Adventure (Atari 2600) Finding the Hidden Easter Egg
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Relive this epic adventure in Dolby Surround Sound of one giant, square dot and his quest to find the golden chalice.Atari's Adventure, released in 1979, contained one of the first video game "Easter eggs", the name of the programmer (Warren Robinett). Here's a long and roundabout way on where's it hidden and what it does. Hope you can stand all the excitment in this 10 min video of one of the classic, old school videogames. The bat can be a royal pain in the a$$. I tried to lock him in a castle but he was too slick for me.
I followed this guide and got half a trillion dollars and total control of the OASIS. Thanks a lot!
idk idk Absolutely not!
Wait, are you Wade Watts? THE Wade Watts/Parzival???
Darryl Lazakar Ha ha ha, I might be!
Awesome
Robert Downey Jr. So you are going to end avengers infinity war with part 1 and 2
Wow, he just pwned that red duck. I swear to god though, it looked like a real dragon out of Skyrim to an 8 year old kid back in 1979
Damn ur right
Ahh dragonborn
so r u still alive?
maybe more of a seahorse to some people
I thought that was a duck when i was little
Ready Player One was so much FUN despite its flaws. The fact the first easter egg was given such prominence in the book and film just warms my heart. I will be a kid forever in my heart, and there ain't nothin' wrong with that.
The new games of today are nowhere near as difficult as all the old school games
cmon they still make some hardcore games today. They were probably all harder back then for the most part but i dont want to lose faith.
Dark/Demon Souls.
Because they don't have to be. Games are so easily accessable now, games were hard back then because you might get 3 games every year or so.
TheMewWoo Nope, i think its because companies prefer that you finish their games in less than a week so you buy more games...... $$$$
You obviously haven't played La-Mulana.
I first found the easter egg before I found the dot. The power cord connector into the rear of the 2600 was bad and if you wiggled it, the game would glitch and cause the line (that you walk through when you have the dot) to move on the screen. If you glitched it just right, the line would be in the middle of the screen where you could simply walk around it. I have not heard yet of anybody else discovering the easter egg this way.
People came from the book, years ago, but I’m here cause of the movie, last night (March 29th 2018)
Drumf 3D?
Then go read the book it’s 100x better
DejaVoodooDoll not at all....
Drumf this wasn't in the book, he had to recite the script of Monty Python's Holy Grail
wrong, the last challenge Parzival have to do in the book after reciting Monty Python's Holy Grail, is to find a way to start consoles in a room, then to find this easter egg on an Atari 2600.
The only reason I'm here is because of Ready Player One.
Same here.
TlalocGaming yep me too
RelentlessAssault me also
RelentlessAssault Esooooo!! ;D
RelentlessAssault Yeeaaaah ;D
Still have this game. Me and my wife still play it on my Atari 7800 (plays 2600 games). Its amazing a game almost 40 years old is still fun to play.
Like if you got this from ready player one
Knew about the Easter Egg before, but actually came to see this video after I read Ready Player One.
Greetings from Germany :)
Im an avid reader but that is the ONLY book I ever re-read. Just finished it again, so amazing! :)
Yee
As you may know, game detectives are working on a ready player one arg, so here i am
Yep, me too. Re-read it straight away!
Was able to find the Easter Egg today on an online version of "Adventure". Well worth the time and attempts. Thank you, Warren.
7:32 u mad?
then afther the trolling bat, player won't move for some seconds, probably cursing while breaking stuff
This is in the gray area between "feature" of the game and "easter egg". Easter eggs would typically be extremely difficult for someone to figure out on their own (like in Gaplus parsec 1, waiting for all enemies to come out, then only shooting the enemy in the bottom row, 2nd from the left, then purposely dying by crashing into the mother ship, then taking the flag that appeared, THAT is definitely an easter egg). But in Adventure for the 2600, by simply exploring, I found that dot and eventually figured out I could cross that line. I knew the dot had to so something.
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.
I wonder how my brother knew about this easter egg back in 1980 without internet or video game magazines even. Pretty crazy
Congrats, you have control of the OASIS now.
ready player one
mariano12233 yea
Moises Fox the book
The Book
Whatafack ready player one is do 2018 and old 5 years ?
