Trolls (DOS)

Trolls
Developer: Flair Software Publishers: Capstone Software (US), Flair Software (EU) Platform: DOS Released in US: 1992 Released in EU: 1992 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has a hidden level select.

Trolls is probably one of the most colorful platformers made of its time, with more gradients than a demoscene production.

Developer Message

Hidden at the end of trolls.exe is this rant.

This game was written on a very slow 
schneider 10mhz 286 with lots of wait states

If for some reason on your very fast 
xxxx 25mh 486 this game seems to be fast or unplayable ,
do no blame us for it was a penny pinching boss
who would not buy us reasonable pc's to work on.

   signed
      THE PROGRAMMERS OF FLAIR SOFTWARE

(Source: Servo)

Level Select

Entering 2 BE OR NOT PC as a command line argument allows one to press Tab to skip levels.