Skyrim small tables are actually shelves buried. If you can't see it ...
(Recreating my list of #gamedev tricks thread)
In Jak and Daxter if by any chance the Area/assets ahead aren't fully loaded the game will make you trip to give it more time to fully load. #gamedev
In Super Mario 64 to achieve the infinite stairs effect, Mario gets teleported back. Also the reason why Speedrunners can glitch and skip it using the backwards jump trick. #gamedev
There was a memory exception in Wing Commander on exit, because of the deadline they left it but change the error message to "Thank you for playing Wing Commander!" #gamedev
@djlink On the subject of wing commander, today i got the odd notion to watch the WC4 cutscenes - and i just spotted Rico from Starship Troopers was in it
@Kurzheck nice catch. there were a lot of now (and even then) famous doing FMV stuff for games, it's a v interesting era of games, reminding C&C too.