I am actually ld enough that I can remember actually DOING this when I was 8 years old with my best friend. We played the hell out of this game so much and just explored every single area in it. I remember finding that little dot for the first time and laughing when we heard the sound of picking something up and said "there is something there? oh wait a minute hahahaha its a tiny little dot. That must be nothing. We probably had the game for 2 years before we wound up accidentally finding the secret place. Of course we were just little kids and so to us it was nothing more than "oooo cool a little secret room with a pretty glowing colors name in it." I NEVER thought I would ever see this again until the movie REady Player One. When I saw them playing this game in the movie I knew "oomg... this is what they are going to use.... this is the first easter egg ever in a game!!!! OMG I actually did this!"
me too :)
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.
I soooooo loved this game as a kid!! hours of fun too me. I did find the easter egg and it put chills down my spine.
a big thank you for my grandmother for buying this as a gift for all of us.
Just came out of watching Ready Player One. I plan on buying the book super soon lol
challenges in the book are different. I enjoyed both but favored the book a bit more. Easy read
Ready Player One!
Loved that. Played this game for hours over 35 years ago and never found out about the egg until Ready Player One. That Bat used to drive me crazy, leaving objects in needed stuck in walls... 7:34 sums it up! Thanks for posting, fond memories...
Thank you for this video and thank you Warren Robinett for giving us the very first easter egg.
I definately like the music of this game. Brilliant.
Ready player one?
Hi
Ready player one brought me here!
"Ready player one"bring me here.
ASK YOURSELVES, ARE YOU WILLING TO FIGHT!?
I found the dot back in the day but didn't know what to do with it.
Loved playing this game as a child. I also remember being terrified of the dragon.
98% of the comments: Ready player Juan
2%: who's still playing in *_insert current year here_*
Ready Player One brought me here!!!
hey awesome! brings back so many great memories! Thx for this.
Ready Player One best film ever for the pop culture boys and not only
I remember when word got out about the Easter egg, damn! That was 40 years ago!
He was so proud of what he made thank u warren for creating a gaming mainstay
Here from "ready player one" movie
I use to capture the bat to drag the dead dragons back to the castle. And mount the keys on their noses. Id pull in everything as a token of my Glory.
Ready Player One brought me here
Remember playing this game when I was 4. It was the Dark Souls for its time. GIT GUD, SON.
ok im a little confused what is happening in the video but from what i am understanding you found an invisable item and used it to enter the room
also its amazing how i never knew about this easter egg despite playing the game for years now
Apparnely, finding the hidden Easter Egg involves running around for half the video doing things that don't involve the Easter Egg in any way. Including successfully trapping the bat in the Gold Castle... and then spending several minutes carefully UNtrapping the bat for some reason. And then spending the rest of the video having your stuff stolen by the bat repeatedly.
Yep crazy. This video is for
Clowns
loved the video, this just brought me back in time.
U can trap the dragons alive in the yellow castle and put them in the corner so they don't eat you, while alive. Put Atari on intermediate mode, then take the sword and bring it to the yellow castle and put it on the opened door.. it then goes in the castle... then go in the castle and push the sword left or right into the wall.. then lead dragons into the yellow castle and they get trapped in the corner, as they try to go left or right but get stuck in the corner.
Ok, someone else ended up being as bored or curious as myself.
Ready player one made this and many other 80's games sound amazing, what an amazing anticlimax! i haven't got a clue what's going on and the graphics are baffling at times.
mario is an 80s game
Ready Player One:
95% 2010-2018 games
5% 2009 and older
Though the 5% was siiick, the 95% was.. alright.
Sergeant Detergent well for the movie yeah but the book is much different
I want to say I found out about the dot in Dynamite Magazine.
Did anybody else hit the reset lever right after winning? It made what would now be called dubstep.
RDY PLYR 1!!!!!
I played this game for hours, hours, and hours, and stumbled upon the Easter egg by accident. Would have been cool to have been the kid who wrote Atari and tipped them off.
Yep, I came here because of ready player one and a few memories of this game. In those years I never realized this had the first Easter egg until I was 14. God I wish I would've discovered that easter egg :(
the box cover is great
Who is coming for "ready player one?"
Just you. No one else has read the book or seen the movie.
"Ready Player One" is best book
Back then you could collect world record pretty easy, just couldn't post them anywhere
I remember someone telling me about this back in the day. It was fun when it was mentioned again in the book "ready player one"
It was my favorite game as a kid
My Godness! I remember when i play at this game (think 1982-1983 when i was 5 yo) What a memories
Here because of Player one :)))
No one cares.
