Many gamers will know what an Easter Egg is, and it is even likely that you have come across more than one (without knowing it). Nowadays, there are few titles that don’t contain a wink or two, ranging from the simplest (GTA III and its “You weren’t supposed to be able to get here, you know“) to even complete endings, as in Silent Hill 2.
To find the first documented Easter Egg in a video game, we have to go back to 1979. At that time, Atari was a heavyweight in the industry, but that did not free them from treating their programmers with the tip of the toe. They were neither seen nor expected in the credits, nor did they receive any kind of extra pay.
Warren Robinnet, an Atari programmer, was working at the time on Adventure, an action-adventure title whose mission was to find a magic chalice and bring it back to the castle. Fed up with the bad conditions, Robinnet decided to infiltrate the game with his name in a rather convoluted way.
To begin with, it had a hidden object that only occupied one pixel on the screen, so you can imagine how difficult it was to find. Nowadays, you have at your disposal dozens of guides that explain how to get to that point, which by the way, is quite complicated. With the blessed pixel in our possession, we then had to reach a room and cross a wall. After that, you could read the following: “Created by Warren Robinnet“.
As they say, the rest is history. Since then, Easter Eggs have evolved both in meaning and form and there are some games that have taken this to the extreme of absurdity. This, for example, is the case with Trials Evolution.
Trials Evolution and its mystery box
Few users expected everything that Trials Evolution was hiding. Known as one of the craziest Easter Eggs in video games, it all started with some boards. On these boards you could read a code that asked you to perform a specific stunt. Upon completion, a hidden song was revealed that included coordinates camouflaged in Morse code.
In turn, the Morse code took us to a website created especially for this curious puzzle. But that’s not all: at the end of 2013 everything became even more interesting, as images like the ones you see below began to appear on a daily basis.
When they were all finished being published, an observer noticed that each of these images referred to a specific scientist and that the initials of their names revealed a message: BIG FREEZE WITH NO COMPLETE END. On October 9, 2013, the correct code was entered and the following screen appeared:
What did these coordinates say? Well, it was the location of four keys located in different cities: Sydney, Bath, Helsinki and San Francisco. The final message said the following:
“Noon in the year 2113. 1st Saturday in August. One of the five keys will open the box located under the Eiffel Tower”.
The worst of all is that it is real and that such a box exists. We still do not know what it will contain, but users do not stop speculating about it.
The GTA V Infinite 8 Killer
On the other hand, GTA is an expert saga when it comes to Easter Eggs. We could spend all day talking about the dozens of winks that Rockstar has included in their games, but we will focus on one of the most striking of GTA V: the serial killer of Los Santos.
This killer is part of a subplot in GTA V that you may encounter by chance. If you dig into the messages left in the game, you will discover that Merle Abrahams (the Infinity 8 Killer) is a creepy figure who terrorized San Andreas. If you follow his tracks through Blaine County, you can find out everything he did and the location of his victims.
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