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33 Video Game Facts That Dramatically Sprung Out of Us After a Robot Monkey Pelted Us With a Coconut

July 26, 2024

We don’t want to brag, but we just found the very first Easter egg. Not the one from the Easter Bunny’s inaugural trip ‘round the world. But we could get on the hunt for that, too. Ha! Look at us: Hunting for eggs, and hunting for firsts. Our baskets will be overflowing!

All joking aside, though, the first Easter egg in the pop-culture sense was laid in an old Atari game. Check that out, and more, below…

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CRACKED.COM Jason - Lvl 47 Jason Voorhees, of Friday the 13th, can be found in the jungle of Dead Island. — Source

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In Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic, there is a hidden room: Homer Simpson's office at the nuclear power plant. SECTOR 7-G HERPONS ILU HEALTH ARKOR NEYS ВИНО 72/200 5: 0/50 8: 0/99 100 0 0/50 6: 0/50 9: 0/10 48 CRACKED.COM Wي 48/200 1: 0/50 0 0/99 — Source

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GRACKED.COM Every named character you kill in the Assassin's Creed series is a real historical person, died in the right year in the right location. Think about that next time you stab somebody in the heart. You could be killing your own great-great-grandfather. — Source

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32 In Mission 6 of Halo 4, you'll find two marines standing near a forklift. If you wait around long enough, they 'Il begin talking, and you'll hear the voices of Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter. CRACKED COM — Source

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AFTER THE VOLGIN TORTURE SCENE IN METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER, SAVE AND TURN THE GAME OFF AND ON AGAIN. YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF IN SNAKE'S DREAM AND YOU WILL GET TO PLAY A MINI HACK N' SLASH GAME CALLED 'GUY SAVAGE' CRIME CRACKED.COM — Source

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INSIDE THE TROPHY ROOM IN THE IMPERIAL KASHYKK LEVEL OF STAR WARS: THE FORCE UNLEASHED, YOU'LL FIND JAR JAR BINKS FROZEN IN CARBONITE. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM IN RED FACTION ARMAGEDOON THERE IS A UNICORN GUN THAT POOPS RAINBOWS — Source

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17:12 516450240 In GTA Vice City, there 200 200 is a literal easter egg. taster N Downtown CRACKED COM — Source

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GRACKED COM The buried man from the cover of Far Cry 3... ...is actually in the game. (map coordinates: X: 619.7, Y: 559.4) — Source

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Batman Forever 1995 CRACKED COM Awkward video-capture sprites of Batman and Robin sway and jump through ugly levels and constantly get their rubber-suited butts whipped by a bunch of crowbar wielding nobodies dressed like garbagemen. — Source

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 8138 CRACKED.COM As one of the first movie tie-in games ever, it had nothing to be compared against, and yet it still sucked. The insanely rushed 5-week development time resulted in shockingly ugly visuals, even for the time period, and confusing gameplay that has nothing in common with the movie. — Source

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The Hunt For Red October 1991 2 02 M 7 SCRACKED COM No one can say for sure if it was in the 30-year-old game's best interest to not even attempt to digitize Sean Connery onto the SNES, but the submarine side-scrolling shoot em' up doesn't make up for this shortcoming by doing anything interesting or fun. — Source

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Star Wars 1987 GRACKED.COM This Japan-only release takes visual cues from the Star Wars universe, but little else. As Luke Skywalker, in his karate pajamas, you travel the starways fighting the animal-transforming Darth Vader, and get instantly killed with every hit. — Source

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Thor: God of Thunder 2011 CRACKED.COM The MCU tie-in game, and a first for the hirsute god, seeks to tell an original tale with familiar faces, but repetitive gameplay, bad graphics, and endless glitches put players into the Odinsleep. This was the worst thing to happen to Thor until Thor: The Dark World, two years later. — Source

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Top Gun 1987 10048ALT. RADAR: MISSILE ft 2 10 PEMAIN 00597SPEED TYPE т-гг tol/h CRACKED.COM The high octane action of the Tom Cruise film is translated as well as possible on the limited hardware, which is to say you fire blobs at other blobs, against a solid blue backdrop. It doesn't even have greased up pilots playing volleyball. — Source

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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door M CRACKED.COM The character Vivian was actually a male in the original Japanese version. But, because he smooches Mario, the North American version had to be a lady. — Source

