ahhh, yes. i fondly remeber those days

Interesting.

I hope that no one attempts to get to Sheng Long on Street Fighter II 26 years after the fact.

Worst Easter egg ever.

I've felt the impulse to leave a mark behind on something that I was working on so hard to find that only I would know it was there....

I used to put my initials into my architectural CAD drawings.

I'd zoom down to the microscopic level and write them in the middle of some hatch or at a juncture of lines where the object market would be duplicated by something else.

Just for fun

So LMD is ok.

I'm sad we now have easter eggs that are crazy easy to find.

The linked blog entry was quite interesting and informative. Coding Assembly on a cartridge with a few K using a B&W TV? Sounds really annoying but kinda fun.

my two favorite easter eggs for the atari 2600 were

1. adventure, getting the magic dot and seeing the creators initials in the special room

2. defender, cathing the falling human on something like level 26, while your ship was in the cities part, and all the aliens turned into initials.

//dork

and now, the moment you've all been waiting for

we proudly present for your viewing pleasure

The Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team!

jdetweiler: my two favorite easter eggs for the atari 2600 were

1. adventure, getting the magic dot and seeing the creators initials in the special room

2. defender, cathing the falling human on something like level 26, while your ship was in the cities part, and all the aliens turned into initials.

//dork

I remember finding the hidden initials in Yars' Revenge waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay the hell back in the day.

jdetweiler: note on adventure.

Aside from the secret room with the initials. I think it was rather fun when you had the chalice, became a dragons lunch, then the Bat came by grabbed it,(the chalice) and dragged you from screen to screen. It actually flew threw the secret room once while doing this..

//O'l gamer!

Masso: and now, the moment you've all been waiting for

we proudly present for your viewing pleasure

The Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team!

(Most extreme easter Egg, to really be an extreme failure!!) It's an OS, not a game.

My vote for best Easter egg is the Baldur's Gate series. You had to play all three games and, from the first, keep a totally useless and silly item (gold pants, IIRC). Then, 75% through the 3rd game, you could actually get something for all that effort.

That ain't no easter egg.

THIS is an easter egg.

archichris: I've felt the impulse to leave a mark behind on something that I was working on so hard to find that only I would know it was there....

I used to put my initials into my architectural CAD drawings.

I'd zoom down to the microscopic level and write them in the middle of some hatch or at a juncture of lines where the object market would be duplicated by something else.

Just for fun

So LMD is ok.

thats funny , i do qselect searches for text in all of the drawings we get from others just to see if anybody has done this.

Chris Houlihan approves.

I thought it was awesome when I figured out how to play as Reptile in Mortal Kombat.

Fano: Chris Houlihan approves.

I thought it was awesome when I figured out how to play as Reptile in Mortal Kombat.

I played that game for years, and I still haven't gotten into his room.

Deagan Herumor: Fano: Chris Houlihan approves.

I thought it was awesome when I figured out how to play as Reptile in Mortal Kombat.

I played that game for years, and I still haven't gotten into his room.

Have you at least faced Noob Saibot?

ChubbyTiger: My vote for best Easter egg is the Baldur's Gate series. You had to play all three games and, from the first, keep a totally useless and silly item (gold pants, IIRC). Then, 75% through the 3rd game, you could actually get something for all that effort.

Ahhh... The Golden Pantaloons.

/giggles

archichris: I've felt the impulse to leave a mark behind on something that I was working on so hard to find that only I would know it was there....

I used to put my initials into my architectural CAD drawings.

I'd zoom down to the microscopic level and write them in the middle of some hatch or at a juncture of lines where the object market would be duplicated by something else.

Just for fun

So LMD is ok.

Let me just warn you that little things like that will often mess with 3d modeling detailing programs.

Fano: Deagan Herumor: Fano: Chris Houlihan approves.

I thought it was awesome when I figured out how to play as Reptile in Mortal Kombat.

I played that game for years, and I still haven't gotten into his room.

Have you at least faced Noob Saibot?

I think I fought n00b Sailboat once, accidently. But I was referring to the Houlihan Room in Zelda.

ChubbyTiger: My vote for best Easter egg is the Baldur's Gate series. You had to play all three games and, from the first, keep a totally useless and silly item (gold pants, IIRC). Then, 75% through the 3rd game, you could actually get something for all that effort.

