The First Gaming Easter Egg

[@MugenMugay]

"Why couldn't game designers have their name on their game" as a game artist, I FEEL YOU.

[@jackfontenot809]

Mugen Mugay what games have you designed?

[@robertusreynaldi6672]

killer 3686 no man's sky

[@jackfontenot809]

Robert Reynald lol

[@cobblecola]

Meet: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

[@Heyoo414]

Mugen Mugay What games have you done work on

[@jimjimmers8571]

That 15 year old? He grew up to make the game called “The oasis”

[@Megacooltommydee]

Maybe. But do remember that it is made clear in both the book and the movie that Halliday grew up in Ohio, not Utah. I must not be fun at parties, am I?

[@jimjimmers8571]

Tommy Dee yes, you are fun at parties... “ HEY TOMMY OVER HERE “ “Sorry i can’t come” “ WHY “ “I’m trying to prove to Bryan that getting drunk while gambling is a bad idea” Poor Bryan, he lost all his money

[@chloewyruch]

This is the first time I can say lol because I’m actually laughing out loud

[@cheerfulskies]

Man i thought that vidoep game in ready player one was not real but im glad its real

[@pop-uj1cl]

his name was james halliday!

[@mariovelez578]

who would win? the top leading video game franchise with a lot of tough men and programmers or one sneaky boi

[@LegitSiForNow]

one sneaky boi aka warren robinett

[@neekalee24]

is a sneaky boi a hacker?

[@buskool5491]

dude that remoinds me of ready player one

[@ooo629ooo]

@@buskool5491 oh wow yeah man

[@sebastiansmith3356]

It’s not like his choice to put his name on a video game had any impact in the failure of atari

[@aytviewer2421]

In the summer of 1984, I was really into playing Adventure. I took graph paper and drew out all of the maze screens and indicated how they all connected together. During this process, I found a tiny dot when I realized that in one maze screen, the objects always blinked like when you had two or more items in the same screen. It was funny because I only had the sword on me at the time. While I was drawing out the maze screens, I noticed an area in the screen that you couldn't get to --hence I grabbed the bridge and crossed into that section and bah-dink I had the dot. I couldn't even tell what I had in the maze screen, so I carried it out into one of the main hallways and noticed that when there was something else on the screen the objects blinked. Now, I knew about this "dot" for days before one day I was in that hallway and a dragon came after me. Armed with the dot and no sword I ran from it and to my amazement I accidentally went through that solid line and ended up in that room. I was blown away at what I saw. At first, I didn't even realize it was writing. And then, I couldn't figure out how to read it. I remember it saying something like Created Warren by Robinett. I was like ok, a warren was created by robinett. A warren of what? And what the heck is a Robinett? I spent days trying to figure out if there was more to this room than these words and even more time looking for other hidden rooms. It was many many years later (maybe a decade) until one day I was on an Atari newsgroup (remember those, folks?) and came across a post about this Easter Egg. I was shocked to read about it because I had found that thing in the game about a decade prior.

[@HueManatee]

pretty unfortunate that these occurrences don't happen much in gaming anymore due to the internet spreading easter eggs and secrets like wildfire

[@destinyhero4795]

Those moments must be very magical

[@paulcastillo1880]

The meaning of a game isn't to just win, it's to explore, to find new ways to play, and to have fun.

[@NexShortzzz]

Wade watts

[@laurawantstobtl1093]

me: *sees game theorist.* me:" BUT HEY THAT'S JUST THEORY. A GAME THEORY."

[@stickerhappying]

Laurawantstobattle125 I'm glad someone else thought about that

[@pancake-th7qy]

Laurawantstobattle125 go away

[@CaptileTactileLuke]

Laurawantstobattle125 Shit this ain’t game theory

[@sanshds7174]

Wat

[@Redvictory612]

I was thinking about that

[@chickenboss36]

0:19 it says “1978 -NOT SO ATARI INC,” 😂

[@harsh9558]

Yeah😂

[@TheMr.L01]

0:05 I'm surprised I didn't see any A E S T H E T I C comments about this.

[@KiLLM4CE]

it's spelled "A E S T H E T I C"

[@TheMr.L01]

OK thanks.

[@danielhu2062]

AleVenixYT Cancer WhAt Do YoU mEaN

[@Arzene22]

TheMrL01 When you dont care /music plays

[@kingstafa6958]

TheMrL01 w

[@louofm1]

I remember solving this back in the 80s. Forgot all about it until I recently read ready player one and seeing the movie. I still have my 2600 (and adventure). Sometimes, when we visit my senior mother's house, my young kids like to play it in my mom's old tube tv. I may have to resolve adventures Easter egg, for old times sake :). Nicely done Mr Robinett!

[@Larry]

Not the first easter egg, the easter egg hunter did a video on the actual first.

