10 Easter Eggs That Turned Games Into Legends

Here are ten classic and massive easter eggs that turned games into legends.
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0:00 Intro
0:11 Number 10
1:51 Number 9
3:08 Number 8
5:29 Number 7
7:29 Number 6
9:07 Number 5
10:55 Number 4
12:38 Number 3
14:32 Number 2
16:42 Number 1

[@michaelemmerson7760]

"There is no Cow Level" has the same energy as "There is no war in Ba Sing Se"

[@RavencroftRoost]

Jokes on you. "There is no cow level" inspired "there is no war in ba sing se"

[@xelthos2051]

The best part of the Cow Level is that they went around recording other Blizzard employees to say moo without telling them why and that's the voices of the cows in the level.

[@grantjones1299]

Wife had a seizure last night so we both took off work to go to a doc appointment for her, glad you guys always post stuff. Honestly brightens up my day/mood hearing yalls voices. You guys are always there. I know it’s just games..maybe not that serious..but I still appreciate it. Love y’all

[@patrickhensley5858]

Prayer to you and yours, my friends 🙏🏻

[@Jessepigman69]

Hope she's okay mate. Good luck to you

[@franciscochaves2786]

May God take care of you and your wife

[@f1jones544]

Best of luck to you both, hope she's doing alright.

[@MegaCrazycat666]

I hope they got yall the answers and help yall need

[@kriscynical]

Gotta love the deadpan "moo"s for the voice acting in the cow level.😂

[@Ghost19_]

That MGS Psycho Mantis' swapping controller fight is also one of the best easter egg to date, and no one had ever thought of following such gimmick since then.

[@TafelLager12]

I remember how excited i was when a magazine told me there was a spyro demo hidden on my crash bandicoot disc and it turned out to be true! My mind was blown.

[@aidanfrancis2193]

The original way you had to go about unlocking the bow in battlefield 4 will be an all time favorite Easter egg for me. I still remember when the community found the vault but still didn't know how to open the door

[@MusicIsRapture]

Running into the invisible wall in Motocross Madness is all I ever did in that game. It was so much fun just to do it over and over again.

[@bambammartin1556]

The Naboo fighter was broken. What an incredible Easter egg. I remember that reveal was the only topic of conversation on the playground

[@bubeiiii]

Motocross madness sure brings good memories used to play it on my cousin's pc Always tried to climb those mountains only to get blasted

[@tomaspalacios2828]

never finished a race

[@thesilentassassin1167]

Motor cross madness was second game I ever played, Midtown Madness 2 is first

[@CJCacctus]

I used my neighbors CD to install it on computer cause that was just normal back then, one CD unlimited installs. Good times

[@XxJohnnyGATxX]

One of the first PC games I ever played, this video unlocked a whole memory

[@matthewgould8660]

Yes me to but it definitely was no easter egg is was just how the developers kept players in bounds of the map

[@daftmagician]

Factor 5 created rogue squadron. Level 5 are the ones that made the Layton games.

[@morgames5232]

Played motocross madness a fair bit as a kid, and whenever I had a bad day I’d just hop on and launch my guy into oblivion. Thanks for bringing back some good old memories! Another favourite myth of an Easter egg I liked was that Bigfoot was in San Andreas but I never actually got to see it lol

[@tomas-tq3sx]

back in a day you play same games 100 times

[@SpongeBob.Ripped]

Yup, back when you only hand a small handful of games, even if some of them weren't amazing, you played the shit out of them. Now with stuff like Xbox Gamepass and Steam games costing almost nothing on sale, everyone's game library is hundreds

[@bronzin1445]

Game's also valued replayability. There's a reason why people STILL play Deus Ex (2000)

[@marquislexil]

I guess you've never heard of Skyrim. People still do that.

[@enrictudelavoronine2218]

I remember playing the god of war games as a little kid with my father amazing times 😂

[@stuartmorley6894]

​​@@SpongeBob.Rippedit's funny because when I was young and started out playing, first on a Spectrum then an Amiga, games were so easy to copy that we handed about loads at school or between friends. A game had to stick to get you to keep at it. Then as technology advanced suddenly that wasn't the case and you had to rinse the fun out of a game because you couldn't afford loads. Now it's more like when I grew up, although being an adult now I try to not dump a game half way.

