Video Game Easter Eggs for Easter Time
The most cuddly of holiday icons leaves behind some treats in our favorite video games.
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By Chris Plante April 2, 2010 |
Sega Master System - Maze Game
Before you go any further, be sure to open a new tab for last year's rundown of video game secrets. Done? Good stuff, let's move along.
Still have a SEGA Master System stored away in your parent’s basement? Dig it up next family get together, blow out the cartridge slot and find some way to jury rig that thing into your HDTV, because there was a game you owned all this time, but probably never played. Here’s how to find it. Boot the system without a cartridge, press up and both buttons to launch Maze Game. If you’re under 30-years-old, skip the hassle, as Maze Game looks like a Nokia 1100 game.
GameCube - Z-Button
Nintendo fans can be the obsessive types that get tattoos and name kids after favorite characters. So maybe GameCube’s bizarrely out of the way Easter eggs are playing to this slice of the pie. Hold down the Z-button with one controller at launch for a different intro theme. Do this with four controllers and prepare for a mind numbing surprise. A slightly different intro theme. Or just watch it here. Whatever’s easiest for you is cool.
Saint’s Row 2 – Bunny
Finding this goddamn bunny requires enough nonsense island-hopping to give even Jack Shephard a colossal headache. Or a footache. Whatever. You try Googling the stupefying, head-banging, developer-designed-this-with-the-intention-of-playing-you-like-a-fool directions to find the bunny yourself or you could just watch this YouTube video.
Diablo 2 – Cow
It’s the Cow Level. If you haven’t heard of it, you probably have never heard of Diablo 2 or cows.
Goldeneye – Breakdancing Glitch
The Break Dancing Glitch – a peculiar thing caused by tilting your Nintendo 64 – is sort of magical. It birthed a meme in Japan that has failed to mature in the American encubator we call YouTube, but for me, that’s what makes Break Dancing Glitch so special. It’s a distinctly Japanese meme, so when I watch it I can think, “This must be what Japanese feel like when they watch “Porkchop sandwiches.”
