Game developers are a clever crowd and more often than not, they leave a fun little Easter egg for the players to find. Here's your look back at the Easter eggs from a simpler time.
It's that time of year again when we overindulge in chocolate eggs and scour the wardrobes for elasticated pants. In order to celebrate the occasion, I've decided to look at a different kind of Easter Egg in the medium we love the most. So join me as I explore the most delicious secrets that developers burrow within their games.
Got me thinking about what was the very first video game Easter egg. It was 50 yrs ago. "The earliest known video game Easter egg is in Moonlander (1973), in which the player tries to land a spaceship on the moon; if the player flies horizontally enough, they encounter a McDonald's restaurant and if they land next to it an astronaut will visit it instead of standing next to the ship."
I'll always remember the portraits of characters from Mario games being in Hyrule Castle in the N64 release of LOZ: OOT. Or Link and Samus stopping by the Mushroom Kingdom to get some much needed ZZZ's in Super Mario RPG.
Several easter eggs have been found in the War For Wakanda expansion in Marvel's Avengers. They refer to several magical heroes you may recognize.
I still think they need to drop spiderman with another hero for sure or they will get roasted by the fans on pc and Xbox. Like make a double hero expansion, and captain marvel Easter eggs are all throughout the game too.
I hope this game last long enough to have those two in. They would have to be more unique than the rest because seeing doctor strange and wanda melee would just be weird lol. Be cool if they introduced them with as healers/buffers as well as pure long range damage and have content where you HAVE to use one of them.
Whatever the intention behind a video game easter egg is, those intentions are usually pure: it could be a designer tipping the hat to one of their favourite childhood games, a sequel tease that only hardcore fans will catch, or a playful, harmless joke.
We don't usually think of these hidden nods as being cruel or mean-spirited, but every now and then... they are.
It's pretty rare, but sometimes we'll see easter eggs with intentions that are a bit more malicious - created to mock, insult, or chastise their chosen targets.
There is only one easter egg they talk about: the Witcher 2 making fun of Assassin's Creed's leap of faith. Whatculture knows how to place all of their story on one or two pages. Making 8 one paragraph slides is pure clickbait.
I really enjoyed reading this. Thank you 😊
I got a kick reading the Indy one in NV - I always loved that 🤣