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A Basket Full Of Easter Eggs

It's Easter Sunday, and all over the country children will be set loose in their backyards, hunting for colorful treats hidden away by mischievous and sometimes sadistic adults. I'm speaking, of course, about Easter eggs, and while here at Kotaku tower we prefer to shop for our Easter treats in bulk after the holiday is over and the prices get slashed, we can still share with our fluffy bunny readers some of the best video game Easter eggs we've come across in our travels. To start us off on our egg hunting adventure, we give you - well...

Adventure - Atari 2600
In the beginning...
In the early days of Atari, programmers weren't given credit for the games they designed for fear of other companies trying to steal them away, but Adventure designer Warren Robinett felt that credit was due. He included a hidden object in the game that lead to a secret room that displayed the words, ""Created by Warren Robinett," which was the first known video game Easter egg. Not exactly the most exciting example, but the first deserves credit.


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8:00 AM on Sun Mar 23 2008
By Mike Fahey
17,448 views, 101 comments

Latest by sir_carrot: Haha. I remember that SiN egg... the crazy part is, the developers even included a nude skin for that character model. Combine that with that scene and you've got Hot Coffee beat, big time. Gathering of Developers or Ritual or more »

ninja reflex

Ninja Reflex Gets Special Steam Edition

Valve and Nunchuk Games have teamed up to bring you a very special edition of the martial art skill game Ninja Reflex appropriately titled, Ninja Reflex: Steamworks Edition. This new downloadble through Steam only edition contains quite a few additional bits of content including new belt ranks, over 50 achievements and "a special "basket" of Easter Eggs from the universe of Half-Life and Portal." That portion of it has me more excited than any of the others. Perhaps our old friend Companion Cube will make an appearance? If you order this special edition now, you can even get 10% off the already low, low price of $9.95. What a bargain!

Ninja Reflex: Steamworks Edition [Steam]

12:20 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By fdemarco
1,230 views, 13 comments

Latest by rothbardian: There's a Strider in the Katana level!! more »

game design

Behind the Design: 20 Mysterious Games

Gamasutra has yet another interesting installment of their "game design essentials" series up - this one on game mechanics shrouded in a cloak of mystery. Everything from Bubble Bobble to Street Fighter makes the list, with explanations of why the game made the (not ranked in any particular order) list and what it says about game design more broadly. Why does this stuff matter, anyways? More »

3:30 PM on Sat Jan 19 2008
By mgreene
21,191 views, 56 comments

easter eggs

Playing Through Half-Life 2 Episode Two With A Gnome

I've yet to play through the second episode of the Half-Life 2 expansions, but I now know that I'll have to do it twice to get the full experience. PC Gamer's Tom Francis recounts his journey, one that's seemingly spoiler rich, of guiding a garden gnome through the entirety of the latest Gordon Freeman adventure. Doing so and—spoiler alert!—stashing the little guy into a rocket at the end of the game unlocks one of the more difficult to accomplish achievements. Brilliant stuff, but it's hard to expect anything less from Valve. Great screenshots at the link below.

I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome (Spoilers) [James via Rock, Paper, Shotgun]

7:20 PM on Wed Oct 17 2007
By Michael McWhertor
25,140 views, 50 comments

Latest by cknblade: I finished this about a month ago...It really isn't that bad. You get quite a few places where you can leave the gnome, most of which save you a huge amount of effort. Only bad part was the level where more »

clips

Halo 3 And The Kingdom Of The Golden Skulls

Having a hard time finding all the hidden skulls in Halo 3? Curious about what they all do? Instead of bogging yourself down with icky reading, GameTrailers has assembled a helpful video guide revealing the locations and characteristics of (nearly) every one of the game's boney power ups. Collecting them all nets you the ninja-riffic Hayabusa armor, further strengthening the Team Ninja and Bungie love-in.

