Game Secrets You Were Never Supposed To Discover

In the PC version of Fallout 4, you can access a secret dev room that houses every item in the game. We hope you've got a lot of strength and a mule or two, because you're going to leave with your hands full. To access the room, press the "~" key to bring up the console and enter the code "COC QASMOKE." Inside, there are footlockers, cooking stations, crafting stations, a terminal, and enough rows of power armor suits to make Iron Man jealous. We recommend loading up on everything you can while strapping on the X-01 power armor, the best in the game. You might look like a hoarder, but no one will say anything when you're rocking that power armor.

As if this classic N64 game wasn't awesome enough, apparently there was another mode built in that was disabled by the developers, despite most of the assets being in place. If the team at Rare Games hadn't run into some licensing difficulties, you might have been able to play as other classic Bond actors besides Pierce Brosnan. That's right, the original version of Goldeneye came with models and textures for Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton.

This "All Bonds" mode would allow you to choose one of the alternate actors when playing the bonus Egypt and Aztec levels, and you could even go head-to-head in multiplayer mode. When word came down that the additional Bonds had to be scrapped, the development team held one final massive deathmatch, which lasted a grueling three hours. Today, you can check out some of the assets for the additional Bonds using special GameShark codes, or there are a few videos floating around of players who successfully managed to recreate the "All Bonds" effect by mapping the textures onto other player models.

BioShock Infinite plays with the concepts of alternate realities and different timelines. While we're able to explore different versions of the floating city of Columbia, there's one area in the game we weren't meant to explore. Towards the end of the adventure, when Elizabeth comes to understand her powers, we're led to an area with a lot of lighthouses in an endless ocean. It's a trippy sight, but if you're on a PC and able to turn off the clipping, you can fly through the ocean and land in mountainous terrain. There are snowy cliffs and a bridge that leads to an observatory, and the area looks straight out of Skyrim (which just gave us an idea for an awesome franchise mashup). When you explore the observatory, all you'll find is a purple door. But when you open that door, you'll fall into an infinite abyss and get lost in the ether.

This is one of the most infamous video game secrets of all time. While the Grand Theft Auto franchise is designed for older teens and adults, some players got more than they bargained for when a built-in minigame was discovered. While you probably remember the dating missions your character can accept in order to increase his popularity with a girlfriend, the standard version of San Andreas never really shows us the payoff for all that work.

However, with the "Hot Coffee" mod—accessed by changing a single variable in the game's code on PC, or with a modding tool for your console—players get a graphic look into the bedroom habits of your character and his girlfriend. After a successful date, your girlfriend will invite you in for some coffee, at which point you're treated to a minigame while the two have sex. During the minigame, you have to control your character's rhythm and even change sexual positions to fill up the "excitement" bar, like some bizarre X-rated version of Guitar Hero.

Naturally, parents and ratings boards freaked out when they learned of the minigame, which caused the ESRB to re-rate San Andreas "Adults Only." The developers recalled the game and issued a new version which removed all the content from the minigame, and also created a patch to disable it in PC versions. That wasn't enough to completely save them from the fallout, however, and Take Two ended up paying out over a million dollars in class-action lawsuits and other civil suits related to the mod. Today, the game is a collector's item, and a new sealed copy of the original "Hot Coffee" capable San Andreas can sell for well over $100.

As you probably know, as you adventure through Super Mario Bros., each level is numbered according to the world you're in: 1-1, 2-1, etc. But did you know there's actually a "Minus World?" That's right, if you know the right trick you can reach a world that's simply numbered -1, which is how it got its nickname among players. There are multiple methods for getting to Minus World, which vary depending on which platform you're using.

The payoff is also quite different between NES and Famicom. On an NES, you'll get a level that looks identical to underwater world 7-2, but the level can't be finished, as the final pipe will simply send you back to the start of the level (until you eventually use up all your lives.)

If you have a Famicom version of the game and exploit this glitch, you'll get a bizarro version of world 1-3, where you swim through the air while dodging floating Princesses, headless Bowsers, and more. Even better, when you complete -1 world on Famicom, you'll go on to -2 world and even -3 world, which is filled with enemies you can stomp for 1000 points each. Once you complete -3 world, you'll return to the game's title screen. Start it up again, and you'll have entered hard mode Super Mario Bros.—with all the goombas replaced by buzzy beetles.

MissingNo. is the "hidden" Pokemon that players can find in Pokemon Red and Blue. You can obtain it through a number of glitches in the game–one being the infamous "old man" glitch. First, talk to the old man north of Viridian City and get him to show you how to catch a Pokemon. After the demonstration, fly to Cinnabar Island and use surf to travel up and down the eastern coast. You'll encounter a number of Pokemon, with a chance to find MissingNo. Because it's a glitched Pokemon, your game experience could get wonky. But weird pixels and strange item duplications are a small price to pay for MissingNo.

In this "Junior Adventure" for ages 3-8, you play as Freddi, a plucky little yellow fish. Freddi's ever-present buddy Luther also comes along for the adventure as you chase down the thieves who stole all the kelp seeds, which apparently are the only source of food for Freddi and her friends. At one point Freddi and Luther encounter Eddie the Eel, who blocks their path. Some intrepid code-tinkerers found that if you change a specific variable to one of the game's initialization files, this encounter becomes 10 times more sinister.

With the modification in place, clicking on Luther during your meeting with Eddie causes Freddi to grab her little green buddy and offer him up as a sacrifice to Eddie—who eagerly accepts, gobbling down Luther and smacking his lips in satisfaction. Only at the end of the cutscene is it revealed the whole thing was just Freddi's dark fantasy, when Luther (alive again) asks, "Whatcha thinking about, Freddi?" While the animation—complete with blood and guts—was obviously never intended to be seen by tiny human eyes, it's interesting to note that the voice acting for this gory scene was completed, and even translated to all the other languages Freddi was available in.

When Sonic Adventure 2: Battle first came out for GameCube, fans soon discovered that you could access a secret developer test level by using the correct code on an Action Replay device. When the game was ported to PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2012, for some reason the designers never bothered to remove the secret level—probably because it's actually pretty cool. While the method of entry is now a little bit harder than simply entering a code, it's a fun little area to visit and play around with the physics of Sonic.

For over a decade, intrepid World of Warcraft players have been finding ways to exploit the sometimes buggy walls and ceilings of the Karazhan raid instance in order to slip outside the castle and explore a true video game secret: an unfinished zone, known as Netherspace. Over the years, the method for entering this area has evolved as Blizzard has fixed/patched old exploits, but once the cat was out of the bag, players have continued to find new ways into the area.

Once you're outside of Karazhan, there's a lot of cool stuff to explore left there by bored developers, like a smiley face on the ground under the main castle tower. Next, take a trip up to the neighboring Ogre village, you can actually glitch walk through a hill and find yourself in Netherspace: a featureless gray expanse, which is very disorienting at first. If you're a Demon Hunter, or if you have an item like Aviana's Feather, Rocket Boots, or Goblin Glider, you can use it to fly up to the floating shattered rock platforms in the sky, or you can use this cool bug to simply walk up the wall of Netherspace and jump onto the balcony which holds Karazhan's final boss: Prince Malchezaar. For anyone who has suffered through the agonizing "Chess" event in Karazhan, the ability to skip right to the last boss is an awesome relief.