The 1ST Video Game Easter Egg DESTROYED McDonalds

[@FieraMyst]

Hard to believe this game is as old as it is, considering the first game of this sort was actually created in '69, still, fifty plus years is something else, and, I still love playing it whenever I get a chance. And, that easter egg is memorable for me as well, discovered it with some friends back in elementary school all those years ago.

[@phoenixarthey]

Not only did I find the Easter egg history and knowledge that the first video game Easter egg was 50 years ago stunning, but I absolutely adored the editing in this. Would love to see more!

[@FlareTheFolf]

The fact Atari stole all credits from developers doesn't make me feel bad about their collapse

[@Sandwich420]

Bobby Kotick was the CEO of Atari.. he then was CEO of Activision until a month ago I believe.

[@FlareTheFolf]

@@Sandwich420 makes sense

[@chrisbeach423]

They didn’t want other video game companies to steal their devs 😂

[@play_history]

@@Sandwich420 Bobby Kotick was never involved with Atari.

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

​@@Sandwich420 You're full of shit.

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

Hope you enjoy this episode..... it's a little different.

[@keynanmartinez]

Easter Eggs are Passionate Hints for the Video Game Developers I love!

[@jettesides420]

this makes up for the current shite McDonalds SMB movie toys.

[@everettariaz6103]

Wow that's a good one

[@everettariaz6103]

Lol 420th like

[@-.__-.__]

I didnt

[@Psyrus88]

I completely forgot about Moon Lander. When I was little, my Dad would sometimes take me to his office on a Saturday (looking back it was likely just to give my Mom some time to rest and relax), and while he finished a few things in the office he'd let me play around on his workstation where he'd boot up either Moon Landing or some other game that involved tanks, though I forgot the name.

[@youtube_handle_not_found]

I love to see easter eggs where devs put themselves or their names into a game. To then see a dev's favorite fast food was hilarious.

[@Iam404error]

Favorite hidden dev has to be doom 2 where John Romero's head is hidden as the last boss.

[@youtube_handle_not_found]

@@Iam404error Nice. Mine is meeting the "Dream Team" in Chrono Trigger if you manage to win a fight where the story-line says you are supposed to lose.

[@pokepress]

I find it difficult to believe there would only be one McDonald’s on the moon in 1973.

[@billblaski9523]

Lol

[@Tmuttgaming]

Fun facts: if you crash into the McDonald's the ice cream machine breaks. Also if you don't crash into it, the machine is still broken, but the building at least is still ok.

[@otaking3582]

Can it even really be called an Easter Egg if the only attempt to hide it is placing it several screens to the right? If this game were more well known, this would've been easily discovered decades ago by some kids with too much free time on their hands.

[@Corridor3000]

Tbf Easter eggs are just little secrets implemented by the developers...they don't necessarily have to be hidden to count

[@coyoteartist]

Since I'm reading a book where the main character complains about the dehydrated reconstituted food at the moonbase he lives at, I guess they didn't build it near the McDonalds

[@hombreneko5375]

Name?

[@coyoteartist]

@@hombreneko5375 It was a series called Moon Base Alpha by Stuart Gibbs. Nice kids series.

[@hombreneko5375]

@@coyoteartist Thanks bro

[@coyoteartist]

@@hombreneko5375 No worries

[@keynanmartinez]

It's amazing how far we came in video games.

[@soylencer]

And it's more amazing that these simple press-the-botton/do-the-thing games are still being made and played by indie devs and gamers today.

[@thaddeusmcgrath]

Bet that McDonald's only had scrambled eggs after crashing into it.

[@kuubbee]

Man, a 4 min video. Takes me back to 2012 KZbin.

[@trippivey]

“Sorry our ice cream machine is down at the moment.”

[@TheEasterEggHunter]

First to crack a yolk

[@christmaskrima]

Second to crack a yolk

[@engidaengineer7083]

Third to crack a yolk

[@carbondioxides]

Fourth to crack a yolk

[@Cardboard_object]

Boop

[@willsith9762]

Amazing. The culture around Easter Eggs is just as much the same as it is different. The fact that something as goofy as this is the first known Easter egg warms my heart a little, I suppose humanity has always had their sense of humor.

[@tb3411]

How the hell has something this easy to find not been documented!?

[@geldofpunk32]

I wonder if it was added to a rom later, obviously this needs to be documented playing on original hardware.

