Lost Apidya level found after 16 years.....

[Buleste]

I had tracked down the original developer of Apidya, Peter Thierolf, and informed him of our discovery. After some discussion, an examination of the original source code that Peter still had and a comparison of that source code to the released binary, we realised that the game wasn't actually bugged as I had thought. The subgame was simply very well hidden (until now) and very difficult to get into.

It wasn't a hack just well hidden. If you watch the video on the first link then for good reason as it is extremly hard.

[Harrison]

I watched the video of the bonus level being played and it gets bloody fast!

[Yanni Oblivion]

I find it weird that unlike the other bonus levels it has nothing to collect. But it also reeks of poor beta testing that they didn't know it was unreachable/stupidly heard to reach.

On a similar subject, I found a bug in Apidya years ago that enables you to skip much of the first area. When you get to the boss at the end of 1-1 have a decent weapons line-up and a charge shot ready, then as soon as you see the boss let off the charge shot and defeat it asap whilst flying straight into it. If successful you'll see the "You have survived scene 1" dialogue and go straight to the second area, bypassing 1-2, 1-2, and the end of area boss.

I wonder if any other Amiga games have things in them hidden as such that are waiting to be discovered?

[Harrison]

I bet they do, and fans who repeat play them over and over are sure to eventually discover more. Many cheats are also exploits of bugs rather than designed into the game on purpose.