Getting your questions ready
Getting your questions ready
All 10 questions with answers and explanations. Play this daily
Q 01In what year was Adventure, the Atari 2600 game with Warren Robinett's hidden-name Easter egg, published?
1980
Adventure was published by Atari for the 2600 in 1980; its concealed 'Created by Warren Robinett' room is the best-known early video game Easter egg.
Q 02In what year was the 'Happy Birthday, Lauren!' Easter egg finally discovered in Halo 3, released in 2007?
2014
To activate this Easter egg, players had to set their Xbox 360's date to December 25th and press both thumbsticks during the loading screen.
Q 03What did players find beyond an unmarked back entrance in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, 14 years after release?
An explorable pirate ship
The portal drops Kain onto the HMCS Bitter, a fully explorable corsair ship crewed by sabre-wielding pirates, plus a second teleporter to a future version of the wreck.
Q 04Which 2017 action RPG had a hidden cheat code, found four years later, that skips to the final ending?
Nier: Automata
Modder Lance McDonald revealed the input in January 2021 — three years and 10 months after launch — and director Yoko Taro acknowledged how long fans had taken to find it.
Q 05Which 1987 NES boxing game hid a crowd cue for an instant knockout that went unnoticed for nearly 30 years?
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
In April 2016, Reddit user midwesternhousewives spotted that a bearded spectator in the front row ducks at the precise instant a punch will floor Piston Honda or Bald Bull in their second bouts.
Q 06What does the hidden version of Shenmue's park scene, unlocked by a fan two decades on, add?
Nozomi fights the thugs alongside Ryo
A fan known as nullpo found that raising the stray kitten's affinity above 500, then hammering a seven-button sequence in the scene's first eight seconds, turns the Sakuragaoka Park cutscene into a free battle where Nozomi shows off martial arts she is never otherwise seen using.
Q 07What did the hidden input sequence in the 1977 arcade game Starship 1, an early Easter egg, award the player?
Ten free games
Entering the right control sequence displayed 'Hi Ron!' — a nod to programmer Ron Milner — and gave the player ten free games.
Q 08How long after Doom II's 1994 release did its last unclaimed official secret go unfound?
24 years
Speedrunner Zero Master triggered it in August 2018 by letting an enemy knock him into the teleporter on Map 15, closing out the map's secret count 24 years later; John Romero confirmed it could never be entered on foot.
Q 09What does eating the fruit in Shadow of the Colossus's Secret Garden do to the player character?
Decrease stamina
The garden's pale fruit is poison: rather than the usual stat boost, eating it drains Wander's maximum stamina — and his maximum health — making the game harder by choice.
Q 10In 2021 a modder discovered the obscure method to play as Shin Akuma in which fighting game?
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Zeldix programmer Gizaha announced the method in January 2021: on the Super NES version you must top the Arcade Mode high-score table with the initials KAJ, then hold L, X, Y and Start on a second controller while player one enters Versus mode.