The First Gaming Easter Egg
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2016
- Video game designer Warren Robinett was a pioneer of his craft. He conceptualized and programmed the groundbreaking video game "Adventure" for the Atari 2600. A huge commercial success, the game sold over one million cartridges. But "Adventure" did more than delight consumers; Robinett hid something within the game that altered the landscape of video games forever.
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That 15 year old? He grew up to make the game called “The oasis”
Maybe. But do remember that it is made clear in both the book and the movie that Halliday grew up in Ohio, not Utah.
I must not be fun at parties, am I?
Tommy Dee yes, you are fun at parties... “ HEY TOMMY OVER HERE “ “Sorry i can’t come” “ WHY “ “I’m trying to prove to Bryan that getting drunk while gambling is a bad idea”
Poor Bryan, he lost all his money
This is the first time I can say lol because I’m actually laughing out loud
Man i thought that vidoep game in ready player one was not real but im glad its real
his name was james halliday!
"Why couldn't game designers have their name on their game" as a game artist, I FEEL YOU.
Mugen Mugay what games have you designed?
killer 3686 no man's sky
Robert Reynald lol
Meet: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Mugen Mugay What games have you done work on
The meaning of a game isn't to just win, it's to explore, to find new ways to play, and to have fun.
Wade watts
In the summer of 1984, I was really into playing Adventure. I took graph paper and drew out all of the maze screens and indicated how they all connected together. During this process, I found a tiny dot when I realized that in one maze screen, the objects always blinked like when you had two or more items in the same screen. It was funny because I only had the sword on me at the time.
While I was drawing out the maze screens, I noticed an area in the screen that you couldn't get to --hence I grabbed the bridge and crossed into that section and bah-dink I had the dot. I couldn't even tell what I had in the maze screen, so I carried it out into one of the main hallways and noticed that when there was something else on the screen the objects blinked. Now, I knew about this "dot" for days before one day I was in that hallway and a dragon came after me. Armed with the dot and no sword I ran from it and to my amazement I accidentally went through that solid line and ended up in that room.
I was blown away at what I saw. At first, I didn't even realize it was writing. And then, I couldn't figure out how to read it. I remember it saying something like Created Warren by Robinett. I was like ok, a warren was created by robinett. A warren of what? And what the heck is a Robinett? I spent days trying to figure out if there was more to this room than these words and even more time looking for other hidden rooms. It was many many years later (maybe a decade) until one day I was on an Atari newsgroup (remember those, folks?) and came across a post about this Easter Egg. I was shocked to read about it because I had found that thing in the game about a decade prior.
pretty unfortunate that these occurrences don't happen much in gaming anymore due to the internet spreading easter eggs and secrets like wildfire
Those moments must be very magical
who would win?
the top leading video game franchise with a lot of tough men and programmers
or
one sneaky boi
one sneaky boi
aka
warren robinett
is a sneaky boi a hacker?
dude that remoinds me of ready player one
@@buskool5491 oh wow yeah man
It’s not like his choice to put his name on a video game had any impact in the failure of atari
0:19 it says “1978 -NOT SO ATARI INC,” 😂
Yeah😂
Ready Player One!
Leonardo Beltran ready player 2
Leonardo Beltran Read the book :D
Shadow Senpai I almost finished it :)
Leonardo Beltran GET OUT OF MY ROOM IM PLAYING MINECRAFT
Lmao
me: *sees game theorist.*
me:" BUT HEY THAT'S JUST THEORY. A GAME THEORY."
Laurawantstobattle125 I'm glad someone else thought about that
Laurawantstobattle125 go away
Laurawantstobattle125 Shit this ain’t game theory
Wat
I was thinking about that
This is the 4th videogame easter egg:
RT-55J noted that Halo 2600 writer Ed Fries had previously found an Easter Egg in Atari's Starship 1, which would have been accessible on 13th August, 1977, but after some research suggested that Spitfire was released later on 31st December, 1977, a newspaper ad for the game as part of the Channel F's package was unearthed, and which seems to conclusively reveal that it existed on 15th April, 1977, seemingly making Spitfire home to the first ever video game Easter Egg.
In 2004, an Easter egg displaying programmer Bradley Reid-Selth's surname was found in Video Whizball (1978), a game for the Fairchild Channel F system.
And then there was E.T.
Watch the Angry video game nerd review E.T. for Atari on youtube! Most of his reviews r hilarous! Huge library of games n consols.
Taekwon Crawfish your profile pic is cancer
@Whitebeard The Drunken Pirate
I was expecting fortnite to be the worst game but okay
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Lamexx `v ́ It’s much better than E.T., I’ll tell you that.
