Easter Eggs!

[Dai.]

Not the chocolate kind for those who got excited.

Recently I've been bought to the attention of an easter egg on YouTube


On the new style player if you press and hold the left arrow key on your keyboard for 30 seconds you can play the classic game "Snake"!

Alternatively if you go to Google Reader you can press - up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A and have a ninja pop up in the navigation bar.

And finally on Yahoo! (only .com) you can press the "!" and get the "Yahooooooooooooooooooooo! sound.

Do you guys know any Easter Eggs on other websites?

Hope you enjoy these!

 

[Ivo]

It's not quite the answer you want, but here is a list of famous Easter Eggs in video gaming...
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I can't seem to get these to work

 

[CarterUSM]

It's not quite the answer you want, but here is a list of famous Easter Eggs in video gaming...
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I can't seem to get these to work

I remember that San Andreas one!! GTA IV has something similar . If you land on the upper tier of the statue of liberty on happiness island there is a door marked no entry(or something similar ) , if you go through it you are inside the statue and can see a massive beating heart connected to the inner shell with chains!

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I remember that San Andreas one!! GTA IV has something similar . If you land on the upper tier of the statue of liberty on happiness island there is a door marked no entry(or something similar ) , if you go through it you are inside the statue and can see a massive beating heart connected to the inner shell with chains!

Yeah, you climb a ladder inside, and its just there. Random. Don't get me going on GTA IV = best game ever

 

[Geezertronic]

Yeah, you climb a ladder inside, and its just there. Random. Don't get me going on GTA IV = best game ever

I thought you were 15, playing an 18 rated game?

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I thought you were 15, playing an 18 rated game?

I'm not saying anything (dug myself aright hole there!). look come on, how many preople in the wortld under 18 pla GTA. Thousands. And I'm one of them

 

[Ivo]

Don't get me going on GTA IV = best game ever

Is not. End post

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Is not. End post

Why not? GTA 4, Red Dead Redepmtion = pure, computer, genius

 

[ainsworth74]

Half Life 2 + episodes and Portal. Best Ever, end of.

 

[Ivo]

@ Matt E 2010: You're a bit too young to have experienced the golden age of console gaming (the late '90s) to be honest with you. In my opinion, the best 2D game ever was Sonic 2 on the Mega Drive (how I never finished it is beyond me ); by accepted "media pundit" opinion, the original Super Mario Bros is (another one I somehow never finished; World 6-3 always got everyone in my family!). In both cases (i.e. my opinion and their opinion), the best 3D game, and the best between 2D and 3D, is Ocarina of Time. Funny that I should wake up with the Ganondorf battle theme in my head this morning

Look through this list of critical reviews, and you will see what I mean. It is rare for me to agree with the majority (especially the majority of the media), but this is one example of where it is true. On the same site, GTA IV is rated lower (albeit only slightly), emphasising the point (and its "user" score is much lower).

(By the way, I will admit to not liking the GTA series. That doesn't mean I don't highly rate it though; I just think that some of the series takes the idea a bit too far. I'm not the sort of person to enjoy a scenario in which one person shoots another so that he can assault the latter's girlfriend.)

@ ainsworth74: Whatever you say :roll: Just read the above (Sorry if this sounds patronising!)

And sorry to Dai for throwing the thread with my video games link.

Does anyone remember how to get the driving "sim" (a.k.a. Credit list ) for MS Excel 2003?

 

[CarterUSM]

Totally subjective though, for instance, i couldn't really stand Mario or Sonic, but i loved Thunderhawk, Altered beasts and Streets of Rage. I've got the mega drive ultimate collection with over 40 games on the disc for PS3(including all the sonic games Ivo!), and quite frankly, they are s***e compared to todays titles. Sure, they were good at the time, but thats it. I will say however, games tended to be harder to complete back then, or perhaps i'm just so much better now!!! Agree with you too Matt, just love Red Dead, trying to max out my trophy haul on it just now! Sorry again to Dai, pretty off topic.

 

[Ivo]

One shiny copper-coloured penny to the first person to correctly state where "Ivo" comes from

(N.B.: In true QI style, there will be a minus penny available; i.e. the buzzer.)

You probably are better now, I know I am; however, many newer games are "easier" because of the SAVE function. You don't do everything in one sitting with the cast-iron fear of a Game Over ruining everything any more.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

One shiny copper-coloured penny to the first person to correctly state where "Ivo" comes from

(N.B.: In true QI style, there will be a minus penny available; i.e. the buzzer.)

You probably are better now, I know I am; however, many newer games are "easier" because of the SAVE function. You don't do everything in one sitting with the cast-iron fear of a Game Over ruining everything any more.

Dr Ivo Robotnik was Sonic's chief enemy Am I correct?
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@ Matt E 2010: You're a bit too young to have experienced the golden age of console gaming (the late '90s) to be honest with you.