5:40 PM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By Michael McWhertor
11,014 views, 65 comments

Latest by RockStrongo: @VicViper: Most Youtube videos suck just as bad. If anyone is still looking for the skulls, use www.halo3montage.com . Those videos are "perfect". Although finding the skulls for yourself may be more rewarding. And yeah, the hayabusa armor is lame. more »

easter

The Easter Egg Archives

Easter is a time when people come together to celebrate Jesus sticking his head out of his cave and seeing his shadow, heralding six more weeks of winter. While I probably could have paid more attention in church as a boy, I fondly remember the yearly Easter egg hunt, a tradition that some gamers practice all year long. More »

1:25 PM on Fri Apr 6 2007
By Mike Fahey
1,526 views, 11 comments

nintendo

The Blurping, Farting Song of Kazumi Totaki

Who knew this weird little song was implanted in so many of the games Kazumi Totaki has scored for Nintendo? Don't say "Me!" Or, worse yet, "Mii!" I am a man capable of extraordinary acts of physical violence. Florian Eckhardt

7:00 AM on Mon Oct 16 2006
By kotaku.com
677 views, 17 comments

wow

Sword of One Thousand Truths to be Easter Egged?

This screenshot was found on a WoW forum and precariously claims to display the Sword of One Thousand Truths which will be winnable in arena matches in the Burning Crusade. More »

7:10 PM on Fri Oct 13 2006
By egauger
3,287 views, 17 comments

marathon

First Halo 3 Easter Egg Found

Oh, thou obsessive geeks. I admire you. I sit here, withered away in cynicism like an Aztec mummy, my eyes staring at the internet like desiccated plums. I do not love gaming so much anymore that I would comb a 2500 pixel Halo 3 promo pic and discover, hidden in the texture of the assault rifle, an 18x18 pixel square nursing the Marathon logo. Yet even the dead vortex of my heart feels a slight throb when I marvel upon your crazy obsessed works. Florian Eckhardt More »

5:00 AM on Fri Oct 13 2006
By kotaku.com
7,359 views, 28 comments

Latest by mjsmitho: Maybe this will help with those that are unaware of Marathon . . . comparison Is it more than a coincidence that the Marathon logo is a halo of sorts? more »

wow

World of Warcraft Easter Egg Database

Blizzplanet is home to a vast and occasionally over-enthusiastic list of World of Warcraft pop culture and literature references. Here's what I mean by over-enthusiastic: More »

9:20 PM on Tue Jun 27 2006
By egauger
2,467 views, Comment

blizzard

World of Warcraft Easter Eggs

Unlike most easter eggs, these World of Warcraft inspired egg creations will not finish their brief ovum existence dramatically hurled at the side of my kid sister's head. Which is just as well, because some WoW players really poured every ounce of cool they've got into these things. More »

7:00 AM on Mon May 29 2006
By brownlee
769 views, Comment

playstation 2

Cheating in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

If you can t cheat in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where can you cheat? And like in every other aspect of this 150-hour game, San A s list of possible cheats is a monster. The one we found lets you raise the water levels, call in fog and create pedestrian riots. There s also an amusing list of Easter Eggs like the guy talking trash about Atari s crap-fest DRIV3R. Man, even fictional characters hate that game. More »

7:45 AM on Fri Nov 19 2004
By Brian Crecente
301 views

playstation 2

OutRun 2 Flag Man Is Silly

outrun2flagman.jpg
Helpful reader Dave enjoyed the Star Wars Kid in THUG 2 so much, he sent in this link to a video of what you can see if you dawdle in Sega's upcoming racing game Out Run 2. Apparently Japan has official state calisthenic exercises, and that's some of what the flag man can be seen doing. More »

12:49 AM on Wed Oct 13 2004
By kotaku.com
57 views

playstation 2

Star Wars Kid Cameo in THUG 2

swk.jpgOur fellow Gawker site Screenhead used its mutant eye powers to see the magic way to post when all our servers were going crazy and scooped us on linking this. The scoop: Waxy found a tribute to the geek version of the Paris Hilton video in Tony Hawk's Underground 2, and has detailed how you can find it too. I love it, but I'm going to be a little disappointed if Mahir isn't found later on as well. More »

7:09 PM on Tue Oct 12 2004
By kotaku.com
106 views