Now, as the “nude code” was discovered for the Smurf in 1984
I was a video game obsessed teenager in the 1990s and it seems that every game magazine (and a few of my friends) has a holy grail: Tomb Raider nude code. The tiny details of Core Design’s blockbuster adventure game aren’t really irrelevant: Thanks to some mean screenshots and irrepressible playground murmurs, the legend continues and for decades to come, it feels like there is no “nude” “The “nude function” of “is not complete.” mod “interpreter boxing”.
One only needs to look at some more suspicious modified corners to see the human impulse to see the virtual human naked body never disappear. But now, we may have a new point of origin, one of the most enduring dirty habits of electronic friendly. Support yourself: It has been forty years, involving… Smurfs.
There is nothing new in the sun. This news is provided by the Wonderful Video Game History Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of the media, recently added a scan of Video Games magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1. The bald man wrapped in a curtain, including a reader’s letter about the discovery of naked smurfs.
“Content Warning: Naked Pixel Smurfs,” VGHF said. This is one of the greatest content warnings ever and four words you may never see again. “Just discovered in our archives: We thought the game of ‘nude code’ can be traced back to the original Tomb Raider, but we found the functional one in the 1984 video game.”
Content Warning: The naked nude pixel Smurf just discovered in our archive: We have thought about “nude code” in the game since the game, but we found a functional, archive in the 1984 video game. gamehistory.gamehistory.org/item /4F6B3AF …[image or embed]@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social
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The game in question is Smurf: Rescue in the Castle of Gargamel, on the letter page, an enterprising soul shares their discovery. Unfortunately, this contribution is not named, so our hero must remain unknown.
“There is a way to keep the smurf’s clothes until your energy runs out.” No notes on this section. “You need a roller controller, or two joysticks inserted into a port through the Y adapter. Standing on the skull, push one joystick down and the other joystick up. The Smurf is getting lower and lower. When he disappears , the lady will do her striptease performance Smurfs will reappear on the top of the screen.”
As can be seen from the image, if you are a little sang, it does look like a smurf suddenly has no clothes, and the blue pixels under her arms are arguably breasts. It seems like this is a visual malfunction, not anything intentionally in the programmer, although it is also a set of inputs, which leads to a clearly exposed character and therefore certainly fits the definition of “naked code”.
Towards the props of Jupiter Jazz on the Blues, his reaction inspired the title of the post: “It’s nice to know that we’ve left the exact year of the gods.”
Well, I hope we all learned something today, especially those who magnified the poor Smurf image. Our nameless discoverers choose to describe the moment of activation as “the lady does her striptease show” that does indeed drive home, go home and you have to do your own entertainment.