Not old enough to remember but I do own a Nintendo 64 and used to have a PS1

 

[mumrar]

You're all obviously far too young to appreciate that a great game doesn't hide behind graphics and gives your mind a decent work out in which to complete the game. And for that reason I reckon that a game called Paradroid is the best game ever.

 

[Turbostar]

IMHO, the best game of its time has got to be Elite, pure class. Had it when I got my first home computer, the Commodore 64.

 

[mrcheek]

I remember the good old days of the ZX Spectrum. Typing in "Poke" codes to get infinite lives etc.

There was also one game, I forget the name, where you could get infinite lives by typing the immortal phrase "Ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long" (from "Jesus Built My Hotrod" by Ministry).

 

[CarterUSM]

You're all obviously far too young to appreciate that a great game doesn't hide behind graphics and gives your mind a decent work out in which to complete the game. And for that reason I reckon that a game called Paradroid is the best game ever.

I remember Paradroid ! Had it for C64 and the Amiga a little later, always wanted to clear the WHOLE level of robots!
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IMHO, the best game of its time has got to be Elite, pure class. Had it when I got my first home computer, the Commodore 64.

Spot on with that mate, loved it also! First ever truly open ended computer game! Now that is a game well overdue for a remake.

 

[Dai.]

I was more hoping to have people talk about internet easter eggs

And for Ivo you have to be on "Yahoo.com" (Make sure it's the American one not UK & Ireland)


You have to have the new youtube player (the one that goes transparent)

And the reader one you need to do it right the first time or reload the page to retry,
takes some time, but i'll do each - screen shot and send!

 

[CarterUSM]

If you click on the "!" at the end of the Yahoo! logo on Yahoo.com, it apparently yodels!

 

[Ivo]

One shiny copper penny to MattE2010 It'll be on the street somewhere near you.

 

[90019]

It's not quite the answer you want, but here is a list of famous Easter Eggs in video gaming...

Oh god, I remember that pokemon one.
Woo, child of the 90s


Remember the literal easter egg in Vice City as well?

@ Matt E 2010: You're a bit too young to have experienced the golden age of console gaming (the late '90s) to be honest with you.

I started playing Driver 2 again recently, you forget how clunky the graphics were. Plus not being able to steer, accelerate or brake smoothly

The maps are surprisingly big too.

 

[Ivo]

Driver 2 was the best game ever released on a Sony console in my opinion. 'Twas a right gem - I bought a PSX specifically to play it and the original Worms - with some great little (and not little) add-ons missing from the original. (Better still my brother's friend had finished it and let me copy his save file, permitting instant access to every city!) Cue some random journeys through Chicago with my sister besides me, with me/us pretending to be (a) taxi(s) I thought the burnout feature was pointless at the time; now, being a Clarkson-ite (so to speak), I like it very much. One thing I never understood though was why Vegas was the only place to have bus stops but the only city to not have buses :?

One little thing with it; the multi-player games would always centre on a small area (e.g. Grant Park, Chicago). If however you play Cops and Robbers, providing you stay close together you can explore the entire city! And if you obeyed the lights, that's near enough ten minutes worth

I even have the Chicago night theme in my head right now, in spite of having not played it for literally years...

And then there's MissingNo....

Not an Easter Egg as such; more like "The World's Greatest Video Game Glitch Ever". This is no joke; there were sociological surveys carried out to discover why children were so enthralled to potentially damage their game (cartridge) - which in reality wasn't true; you just ended up with Lv650 Mews in the Hall of Fame - to allow mass multiplication of items. I have seriously been tempted to buy a second copy of Red or Blue (still have my original version ) just to have a play with some of the glitches in them, before now. MissingNo. really is just scratching the surface; indeed - contrary to belief at the time - there really is a glitch that allows the player to catch a Mew! It was only discovered in 2003, which is why no media at the time knew of a real method of finding a wild Mew. This is another reason I want a new copy of the game! It won't work in the GBA remakes

Would it surprise anyone if I said that in another forum my avatar (the Pointer II -bodied Dart here) is a picture of a Slowpoke? Or if my "sockpuppet" forum name (the afore-mentioned forum gets attacked by trolls sometimes, so we have to "monitor" their forums by joining without posting...) is Starmie?

...And now I have the Pallet Town theme stuck in my head. Which is annoying, because I remember FIVE different versions!

 

[90019]

Driver 2 was the best game ever released on a Sony console in my opinion. 'Twas a right gem - I bought a PSX specifically to play it and the original Worms - with some great little (and not little) add-ons missing from the original. (Better still my brother's friend had finished it and let me copy his save file, permitting instant access to every city!) Cue some random journeys through Chicago with my sister besides me, with me/us pretending to be (a) taxi(s) I thought the burnout feature was pointless at the time; now, being a Clarkson-ite (so to speak), I like it very much. One thing I never understood though was why Vegas was the only place to have bus stops but the only city to not have buses :?

I love the Driver series. Currently using DRIV3R. Gotta love the 1/3 of normal gravity

Parallel lines is a brilliant game as well.

 

[Ivo]

I've made a new thread for video games