Back then, stuff like this spread by word of mouth somehow very effectively. I'd have a friend over and they'd just pick up the second controller and laugh when I missed the shot.

There were a bunch of other things like the cheat code in Doom, the Contra code (although I think I saw that one in a magazine) putting the Warcraft 2 game disk into a CD player to get a secret audio track.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The Blizzard songs were all also possible to play from the game install directory, too. Almost all of their early PC games had one of those. But yes, since they were a properly mastered audio track on the CD, they would play on regular music players too, which could be a really fun trick to show friends.