0:05 I'm surprised I didn't see any A E S T H E T I C comments about this.
it's spelled "A E S T H E T I C"
OK thanks.
AleVenixYT Cancer WhAt Do YoU mEaN
TheMrL01
When you dont care
/music plays
TheMrL01 w
I remember solving this back in the 80s. Forgot all about it until I recently read ready player one and seeing the movie. I still have my 2600 (and adventure). Sometimes, when we visit my senior mother's house, my young kids like to play it in my mom's old tube tv. I may have to resolve adventures Easter egg, for old times sake :). Nicely done Mr Robinett!
Not the first easter egg, the easter egg hunter did a video on the actual first.
Larry Bundy Jr woah first like from a verified youtuber
wrong
It was an arcade game called "Star ship 1" the easter egg was "Hi Ron" which gave you 10 lives.
The game dates back to 1979, 1 year before atari adventure.
Not to water down the significance of the easter egg from adventure seeing as it was more accessible than the easter eggs before it.
Couldn't care less.
This wasn't the first Easter Egg ever, merely the first one discovered. There's at least three others that predate it - Starship 1 (1977), Spitfire (1977), and Video Whizball (1978), all released before Adventure (1980) - but they were all discovered much more recently. Video Whizball's was discovered in 2004, Starship 1's in 2017, and Spitfire's was just discovered a year ago, in August of 2019. Adventure's was discovered in its own time, within a couple of years of the game's release (it was published in the 1982 book How To Master The Home Video Games), so that's why it's often considered the first.
True!
Adventure was the first video game I ever played. I can remember going to the local K-Mart back in the 70's and play the demo they had while my parents shopped.
first like uwu
Nice! If I ever make a game, I'm making a room dedicated to Warren Robinette.
THERE AIN’T NO E.
some say that 15 year old kid grew up to become the president of a big country
I don’t get it قناة ماهر - maher channel
قناة ماهر - maher channel Trump.
Ok
Darth Vader Papers, please
قناة ماريو - mario channel I
0:19 But hey, that’s just at theory. A *game theory* .
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lol
Dont steal comments
not stealing
Admiral
Alexis Ffrench - Elixir
Music in the intro of the video.
Don't thank me. Thank Shazam.
That was really cool to hear it straight from Warren, thanks.
Cut back to 2011-2012. I'm about 7-8 years old, my parents dug up an old atari. Me playing a game called "Adventure". Good times.
Haven't seen this one ty for the content xD
Thank you so very much for making videogames funner and exciting.
the only dislike on this video was atari
Atari duplicated itself and disliked the video 105 times.
XD
@BenShapiro2 WT now there’s a lot of dislikes, there must be A LOT of Atari workers who disliked.
Knew about this from ready player one
Ryde Mk literally read that paragraph this morning, was curious so here I am
i have the book.
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That 15 year old had a lot of time on his hands. It's not easy to find if you don't know what you're doing.
From what I remember, you have to go into the black castle with the bridge that lets you go through walls (on one of the high difficulties). Way in the back somewhere you can walk through a wall that contains a single pixel object that's the same color as the floor. You take it all the way back to the beginning area without losing it and put it near the colored barrier on the second screen. You then have to put a few extra objects in this room to make the colored barrier flash, allowing you to walk through it and see the room with the credit in it.
Not easy to just figure out.
Also, this game is a technical marvel when compared to most other 2600 games at the time that pretty much all took place on a single screen.
This became well known even at the time of the release. I remember finding it on my Atari.
I like how during the pixelated intro the Cessna logo is still the same
Fantastic version of this story on NPR.
0:18
Does anyone know where to find a copy of the Warren Robinett game? I can't find it neither on Ebay or Amazon
Ready Player One anyone???
Claudio R YES i'm glad that Sorrento lost.. but did he got out of jail? We'll find out in the next part of the book
Dat rhymed
@@strangerman7726 😂😂😂
One of my favorite books. The Audio Book version is excellent. I just wish the movie was closer to the book but given all the material in the book and the issue with licensing the rights to various titles, it probably would not have been possible.
@@EmperorVitrag wait theres a part 2!?
This guy sounds like he just woke up
Coolbrobro12 roblox....
Your profile pic tells me that you wake up in the morning and you are ready to online date
Can’t believe I read all of ready player one without realizing this was the game I grew up on. Have been trying to find the name forever
My first easter egg i found was on the first simcity on the SNES..u had to plug a controller in the 2nd port only n all this crazy stuff but it was worth it since it gave u a creator menu
This guy is amazing! He basically created the things I personally love most about video games! Very cool! 🎉
Thank you Warren
Thanks. I followed this guide and took the control of OASIS.
