Puyo Puyo Tsuu for Saturn has a standard profanity filter - enter XXX as your initials, and they'll be replaced with ARL on the high score screen.

There are a few things that this profanity filter catches that aren't profane, however. Instead, they're triggers for a multi-step Easter egg. Once you finally complete it, you can view all of the game's endings from the Options screen.

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The Beavis & Butt-head game for Genesis goes under the microscope in Friday's edition.

Data miners have found lots of interesting things in this game already: unused text, animations, and music. But I think they've missed something: a cheat code!

My own data mining reveals a special passcode that makes the two 90s icons invincible, gives them maximum money, and more.

Details are in the Substack post.

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!