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The Genesis versions of Sonic 3D Blast and Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse have a rather unique exception handler. It can be triggered by punching or shaking a Sega Genesis while either game is playing, causing the game to display a 'Congratulations' message about finding a secret level select, before taking you straight to the level select itself. Traveller's Tales founder Jon Burton, whose company developed both games, explained in a YouTube video that it was the result of a loophole made to speed up Sega's tedious quality assurance pipeline by having the level select appear as a failsafe when the game crashes, meaning that Sega testers would simply believe they had unlocked a secret.
person RadSpyro calendar_month July 30, 2014
The Cutting Room Floor article:
http://tcrf.net/Sonic_3D_Blast_%28Genesis%29

Jon Burton video [source provided by Rocko & Heffer]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bkKw32dGw
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