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Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko
Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (1999)
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Attachment In 2023, a previously undiscovered Easter egg was found in the secret level "The Abyssmal". However, while it is possible to activate this secret legitimately, the steps to do so are uncertain as to how many are really needed to activate it. In order to make it appear, Gex needs to whack all 6 pearls, whack all 7 mines in a specific order, whack every fish, whack the turret without activating it, and whack the target inside of the sunken ship. Another possible step is going inside of the ship's funnel, but it's still unknown if this is supposed to be an invisible trigger for something or if it's unnecessary for triggering the Easter egg. When all of these steps are completed, a spinning cube with pictures of three family members of the developers will appear on top of the Deep Sea Explorer. Destroying the cube will award you with a Star Token for the Vault.
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Bonus Content, Cameo, Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, In-Joke, Level Design, Secret, Unsolved Mystery
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The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition
The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition (2003)
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By inputting a secret combination on this game's version of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the player can unlock a secret credits screen for engineering (showing the people responsible for developing the Nintendo 64 emulator that allowed the game to run on the GameCube). This secret went unnoticed until 2024.
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Credits, Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Hidden Message
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Gex: Enter the Gecko
Gex: Enter the Gecko (1998)
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Attachment In the bonus level, "Chips and Dips", developer photos with humorous text can be found across the stage. A photo of producer Jeffrey Zwelling was found during gameplay by accident, and to date, the criteria to activate the picture is uncertain.
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Bonus Content, Cameo, Development, Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, In-Joke, Level Design, Secret, Unsolved Mystery
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Yars' Revenge
Yars' Revenge (1982)
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After killing the Swirl in mid-flight, a black vertical line appears across the spot where the Swirl was shot. This line is referred to under the Helpful Hints section in the game's manual as the "Ghost of Yars" and warns the player to stay off its "mean streak". If the Yar is in the lower third of the screen and the black spot on its back is aligned across the vertical line at the moment the explosion vanishes, the game ends and goes into the "Game Select" screen with "HSWWSH" in place of the player's score. These are the mirrored initials of the game's creator Howard Scott Warshaw.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Manual, Secret
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Yars' Revenge HSWWSH Easter egg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x_EXUfqQcs

Yars' Revenge manual (Page 6):
https://atariage.com/manual_page.php?SystemID=2600&;SoftwareLabelID=603&ItemTypeID=¤tPage=8&maxPages=12
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)
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Attachment Located on the rooftop of Tom's Diner (over at Bradbury & Buran) is a pair of binoculars. If the players uses the binoculars to look up to the left, they'll find graffiti of the Northern cardinal bird that's used in CD Projekt RED's logo. After waiting a few moments, the vision in the binoculars will glitch and shift to show a picture of the game's dev team superimposed over the screen. According to global community director Marcin Momot and senior PR manager Marta Piwońska, this picture was taken at an annual company picnic on CD Projekt RED's 20th anniversary in 2022.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Secret
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month March 14, 2024
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League of Legends
League of Legends (2009)
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Attachment The skin Dark Star Cho'Gath was made in collaboration with a critically ill League of Legends player named Bryan, who met Riot Games through a partnership with the non-profit charity the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Bryan wished to "meet the creators of Riot Games, and make a skin with them." Dark Star Cho'Gath was chosen between three skin designs and inspired by Bryan's love of outer space. The skin's theme music is based on a clarinet performance from Bryan. All profits collected from the skin until July 20, 2018 were donated to various non-profit organizations around the world.
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Bonus Content, Character Design, Charity, Development, Fan Works, Hidden Credit, Inspiration, Model, Music, Real Life, Reference, Tribute
person Venomspino calendar_month January 18, 2024
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Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 (2008)
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Attachment In King Nnyere's office in his Fort in Lebao-Sako, there is a side table with assorted bottles of liquor, including a unique bottle that can only be found in the Fort. It is a bottle of Extra Special, 43% volume Old French Whisky bottled in Quebec and aged for 30 years, and its label features the face of its brand name "Thomas Gillet: Polack Connection". Gillet was a texture artist at Ubisoft Quebec at the time, but he is not known to have worked on Far Cry 2. The bottle of French whiskey being produced in Quebec is a nod to Ubisoft Quebec, while the name "Polack Connection" seems to both be a nod to the 1971 film "The French Connection" and possibly Gillet's heritage. It's unknown if or how the remaining bottling details relate to Gillet.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Reference, Secret, Suggested, Theory
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Gameplay (there is no close zoom-in on the bottle in this footage so the texture is blurry, but "Polack Connection" can be made out on it, and it's the closest look at the bottle on video available at the moment):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-0fNhHuesk#t=430

