The site has generated a lot of buzz in the gaming community, and for better or worse, we couldn’t just ignore its existence. We strongly believe in the first amendment, and in the interest of writing a comprehensive article of Lara, we included the URL. Let’s also be clear that we never condoned or encouraged anyone to visit the site.
No one is forcing you to enter Nude Raider’s Web site address in your Web browser. And if you’re the type to take offense to seeing this stuff on the Net, here’s an easy solution: Don’t look at it. Moreover, we believe that the vast majority of our readers are sophisticated enough to handle “mature” themes such as nudity without getting too worked up (after all, the average age, shown by independent studies, of an EGM reader is 20). As far as EGM’s responsibility to its readers, we selected the least offensive images to include in our article. In fact SurfWatch (a program designed to lock out adult sites, has blocked Nude Raider’s site from young, prying eyes. But if parents need a little help, they can find plenty of it on the Web. Like you said, it is the parents’ ultimate responsibility to monitor their children.
We’ll just reprint it here because our magazine scans are kind of hard to read. In the previous issue, Issue 97 (dated August, 1997), the magazine had spilled a URL for a Nude Raider webpage.ĮGM issued a wordy response. Now, we need to put this letter into context. Sports Illustrated doesn’t quit covering Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls halfway through the playoffs because it’s already been done. Of course, all of this could simply be a prank.īut, being the diligent researchers we are, we also found something weirder.īack in 1997, Electronics Gaming Monthly was running so much content about Lara Croft that the magazine’s 98th issue had a letter from the editor explaining why their coverage was so relentless. We don’t actually know if this works - we really didn’t find it necessary to try it out for ourselves - but there are a few forum posts that claim to have found nude codes for Tomb Raider 3 using the Xploder. Of course, there’s one possible option for those who care deeply enough to look for it, and are willing to pick up the Xploder Cheat Cartridge for PlayStation (a device that plugs into the memory card slot of your PSOne and lets you hack your games).
LAURA CROFT TOMB RAIDER NUDE CODE
The thing is, as this Game Informer staffer points out, the nude code never existed. This anonymous letter-writer claims that “millions of people are just sitting in their homes dreaming about the nude code night and day,” and they believe that printing the nude code would be a way for Game Informer to sell millions of copies of their magazine (or millions of copies of Tomb Raider 3, maybe - it’s actually not completely clear from the context here). In fact, one gamer (who unsurprisingly chose to remain anonymous) became frustrated enough to pen this later to Game Informer (which was published in the February, 1999 issue of the magazine): Who knows how many hours were lost mashing away at button sequences in order to get just a tiny little peek at Lara Croft’s pixelated posterior without those shorts? Yes, we’re referring to the Tomb Raider nude code. But there’s one myth from the 1990s that was particularly, um, spicy? From tales of reviving Aeris in Final Fantasy VII to secret methods of accessing the Sky Temple in Ocarina of time, it seemed like everyone with a controller was willing to spread wild rumors about their favorite games. In the late 1990s, rumors about video games were all the rage.
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