[@snowroom1]

Larry Bundy Jr woah first like from a verified youtuber

[@sl33py20]

wrong

[@k.k9206]

It was an arcade game called "Star ship 1" the easter egg was "Hi Ron" which gave you 10 lives. The game dates back to 1979, 1 year before atari adventure. Not to water down the significance of the easter egg from adventure seeing as it was more accessible than the easter eggs before it.

[@normanm11]

Couldn't care less.

[@LeoBeltran]

Ready Player One!

[@tubie1339]

Leonardo Beltran ready player 2

[@Anglesso]

Leonardo Beltran Read the book :D

[@LeoBeltran]

Shadow Senpai I almost finished it :)

[@atavacilovesmemes7478]

Leonardo Beltran GET OUT OF MY ROOM IM PLAYING MINECRAFT

[@LeoBeltran]

Lmao

[@wparo]

some say that 15 year old kid grew up to become the president of a big country

[@isaacwebb5480]

I don’t get it قناة ماهر - maher channel

[@3Santo]

قناة ماهر - maher channel Trump.

[@binklol]

Ok

[@isaacwebb5480]

Darth Vader Papers, please

[@chrismccandless1337]

قناة ماريو - mario channel I

[@pablorai769]

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.

[@atranas6018]

And then there was E.T.

[@Farbeyondriven5150]

Watch the Angry video game nerd review E.T. for Atari on youtube! Most of his reviews r hilarous! Huge library of games n consols.

[@mememasteroldchannel8431]

Taekwon Crawfish your profile pic is cancer

[@literallydead1521]

@Whitebeard The Drunken Pirate I was expecting fortnite to be the worst game but okay

[@peely7043]

Yee t

[@JimBobJoeB0b]

Lamexx `v ́ It’s much better than E.T., I’ll tell you that.

[@zazelby]

This wasn't the first Easter Egg ever, merely the first one discovered. There's at least three others that predate it - Starship 1 (1977), Spitfire (1977), and Video Whizball (1978), all released before Adventure (1980) - but they were all discovered much more recently. Video Whizball's was discovered in 2004, Starship 1's in 2017, and Spitfire's was just discovered a year ago, in August of 2019. Adventure's was discovered in its own time, within a couple of years of the game's release (it was published in the 1982 book How To Master The Home Video Games), so that's why it's often considered the first.

[@RustyLeguito]

True!

[@coolite5745]

0:19 But hey, that’s just at theory. A *game theory* .

[@sexypianonotes6212]

CooLite hello internet! welcome to game theory! the show where!

[@obligatoryidiot]

lol

[@lolbizarnostrul3333]

Dont steal comments

[@obligatoryidiot]

not stealing

[@DualityDustman]

Admiral

[@jamescameron5090]

Nice! If I ever make a game, I'm making a room dedicated to Warren Robinette.

[@barbmcelderry9164]

THERE AIN’T NO E.

[@WorgenGrrl]

Adventure was the first video game I ever played. I can remember going to the local K-Mart back in the 70's and play the demo they had while my parents shopped.

[@izyfrancisco6376]

first like uwu

[@benshapiro2wt298]

the only dislike on this video was atari

[@jwjw3677]

Atari duplicated itself and disliked the video 105 times.

[@monsterdonster9981]

XD

[@sapphiresalt5509]

@BenShapiro2 WT now there’s a lot of dislikes, there must be A LOT of Atari workers who disliked.

[@GROENAASMusic]

Alexis Ffrench - Elixir Music in the intro of the video. Don't thank me. Thank Shazam.

[@sqoosh4121]

Cut back to 2011-2012. I'm about 7-8 years old, my parents dug up an old atari. Me playing a game called "Adventure". Good times.

[@nicksterwixter]

That 15 year old had a lot of time on his hands. It's not easy to find if you don't know what you're doing. From what I remember, you have to go into the black castle with the bridge that lets you go through walls (on one of the high difficulties). Way in the back somewhere you can walk through a wall that contains a single pixel object that's the same color as the floor. You take it all the way back to the beginning area without losing it and put it near the colored barrier on the second screen. You then have to put a few extra objects in this room to make the colored barrier flash, allowing you to walk through it and see the room with the credit in it. Not easy to just figure out. Also, this game is a technical marvel when compared to most other 2600 games at the time that pretty much all took place on a single screen.

[@Coolbrobro12]

This guy sounds like he just woke up

[@gio2]

Coolbrobro12 roblox....

[@pridest]

Your profile pic tells me that you wake up in the morning and you are ready to online date

[@gracefultoast7804]

Thank you so very much for making videogames funner and exciting.

