The "Nude Raider" legend is an urban legend revolving around the 1996 action-adventure game Tomb Raider.
Description
Ever since Tomb Raider's release, its heroine, Lara Croft, has been seen as a major sex symbol in the video game industry, and that has been a large focus of the franchise's marketing. This soon led to rumors of a secret cheat code that would allow players to make Lara Croft naked during gameplay. Developers of the game, in an attempt to troll perverted players, released several codes that supposedly took Lara's clothes off, only to have the codes blow her up.
In the original game, exiting Lara's pool will cause her to utter the line "Now I'd better take off these wet clothes." This and several other suggestive moments in the game did nothing to quell the rumors of a nude code. The main method said to make her strip down is to find the pool in her mansion and enter one of the following codes after jumping in:
- Hold Select and press Square, Up, Circle, Down
- R2, R2, R2, L2, R2, R2, L2, L2, R2, L2, L2, L2, L2, L2
- Press Select twice, Circle, Circle, Square, Triangle, Select, R1
Doing so, however, does nothing to make Lara Croft naked. The developers maintain the position that no code exists, but they generally refuse to outright deny it in public for their own amusement.