The music industry likes eggs, too. While some acts hide songs at the end of CDs, the craftiest conceal them in the pregap — a space before the first track that usually houses computer data. To find them, start the first track, then rewind. In a one-off issue, we find out that the Dark Queen has been drawn to Earth because of how humanity has become self-obsessed and believes in nothing but itself.
Showing that we worship stories that justify evil, there are clear references to Walter White from Breaking Bad , Don Draper from Mad Men and Dexter from the eponymous show. This comic book prequel to The Phantom Menace contained an accidental easter egg.
Marvel pulped every issue. The internet is chock-a-block with crafty easter eggs that are just waiting to be unearthed by observant surfers…. On your Facebook home screen, head into the settings menu at the top-right of the page and click on the language option.
Shiver me timbers! It appears to have been taken down now — but you can still see it by heading here. Want to add something different and totally pointless to your YouTube viewing session? Simply hold your cursor over the player window and type "awesome" to transform the progress bar into a strobing technicolour rainbow nightmare.
The Wikipedia entry for Easter egg media actually includes an example of an Easter egg in its main image…. Head over to www. We could fill an entire article with Google easter eggs alone — there are dozens of them out there.
Anyway, here are some highlights:. Google likes to hide surprises in its search engine that get triggered by the right phrase, the sneaky devil. In a reference to pi, Nessie surfaces at am daily. Got yourself an Echo or similarly Alexa-equipped piece of kit? A host of cheeky quips and secrets await.
Here are just a few of our favourite questions to ask her:. Try these:. Skip to content. Search for: Clear search query Show results. Video games Ever since video games were first cooked up, developers have been baking in hidden treats for hardcore gamers to uncover… Gears Of War 3.
Battlefield 1 Play. Borderlands 2 Play. The Division Play. The Virtual Boy lives! Destiny Play. Hitman: Blood Money Play.
Nintendo 3DS Highlight a menu item so its icon rotates in the top screen. HP B Tetris gets everywhere. AMD Athlon chip Chips are home to many an easter egg. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear.
TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace. Sign in. Log into your account. Forgot your password? Password recovery. Recover your password. Home Applications. Easter Egg. Vangie Beal. October 16, Updated on: December 4, What is an Easter Egg? Examples of Easter eggs As mentioned above, Easter eggs are common in a wide range of media types. In Microsoft Excel 95, a user could access a video game environment reminiscent of Doom by following a series of specific, complicated steps.
In other countries, eggs are hidden outside for children to find. Another common activity is the Easter egg roll, in which eggs are rolled down hills, or along a flat stretch of ground with a spoon.
Easter eggs are especially elaborate in Eastern Europe, where there is a rich folk tradition of painting complex patterns onto the eggs. While Easter eggs have traditionally been actual eggs, imitation Easter eggs have become common in recent years. Chocolate Easter eggs are widely available in stores during Easter season, and parents can also buy hollow plastic eggs that hold candy or other treats for children who find them. An Easter egg is the practice of hiding secret content in a video game, website, or other computer software.
Easter eggs can be enabled by a seemingly random sequence of keystrokes or a secret phrase. Easter eggs provide an opportunity for the ordinary programmers and designers who create a software product to express themselves. Sometimes Easter eggs are added to a product without the knowledge or approval of senior management hi, Jim! Easter eggs often contain whimsical, entertaining content. Easter eggs can allow users to enable hidden features of a software product, or to gain special advantages in a video game.
The first Easter egg was created by Warren Robinett, a programmer at the video game company Atari. In the Atari game "Adventure," a specific sequence of moves allowed the player to enter a secret room that contained the phrase "Created by Warren Robinett.
The feature wasn't approved by Atari management. Video game cartridges had very little space in , so they generally didn't include credits for game designers. So they couldn't really punish me, and the manager of game software at that time decided little hidden surprises in games, which he called 'Easter eggs,' were kind of cool.
The Konami Code is a sequence of keystrokes that allows players to enable special features in video games made by the Japanese company Konami. It became widely known among American gamers thanks to Contra , a video game that was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in Entering the Konami code during the opening sequence of Contra allowed a player to play with 30 lives instead of the standard 3.
The Konami Code has become one of the software industry's best-known Easter eggs, and as a result it has become widely imitated. For example, in entering the code on the ESPN website triggered an explosion of hearts and unicorns. Several major technology companies or their employees, anyway have introduced Easter eggs into their products:.
Google has a good claim to that title.
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