The cheat sites have codes listed for ShellShock, the 1996 PlayStation game from Core Design. But most of them are bogus - what gives?

I looked into the game data and found a code that does work. Furthermore, it's gone unnoticed for 30 years. It activates a hidden "greets" screen, where the programmer put shoutouts to his friends from the Amiga demoscene.

Details are in the Substack post!

It's well-known that the NBA Jam games have lots of hidden features - cheat codes and Easter eggs.

I took a look at the Saturn version of Tournament Edition and found two cheat codes that don't seem to have been documented in the 30 years since it was released.

I also examined Extreme and found three hidden characters that seem to have gone undocumented since 1997.

Details are on Substack!

Sega published a handful of kid-friendly games under its Sega Club label in the mid 1990s. One of those games was The Magic Schoolbus, a space-themed edutainment title. It was developed by Novotrade, the studio behind Ecco the Dolphin.

The Magic Schoolbus lets you pick up where you left off with a passcode system. I wondered if it was possible to generate every possible passcode, and it is - I've assembled the full set. Furthermore, I found a previously-unpublished cheat code this this game that lets you skip using passcodes altogether.

For more, see the post on Substack.