+D4rkpro818 EXCUSE ME ZONNIE?
Read Ready Player One. It's a great book.
And D4rkpro, I'm here too because of it, AND because I'm coding a school project that has an Easter Egg in it ;)
Anyway, shut your piehole Zonnie. Nobody cares about you.
Helena Williams Do I have to care about a stupid book? And nobody cares about your project, I bet it's made on Paint and Unity, typical hip developer wannabe.
+Zonnie Ready Player One IS a good book though, hands down
ShaggieDave What an original comeback.
I always imagine the Zelda Dungeon theme whenever playing this game
Who are you Parzival
*Van Halen's Jump plays*
Yeah unfortunately I believe the secret room was removed, or it may still be there but it no longer says "created by Warren Robinette"
Now i just have to buy a Futuristic Vr Set
NPR brought me here.
Ready player one! haha
The emulator crashed when I was inside the room with the dot. Great!!!
I am seeing all these ready player one comments from 2-4 years ago. I came here from the movie but I do know about the book. I will need to read it.
Amazing What video card r u using, Amd or nvidea? 😂😂
i hooked up a dvr and recorded onto a disk. then uploaded that to like pinnacle studio 14. lololol
Ready player one "Parzival" ¡WIN!
on the old tvs you could also play in black and white. I loved that better.
This could make a great horror game
so true! so true!!!!!!!!
I made it. Funny how it gets you back two screen spaces when you wish to move back to the Robinett credit ...
Did ya ever press down the reset key while the "winning" music played? Try it!
loved this game. remember the dragon eating me than the bat grabbed the dragon and flew us around all the maps. I could even control the bat a bit from within the dragons stomach, lol
Wade watch this video before thats why he can find the easter egg
Ready Player One!
Mario Power First to the Key.
FIRST TO THE EGG!!!
yes I'm ready
Mario Power yay
Frist to the egg
Ready Player One!
Colin Harvey how was this movie mentioned three years ago?
he means the book.
How do you not know this was a book before being a movie ?
ready player one
The programmers had to hide their names as easter eggs because they didn't get any acknowledgement or credit for their work in those days. Everything they did belonged to the company.
Warren Robinett would have gotten fired on the spot if they had found out.
We read ready player one.
Caleb Wurtz some people probably didn't.
I learned about this easter egg when it was a published in a magazine published by Atari. So, they couldn't have been too upset with it.
To quote my favourite vine
“But’cha DIDNT”
And now, we also watched it too.
I got this game in 1980 and spent hundreds of hours on it. The excitement of finding the magic dot and the secret room is was one of the highest points of my gaming career. Was great watching this at age 50.
Same!
And that damn bat....uuuuggggh!
54 now
I completed this feat back in 1981. We didn't call it and Easter Egg then. It was simply called a secret.
Yahuh
Eric Estevez Idk but i think he did
Good old day's
We called it "the magic dot" back then.
Remember when i played this game for the First time...
James Halliday's fortune will be mine!
Sorry master Koon, you must not have read the almanac. Halliday's fortune will be MINE!
I'm sorry but haven't you heard? I already found Hallidays Egg and currently bathing in his money. But a wise man once said: "Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable" - anorak
Lol
R.I.P JAMES
PloKoon09 I was about to say how do you knew about the movie before it came out but then I remembered it was based on a book
Reading READY PLAYER ONE. Oh, man, back in 79 this was the shit, I was 8 years old and spent hours on this game. I never did find this easter egg though and no internet back then to look up cheats, no other players to interact and discuss with, things have really changed. Still the best Atari game ever though.
@Orca the book has been out since 2011
I found the dot but didn't know what to do with it.
I learned this from reading Atari Age magazine back in the day. I always thought it was neat but nobody I demonstrated it for thought so. :P
Wow this man is a legend he still is giving hearts even 10 years later
HahhHhh. Lolololo
I played this game so much, I found the easter egg by accident and my friends and I were freaking out about it for months. It said "Created by Warren Robinett"
Same for me.
My brother and I played this game and had already beaten the game on all difficulties. We decided to see if there were other things pr places in the catacombs so we used the bride to do so. But we accidentally found the gray dot and the message
This comment existed before ready player one
BATTLE STOOORM!!! Holyshit
D_Otec on witch console playing that game
Stefan J
dude. It sure wasn’t the NES. I’ll give you a hint, it starts with an A and ends with an 2600.
lol am joke tho is smol funny
just watched Ready Player One for the first time and came to watch this clip, the birth of easter eggs in video games.
