Easter Eggs: A Look Back

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We're all familiar now with the concept of the Easter Egg in game, but where did it all begin? Jason Weston explores two of the best Easter Eggs in gaming history, the ones that came with a message from the programmers to you.

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[Matty]

The Vice City Easter egg has always been one of my favorites.

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[Bek]

STALKER: SOC egg

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The Witcher 2:

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and of course can't forget dopefish, only ever saw him in q2/q3/dx3 though. Oblivion was full of eggs and references too.

[Fenryrbr]

The RAGE Breaking Bad one -

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[Elfraddor]

2142 Medic Pack

[Denzil]

sent him packing for “insertion of unauthorized content”.

I laughed

As for him getting his math wrong, reminds me of Office Space.

[GroggDogg]

I liked the easter eggs in Duke Nukem 3d, i can remember theres a indiana jones one and a doom one "thats one doomed space marine" heheh good times

[ChainsawMcP]

I have a recollection of reading about initials and words being hidden in the 2D map of some RPGs - that would never be seen by gamers unless they mapped out their travels... and I can tell you that some of us did exactly that - pen and graph paper to record our travels...

There was a basic, but fully functional flight sim in Excel 97... so a quick search lead me to this list of other MS product easter eggs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg ... t_products

And chasing some from BF2142 turned up this site http://www.eeggs.com/tree/563.html

[IanHead]

The RAGE Breaking Bad one -

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Let us not forget them recreating entire starting sections from Wolf3D, Doom and Quake in Rage as well.

[Jason Weston]

I liked the easter eggs in Duke Nukem 3d, i can remember theres a indiana jones one and a doom one "thats one doomed space marine" heheh good times

Also gotta love the slap Duke hands out when he says "Power Armour is for sissies".

Aiming at Halo. . . obviously

[_Silvern]

Max Payne Buffy the Vampire Slayer Easter Egg was always a good one:

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