[@jasonjuneau]

Or like James said, everyone kept crashing the damn thing by going too fast lol

[@boyblob]

Hah. I was like, "this title seems a little clickbaity. C'mon man." But then I see it's kind of a wink at actual clickbait titles while being rather literal about the easter egg. Well played.

[@XmorganlamiaX]

Loved the editing on this one!

[@Toppot2]

Love the shorter video, great bits of history throughout! Title is a bit overly clickbaity, could be 'a McDonalds'. I think the video also invites the debate of what is an easter egg/reference/secret/developer leftover etc and how the terms are often conflated or blurred. More videos like this please!

[@bland9876]

People have been reverencing other stuff in other stuff for as long as other stuff has been created.

[@KamiKai]

loved the edit, very well made. Well done

[@JF.90]

heres an easter egg i just stumbled on trying to comment on your video.. if you type "awesome" on your keyboard the youtube progress bar goes into rave mode

[@stapuft]

for some reason i accidentally added "by" to the title, so i kept waiting for how mcdonalds managed to destroy the easter egg, LOL.

[@RetroPiero]

What a charming little easter egg.

[@eddieking6723]

Everytime I see moonlander I get flashbacks of playing Astro Chicken in Space Quest 4 for hours...

[@64smashmaster3ds]

"MacDonald's", I'm lovin' it on the moon!

[@Alexifeu]

Here where I live, most people are not aware of easter eggs or internet culture (although some are but that's not the majority) I bet if I bought 2 Cheeseburger and a Big Mac no one would get the reference lol.

[@Wolfburns]

Didn't realize that mission control was Peridot lol

[@thedragonflytapes5727]

Loved the editing!

[@feelincrispy7053]

Dave’s garage (ex-windows 95 dev) showed the moon lander egg a fair while back

[@zarbongreat8622]

Man Im happy for the notification to come that u uploaded

[@ACriticalHit]

Thanks for the plug. :-)

[@coyoteartist]

It might be noted that one of the original three McDonalds commercials to feature Ronald in 1963 had him flying to the moon and finding a McDonald's there.

[@dedhour6033]

I've been watching your videos for a long time and I can see your skill in content creation has become better than ever, keep it up man, I love your videos.

[@darknessinc.Inc830]

Bro is only doing shorts now...this sure aged poorly.

[@jcole1679]

I remember 10 year old me raging at moon lander. That game was fucking hard

[@mrexplosive6355]

drinking cheese is health cant tell me not different

[@dreamindistortion]

I was gonna get angry if he didn't order a big Mac. I'm not angry

[@BallaFox]

Hey dude I really like your content. It's been an inspiration for my channel as well. That being said, I found not an Easter egg but something creepy on my channel in the game Duke Nukem Zero Hour. While browsing through the unused objects in the game, I found a model of a guy hanging from a tree in a noose. Apparently it was one of the developers for the game, the 3d designer put it in there as a funny little inside joke. Some other dead bodies have developers faces designed onto them, and the 3d designer of the game actually has a KZbin channel called "BaldLord Extreme". I think this would be awesome to feature on your channel.

[@chris_is_here_oh_no]

Excellent video, great bit of history remebered!

[@REZZY_404]

The editing on this vid tho, pure 🔥🔥🔥

[@disarisumbrus4492]

This Easter Egg is a threat to the trout population

[@markrotondella4689]

So glad you referenced A Critical Hit that youtube channel deserves a lot more love.

[@mellowyello1478]

Dang didnt realize the multibilliom dollar international company was destroyed by a video game easter egg. :(

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Games sure have gone a very long way.

[@calluty7]

Guess ready player one might need to re do their movie

[@whatiwonder4299]

>See new editing style >See random flashes on screen >Frame-by-frame scrubs >Just reads "END" >Is sad

[@CrazyCritter1]

Ready Player One needs to fix it's ending now

[@NihilistSolitude]

And those two cheese burgers and a big Mac would cost back then what one cheeseburger cost now

[@scott-the-god]

I miss your videos man :( I love you and even if you never upload again I want you to know you were a major part of my childhood and made me smile In dark times, Thank you ❤

[@PurpulPancakes]

i love the editing in this, it's also very fitting for a video about the first video game easter egg! that's really special!

