10 Memorable Easter Eggs to Celebrate Easter

A little history

Before presenting our selection, it is advisable to come back to what an Easter Egg is and when this practice appeared. If it is complicated to define which is the first Easter Egg in the history of video games, we know that the first to have democratized the term is Atari's Adventure, published in 1980 on Atari 2600. Programmed by a single man, Warren Robinett, the latter had hidden a secret message accessible to players reaching a specific pixel called "Gray Dot". Once this point has been discovered, the player finds himself in a room in which the message "Created by Warren Robinett" appears. A way for the developer to make his name appear within his work at a time when credits did not yet exist in video games.

If Adventure is not the first title in history from video game to contain an Easter Egg, it is the one that democratized the term. While leaving Atari, Robinett had not anticipated the business of the presence of this secret which was discovered by a player. After wanting to remove the message from the game by repatriating cartridges for modification, Atari abandoned this much too expensive solution. Instead, Steve Writght, then director of software development in Atari's consumer division, suggested keeping the message, and even encouraging the presence of hidden elements in future games for players to look for. like Easter eggs, so Easter Eggs in English. If the term was created and democratized from Adventure, we find the existence of Easter Eggs a few years ago. We can think of the secret worlds of Colossal Cave Adventure developed between 1975 and 1977 on a PDP-10 computer, a hidden message saying "Hi Ron!" On a screen of Starship 1 published in 1977 on Arcade, or a way to modify the design planes in Anti-Aircraft II.