Favorite easter egg in adventure game
 

The alternative puzzle "solution" in Broken sword 2. Goat and BASS easter eggs were pretty well too

Yeah, the BASS easter egg was excellent! One of the best I've seen. I wish more adventure games had easter eggs like that.

I like the BASS one too.

Also killing the hampster in Maniac Mansion, but that might not count.

Think Al Lowe was the master of Easter Egg. Of course everyone knew what the objective was when they started looking for them.

The copy of Maniac Mansion that you can play on the computer in Weird Ed's room in Day of the Tentacle has got to be the best. Where else can you find an entire game hidden inside another?

GK3 had lots of great Easter eggs, and a few of those in Riven were really clever. Those in LSL were also fun (especially the one with Suzi Cheatem in LSL3 -- that one was unexpected!).

And, while it would belong to the underground section, I think my all-time favourite has to be the madness of King Graham from KQ2VGA. :devil:

The spaceship easter egg in King's Quest 4 AGI. You could actually warp to this secret room on a spaceship that had various ships flying past outside. Inside, there were programmers and designers from the Sierra team that you could look at and talk to. A great easter egg, although it was unfortunately not included in the more popular SCI version.

Blowing up Manny Calavera was a lot of fun.

How?

Wasn't that the one where you had to type 'boom' or something? I remember reading about something like that, but I'm not sure I've ever tried it myself.

I think it was 'blam', and Manny actually said "ouch!", if I remember correctly. I really liked the easter eggs in Larry 7, they were very well done.

I think I need an explanation to what an easter egg is. Some kind of surprise that turns up?
How do you know what games have easter eggs?
Tell me all about it!:)

What alternative Puzzle solution?


2 that should be mentioned is the Drowning sequence in the original MI and being able to revisit that scene in CMI :D

Exactly. Usually, you have to do something rather non-sensical (such as pulling a lever ten times, finding a hidden hotspot, etc.) and you get a funny, or unexpected, reward. For instance, in TLJ,

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if you use the leaf (from the plant next to April's room) on Abnaxus's lawn, you unlock the Book of secrets, with artwork and out-takes (which also gets unlocked when you finish the game anyway, so maybe that's not a great example -- but you get the idea).

I'm not sure how people learn about Easter eggs; I think developers often drop hints around the time of the game's release (for instance, there was an elaborate series of riddles to solve to find the Easter eggs in Riven).

http://forums.adventuregamers.com/sh...ad.php?t=15096

http://www.eggheaven2000.com/Games/ here is a good site for finding easter eggs in games

The X-Files is near and dear to my heart, so when the "It's Scully!" choice came in in the police station in TLJ, I was very, very happy.

When you find the can of gas in Zak McKracken, "It´s for another game".
A clever reference to the chainsaw in Maniac Mansion.:)

Please tell me about the Beneath a Steel Sky easter egg.
I´ve never played Broken Sword 2, so i´m a bit curious about the egg.:)

Here's the easter eggs for Grim Fandango

Cathy

http://dod.dotagame.com/eggs.php

:) Thanks for the link Cathy. I'm playing G.F right now and I've just learned about Easter eggs.

OH! The X-files scene where

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If you go down the route of paranoia(by selecting the right emotions whent he time came) When you go to see MR.Wong in the mourge his face moves as if his nose itches :D

Hands down favorite for me would be the 'Don't Press This Button' buttons in the escape pod in Space Quest 1 EGA and VGA versions. The first one is cute, but they really turned it into something hysterical in the VGA version.

Oh, and firing your gun when it was still in your holster and blowing your leg off in Police Quest was always good for a laugh ;).

Here's the easter egg in Tony Tough and the Night of Roasted Moths. Prograph calls it a "bonus level",...

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...but there's nothing to do there except look at the artwork. This was confirmed in an email they sent me.

I captured the full-length, so you can see everything. The picture contains a slight spoiler.

http://www.madrabbit.net/temp/tony_tough_ee.jpg

Man,I love easter eggs...

-the console in GK3, the one that makes the hotel desk clerk guy hop is a riot.

-LSL7 is my favorite game for eggs, I especially like the one in dialogue where you hear Al Lowe and others cracking up in the background of the recording session, lol. There are soooo many things hidden in this game....

The dialogue box in Starship Titanic was a fun way to unlock hidden conversations, lol. Was never able to finish the game (lost the 3D glasses), but the dialogue kept me entertained.

Easter eggs in Riven? Tell me, tell me!

See one of my other posts in this thread for a link.

I like the Terminator2 reference in The Dig, maybe not an easter egg per se, but still funny stuff.

