![]() The thing is, as this Game Informer staffer points out, the nude code never existed. This anonymous letter-writer claims that “millions of people are just sitting in their homes dreaming about the nude code night and day,” and they believe that printing the nude code would be a way for Game Informer to sell millions of copies of their magazine (or millions of copies of Tomb Raider 3, maybe - it’s actually not completely clear from the context here). In fact, one gamer (who unsurprisingly chose to remain anonymous) became frustrated enough to pen this later to Game Informer (which was published in the February, 1999 issue of the magazine): Who knows how many hours were lost mashing away at button sequences in order to get just a tiny little peek at Lara Croft’s pixelated posterior without those shorts? Yes, we’re referring to the Tomb Raider nude code. ![]() But there’s one myth from the 1990s that was particularly, um, spicy? From tales of reviving Aeris in Final Fantasy VII to secret methods of accessing the Sky Temple in Ocarina of time, it seemed like everyone with a controller was willing to spread wild rumors about their favorite games. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser.In the late 1990s, rumors about video games were all the rage. In order to post comments, please make sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled, and reload the page. The article claimed the magazine staff had managed to do the cheat using the Spice Girl’s Wannabe.įor years afterward, this fake cheat was repeated as a legend (mentioning the Spice Girls but forgetting the need for 2 controllers)Ĭurrently you have JavaScript disabled. ![]() (Note -doing this would be too much work for it to be real). To use the cheat a player had to tap a rhythm into a controller in port 2 and the player using port 1 had to make Lara dance to it triggering a disco cutscene after which Lara (and at least one male character) would be nude and the animals would no longer attack Lara. In the Uk one magazine published a story in an April-dated issue (note: Never trust an exclusive in a magazine with dated April) claiming that the programmers for fun had created a nude cheat and accidently left it in all 3 versions. They would even occasionally make fun of the rumors, like once using as an ad for a Tomb Raider game, “Still no nude codes.”įeel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future urban legends columns! My e-mail address is King on March 12th, 2016 at 3:40 pm Just patches that you could add on to the PC version of the game.Įidos eventually got shut down. Neither Core nor Eidos were involved in these patches, and there was no cheat code in the console version of the game. Therefore, a group of independent developers made it a hobby of theirs to come up with “patches” that you could add on to the PCs and using those patches, you could make Lara Croft appear nude. However, as I noted above, the original games were released for PCs. This has led to a persistent urban legend – was there a cheat code in the original Tomb Raider game where you could cause Lara Croft to fight in the nude? One of the most famous video game characters of all time is Lara Croft, the archaeologist hero of the Tomb Raider series of video games (developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive), which debuted in 1996 for PCs, Sega and Sony PlayStation.īesides being an awesome hero, Lara Croft also gained a good deal of fame from hormone-driven adolescent (and sometimes older than adolescent) video game fans who liked her physical appearance. ![]() VIDEO GAME URBAN LEGEND: There was a “nude” cheat code in the original Tomb Raider video game. Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to video games and whether they are true or false.
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