[@DarshUK1]

I’m always surprised how many Easter Eggs and hidden stuff Hearthstone has. I don’t think I’ve seen any channel mention it before but it’s pretty wild lol

[@diegoparga9324]

Can confirm. We were really stupid in the 90’s.

[@Zontar82]

no just more creative

[@tomhargett3367]

My thought is that it's more just lack of information. These days, you can take 2 seconds to Google something, but back then printed media was pretty much all we had.

[@brandonwirtz2308]

Can confirm.

[@marquislexil]

Speak for yourself

[@samuraishin1]

Eh...we weren't dumb, we just got smarter slower back then. The rise of the internet sped that process up.

[@AmericanHistoryXX1]

I literally just bought homefront not to long ago and have actually been enjoying the game and had no idea about the time splitters thing until now

[@sad630]

I bought it just for TS2.

[@GamingDad]

Imma install and try to play it soon.

[@markbartoszek8585]

While the All Bonds cheat was really cool, I'd argue the secret island on the Dam level was even more legendary. I remember people obsessing trying to get over to that section of the map, until a GameShark code finally made it happen. Unfortunately, there was nothing there except a tower and a gun turret, but it was still cool to see.

[@creedns]

Oh boy, that sentence just brought me back to the magic of childhood imagination and what if's. Thanks for that.

[@ThatScythe]

The MegaMan Battle Network Series has some great easter eggs. Really not until being an adult and the legacy collection, Bass is the one of the most popular, notable, and timeless characters from the OG Megaman to Battle Network, but pretty much all notable characters existed before in the OG series.

[@PrototypeSpaceMonkey]

I remember "Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles" on PSP had fully playable versions of "Rondo of Blood" and more importantly "Symphony of the Night" on the disc. Arguably the best Castlevania game ever made, and it never released on PSP except as a hidden collectible that unlocked the full game in the extras menu of a kinda mid remake of an older game. I ended up playing it a lot more than the main game, in the end 😆

[@Mesos92]

motocross madness just unlocked a bunch of memories. pc gamer demo discs oh man.

[@danstill6772]

Easter eggs arnt made like they used to

[@NonnyStrikes]

Oh, but they are. Some are even more epic.

[@landongill5039]

Easter eggs come from passion, games aren’t commonly made with much of that anymore

[@starjadiancloneinvestigato1772]

everything is for profit, profit, profit these days. Devs have no time to add things for the fun of it because they have to add their latest battle pass and day 1 patch for the broken game

[@brianmerian2889]

I thought they came from bunnies?

[@lukieq12]

​@@landongill5039 go outside

[@kobart1101]

I''ve looked for clips from motorcross madness for years, only played it when I was about 4/5. Thank you for ending my long quest!

[@bronzin1445]

Homefront The Revolution is criminally underrated and over-hated for no real reason other than the internet saying it's bad. The on-the-fly-weapon customization and conversion is absolutely bonkers in the best way imaginable. Want a 3-burst grenade launcher with a 16x scope? Why the hell not

[@mtnman8783]

I agree. I've had a lot of fun with it. Great underated gem

[@thedarkemissary]

Pay $60 for it then give your opinion.

[@bronzin1445]

@@thedarkemissary I did, my point still stands. People just like riding the hatewagon because they think it makes them look cool. I’m not going to pretend like it didn’t have problems but it proves how moronic and sheepish the gaming community can be

[@thedarkemissary]

@@bronzin1445 No. Your point is that the game is 'over-hated." And while you might have been okay paying $60 for a 3 hour FPS campaign with no competitve multiplayer, the rest of the gaming world was not. Not during the great FPS Renaissance. Wildly open weapon customization didn't save Dead Space 3 either. Plenty of crap games contain a neat mechanic or two. "Underrated" and "Over-hated" are subjective concepts. Therefore, there can't be "real reasons" for either.

[@bronzin1445]

@@thedarkemissary incorrect. You’ve just proven my point

[@mainuddin2916]

I spent hours on motorcross madness when I was a kid. And yes, that Easter egg was absolutely a random discovery for a 7 year old. I would do it 10-15 times before finally getting out if the game. It was really amazing

[@drpuffington_]

I remember LOVING the naboo starfighter as a kid but totally forgot about it until now! So cool

[@JinnyWin5]

I feel like not having cod zombies on this list is pretty insane.

