What was a little surprising is how long the publisher leaned into it. There certainly wasn't anything in the game that did that but there was a fan made patch for the PC sometime after release. "Even during development someone in management, perhaps half-jokingly, asked us for something similar and we told them to bog off. "I thought it was just a typical juvenile reaction," he says.
While Nude Raider was never true, and was never planned for, Douglas tells me that there was some pressure from management to add it in later, and feels that part of the reason the rumour endured was because people marketing the game wanted it too. They didn't know how, but they definitely knew it was true - the weird thing is, they were almost right. Someone, somewhere, knew there was a way to get Lara Croft naked, or to find Mew under that truck. In the days before everything was one Google search away from an answer, these rumours spread through playgrounds, offices, online forums, and magazines. '90s gaming is full of similar rumours, although admittedly few involve the protagonist getting naked. “Our response was to add the ‘shower scene’ at the end of Tomb Raider 2 where Lara shoots the player for daring to try and spy on her undressing.”
It was for this reason that the shower scene was added in Tomb Raider 2 - not to titillate players, but to tell them off. “It annoyed us because a) it didn’t exist and b) it meant we’d meet people at parties who thought we were perverts making pornographic video games for children,” Rummery says. For Douglas and Rummery, both of whom will be sharing their full thoughts on the Tomb Raider series later in the week, Nude Raider was as annoying as it was infamous - especially as more people started to believe it. Related: Tomb Raider's Next Game Needs To Learn From Tomb Raider: LegendHowever, despite the fact that a naked Lara Croft in 1996 would just be a vague, flesh coloured stick person, the rumour persisted. How exactly this cheat was activated varied, and for good reason - the Nude Raider code was never true. You either pushed a certain button combination, activated a certain bug, or found a certain collectible, and Lara Croft would strip naked.
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