Anyway, back then, there used to be this funny old thing called the internet. On this internet there was a newsgroup, a kind of common bulletin board devoted especially to Tomb Raider. Young enthusiasts posted in their messages, and others would reply to them. One of the many questions going around was always "is there a cheat code so I can play the game with unlimited health, unlimited ammunition, etc?". A rather pertinent question, I might add. Still, the response to this question, innocent as it may have been, was to doom an entire generation of gamesplayers to total chaos, as you shall soon see. Let me just say this of cheat codes now. . . they could only be activated by the player pressing the controls in a specific combination - otherwise, it would not work. Once activated, the cheat would make the arduous tasks and adventuring more easy going for those players bereft of conscience or moral (the big wusses).

The Tomb Raider newsgroup was populated by an amicable lot. But, as they say, in every basket of apples, there's a few duds. Thus, there were good people in the newsgroup, who lent a helping hand to others by providing hints to aid them in their respective quests. There were fairly good people, who just turned up for the hell of it, but otherwise generally top drawer. And there were the not-so-fairly-good people, who didn't know that they were not-so-fairly-good, but it would be revealed to them later. . .