[@erkutsoyer4970]

Jake, you just singlehandedly awoke a core memory from my childhood with that Motocross Madness easter egg! I forgot how much I used to enjoy doing that when I was like 5!

[@leubertmonsydebelen164]

Love seeing these just in time before sleeping!

[@nerdyneo21]

OMG! I played Motocross Madness at a friends house a few times as a kid and TOTALLY forgot about it until this video. Driving into the invisible wall that launched you sky high was hilarious!

[@ZainAli-li2bw]

These guys' upload schedule is insanely good 👍. Always looking forward to your videos 😁

[@k9o3w]

Everybody knew about the secret cow level in diablo 2 though, since most copies were sold with the bradygames strategy guide included which straight up told you about it...

[@toocoolforcuddles]

You know what would be better than having Timesplitters inside another game as an Easter egg. Another Timesplitters. Embracer, you killer of all things good

[@Norulister1]

Haven't played the series for a bit but CoD Zombies started as an easter egg in WaW, def would say that grew to legendary status

[@NokiOTK39]

The Escape from Tarkov ARG is also quite cool, including going to a website and login to several accounts found in short movies and going to real places from several countries to collect the intel IRL to solve the mystery

[@Lex_Koncord]

One of the greatest moments of my gaming career… finding a grandfather under a rock in hell cows…

[@MmaMadman85]

Motocross madness was an absolutely amazing game when I was a kid lol

[@tanujdhillon9949]

Good video gameranx keep it up luv ur videos❤

[@sanitize808]

Holy crap I totally forgot about motor cross madness. 😮 man that’s a deep cut of a game.

[@3up3rn0va]

I am not smart enough to find secrets in games but this is cool! I bet all the jrpgs have ton of Easter eggs I bet 😅

[@carnagesuperior2981]

Nintendo may have told rare to not use that stop and swap mechanic, but it was still built in to something because speedrunners have used it for something and I just can't remember exactly what it was

[@Blobin2413]

My first game on the ps2 was ATV Offroad Fury and it did the same invisible wall trick, always was a good time.

[@itsBenson]

MX Unleashed on the PS2 did it as well. That's where I first did it. I completely forgot about ATV Offroad Fury, that game was awesome

[@simisg2121]

Okg rogue squadron was one of the dopest games back in the day and I remember that Naboo fighter.. omfg..

[@UnbreakableVow626]

I’m so happy the Trials easter egg got a mention because seriously I think about it nearly every day.

[@user-ox1jh5vk7h]

The fact there is a full 4k remaster of Timesplitters 2 THAT EXISTS, but isn’t just available to buy on its own without it being an easter egg is criminal. I would buy it so fast. I would buy all my friends copies. Can we start a petition or something to release the game in full, not as an easter egg???

[@Nitro_Foundry]

We’re making it out of the dark ages with this one, lady’s and gents.

[@QPint]

My favourite Easter Egg thing in gaming has to be the Secret colossus in Shadow Of The Colossus. Even though it never turned into fruition, that was a legendary hunt that lasted a long time.

[@fabulousmaddi]

Omg, I remember when I played Motocross madness, in the 2000 i think it was (born in the 90s) and that game, wow. Speechless.

[@asa2002]

I remember in Banjo Kazooie you could use an Action Replay to fly over the top of the wall to get to the Ice Key...but defo couldn't do anything for the others

[@MZero-zf7io]

Rockstar didn't even know they have Bigfoot and Lochness in GTA San Andreas.

[@cincaicincai7847]

but there was none of it in the beginning right? the community brought it up and the dev had to put it inside the game just to satisfy the community imo

[@raider_reaper_4194]

Dying Light the best easter eggs in any game ever 👌🏻

[@slyzorretrogamer5562]

I remember Motocross madness 2 flying easter egg, it was so much fun lol.

[@michaelpiper8198]

number 5 is what I assumed is what the names floating in the clouds of mortal kombat are partially about like people have partially unlocked something that needs another step to complete to play some recombined code for a hidden level or crypt.