Just finished reading "Ready Player One", so I decided to watch this
And Ready Player One was inspired...
It's the friking movie
this definitely is the first fetch quest easter egg. way more complex than a button sequence, which is basically a back door hack.
That TV looks cool
My friend had a glitchy 2600 that if you jiggled the Power switch opened that room. I knew about the room within days of release because of that. It would not be until 20yrs later when I started collecting games that I learned about the dot method to get you to the room despite playing the game for days on end. I always thought I needed to glitch the 2600 to see it.
2:26 where can I get that very artistic circle?
Where do you get the game Adventure
I have the atari 2600 and Its so fun. You did a good job.
0:05 MACINTOSH 420 V A P O R W A V E
He did the ultimate sneak move.
and it happens to be Easter weekend right now as I watch this!
David and Goliath of the game world, Nice one Dave.
I remember watching my Dad find that Easter egg. I've done it countless times myself. I can't imagine how anyone would find it without knowing it's there!
I remember playing that game
Cool!
So this is where it all started!!
Although twas the hidden secret that resulted in “Easter Egg” being coined, and deserves to be recognized for that reason, it wasn’t the first Easter Egg. Earlier Eggs were found in games for the Channel F, a console that predates the Atari 2600. The first Easter Egg in an arcade game called Starship 1 from 1977, and the first Easter Egg in a computer game goes way back to 1973 in a game called Moonlander! Very little information exists about Moonlander, but I have a video on my channel all about it and the other pre-Adventure Easter Eggs on my channel if you want to know more.
Ready Player One Brought me here! Covid quarantine 2020
0:06
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I remember stumbling onto this when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I thought it was a game glitch and sadly didn't recognize it as legible wording until I showed it to one of my friends.
What model TV was he using here?
Thats really cool omg
0:06 who else saw that and hope they made an episode with vektroid and how he made his music
0:33 rip atari 2600 cart of warren robinet. we will remember him.
It’s not the first Easter Egg anymore, Spitfire for the Channel F had the name of the creator through the use of a long string of button compilations. The game released in 1977. The Easter egg was discovered in 2019
Favorite game !
This actually isn’t the first video game Easter egg.
The first Easter egg was in a 1977 game called ‘Starship 1’.
The game in this video was produced in 1978, which you can see on the box at 2:01
Top cool man!
It's kind of funny that I'm watching this on the day before Easter
Looks like they decided they can have their names on it because my river Raid cartridge says conceived and designed by carol Shaw
Awesome
The film, ready player one, included this in Halliday competition
Ever heard of the “hi bob” Easter egg? Now that was the first Easter egg.
The easter egg trend for devs have evolved into talking zombies,pony guns,gigantic donuts,even a hidden ending
What tv is that
There was a episode in clarence when he played this game
Ready Player One movie puted that game in the scene
-U didnt have to win, u just need to play to see the easter egg (it means to see the creator's name in that game)
This one was in player one movie in the Easter ending
I saw this game on the ready player one movie ending
I got a Genesis ad before vid
0:07
*Holy hell... The cartridges move?!*
Top sneaky stuff.
Oh man warren robinet you are a genius!!!
Me : Did i just see game theory .
Matpat : Did someone say , Theory
Warren Robinett is a literal god to the gaming community.
I like how all the custom cartridges all have "game program...kind of"
I'm assuming this was referenced in the ready player one movie.
I already knew this from Ready Player One, great read.
Parzival Good name ;)
terrible read
He pulled sneaky on us
I love easter eggs, They taste great!
Anybody else notice the activison sign on the back of the game at 2:11
That room was in Anorak's Castle. James Halliday Hid the easter egg there. And Parzival got it ^-^ . Ready Player One !
Ron milner who worked for Atari inserted an Easter egg in the arcade game“ starship 1 “ where if a person followed a sequence of controls the screen would flash the message “ hi Ron “ and the player would be awarded 10 free games and this was before the game adventure
Me see game theory
Me:But hey thats a theory,a half-baked theory
Like how it’s Easter today
ADVENTURE WAS MY CHILDHOOD, AND I REMEMBER FINDING THAT BUT I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT WHAT IT SAID
Without this, we wouldn’t have most things...
Wow I’m surprised my city was mentioned in a UA-cam video.
Guy: *throws cartridge* yeet
Nice intro
Adventure for the Atari and I only know that because one I played it when I was 8 and I read ready player one
I knew it from the last key in ready player one