[@AS34N]

Guy coulda just ordered 2 bigmacs no lettuce, no mac sauce on one. What a clod

[@MxNSTR]

I liked this episode and I wanna see more videos like that! Its crazy how this guy was waay beyond his time

[@neocelestium]

10/10 Production quality!! Awesome as always!

[@MrDeech]

The Dull Man's Podcast will love this and will surely look at this and doa feature on this video and/or video Easter Eggs.

[@MurseMan]

Thanks James for another great video:)

[@Jeff-gj7ko]

And one of the original 1964 Ronald McDonald commercials (where he wears green and red stripes and a serving box hat) the Hamburger Happy Clown goes to the moon on a fast food powered rocket!

[@EvaFull]

Awesome egg James. Keep hunting and I’ll keep cracking them open.

[@GPR2301]

Great job, very well done.

[@peggyfillmore1971]

More please !! I love media history ( Something I made up) and that also includes unusual gaming history. 😁

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

the most epic easter egg of all time!

[@F_M_M]

1:06 car caaaatrige ;) once again amazing video EEH ;)

[@shadowred1980]

I enjoyed this, if you get chance to feature some more please do.

[@rotkappchen9157]

Nein das ist NICHT das erste easter egg. "Das erste bekannte Easter Egg stammt aus dem Videospiel Moonlander aus dem Jahre 1973. Wenn Spieler dort, anstatt direkt auf dem Mond zu landen, ein Stück weiterfliegen, entdecken sie ein McDonald's Restaurant."

[@darktetsuya]

wow never knew about that one, hilarious!

[@jettesides420]

As the price of Eggs soar to new highs. Our hero TEEH emerges from the shadows to please the masses. For free...

[@jasonjuneau]

If this was the first "Easter egg" shouldn't it be called a "scrambled egg"? 🤔🤔

[@sweets6383]

After clicking this video I got McDonald's ads lul

[@SatoXian]

The title is clickbait, yet the context doesn't make it clickbait. Clever girl.

[@JF.90]

awesome video

[@pickford3152]

Almost looks better then some games today😂

[@Uchooze]

That was a great NUGGET of information

[@Moniak]

why's mcdonalds still around then

[@ebridgewater]

Not sure on the film noise over the whole video.

[@herobrinesbestminion6766]

welp thank you so much for playing my game.

[@mothdog47]

But I thought he said that the first Easter egg was on the ET video game

[@emiliolopez688]

He made the first meme

[@chriscorsello]

Does this really qualify as an Easter Egg? It seems like it is just part of the game, not really hidden in the game.

[@buster5661]

Rip ready player one

[@FizzleFX]

Please tune down that "old film effect" ... we get it . its old... but even then it didnt look like crap :)

[@reda29100]

clickbiat-y, but ngl I was not mad. I thought it like a documentary type EE where Mc was cought in a scandal or a rabbit hole like story where an insider exposed some stuff collab-ing with a game developer. But again, I am not mad at all.

[@Agent0range9]

Cartcartridge

[@CarlCostelloPlays]

Nice 👍🙂

[@demontamerbf18]

I find it hard to believe that the idea of adding secrets and funny things to videogames for others to find started 50 years ago, that's a long time. Plus what a great first easter egg that was, imagine the surprise of the first person to fly all the way through the moon, find a McDonalds AND see the little astronaut get two cheeseburgers and a Big Mac, or crash onto the McDonalds and see that special message, so cool.

[@nategomes1719]

Do mc kids on Nintendo it’d be a banger

[@Ikki_Katlin]

Very interesting! Very very interesting!

[@bobbytorres3301]

To be honest I'll do the same thing if that were to happen 😜

[@Bears9McMahon]

Awesomeness

[@magicmon]

The editing was unnecessary and distracting.

[@contentcreations6810]

Sweet

[@ItzCandle]

lemme hope I'm the 10th comment here, my phone says theres 9 other ones, so if im not 10th I'll buy a big mac amd eat it.

[@SharkandMinno]

You are the tenth! No Big Mac for you

[@Dinosaurprince]

Click bait.

[@thomasfields7902]

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9) And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Acts 17:30) Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 20:21)

[@Craxin01]

Ha, nice.

[@SleeplessUndead]

❤

[@NotKev8n]

Egg 🥚

[@Zombicidal_FMG]

🙃

[@landanpizzakingTrashGang]

🤪🔨

[@Cardboard_object]

Boop

[@abdurrahmana.r.6398]

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