I've got a Big Metal Unit, so I'm getting a kick out of this thread.

Antidamascus: I'm sad we now have easter eggs that are crazy easy to find.

Take it you're unfamiliar with the final Halo 3 skull?

famousp: Antidamascus: I'm sad we now have easter eggs that are crazy easy to find.

Take it you're unfamiliar with the final Halo 3 skull?

The only one I remember being hard was the one where you gotta run around under a bridge. That was fun on a 4player legendary lan.

OMG..Atari 2600 River Raid FTW


\\35 years old..my Lawn get off it...

\\\35th birthday 3 days ago. god I feel old where does the time go. In my mind I just turned 21 a couple years ago.

If you play Contra through three times without dying on single player it opens a room with nude photos of Bea Arthur.

mentallo69: \\\35th birthday 3 days ago. god I feel old where does the time go. In my mind I just turned 21 a couple years ago.

Doesn't seem like it could be so long ago we were going gaga for arcades and Ataris does it?

/turning 35 at the end of August

sexy-fetus: archichris: I've felt the impulse to leave a mark behind on something that I was working on so hard to find that only I would know it was there....

I used to put my initials into my architectural CAD drawings.

I'd zoom down to the microscopic level and write them in the middle of some hatch or at a juncture of lines where the object market would be duplicated by something else.

Just for fun

So LMD is ok.

Let me just warn you that little things like that will often mess with 3d modeling detailing programs.

The office I worked at was just barely post stone age.

My first job there was digitizing all the old archives....they had produced drawings using macintosh and what looked like macpaint for ten years. No kidding, not a cad program, just some mac program that drew lines and squares and hatches...then they cut and pasted them into larger formats and ran them thru the blueline machine. The top partner had just recently stopped using Macs and a non compatible cad program the year before I started.

Everything we did was document production, there was no modeling or any of that.

In any case my job was permit set creation. No 3d modeling there even if they did do that.

atari 400 with a membrane keyboard, the assembler/editor cartridge (no macros), a cassette tape drive, some chris crawford "de re atari" articles photocopied from the library Byte magazines and absolutely no idea of proper programming techniques.

That was a lot of fun.
I miss being young.

WhyteRaven74: mentallo69: \\\35th birthday 3 days ago. god I feel old where does the time go. In my mind I just turned 21 a couple years ago.

Doesn't seem like it could be so long ago we were going gaga for arcades and Ataris does it?

/turning 35 at the end of August

No kidding! I hear ya!

All of you get off my lawn...

I tried to donate my Atari 800 *like new in box still.. with the drive, media and a wamco bat stick. I drove by the next day to see it sticking out of the dumpster... Sadly I left it... I should have picked it back up... but then I thought~ Why hold on to it another 25 years when I can use an emulator that loads in seconds instead of 8 or more minutes.

Now food for thought about this.. why would you do that.. nobody was buying them on ebay for more than a few bucks. It's not worth the trouble I thought..

//300 baud modems and game load times.. ah, those were the days... pheh!
///people biatching about slow computers these days should have tried dial-up in the 80's.. bye bye compu-serv...

PirateFreedom: atari 400 with a membrane keyboard, the assembler/editor cartridge (no macros), a cassette tape drive, some chris crawford "de re atari" articles photocopied from the library Byte magazines and absolutely no idea of proper programming techniques.

That was a lot of fun.
I miss being young.

sigh... Atari 400 + cassette here too ... getting a new game was typing the code from a page from Compute magazine

they would work sometimes too!

ps. Star Raiders FTW!

Lampmonster: If you play Contra through three times without dying on single player it opens a room with nude photos of Bea Arthur.

...but by then your joystick hand is too wrecked to enjoy them properly.

Babies with Rabies

woa. missed that one.

/i have seen the cow level

WhyteRaven74: mentallo69: \\\35th birthday 3 days ago. god I feel old where does the time go. In my mind I just turned 21 a couple years ago.

Doesn't seem like it could be so long ago we were going gaga for arcades and Ataris does it?

/turning 35 at the end of August

HA!HA! You're old......oh, wait a minute.....