[@worldiefeard8396]

Thank you for actually telling me the name of the motocross game! I reminded that game clearly from when I was a kid, but I completely forgot its name. Brings a bit of tears. 😢

[@DoogieRoxx]

I still have my pc disc of Star Wars Rogue Squadron :) sadly no pc to put the disc into but I'll never get rid of it. I remember getting that Naboo starfighter too. I also remember how I got SWRS from a cereal box in the early 00s. Wish that was still a thing. Got a 3D 3rd person story based BATTLESHIP game the same way (if you know you know). Thankyou for the nostalgia guys :)

[@Souvlaki500ari]

The thing with keys hunting that one opens the box , its a chrono capsule , from the finish of tower of Eiffel in its base it has a chrono capsule ,and actually lot many places ( mostly landmarks) have a chrono capsule ,even the acropolis of athens has a chrono capsule.

[@T1NF01L]

I love that the code for the naboo Starfighter is Yngwie for guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. Kid me always thought it was just a collection of letters and not a reference to who is later learn is one of the guitar greats.

[@CompComp]

In regards to the dirt bike game. There was a jet ski game (either N64 or GC) with a similar system. If you went far off the track, you go scooped up by a giant tentacle and launched back on the track.

[@VisualFrequency13]

😮 Motocross Madness Easter egg unlocked a core memory.

[@alexmcleod8178]

Jake, how you gonna rub salt in that old wound? 😂 Banjo Three-ie Ya bastard.

[@QsQs-du9xp]

I always get impressed by communities that figure crazy stuff out. I always wonder how they did it.

[@michaelkusolwa]

Hey Jake👋🏽

[@gameranxTV]

Hey

[@hntr_official]

I just love easter eggs. especially when it's gmae devs who snug in cool secret tributes to their favorite games

[@RuthlessCarl]

Love you guys thanks for the amazing videos everyday

[@brettpardue8786]

Never played Motocross madness but MX unleashed had the exact same feature because I remember you can drive out of bounds and it will launch you back the exact same way

[@joonaslaitinen9520]

I was waiting the most clever easter egg of all time. Original 3 Baldurs Gate games (1,2&TOB) had golden, silver and bronze underwear that had game breaking effect, if combined in very spesific way.

[@oOSonicexeOo]

I’d like to point out that the reason people fell for those fake tips and tricks in the 90s/early 2000s was because back then kids weren’t chronically online and didn’t have access to reliable information about video games as much as we do today so people just assumed that anything was possible because it was also that case that a lot of people back then were new to video games so people were way easier to trick compared to today where your seen as uncultured or an idiot If you don’t know certain things about video games because literally billions of people are now veteran gamers

[@jazzchicken87]

One bizarre easter egg I found was in the original fallout 1 game. Right at the start after the cinematic where you leave vault 13. In the ominous background ambient sounds there are sections of speech that is distorted and reversed. If cleaned up and played backwards you can hear a womans voice saying "Help. I've got to escape. I miss him again" I was mind blown when I found it. I tried to do the same with the male voice that plays but its so distorted I couldn't make it out

[@jeffblackjack2]

about the cow lvl: back in Diablo 1, there was a cow in Tristram. It was clickable, and it had a 'moo' sound when clicked. Since there is so few interactive NPCs in D1, that sparked a rumor there was a "secret cow level" which you could achieve by clicking the cow 50+ times or whatever. That's where the rumor started, and when D2 came out the rumor persisted.

[@CaedoGenesis]

Motocross Madness, wow what a pull! My parents lectured me for laughing so hard every time I hit the map limit in the demo. Good times!

[@florianwallensteiner9285]

Motocros Madnes easter egg brought me back to childhood. Windows 98 ❤

[@WestHamParker8]

Easter egg Jake made gameranx a legend

[@ashtonarrington698]

Hey jake, good to see you. I honestly only watch this channel when its you. Ur just the bro

[@garynalley4277]

omg I forgot about the motocross one!! My cousin's and I would play this game for hours and hours. Sometimes, just shooting off like a cannonball for hours.