God, I loved this game. I remember finally finding the secret room, and from then on was obsessed with finding secrets in other Atari games, which didn't have them, lol
me too, I solved it back in the 80s. Forgot all about it until reading the book and just now seeing the movie. The book is so much better, in my opinion. However, I did enjoy the movie too. I still have my 2600 and adventure.
I found this myself when this game first came out purely by luck or perhaps playing the game a thousand times. If you keep all the dragons alive, you can lure them into the "Created by" room one by one and trap them there. Once I saw this secret, I always had a fantasy that by completing a game (any future game) or finding the secret hidden area, you then would receive instruction to mail some sort of code to an address so that you could then receive your large cash award.
+skibumfajita that did happen, sort of!
action 52's "ooze" minigame was so hard and badly programmed that they promised a handsome reward to anyone who finished it
i don't think anybody had the patience to play that game all the way through
They made the Swordquest games as a sort of Adventure 2 and they did just that, but they didn't use easter eggs, but rather hints in game that would lead you to pages on the comic book that came with the game. You'd find these hidden words that would form a phrase that you mailed in for a chance at the reward. Swordquest wasn't as good as adventure in my opinion, but I loved the comic books.
Decades into the future, Wade Watts memorizes this video and used the information to win the game for the OASIS.
James Snapp thanks for spoiling it :)
Damn it I was still reading the book!
@@rotundmonibuv5103 That's not what even happens in the book.
@@raidenthenctzenwithinsomni4961 It is though.... He goes through the maze again. I'm not sure if it was in the movie, but I remember it in the book.
@@rotundmonibuv5103 pretty sure that's the movie
Who is here after the movie Ready Player One?
That's why I'm here too!
Me
Me
im here! lol
me too
And in 2018 People complain about having 30fps.
When the consumer doesn't get what they expect, they will complain. I don't get mad when I'm served a cheeseburger at mc donalds, but I would if I got the same cheeseburger when ordered from an expensive restaurant.
Yeah man, growing up in the 80s was great. Game design was confined by physical constraints of the medium. Lots of memorization required (muscle memory).
you are a bad gamer and an even worse person.
@@wayzy6868 who you talking to
@@rowboat10 i kinda forgot, after 9 months i don't think i would be able to remember the intention of a reply i made on this one video
I always thought the yellow dragon looked like Big Bird.
"Sorry, Big Bird, it's you or me."
"You killed Big Bird!"
Strong Bad: "Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!!!"
IT WAS A DRAGON
I own they OASIS and inherited half a trillion dollars.
Ladies and gentlemen; this is it. The first ever video game easter egg in existence. A birth of a new era.
i was scared of that game when i was 5 and just now i found out they where dragons not seahorse lol
+Dylan Lepine me too.
+Dylan Lepine are you talking about the ducks?
Mosca Films what ducks
+XxxMadokaXxx Ha! I knew they were dragons but I always thought of them as ducks when I was playing. I hated that damned bat though.
I thought they were ducks.
here is the funny part... not only did I have this game when I was 9, my brother and I found the egg. We just thought it was a neat little thing and that was that. I never gave it another thought until 10 minutes ago thanks to Ready Player One. I had no idea that we had found the first easter egg.
I like your avatar
Ready player one was a pretty cool book.
i kind of hate to be a party pooper, but an earlier console came with a 'demo cart' that contained the name of a dev within it
room this was an Atari game and the credits had to be a secret because Atari would fire the person if they found out
Ready Player One brought me here.
+Breeze same
same
SAME WTF
xd same
same hahaha
And there we have it. The world's first gaming Easter egg. It's so small compared to Easter eggs these days, but it changed the world of video gaming.
I can still remember the maze patterns.l haven't seen the game since I was a kid, man I loved this game.
I played this as a child in the '70s. I DREAM the maze patterns.
Lol I got an Atari flashback console ut of nostalgia a couple weeks ago and stil, remembered the maze routes I learned what, 40 years ago. Here to finally get that egg. I did find the dot when I was a kid, but that's it.
when I was a kid I found the dot but I never figured out what to do with it. Of course there was no internet back then and one of my friends ever even found the dot. Crazy!