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Crusin' USA FINISH CRACKED.COM Nintendo is notoriously prude, so making this game Family-Friendly was always going to be a tall order. The funniest update they had to make? Renaming the XL Power Shaft to the less phallic XL Power. — Source

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Final Fight CRACKED.COM The absolute prudes at Capcom USA made a whole range of changes. Bosses Damnd and Sodom became Thrasher and Katana, all drug and alcohol references were removed, and the exclamation Oh! My God became Oh! My car. — Source

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Punch Out!! CRACKED COM Soda Popinski was originally named something much more overtly offensive: Vodka Drunkenski. — Source

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Pac-Man READY! CRACKED.COM That signature wakka-wakka onomatopoeia is pronounced paku-paku in Japan. They nearly translated that to Puck Man, until someone noticed how easily arcade cabinets could be altered to something more... flattering, yet sinister. — Source

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Mortal Kombat: Deception GRACKED.COM This game was almost a major disappointment in France. Literally - déception means disappointment, so they renamed it Mortal Kombat: Mystification. — Source

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Indigo Prophecy CONTROVERSY...WHAT CONTROVERSY? FAHEENHEIT CRACKED.COM Gamers everywhere except North America know it as Farenheit. Atari was worried Americans would conflate it with Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11. — Source

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Tomba! CRACKED COM This bright, fun game about a feral child battling pig people takes on a grave meaning in Italy. Literally; tomba means tomb in Italian, SO they had to call it Tombi! in Europe. — Source

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KIRBY Kirby was a placeholder for a to-be-designed + character. Game designer Masahiro Sakurai dropped a circle into his game as he was designing it, figuring he'd flesh out the character later. Eventually he decided he liked the little sphere as-is, and added a few little details to give it personality. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Atari

ADVENTURE The first Easter egg was created by a disgruntled + Atari employee. ADVENTURE VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM GAME PROGRAM 3 GAMES VIDEO THREE SKOD LEVELS ONE PLAYER Lteated Warren Robinett, the programmer on Adventure, knew he wouldn't get credit for his work. So he created a secret room with his name written on the floor. By the time it was discovered, the games had hit the shelves. Atari decided to tell people it was a hidden feature, and coined the term Easter egg. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MARIO Everything about Mario was created to + conserve pixels. Mario's creator Shigeru Miyamoto added: A hat, so he wouldn't have to draw hair, a nose and mustache, so Mario's face wouldn't just be a blob, and overalls, to give Mario's arms definition. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SPACE INVADERS Space Invaders' increasing speed is because of a + hardware problem. Even after a year working on the hardware, the invaders moved really slowly. They only sped up when there were fewer of them on the screen, because they'd been shot. Hence the slowly accelerating pace. CRACKED.COM — Source

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MONKEY ISLAND Monkey Island was inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean, and vice versa. In 2000, ILM began conceptualizing a movie based on The Curse of Monkey Island, which was inspired by the Disneyland ride. The movie never got made, but writer Ted Elliott went on to write Curse of the Black Pearl. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SILENT HILL The creepy fog in Silent Hill is there to hide the + game's slow load time. It sets a creepy atmosphere, and prevents players from seeing monsters until the last second, but it's actually there to conceal the fact that the scenes take a while to render. + CRACKED.COM — Source

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LEGEND OF ZELDA The beta version of Zelda let you choose either a sword or a boomerang. IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. The game was also originally meant to be set both in the past and the future. Link got his name because he was meant to be the connection between the two. CRACKED.COM — Source

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TOMB RAIDER Lara Croft has a big chest because of a mistake. Artist Toby Gard, one of the people in charge of designing + Lara's character, was editing her dimensions. When he decided to increase her bust size by 50%, he mistyped 150%, and an icon was born. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRADIUS The Konami code was left in the game + by accident. в A START Gradius was so hard that Kazuhisa Hashimoto couldn't play to test it. Не eventually added a simple set of button presses to give himself a full set of power-ups. Не forgot to delete the code before the game was released. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Farmville

FARMVILLE Farmville F is a shameless ripoff of a game called + Farm Town. Farmer Farm LEARNING DE ROPES Farm Town Farmville Farm Town debuted just months before Farmville spammed its way into Facebook history. The gameplay and visuals are virtually identical. CRACKED.COM — Source

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