[@lax9586]

The easter egg in number 9 would also happen in ATV off road fury. After a bit of google searching both of those games were developed by Rainbow Studios. ATV off road fury was the only demo we had with our original PS2. We played the shit out of it back in the day. When I saw the invisible wall throw I was hit with big nostalgia.

[@scottworcester4648]

That Naboo Starfighter absolutely blew the minds of my brother and I

[@mattorchard1991]

I remember battlefield 4 had really complex easter eggs that would take the community months to solve but they would result in stuff like spawning the megalodon.

[@josephstewart1189]

Borderlands 2 creeper is best easter egg of all time. Even drops a really great legendary sniper

[@vokkera6995]

We’re not gonna talk about how the zombies game mode in call of duty: world at war was something NOBODY knew was in the game when it launched? And it got even bigger in black ops 1 with the metal song for finding all the hidden aliens on the zombies map

[@thewolfstu]

16:38 that is probably gunna be forgotten about cause to even have a vague chance of living to see that you'd have to be born early enough so you can still play the game and work with the Easter Egg stuff, but still young enough so you can live long enough to potentially see that, but at the same time even then you'll probably not live that long, the company can possibly dissolve before then, and unless someone gets some ways to greatly extend our lives and memories then likely the Easter egg will be forever forgotten by then.

[@tomhargett3367]

I'd include the granddaddy of all video game Easter Eggs - Adventure on the Atari 2600.

[@Saierive]

i got sudden urge to rewatch Ready Player One for some reason upon reading this comment :D

[@saltor4574]

Big fan since 2019 thanks guys

[@kodema1273]

I wonder how many people know that the winking face during game 6 is none less than the famous flemish singer Eddy Wally. He’s a legend!

[@joeytgolf]

San Andreas had a few such mysteries. One was something about a ghost car. People claimed to have seen a solo car going around, and when they caught up, nobody was driving it? I think that's what was said, I was browsing GameFaqs in those days, and have forgotten the details. I know there was at least one other big rumor similar to BigFoot and the Ghost Car, but I've forgotten what it was.

[@NonnyStrikes]

The shots of the woods in sanandreas gave me vibes of WOW

[@andrewweaver3871]

Man, what a well-made video loved this one

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

Im "that kind" of PC gamer from the late 90s and early 00s, loved Motocross Madness haha. Newer motocross games went too far into realism and I dont enjoy as much at all... Up to 7th gen era is where its at. And MM is one of the best series! MotoRacer series is fun too.

[@funnyvalentine601]

Perfect timing for a new vid

[@jesaiahhansen8999]

Halo one. There was a wall on final escape that had bloody birthdays written on it with initials if I remember correctly. You had to fail a jump on driving just to find it.

[@Camel-joe6000]

cheese in perfect dark and key in banjo kazooie still haunt me in my dreams

[@harrymiller9814]

I remember towards the end of the N64's life cycle a gaming magazine published an actual paper back book of cheats you could buy with the magazine collecting every single cheat they ever published. In it was how to unlock literally everything in GoldenEye. The 4 bond skins included. My brother and I got all the cheats and it breathed years of new life in to that game. God I miss those days when games were games.

[@StoneyMeyerhoeffer]

I fully believe that Motorcross Madness was the origin of the word yeet.

[@ntwogaming9306]

Fun fact: within the first 20 minutes, the time it took me to watch the video 5.5 k people opened the video ❤

[@clovisursa497]

Not even a honorable mention of THE easter egg from Portal? The Cake Is A Lie is the biggest easter egg of gaming history. It spawned endless memes and made easter eggs popular.

[@smitteree]

There actually was a "nude" cheat for Tomb Raider. But it showed a blurred Lara. Years later mods made it unblurred though.

[@charlieharder94]

Didn't make the game legendary, but one of my favorite Easter eggs was always the island from "Lost" in Just Cause 2

[@evansonhakeem]

AM HERE TO thanks gameranx for the effort for making this videos.

[@nickwells20]

The N64 Star wars plane thing was such a good easter egg.

[@devilyn45]

“People are buying Homefront just to play time splitters2.” Yeah- me. Right now.

[@n8doggy733]

this is a legendary video ❤

[@user-tt6tu7dv6q]

I like how they made a very elaborate puzzle only to reveal that the people who solved it will be dead whenever the easter egg is concluded