Image source:
https://eeggs.com/items/55511.html

Thomas Gillet ArtStation account with Ubisoft credits:
https://www.artstation.com/tomgillet/profile
RealSports Basketball
RealSports Basketball (2018)
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In the unreleased Atari 5200 version of RealSports Basketball, you can press 5 during the attract mode demo to make a cryptic message appear:

"...WHEN RUNNING INTO THE TROPICAL ENTROPY NIGHTLY, BY YOURSELF, PROJECT AND TRY REACHING INTO CIRCLES KILLED, BECAUSE ALL SEEMS STRANGE..."

If turned into an acronym, this message says:

"WRITTEN BY PATRICK BASS"
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Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Hidden Message, Secret
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 26, 2023
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Midnight Magic
Midnight Magic (1981)
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According to a hidden credit in the game's code, the Atari 2600 version of Midnight Magic was released 3 years after it was completed in 1984, likely for reasons relating to the 1983 US video game crash.
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Corporate Affairs, General, Hidden Credit, Real Life, Unreleased Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 26, 2023
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Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (2001)
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The Western version of the music that plays in the cutscene after clearing all 96 exits has a portion that contains the level clear theme from the original Super Mario Bros..
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100% Completion, Hidden Credit, Music, Regional Difference
person CuriousUserX90 calendar_month November 26, 2023
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Spot: The Video Game
Spot: The Video Game (1990)
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Attachment Spot: The Video Game has a hidden credits scene that can occur after watching an all-CPU game, taking place on the game's victory screen. Virgin developers were not allowed to put credits inside games, only in manuals, so this was a way of hiding the credits in the game. The Japanese version adds credits to the game.
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Corporate Affairs, Hidden Credit, Manual, Regional Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 22, 2023
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Spot Goes to Hollywood
Spot Goes to Hollywood (1995)
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Attachment If you enters password PROGRESS and then the cheat code A, Right, Down, B, Left, Up, B, B, A in Spot Goes to Hollywood's pause screen, you will unlock a minigame called FRUITMEISTER 2, a slot machine game using developers' heads. There is no reward for winning the game (something cheekily acknowledged in-game with the caption "win a prize or something - probably"). A first FRUITMEISTER minigame is not currently known to exist in any other Eurocom game.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Minigame, Password, Secret
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 22, 2023
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Daffy Duck in Hollywood
Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1993)
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Attachment The Game Gear and Master System version of Daffy Duck in Hollywood has a set of 3 cheat codes - the first 2 being a stage select code and an invincibility code. If you enter those in that order and then the third code, Daffy's sprite will be replaced with a digitized image of Probe founder Fergus McGovern.
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Cheat, Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Secret
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 19, 2023
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Defender
Defender (1981)
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Attachment If you fly up to the height at which the ship spawns while protecting a human in Wave 25 of the Atari 2600 version of Defender, all enemy ships will transform into the letters "BP", standing for Defender creator Bob Polaro.
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Credits, Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Secret
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 17, 2023
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Star Fox 64
Star Fox 64 (1997)
subdirectory_arrow_right Star Fox (Game)
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Attachment The Official Star Fox Missile File Printout guidebook released alongside the original Star Fox on SNES in Japan mentions two pilots, Desla Koba and Bear Noguccini, who don't appear anywhere in the game proper. They were said to be two of the most capable members in the Cornerian Defense Force, who had previously embarked in cutting-edge Arwing scouting vessels.

