A closer look
GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 revolutionized first-person shooters on consoles, yet its legendary multiplayer mode was secretly added at the very last minute by a rogue programmer. The management at Rare and Nintendo had absolutely no idea the split-screen mode was being developed, and it was only slipped into the final code roughly a month before the game shipped. This means the definitive bonding experience for an entire generation of millennials, which destroyed countless friendships over someone picking Oddjob and crouching, was basically just an unauthorized side quest by a tired coder who probably did not get paid extra for inventing modern couch gaming
