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== Misc ==

* On the QWERTY type key arrangement, the word "Typewriter" is contained in the top row. Whether or not this is coincidence is debatable.

** According to [[Cracked]], this was so salesmen could easily type the word to impress potential buyers.

** According to ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19151_5-bad-ideas-humanity-sticking-with-out-habit.html 5 Bad Ideas Humanity Is Sticking With Out of Habit], this was so salesmen could easily type the word to impress potential buyers. ''Cracked'' also has a [http://www.cracked.com/funny-6013-the-qwerty-keyboard/ topic page about the typewriter and its layout].

** "Secretary" can, intentionally or not, be typed entirely with the left hand. Hmm.

* If you're playing the Macintosh version of ''any'' shareware game made by [http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/all.html Ambrosia Software], press 'X' on that game's title screen for an Easter Egg.

* A particularly common form of Easter egg is a "[[Developer's Room|programmers' room]]". Well-known examples are found in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''.

* [[Nintendo]] composer Kazumi Totaka is notorious for hiding a short, 19-note melody in most of the games he's worked on? sometimes so well-hidden that fans are still trying to find it in various games, years after their release. The usual method seems to involve pausing the game at some certain place and then waiting a few minutes.

** It debuted in the Japan-only Game Boy game ''X'', but most of the world heard "K.K. Song" first in ''[[Mario Paint]]'' after clicking the O at the title screen. This led to it being nicknamed "Mario Paint Bomb Song" before Western audiences correlated it with Totaka.

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's ~~Awakening|The Legend of Zelda Links~~ Awakening]]'' even contains three distinct versions: wait in Prince Richard's house for 2 minutes and 30 seconds for one version, enter とたけけ (Totakeke) as your name in the Japanese version and MOYSE [[Regional Bonus|in the German version]] (ZELDA in the US version plays a remixed ''Zelda'' overworld theme instead) for a second version, and a third version that exists in the game code but can't be accessed in-game (or at least no one knows how), while the German translation is the only international release known to have the second one accessible in-game (with Moyse being the last name of the German translation's writer, Claude Moyse).

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]'' even contains three distinct versions: wait in Prince Richard's house for 2 minutes and 30 seconds for one version, enter とたけけ (Totakeke) as your name in the Japanese version and MOYSE [[Regional Bonus|in the German version]] (ZELDA in the US version plays a remixed ''Zelda'' overworld theme instead) for a second version, and a third version that exists in the game code but can't be accessed in-game (or at least no one knows how), while the German translation is the only international release known to have the second one accessible in-game (with Moyse being the last name of the German translation's writer, Claude Moyse).

** ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' series has it available by requesting <code>K.K. Song</code> from Totaka's [[Author Avatar]].

* Somewhat of a visual version of the Totaka tune is the [http://www.dopefish.com/fishinfo.html Dopefish], first found in ''[[Commander Keen]] 4'' and afterwards spread to countless games.

* All Dreamcast game discs have an audio track stating that the disc is for Dreamcast. Sometimes, this track was generic; other times, it was performed in character ("[[Skies of Arcadia|We can't save the world from a CD player, so just? put us back in a Dreamcast, so we can do our jobs!]]").