First easter egg ever found in Adventure. The most obscure secrets in video games
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If, Dear Reader, you have at least once wondered where the term "easter egg" came from in video games, we have a brief piece of history for you. When the video game market was in its infancy, companies would not announce who developed a given product. Warren Robinett, creator of 1979's Adventure, decided to leave a mark in the form of a secret room, where he placed the text "Created by Warren Robinett." To discover this room, the player had to take the gray square and use it to go to the other side of the wall.
The secret was revealed after nine months by one gamer who decided to write to the game's publisher, Atari. When Warren's manager learned of the affair, he did not get angry with the programmer. On the contrary, he was amused by this ingenuity. He likened the discovery of the mystery to finding an Reinet Easter egg. The name kind of stuck.
Mortal Kombat – hidden diagnostics menu
The diagnostic menu in the arcade machine versions of the classic Mortal Kombat series waited for a very long time to be discovered. The EJB menu (named after series co-creator, Ed Boon) allowed you to select any warrior, see all endings, activate the game without tokens, and take advantage of many other debug options to test various aspects of this production.
The discovery was made by hackers digging into the code of the slot machines. The special menu was activated by pressing the block button on the first and second player in a specific order (different for each of the three installments).