When Boston asks Maggie about Brink (by clicking his picture in the dialog interface) the sequence plays in the following order:

Boston: Have you seen this boy?
Maggie: What?
Boston: Nothing!

For all of you in the dark... Boston Low was voiced by Robert Patrick, the guy who played T-1000 in Terminator 2, where he delivers this, now cult, line to John Connor's best friend.
Also if you examine your Palm PC, he replies It's T-1000 model :)

Any easter eggs in the Space Quest Universe. They're all great.

Guybrush calling the Lucasarts helpline in Monkey Island 2

Gillian calling the ex-directory numbers in Snatcher

Gillian talking to the fortune teller in Snatcher

Playing mainly Lucasarts, Simon the Sorceror, Broken Sword and Discworld games, I don't think i've encountered many real easter eggs!

i liked the knife playing bit in Full throttle.

In Harvester, your mother would give you a funny and disturbing response if you typed in a particular very naughty word into the parser.

...bysmitty

The reaction of Jim in Black Dahlia if you make too many wrong guesses looking through the file cabinet at the warehouse. It scared me so bad it made me jump right out of my chair.

Oh using the Mes in white chamber and trying to solve a certain puzzle before getting the code you need to solve it :D

What happens? I don't have the game but i'm interested :)

There are easter eggs in Broken Sword. And a rather nice one in Discworld 2.

On the subject of the Discworld games, someone on another forum once posted:

Near the end of the DW1 English.txt, there is a line that reads:
“I want to be the first person in a game to say #$%&*.”

And after the lines describing the Luggage in the DW2 English.txt, the following lines appear:
“I want to be the first person in a game to say f**k!
What do you mean I've already said it?
Alright then, I want to be the first person in a sequel to say f**k!
Anyway, nobody wrote in and said they'd heard it in the first game, it must have been too well hidden!”

I assume that these are Rincewind’s lines and that there is some way to make him say them in each game (as part of an Easter Egg), but apparently nobody has figured out how…

Hint for the f*** line in DW1, supposedly supplied by the Lead Programmer of Discworld 1 and 2: “In a large group, the ayes have it”

Has anyone ever heard Eric Idle say those lines?

I'm pretty sure that back in the day a friend of mine extracted the audio for Discworld and we would have noticed if someone said f**k.

Are you saying this other poster was talking through his pointed hat? All I know is that it IS in the file English.txt.

I'm going to have to get the game out now, extract the audio and listen to it all :I

Not sure if I can be bothered to play it all the way through again to try to find the egg. "That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work. That doesn't work."

LOL!

Here's the thread at the other forum I was talking about, where you can read what the Lead Programmer said about the easter eggs.


http://www.justadventure.com/cgi-bin...28210100/11#11

Umm.. That (link) doesn't work. :D I'll have a look at it when it comes back online or something? "104 An Error Has Occurred!: Unable to open 128210100.txt "

The only large group I can think of is the dragon... conjurers. The ayes ahve it, no idea if that's referring to having to do something with 'affirmative' or if it's a cryptic clue to do with 'eyes' or if the large group is a collection of objects. It could be anything :(

The link doesn't work for me either. Don't know what I did wrong, because when I'm logged in I can access the thread. I am kind of stupid that way...

Anyway, here's what this Lead Programmer guy wrote in reply to the poster who started the thread:

Hi all,

To-date no-one (that I know of) has ever found either of the "Eric Idle says F***" cheats that I put into Discworld I & II.

There are matching sound-bytes for the text in both games (which would make great Windows sounds if extracted).

The speech file in Discworld 1 was not "bleeped" (and see what happened below). The F-word in Discworld 2 was bleeped out (to keep the publisher happy... see why below).

Here is the story I was told...

Someone's PC crashed while running Discworld I and it started playing all the sound bytes end-to-end.
They listened to the lot and were amazed when Eric Idle spoke the infamous phrase:
"I want to be the first person in a game to say f***!... f***, f***, f***, f***, f***!"

Result: one unhappy publisher... one embarassed lead programmer

I have to wonder if anyone ever will find my cheats, as exact sequences of actions are required (more so in DWI than DWII).

Happy hunting!

Dave Johnston
Lead Programmer Discworld I & II

Two posters said they HAD heard Rincewind say it:

A. Thank gawd for this topic. i did hear it once, when it first came out, but couldn't ever reproduce it. Thought I was going nuts (it was about 4-5am, and i'd been playing the previous 8 hours).

B. I'm pretty sure I heard it when the game was made. However, how can you tell it was an easter egg? It's just a piece of dialog like any other in the game. I never thought it qualified anything out of the ordinary.