Both were said to have mysteriously disappeared. It is said later on in the guidebook that Desla Koba had disappeared in the Asteroid Belt when he came across a mysterious giant space bird, and upon trying to inspect it, he ended up being warped into another dimension, known in-game as "Out of this Dimension". Similarly, Bear was last seen in Sector Y, where he encountered the mysterious space whale before losing all contact, never to be seen again.

Desla Koba would actually be mentioned again in Star Fox 64's official Japanese guidebook, with a similar backstory that he had in the Missile File Printout guidebook. Here, it is said that he led a unit conducting an investigation in Meteo (SF64's equivalent to the Asteroid Belt from SF1), only for communications to suddenly be cut off as he'd apparently entered the stage's warp zone, which simultaneously led to him crashing his aircraft on the nearby planet of Katina. This was said to have occurred more than 10 years prior to the events of Star Fox 64.

Both Desla Koba and Bear Noguccini's surnames seem to come from two of the editors of the Mission File Printout guidebook: Hitoshi Kobayashi and Yukata Noguchi.
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Backstory/Lore, Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Reference, Release Difference
person Dinoman96 calendar_month November 15, 2023
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Japanese Star Fox Mission File Printout guidebook:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1teMzzkSkgzwqcwhdTwWrOhR08gOwh6hl

User's English translation of the above guidebook:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bZnqRPY83GGhqYLeOTm82TtkBR6Pzv1WvUiWEkfiaT4/edit

User's English translation of official Japanese Star Fox 64 guidebook:
https://www.reddit.com/r/starfox/comments/y8cwc9/finally_got_around_to_doing_translations/
Rayman
Rayman (1995)
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The Atari Jaguar version of Rayman contains many messages for developers' family and friends that can be seen by using specific passwords, some written in French while others are written in English. Some notable ones include:

[translated from French]:
The Jaguar is my friend, and so is Rayman, so let them live!!


[translated from French]:
The world is kind
Bettina is kind
Fred and Fred are very kind
Mom is kind
Sophie is very kind
Eric is very kind
Rayman too is very kind
Everyone on Rayman [the development team] is very kind.
Oliver, Jean Christophe and Michel are very kind
Signed: Bettina!!


[translated from French]:
You see I can break your spine in two with this fist of mine!!!
Signed: Serge H


[written in English]:
I wanted to thanks[sic]: Konami and Nintendo for the great games they made!!!


[translated from French]:
For Sale: Ascona (19XX) in wreck state
Signed: Jean Marc G


[translated from French]:
A beer... Gimme a beer, d'ooh... Everyone, let's go to Euro Disney!!!!!!!
Signed: Bruno B
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Development, Hidden Credit, Hidden Message, Inspiration, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 14, 2023
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Drawn to Life
Drawn to Life (2007)
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In the Easter egg "Developer's Grove" area that is unlocked upon donating 10,000 Rapo-Coins to the Wishing Well, one of the developers will inform the player that there is a "secret flower" hidden in the game that can bring the Mayor, who dies in the final world, back from the dead - while another developer tells the player that the other developer is lying. There is no secret flower.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Hoax, In-Joke, Secret
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 13, 2023
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Mario's Early Years! Fun with Letters
Mario's Early Years! Fun with Letters (1993)
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Attachment In the SNES version of Mario's Early Years! Fun with Letters, there is an Easter egg where, after clicking a very specific pixel on the ground in the bedroom, three developers will appear in the window and say hello.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Credit
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 11, 2023
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Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast (1982)
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Attachment If you press 3 on the right controller while the gorilla is falling off of the skyscraper, the initials "WB", standing for programmer Wendell Brown, will appear on the building.
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Easter Egg, Hidden Credit
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 10, 2023
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MTV Remote Control
MTV Remote Control (1990)
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Attachment If you name your players in the NES version of MTV Remote Control "PLEASE", "SHOW", and "RSP" (RSP standing for the game's developers, Riedel Software Productions) and then press start, you will be able to see pictures of programmer Mike Riedel, sprite artist Remington Emin, and assistant programmer Eric Shefferman, 3 of the game's 4-person developer team (with the missing 4th developer being composer Nick Scarim). If you press A or B, they'll smile at you.
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Credits, Easter Egg, Hidden Credit, Secret
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 8, 2023
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