What game had areas, weapons, moves, etc that you didn’t even know existed until you already beat the game or until it was too late?
For me it was Super Metroid on SNES. Apparently there is a bunch of special or secret moves Samus can do to refill her health and such or gain unique abilities such as an ice shield.
I had probably played through the game two or three times as a kid before learning about these.
I got a PS1 as a gift as a 6 year old kid but no games except a Demo Disc that came with the box.
The main menu was a grid of thumbnail videos for each game demo.
it had demos of Crash Bandicoot 2, Armored Core, Tomb Raider 2, Parappa the Rapper and a bunch of other games
It was all I played for a while and it became a cherished childhood memory.
Fast forward years later as a teenager I found the old demo disc in my old stuff and decided to pop it in my PS2 for nostalgia’s sake. Everything was like I remembered it but somehow I accidentally pressed R1.
The thumbnail icon rotated! I never knew you could do that. I thought to myself what a neat trick. Intuitively I tried spinning all of the thumbnails in the grid.
To my shock, 2 of the thumbnails had some kind of button combination code behind them. I tried inputting the codes and it blew my mind.
All those years I didn’t know there were actually 2 hidden game demos on the disc!! (Colony Wars and Fighting Force) i wished I could’ve told my younger self He would’ve had more fun.