If there's one thing that drives any gamer crazy, it's the blessed Easter Eggs. The secrets hidden in video game Easter Eggs are like those things you weren't expecting, but when you find them, you start screaming: "OMG, LOOK AT THIS!".
There are hidden messages, references, inside jokes from the developers and, sometimes, stuff so bizarre that you don't know whether to laugh or run away.
And seriously, who has never spent hours exploring a game just to see if they could find something different? There are some secrets that were discovered YEARS after the game was released!
Let's embark on this journey and discover some of the most iconic (and crazy) Easter Eggs that games have ever hidden.
The first Easter Egg: trouble, rebellion and Atari
Do you think Easter Eggs are just for fun? Not at all! The first one in history happened out of pure anger! In the 80s, Atari didn't give credit to game developers, and a guy named Warren Robinett got pissed about it.
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Instead of arguing, he did better: HE HID a secret message inside the Atari 2600 game Adventure.
The secret was tough: if you found an invisible point and took it to a corner of the game, a message would appear saying “Created by Warren Robinett”.
Atari freaked out when they found out, but it was too late! And so, he went down in history as the first developer to put an Easter Egg in a game.
From that moment on, it became fashionable. Developers started hiding everything: funny references, sinister secrets and even some jokes that only those who really know about it can discover.
Easter Eggs That Are Really Bizarre
Now hold on tight, because there are some Easter Eggs that are no joke. Like the one in Luigi's Mansion that still gives people goosebumps.
In one part of the game, a lightning bolt illuminates Luigi's shadow and... it looks like he's HANGED. That's right! There's still a debate going on to this day: did Nintendo do this on purpose or did it make a graphical error?
And GTA: San Andreas? At the top of Mount Chiliad, there are some very strange things. Some people have seen UFOs, strange creatures and even ghosts.
Rockstar never confirmed anything, but they never denied it either. This only made gamers freak out even more. But nothing beats the legend of “Ben Drowned” in Majora's Mask.
Also, a guy found a used cartridge of the game and realized that something was very wrong. Characters were saying bizarre things, strange events were happening, and he became paranoid.
The internet went crazy over this story. Truth or trolling? To this day, no one knows…
Inside jokes and hidden references
Now, speaking of lighter things, there are Easter Eggs that are pure fun. Like in The Witcher 3, where you find an NPC dead in the same way that the characters in Assassin's Creed fall when they miss a jump.
Coincidence? No, it was just a joke! And Doom II? That one is amazing. So, if you go through a wall using a trick, you'll find John Romero's (one of the game's creators) head on a spike.
And worse: if you shoot it, you “kill” the final boss. The guy literally put himself inside the game in a very bizarre way!
And what about Rockstar? They LOVE to make references. In Red Dead Redemption 2, you meet an NPC who looks exactly like Javier Escuella from the first game, only younger.
Furthermore, in GTA V, there are hidden clues that connect to Max Payne. In other words, everything is interconnected in the best cinematic universe style of jokes.
Secrets that took YEARS to be found
So, now, check this out: there are Easter Eggs that took YEARS to be discovered! One of the most sinister ones is in Batman: Arkham Asylum.
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No one knew it, but there was a secret room with a clue to the next game. The detail? The developers had to give a hint YEARS later, because no one had found it!
By the way, another well-hidden secret is in Halo 3. If you played on the birthday of one of the developers' wife and held down certain buttons in the menu, a love message would appear.
But what? Yes! Imagine how many years it took to discover this? The players WERE sure there were more secrets in the game, and they spent years digging around.
Only in 2017 (the game is from 2005!) did they discover a mysterious secret room. In other words, there is a game that keeps secrets for a lifetime!
The Hidden Secrets
The secrets hidden in video game Easter Eggs make any game even crazier!
Whether it's a tribute, a joke, or something so bizarre that it makes us afraid to sleep, these details make games even more special.
So, have you ever found an Easter Egg that made your jaw drop? Tell us about it! Maybe you discovered a secret that even the developers didn't remember?