The many Easter Eggs of E.T. on the Atari 2600

[@JimLeonard]

40 years, had no idea this was there. Thanks for illustrating the eggs.

[@MBXfilms]

I was wondering how he had time to mess around adding easter eggs but I imagine the code for the graphic of the ship and Indy was already made so it may not have been tough to add. Plus you need a little fun when working away on stuff like that, and I'm sure he was loving throwing those in.

[@TheDI]

According HSW in the live steam he put the previous games character in each game so there is a yar in the Raiders of the lost ark so I'm going to have to find that one too!

[@RetroGamingNook]

This game is, and has always been, fine. The hate is from not reading the manual. It's a great speed run game. I wonder what the best speed run is for game one and getting all the easter eggs and completing the third game.

[@TheDI]

that would be interesting to see the speed run as I was doing these in game mode 3 with no doctors or FBI agents and it still took quite a bit to complete as I had to find the flower and then complete the game vas it is randomized. I would dred doing it all in game mode 1. The sheer frustration of dealing with crowd control alone would lengthen the game quite substantially

[@RetroGamingNook]

@@TheDI Yeah, there could be speed runs in each mode. I did do the easter egg once on difficult... it took a while just to get Yar. The FBI and Dr. can be ruthless.

[@robertmoss556]

I haven't played this in years but have you ever tried extending ET's neck as the spaceship is landing?

[@TheDI]

I don't think I ever tried to do that. My brother and I would see who could make ET run the longest without falling into a pit

[@andrewmackie5110]

As an 8-year-old, this was my favourite after Raiders Of The Lost Ark. In Game 3, anyway😊

[@TheDI]

Both Raiders and ET were in my top 10 games I owned for the Atari