15 Greatest Video Game Easter Eggs

From Snake hitting on Samus to the point where it’s awkward to a unicorn that shoots laser beams from its ass, we count 15 Easter eggs hidden throughout gaming history.

 

15 – Marco Polo – Uncharted 2,

• In a game linked to Marco Polo, Naughty dog decided to include an homage to the pool game named after him, the scene occurs when you arrive near a pool in chapter 6 and your uncontrollable urge for a quick dip consumes you.
• Nathan swims around for a bit calling out Marco whilst Chloe, being the insufferable ‘professional’ she is, criticises him having some fun, before eventually giving up and replying Polo.
• Not only do you get to satisfy your need for a swim, but you also get ten-thousand in-game dollars to spend on the single player store. If only you could buy a partner that’s actually fun to be around.

14 – Credits – Adventure,

• This isn’t the most interesting, hidden or funny Easter egg, but it was the first one ever discovered in a video game, and in other news apparently the 2600 had enough space on its cartridges to include something resembling a name.
• The creator of the game put the credits, which included one entire name, written on the wall/floor/blank-space…thing of a background.
• Reaching the Easter egg involves suffering through many seizure inducing areas, a key, walking through walls and a series of pixels that vaguely resembles a seahorse.

13 – UFOs – GTA 5,

• GTA V has four different UFOs to find and send off to your local tabloid newspaper where they’ll make an article about how video games cause people to be abducted and anally probed.
• In order to find most of the UFOs you need to murder your way to one hundred percenting the game and go to the far corners of Los Santos.
• Some people believe there’s a bigger mystery involving the UFO Easter eggs, perhaps this mystery will be explained in the year 2350 when heists are released and humans have already developed their own flying space discs.

12 – LMD initials – Donkey Kong on Atari 2600,

• This one goes on record for being one of the longest time-to-find Easter Eggs and of course the Egg itself is the creator’s initials, because god knows we care who made a port of an arcade game to a console.
• Possibly the only reason we found this Easter Egg was because the creator of the Donkey Kong port tipped off the public to its existence, of course he had forgotten how to access it because he was 300 years old.
• In order to find the egg the player had to reach a specific score, fall to death and mess with the level selection screen, after the requirements were met the letters LMD would appear on the screen, if all video game credits were this short maybe someone would actually watch them.

11 – Jar Jar Binks in Carbonite – Star Wars: Force Unleashed,

• Force Unleashed includes quite a few Easter eggs, but the best of the bunch is Jar Jar Binks trapped in carbonite, his pained expression has filled many bitter star wars fans with a brief happiness.
• Binks’s carbonite prison appears to be a nod towards a statue made by a fan that is now held at the Letterman Digital Arts Center, somehow I doubt Lucas Arts truly understood why the fan made the statue.
• However, despite many attempts by many players, you cannot destroy the carbonite block.

10 – Codec Calls – Super Smash Bros. Brawl,

• Snake making his way into Super Smash Bros. didn’t just include a character and a level; it also included a multitude of Easter eggs where Snake talks about each of the characters in the roster and contemplates taking off his clothes with Zero Suit Samus.
• In order to start each codec call you need to play Snake on the Shadow Moses level and use his down-taunt really quickly, this is also a viable tactic to annoy your friends whenever you play this level.
• It’s a shame the codec calls didn’t also include a tutorial on how not to trip in Brawl, because that would have been pretty useful.

9 – Fuck you – Fallout 3,

• Just in case you were wondering what Bethesda thinks of its customers they included an expletive that spells it out.
• Finding the door that opens to the charming message just involves going to a specific point of the map, this is because Bethesda couldn’t program anything more complex without causing the game to BSOD your computer.
• Of course this isn’t the biggest fuck you in Fallout 3 the biggest one would have to be trying to aim for the head in VATS which can frequently take over an hour of you screaming that you did not want to aim for their left big toenail.

8 – John Romero’s head on a stick – DOOM 2,

• John Romero is one of the creators of the FPS genre and despite the lack of aiming up in DOOM 2, he’s also the head behind the first headshot in an FPS, literally.
• John Romero’s head on a stick is used as the hidden weak spot for the last boss in DOOM 2, located inside the boss’s head the sprite is generally known as the boss’s brain.
• You can only see the head if you use a noclip cheat where you can damage him directly and see him either scream in pain or pleasure, it’s hard to tell.

