8 April 2007
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Ten weird videogame Easter Eggs

We hope you’re having a nice Easter. Check out this list of videogame Easter Eggs. Do you do know of any that are weirder? Which of these are your favorites?

Adventure:
The very first easter egg ever in a videogame was a secret dot or egg, hidden in the 1978 game “Adventure” on the Atari 2600. It let you view a message from the programmer Warren Robinette, because at the time Atari didn’t allow their programmers to take credit for their work. In a way he used it to sign his work with the text: “Created by Warren Robinette.”

SimCopter:
Jacques Servin, a gay employee of Maxis, slipped unauthorized images into SimCopter, a game in which players fly rescue mission through a complex 3-D city peopled with tiny characters. “The artist that was working on it made them these standard female computer-game bimbos, really skimpy shorts, big breasts — what you’d expect,” Servin said. The male figures were all “really dumpy, little squat middle-aged types,” he said, so he threw in some muscular men. The first 78,000 copies of the game at release in 1996 were shipped before the company discovered the additions. Sevrin was fired the next day for “adding the unauthorized content.” These boys in swim trunks just walk around only on certain dates like Friday the 13th and Servin’s birthday September 30th.

Super Mario Bros:
Not as much of an easter egg, but on the second level towards the end you can jump up above the screen and walk to find a secret warp zone. These warp zone would take you to a level much further into the game.

Super Mario Bros 3:
Sticking with the Super Mario Bros series the next easter egg that was oh so common was the warp whistles. These warp whistles would transport you to different levels. In world 1-3 towards the end there is a white block, if you get up on it press and hold down you will eventually fall through the back of it and run towards the end of the level. At the end you will enter a secret mushroom house where Toad gives you the warp whistle. Other warp whistles can be found in the World 1 fortress and on the World 2 map.

Mortal Kombat:
This was one of the easter eggs that was very hard to do and every time the shadowy item was flying in front of the moon we would all be like, “Don’t hit me at all!”. On the pit stage if you saw a shadowy item flying in front of the moon that means you could enable the easter egg. What you had to do was beat your opponent without getting hit or using the block button. If you did this after the match you would be able to fight Reptile at the bottom of the pit.

Warcraft, Warcraft 2, and Starcraft:
This was quite a funny easter egg. I actually discovered it when I was bored waiting for my peasants to mine gold. I repeatedly clicked on one peasant and after about 6 clicks instead of saying , “Back to work” or something like that he said something completely different that would just made me laugh. They would either complain about something or say something funny. It worked on all characters in Warcraft, Warcraft 2, and Starcraft. Although I tried it in World of Warcraft without any luck!

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter:
If you have not played this game you should! It is such much fun and a complete waste of an entire day! Anyways on the second level, “The Valley of the Jaguar” if you head way over to the huge tower with the houses on each side and look back there is a sign that says “CROLLYWOOD”. Other funny things in the game include a couple in a bush giggling, and tons of references to Duke Nukem Forever.

Counter-Strike:
I found these easter eggs when I was killed. When you are killed you go into ghost mode. From there you can go anywhere in the level and go through walls. In many levels there are hidden rooms that you can only get to while in ghost mode. In these rooms you will find notes, dedications, etc. Here are some of the ones that I found. In de_aztec between the terrorist and counter-terrorist sides beside the bridge you will find a room with a tom of different messages. In de_dust2 in the counter-terrorist spawn if you go through the back wall and turn around you will see The credits for the map. Finally in de_inferno in the counter-terrorist base go down the ramp and through the wall. You will see a government health warning and the maps credits.

Unreal Tournament:
Unreal was one of my favorite FPS games. I played in a lot of local LAN tournaments and loved to play lowgrav instagib maps. One easter egg I found was in dm-codex. In the map there is a square room with a pillar in the middle and a hallway on each side. Go into the hallway with the lift on the right side and a wall straight ahead. Now go stand at that wall. If you stand there long enough a door will open revealing a hidden room. Inside of the hidden room is a picture of Cliffy B. the co-designer of Unreal Tournament and text that says “pretty fly”. If you shoot the text it changes and says “For a white guy!”.

World of Warcraft:
Out of all of the easter eggs in World of Warcraft this one has to be one of the hardest. This alliance-specific quest will get you a pet chicken that will follow you around everywhere. What you need to do is find a chicken in the game and type “/chicken” to it A LOT, around 60 times! After that you will be able to talk to the chicken and get the C-L-U-C-K quest. You have to go get a special feed for the chicken then “/cheer” and it and you will be able to pickup your present, which is the pet chicken.

From Thinkgaming, additional first and weird Easter Eggs via Digg.