[@AdiosSalvi]

Haven't seen this one ty for the content xD

[@zbe8ewmqYH]

0:05 MACINTOSH 420 V A P O R W A V E

[@rydemk4168]

Knew about this from ready player one

[@isaacwebb5480]

Ryde Mk literally read that paragraph this morning, was curious so here I am

[@brokengestalt6671]

i have the book.

[@user-sr2dx9ck2q]

This actually isn’t the first video game Easter egg. The first Easter egg was in a 1977 game called ‘Starship 1’. The game in this video was produced in 1978, which you can see on the box at 2:01

[@joeneuman3799]

That was really cool to hear it straight from Warren, thanks.

[@horsesaturday]

Just finished reading "Ready Player One", so I decided to watch this

[@alexceous]

And Ready Player One was inspired...

[@azgaming2773]

It's the friking movie

[@neekbot]

Can’t believe I read all of ready player one without realizing this was the game I grew up on. Have been trying to find the name forever

[@Nuisance_Bear]

Fantastic version of this story on NPR.

[@lurkingarachnid7475]

No wonder Atari went broke, they treated their employees like crap

[@azrael6280]

2:26 where can I get that very artistic circle?

[@marvalcomicsfan123]

It’s not the first Easter Egg anymore, Spitfire for the Channel F had the name of the creator through the use of a long string of button compilations. The game released in 1977. The Easter egg was discovered in 2019

[@CP-ym9uc]

I like how during the pixelated intro the Cessna logo is still the same

[@BrooklynAvenue]

This became well known even at the time of the release. I remember finding it on my Atari.

[@w.d.gaster475]

NOT-SO-ATARI (0:20 bottom right corner of cartridge)

[@mauswaffles]

0:33 rip atari 2600 cart of warren robinet. we will remember him.

[@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039]

David and Goliath of the game world, Nice one Dave.

[@The_Boxolodian_727]

Wait wait wait wait. HE IS FROM READY PLAYER ONE

[@aguynamednathan]

I remember watching my Dad find that Easter egg. I've done it countless times myself. I can't imagine how anyone would find it without knowing it's there!

[@ACriticalHit]

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.

[@twistedaxles9126]

0:18 Does anyone know where to find a copy of the Warren Robinett game? I can't find it neither on Ebay or Amazon

[@chris24gone]

this definitely is the first fetch quest easter egg. way more complex than a button sequence, which is basically a back door hack.

[@katharsis3283]

The easter egg trend for devs have evolved into talking zombies,pony guns,gigantic donuts,even a hidden ending

[@eyitsaperson]

0:06 ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ

[@MostlyLucid]

Warren Robinett is a literal god to the gaming community.

[@Tech-Kaplan-Kali]

Actuay atari treating their emploes baddy was one of the reasons why companny collapsed. So the justice truy is poetic.

[@Cyian]

what happened to your spelling here?

[@pez334]

Ron milner who worked for Atari inserted an Easter egg in the arcade game“ starship 1 “ where if a person followed a sequence of controls the screen would flash the message “ hi Ron “ and the player would be awarded 10 free games and this was before the game adventure

[@b_____d]

Your videos are so cool. The narration, animation are so great. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 I hope you get more subscribers!!!

[@animeneweablet]

Ready Player One reference anyone? It's not about winning the game, it's about finding that Easter Egg.

[@jayhoangdang]

never disrespect your employees. they could all just quit and you’d be left in ashes.

[@garypranzo9334]

My friend had a glitchy 2600 that if you jiggled the Power switch opened that room. I knew about the room within days of release because of that. It would not be until 20yrs later when I started collecting games that I learned about the dot method to get you to the room despite playing the game for days on end. I always thought I needed to glitch the 2600 to see it.

[@ericinMN1970]

I remember stumbling onto this when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I thought it was a game glitch and sadly didn't recognize it as legible wording until I showed it to one of my friends.

[@bassinblue]

credits: -Warren Robinett went on to develop more games in his life and later died of an overdose of watermelons -the 15 year old kid went on to form the band Nirvana

[@LilyAvarA]

So if anyone has ever played this, those duck lookin things are actually dragons and they have names. I used to play it with my cousin on my grandmas atari flashback, good times

[@rapscallion-king]

This guy is amazing! He basically created the things I personally love most about video games! Very cool! 🎉

[@williamwind]

Thanks. I followed this guide and took the control of OASIS.

[@Th30th3rJ0J0]

He did the ultimate sneak move.

[@ParzivalTheThird]

I already knew this from Ready Player One, great read.

[@EmperorVitrag]

Parzival Good name ;)

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

terrible read

[@MeeperDude45]

«there must be a hidden room in Adventure». Parzival, Ready Player One.

[@knbnoob1]

I like how all the custom cartridges all have "game program...kind of"

[@tunaman6237]

Ready Player One Brought me here! Covid quarantine 2020

[@TristanSamuel]

0:31 You threw away the cartridge that was named after you.

