Raid on Bungeling Bay (NES)

Hidden Message
The Japanese version of this game contains a disabled hidden developer's message. It was meant to be triggered with the button code Up + B + Select, pressed before resetting the console. But in the final version, no joy pad reading routines are called from the RESET routine, nor is the button code variable saved before resetting, so the message can't be triggered. The only way to enable it is by using the Game Genie code. The string "BY KIKU" will appear at the bottom of the screen.

"KIKU" is a pseudonym for Kikuta Masaaki (菊田政昭), one of Hudson's programmers. Most games programmed by Kikuta Masaaki have secrets or hidden messages, like Nuts & Milk, Binary Land or Challenger.

Although the US version contains the same string and the code, it uses a completely different title screen display routine, and uses a different title screen text block from the CHR ROM data, so the message can't be displayed at all.