{"id":7695,"date":"2016-03-11T07:23:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2016-03-11T07:23:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:23:22","slug":"was-there-a-nude-cheat-code-in-the-original-tomb-raider-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2016\/03\/11\/was-there-a-nude-cheat-code-in-the-original-tomb-raider-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Was There a &#8220;Nude&#8221; Cheat Code in the Original Tomb Raider Video Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to video games and whether they are true or false. <\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">VIDEO GAME URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: There was a &#8220;nude&#8221; cheat code in the original Tomb Raider video game.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tombraider.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tombraider-375x281.jpg\" alt=\"tombraider\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tombraider-375x281.jpg 375w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tombraider-515x386.jpg 515w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/tombraider.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=legenrevea-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B000N0WBL8&#038;asins=B000N0WBL8&#038;linkId=UOU2KDMUS2JPXGLB&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Besides 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. This has led to a persistent urban legend &#8211; was there a cheat code in the original Tomb Raider game where you could cause Lara Croft to fight in the nude?<\/p>\n<p>Read on to find out!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBasically, no. <\/p>\n<p>However, as I noted above, the original games were released for PCs. Therefore, a group of independent developers made it a hobby of theirs to come up with &#8220;patches&#8221; that you could add on to the PCs and using those patches, you could make Lara Croft appear nude. These were hosted on a website called nuderaider.com. Neither Core nor Eidos were involved in these patches, and there was no cheat code in the console version of the game. Just patches that you could add on to the PC version of the game. <\/p>\n<p>Eidos eventually got nuderaider.com shut down. <\/p>\n<p>They would even occasionally make fun of the rumors, like once using as an ad for a Tomb Raider game, &#8220;Still no nude codes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The legend is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">STATUS<\/span><\/u>: False<\/p>\n<p>Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future urban legends columns! My e-mail address is &#98;&#x63;&#114;&#x6f;&#110;&#x69;&#110;&#x40;&#108;&#x65;&#103;&#x65;&#110;&#x64;&#115;&#x72;&#101;&#x76;&#101;&#x61;&#108;&#x65;&#100;&#x2e;&#99;&#x6f;&#109;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to video games and whether they are true or false. VIDEO GAME URBAN LEGEND: There was a &#8220;nude&#8221; cheat code in the original Tomb Raider video game. One of the most famous video game characters of all time is Lara Croft, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MjBq-207","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4224,"url":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2012\/12\/30\/how-did-abe-lincoln-growing-a-beard-kick-start-milton-bradleys-gaming-career\/","url_meta":{"origin":7695,"position":0},"title":"How Did Abe Lincoln Growing a Beard Kick Start Milton Bradley&#8217;s Gaming Career?","date":"December 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to board games and whether they are true or false. 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