannigan as Willow from Buffy, can't find it anywhere online but my mate had the poster back in the day.

[@marhawkman303]

Yeah, I HAVE seen that actually. REALLY old stuff.

[@undevelopmentteam]

Using the Gameshark on Goldeneye allowed me to play line mode. I would have known it existed but not known that it was some hidden thing

[@shadowsilvertailsfan]

Lmfao the Super punch out one is so fun! Just beat up my dad as Narcis prince, lol

[@CD-Gaming]

I have to wonder how many people knew about Vamp showing up in New York during the ending cutscene for Metal Gear Solid 2 prior to the HD Collection and the Trophy you get for spotting him during said cutscene, "Vamp Eyer", if I'm not mistaken?

[@davidhelmer9124]

So Hunter S.Thompson’s alter ego Raoul Duke is a video game player? “We can stop here! This is Wave Race Blue Storm country!”

[@ASpooneyBard]

I'm sure he's dabbled in many hobbies and varied interests. He is a doctor of journalism!

[@davidhelmer9124]

@@ASpooneyBard it only make sense that such an investigative journalist would make such a discovery.

[@ThatWarlockBoi]

It’s a bit more niche but in April 2013 on call of duty black ops 2, the zombies map Mob of the Dead was released and it had a cipher in the loading screen that became known to the zombies community as the ADFGX cipher. It wasn’t solved until September of 2018 and all it said was URGENT THE GIANT IS IN FRANCE. The kicker of this all is that it was supposed to be a teaser for a map in black ops 3 called The Giant and located in northern France, which was released in November 2015. 5 years to solve for information we learned after only 2 years

[@DGneoseeker1]

That alternate announcer is a huge upgrade.

[@phillyphil1690]

Apparently there's still a hidden easter egg in Stardew Valley that no one has discovered yet.

[@kefkaZZZ]

I believe but do not but do believe I

[@TacComControl]

Shin Akuma is about to become the Big Zam of SFA tourneys.

[@SolstaceWinters]

Breath of Fire 1's debug mode. Perhaps it wasn't learned about because it's not one of Capcom's more popular titles (should be, I miss it so, janky as some of it's titles are), but BoF1 for the SNES apparently very recently has a debug mode that players can find when naming their character. If you name your character after certain other Capcom characters, it will move you around the game with different loadouts. Naming yourself "DeeJ" will put you at the end of the game with enough gear to be nearly ready for the endgame, it's really funny. And this is for a game from 1993! It took folks like 2-3 DECADES to discover this! As someone who grew up with the game, and played it often as a kid in his single-digits of age, it's wild to think that stuff like this existed.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Thank the stars for dataminers and game devs revealing trade secrets either out of conquering boredom or legitimate gaming altruism. Edit: Won't lie, that GoldenEye 64 Line Mode suggestion with "Take On Me"... that needs to be an official thing on some other game nowadays.

[@franzferdinand2]

My favorite detail is that RE2 takes place a couple months after RE1 where Wesker (supposedly) died. So why did he still have a desk in the S.T.A.R.S. office?

[@NuclearSeagull]

Yeah, now that you mention it... I never thought about it before!

[@bireland2012]

Irons might have not wanted it to be moved in case anybody found anything incriminating. Nobody believed what happened in the mansion so they might have doubted that Wesker had died and kept his desk there for that reason.

[@justinphillips4450]

The picture of Rebecca definitely didn't take years to discover. I found it without a guide within a month of the games release, just screwing around in the game normally, and i know it was spoiled in a magazine too within a few months.

[@TransmitHim]

There are hidden menus in the arcade versions of Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat 2 (possibly 3 as well) that were only discovered in the past few years. I've tried to access them when I've seen an MK cab in the wild but with no luck.

[@Darkside-origin]

Been waiting for an easter egg video from you guys for a while now, tut tut.

[@ChilliDogDave]

i dont know if the reptile thing from Mortal Kombat counts as years but how arcaic the unlock was and that theres no way to have known how to unlock said reptile without some sort of guide because the unlock process was so bizzar it was considered "that kid" lie material so very few people knew about it till years later where people had forums and such to share the knowledge

[@studentjohn]

The Oxbox crew do so much stuff, but I do enjoy the old fashioned listicles still :)

[@jamesknickerbocker]

We're just gonna ignore Shin Akuma saying "I am power made fleash!"?

[@Taracinablue]

Interesting how so many of them were discovered by modders

[@c.argelfraster1291]

So needless to say, it's stuck in my head anyway. Is it life or just to play my worries away? Blast it, Mike! 😂

[@AndrewDederer]

If you are going to make Ah-Ha jokes about a Bond property, you have to make at least one remark about "The Living Daylights". They actually DID that theme.

[@rmcgowa1987]

@11:46 I didn't know about this but in the re 2 remake I found this almost immediately as they didn't really make it that hard to find this time.

[@MidBoss666]

The record keeper is still the hidden programmer initials in Donkey Kong, whish took 26 years to find.

[@ghostderazgriz]

Shadow of the colossus "last secret" Technically, It's not a secret that was discovered, but one the community was so invested in uncovering for years that the secret birthed into existence after the bluepoint remaster.

[@manticore4952]

Weskers desk was known about before RE2 was released, the devs showed it to magazines who gave hints about the desk and fans quickly discovered on release.

[@LegendStormcrow]

I'm still kicking myself over the Halo 3 Easter Egg. I say the "Happy Birthday" back in 2008, but thought it was because it was Christmas. I don't even remember if my 360 was set right. I also didn't have Internet and assumed everyone knew about it, so I forgot until someone found it like a decade later.

[@unclejoker9975]

I vaguely recall brushing of my roommate when he told/showed me about the Wesker's desk thing back in 99. It wasn't uncommon for me to spend 14+ hour days in the school building and then kick him off my PS1, wanting to escape for an hour or 2 into OoT.

[@katchooshka8465]

goldeneye and resident evil always up to something

[@thebilldozer7970]

I knew the Resident Evil 2 one as a kid so it was probably in the guide. I feel like it was common knowledge among fans.

[@maxisenberg9093]

I'm glad you included the dev in re4. Thst was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title

[@jonothanthrace1530]

One of my favorite delayed easter eggs is the marriage proposal in Klax for Game Boy Color, which took the proposee 4 years to discover.

[@crisnmaryfam7344]

9:21 Found this one back in the day too, didnt know it was anything special as it was just a toggle in my game shark... along with many others not listed here....