[@villagecommenter8262]

Comments 75% RPO. 10% aesthetics 5% game theory 10% other

[@DiamondsAreForeverLOLcheeseBUR]

3% that's really cool! 5% about the video 2% chart

[@davimesquitademacedo5319]

Cool!

[@charliechips257]

Ever heard of the “hi bob” Easter egg? Now that was the first Easter egg.

[@scaredofghosts6813]

My first easter egg i found was on the first simcity on the SNES..u had to plug a controller in the 2nd port only n all this crazy stuff but it was worth it since it gave u a creator menu

[@storykecil3145]

who comes here from READY PLAYER ONE MOVIE

[@lisaross2368]

Yes yes yes yes me

[@lisaross2368]

But mostly I read the book

[@mielthesquid6536]

all the kids

[@chavoswrld]

meeeeeee

[@hudayullahultimarrlemrr5888]

Not me

[@mr.zia3233]

Me : Did i just see game theory . Matpat : Did someone say , Theory

[@tomsgamleting7161]

I have the atari 2600 and Its so fun. You did a good job.

[@srowbrina]

and it happens to be Easter weekend right now as I watch this!

[@nickthekidNL]

sooo attari really is bad, makes bad video games and are rude to their workers XD

[@mikoy9241]

Nicholas actually atari dint make those video games their workers does

[@Drakelx55]

Atari gave birth to the video game industry, if they made bad games there wouldn't be an industry at all. Yes they messed up but that was near the end. They were rude to their workers causing all of their best programmers to leave which led to shitty games, but in the earlier days when founder Nolan Bushnell was CEO it was a great place. People arrived as they pleased, wore casual clothes, and unleashed their creativity. Also they held corporate meetings in hot tubs xD

[@333dae]

i mean it's the late 70s, work ethic were different back then

[@MrBones-my5wm]

Idk what types of games they made but all I know is that a crappy game (et) single handedly destroyed attari

[@cooldude3352]

Zenon Fury But they worked for Atari…

[@888Bando]

Thank you Warren

[@galileacarmona2327]

Me see game theory Me:But hey thats a theory,a half-baked theory

[@luciarose4041]

the owners/executives/higher ups of Atari sound like complete jerks.

[@Drakelx55]

Lucia Rose they were, if you watch some interviews. Then CEO Ray Kassar denies any allegations of treating workers badly and telling them they weren't important to the day he died. Despite the fact that it's accepted history now, and it's his word against all the Atari programmers who are still around.

[@GameReviewerArchive]

FYI this ISN'T the first ever easter egg in a video game, The Easter Egg Hunter did a video explaining it.

[@brainlesssayspro3738]

Ready Player One movie puted that game in the scene -U didnt have to win, u just need to play to see the easter egg (it means to see the creator's name in that game)

[@BradTheProducer]

2:11 You're using that joystick upside down, bro.

[@caseycrowe3581]

It's kind of funny that I'm watching this on the day before Easter

[@CapitalTeeth]

0:07 *Holy hell... The cartridges move?!*

[@suspense_comix3237]

Why did he get fired? He hid his name in his game so no one will make copies of the same game! Aren't you glad, Atari CEO?

[@Newdivide]

The film, ready player one, included this in Halliday competition

[@jonat_]

0:32 *throws game port out of Atari gaming console* *me:* ok.

[@intertubicular]

My friend discovered this and showed me how to do it in 1980. I was like "HOW FREAKING COOL IS THAT" Warren you are the founder and Great Grand Daddy of the original Easter Egg secret in video games. You should get monetary compensation for your idea throughout the video game industry.

[@korwl540]

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[@gamingbutnotreally9832]

0:06 who else saw that and hope they made an episode with vektroid and how he made his music

[@ameersalim4951]

Getting some Ready Player One vibes!

[@johnrafaelb.garcia269]

thanks to him kojima followed his footsteps by putting his name on every game he made

[@Immortal-Daiki]

He’s like the real-life James Halliday

[@jasper5622]

Are you *ready, player one?*

[@aydenrussell3405]

Thank you Warren for inspiring Ready Player One

[@amustychickn]

this was actually donkey Kong. In the code it had the coders initials.

[@ambassadorpineapple4065]

R.I.P. Atari, you will not be missed.

[@Drakelx55]

Ambassador Pineapple Except by me and the rest of the AtariAge community

[@SlyHikari03]

Without this, we wouldn’t have most things...

[@tacticalgamer8796]

So this is where it all started!!

[@peternewson2275]

Hyundai is really cool for helping to sponsor all of these videos.

[@harrytsang1501]

What would happen if we put the name of everyone that get involved in making an AAA game in the credit. It would perhaps be longer than the one for movies.