Certain games have taken the idea of the boss key and used it to comic effect.

There's even a boss key on one or two of the games - they minimise with a Program Manager description!

Friendlyware was one of the first pieces of software to implement a boss key.

It provides a boss key to minimize or close all IE windows within 1second.

Boss key to camouflage its window quickly.

This guy needs an ego audit, you mutter, but you hit the boss key anyway.

The boss key is available in all game modes, but it is designed for this mode in particular.

The office mode hotkey, sometimes referred to as the boss key, is activated by striking the escape key twice in rapid succession.

Boss Key Productions is an American video game development studio based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In response, the player character gathers all four Boss Keys needed to access Oxide's spaceship and races him in a one-on-one match.

The first few games in Sierra's Leisure Suit Larry series included a boss key in the pulldown menus (shortcut usually Ctrl+B).

When Link finds a Boss Key, a large amount of Keymasters will appear and attempt to steal the key, forcing Link to be stealthy.

An early example of the boss key is in the IBM PC version of Asylum, which clears the screen when F9 is pressed.

The games all include what the readme file calls "a 'boss key' that makes a game disappear should the need arise to look busy," but it does not quite do the job.

LawBreakers, previously known under the codename BlueStreak, is an upcoming video game developed by Boss Key Productions and published by Nexon.

An unusual feature in the DOS and Apple IIe versions allows the game to be paused and a spreadsheet shown on the screen; a boss key.

In July 2014 news leaked of Brussee leaving EA and co-founding Boss Key Productions with Cliff Bleszinski.

If the boss character is defeated, the character will relinquish a Boss Key, which the player uses to access new worlds and ultimately to face Oxide inside his spaceship.

On July 8, 2014, Cliff announced a free-to-play, PC-focused arena shooter code-named BlueStreak created by Boss Key Productions, his new studio.

"People are very grateful for the boss key," said Michelle L. Mehterian of Aegis Development Inc., which included a boss button in the game "Arazok's Tomb."

To win the game, the player must collect all trophies, Boss Keys, Relics, CTR Tokens and Gems before defeating Nitros Oxide in a one-on-one race.

This was a fairly common feature in early computer games for personal computers (discounting the Internet part, which was not then available), when most boss keys were used to show dummy DOS prompts.

The purpose of the boss key is to make it appear to superiors and coworkers that an employee is doing his or her job, when they are actually playing games or using the Internet for non work-related tasks.

Infocom's adult-themed Leather Goddesses of Phobos (only the IBM PC version) had a boss key which would hide the game and show a screen designed to look like a Cornerstone database view.

Clifford Michael Bleszinski (born February 12, 1975), popularly known as CliffyB, is an American video game designer, former design director for the game development company Epic Games, and the founder of Boss Key Productions.