7 – Psycho Mantis reads the player’s mind – Metal Gear Solid

 

• In Metal Gear Solid 1 Psycho Mantis talks to the player about the games they’ve played, this seriously creeped me out until I realised they just looked at the games on my memory stick, then I felt rather embarrassed.
• The specific message only happens if you’ve played a select few games, such as Castlevania or Vandal Hearts, otherwise he gives you a far less impressive message about action games or the like.
• In the Gamecube version, it gets even crazier when portraits on the wall behind him start to laugh, and one of the them is the creator of the game, Hideo Kojima.

6 – Chris Houlihan Room – A Link to the Past,

• This is probably the most famous of the ultra-hidden Easter eggs, the room was named after some kid who won a Nintendo Power magazine contest, but who really cares about that.
• The room contains 45 blue rupees and a plaque that tells you his name and requests you not to tell anyone about the room, [which everyone completely/promptly ignored OR Request Denied].
• The room is actually a failsafe, when the game doesn’t know where to put you, it puts you in this room, which means there are a few different ways to get in, all of them elaborate and probably not worth your time unless you have a special attachment to pots and grass.

5 – Mr Toots – Red Faction Armageddon,          

                                                                   

• This weapon is a unicorn that farts damaging rainbow laser beams, which is funny until you realise that some people probably get off to it.
• Strange fetishes aside, you acquire this weapon by beating the game, which is no easy task considering the game’s overall quality.
• It’s hard to keep a straight face when firing this weapon, not just because of how ridiculous the concept is, but also because it makes an extremely pained face every time you fire it.

4 – Nuketown 2025 Retro Games – Black Ops II,

• When playing Call of Duty people may sometimes wish they were playing something else, so this Easter Egg allows you to do just that, especially if you like playing retro Activision games.
• In order to unlock the ability to play the games all you have to do is headshot all of the mannequins in less than 90 seconds, which would be fine if I didn’t suck at shooters.
• Once you start playing the games you are completely immune to any outside damage, so don’t be afraid to enjoy the amazing graphics and gameplay of the Atari 2600.

3 – MST3K Mode – Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2,

• Love mystery science theatre three thousand and star wars? Well here’s the Easter egg for you: Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 includes an MST3K mode for all of the game’s cutscenes – from toilet humour to jokes about Christmas recitals, they’ve got it all.
• Turning the comical mode on only requires you to type in a special code, unlike nowadays where you’d have to pay $15 to access the content that you paid for.
• If you hate Meta humour and jokes about boots you might want to avoid this mode, or maybe you can contact MST3K about how hard they ripped them off in 1995, who knows, they might even care.

2 – Dead Altair – The Witcher 2,

• Jumping off a tall building into a stack of hay will probably lead to death, but for some reason Ubisoft thought this was acceptable in Assassin’s Creed, the devs of The Witcher 2 call attention to this by placing a dead body in a familiar white robe on top of a hay stack near some tall buildings.
• You can find this egg in the prologue of game; all you need to do is do your best not to die over and over in the expertly crafted tutorials.
• To those who doubt this is a reference you can be rest assured by fact that witnessing the Easter egg earns you the skill ‘Assassin’ giving you a damage bonus when attacking enemies from behind, which would be a nice bonus – if you could ever actually get behind enemies with any reliability.

1 – Dog Ending – Silent Hill 2,

• Just when you thought Silent hill 2 couldn’t get any weirder, you come across the secret dog ending, where James finds a dog in a control room, collapses onto his hands and knees and the dog licks him in the face while sad music plays.
• In order to reach this ending you need to get three different endings, start a new game solve the riddles that absolutely no one used a guide for (especially not me), go to a dog house, get a key and enter the observation deck.
• Perhaps the best part of the dog ending is the credits where you get an upbeat song including barks and growls while watching clips from the game mixed in with random dog pics, a fat stomach with a flying pizza and last (but not least) there’s a sexy picture that moans.
• Stay classy Japan.

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