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* [[Trope Codifier]]: The most famous early Easter Egg in a video game (to the extent where it's often [[Older Than They Think|mistakenly believed to be the first]]) was Warren Robinett's famous hidden signature room in the ''[[Adventure (1979 video game)|Adventure]]'' cartridge for the [[Atari 2600]]. By finding an item [[Pixel Hunt|hidden deep in a maze of the same color]] and bringing it into the right room, one could move though a previously impenetrable barrier, where the text "Created by Warren Robinett" could be found. This was in an era when Atari refused to put the names of game creators on any of its game packaging, and it neatly took up the leftover memory on the 4K ROM comprising the cartridge.
** An Atari executive coined the term when he compared finding the hidden room to "hunting for Easter eggs". While Atari hired a programmer to find where Robinett's name was in the code, they let it slide; Robinett later asked the programmer what he would have done if told to delete the code, and was told that he would have switched it to "Replaced by (programmer's name)".
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past]]'' contains one of the most unusual Easter eggs in gaming history. ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' magazine held a contest and the winner, Chris Houlihan, had a [[Contest Winner Cameo|secret room named in his honor]] placed in the game. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514031743/http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Top_Secret_Room "The Chris Houlihan Room"] is filled with Rupees (the monetary unit of the game) and a small plaque identifying it. Many players are still unaware of its existence, due to the difficulty it takes to get there: outside of cheating, it can only be accessed if the game fails to load an area.
** Because it's contested whether the Chris Houlihan Room is meant to be in the game at all. Evidently, not everyone at Nintendo was on board with the contest, so the room ended up getting added and removed multiple times as the game went back and forth between decisionmakers who thought Chris ought to get his room, and those who thought the contest was bunk and shouldn't be honored. Leaving it in but buried so that it was inaccessible to anyone who wasn't cheating was evidently the compromise they came up with.
* One of the doors in a hallway on Kamino in ''Lego [[Star Wars]]'' leads to a room where there is a puzzle to be completed. If you solve the puzzle, the floor becomes a disco and a disco version of the ''Star Wars'' theme plays.
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