Just three days after the launch of The New Tetris—a Nintendo 64 update of the classic block puzzler—hackers broke into the game and found something surprising buried deep within the code. Game developers often hide weird messages in their games: usually dedications to family, taunts aimed at nosy hackers, crude jokes, or nerdy sci-fi references. It’s essentially digital graffiti, never meant to be seen by anyone. But this was something else entirely. It was a furious rant of epic proportions, in which the author personally attacked their fellow developers and outright said the game sucked.
