While not the first Easter Egg in a video game, this is probably the most important. This simple video first demonstrates winning the game and then shows the Easter Egg. This is not intended as a walkthrough.
If you didn't live during those times you would never understand...... You could actually control something on the TV!!!! It was groundbreaking and awesome!! We couldn't get enough.... Now look where it brought us....
People paying money to companies for the company to tell them they are good at video games: pay to win. In 1983 I knew video games would rock out. I make video games still: www.crystalfighter.com I don't have hope for the industry so I do it myself.
Around '77 a friend's family bought a Pong unit. At the time, I didn't know such a thing existed. When I FINALLY understood that my friend's dad was controlling the images on the TV screen, my head almost exploded!
First I trap the bat in the yellow castle so he is out of my hair. Nothing worse than getting ready to kilI a dragon when the bat comes and steals your sword ? Then I kill off all the dragons first so I can roam freely to get the Easter egg- That red dragon is a bitch to kill
So I remember playing this game when it first came out and talking about it to a friend in 9th grade I guess 1981 or 82 and he tells me about the Easter egg , he wrote it down on paper and sure enough it worked, blew my mind. Question is how ? How could this information have been available at the time ? Believe it or not it really was quite a captivating game for it's time
@Tom Ominus I agree. This is a pretty amazing game given the severe constraints of the 2600 hardware. These were the first evolutionary steps of the computers and games most take for granted now. This whole game fits in 4K bytes of code with only 128 bytes of RAM.
By 1983 it was no longer a secret. A kid figured it out and wrote a letter to Atari in 1980. I did it sometime in either 1982 or 1983 after learning the trick from someone. Here is a link to the letter... www.ataricompendium.com/game_library/easter_eggs/vcs/adventure_letter.pdf
Funny thing is, I didn't know about this until 2004. I played this game so many times in my childhood, starting quite a while before super mario brothers existed, and never discovered this.
That was awesome man. I've never unlocked the Easter egg in my countless times beating this game. That being said, any here ever get a perfect on pitfall 2 for Atari 2600. With a conformation patch sent back to you in the mail by sending in a photograph of a perfect run . Perfect run meaning no hits,falls or missing treasure. Sent by Activision's David Crane himself?
Can I see a picture of the patch? I didn't even know they made a Pitfall 2! I used to rock Pitfall. I wish I could've kept my 2600. I would've if it were my choice. Anyways I do have a cool "Atarian" patch though. I got it from the Atari computer club I was a part of, just when the Atari ST came out. Remember those? Then Windows 3.1 came out.
You see Warren Robinett was proud of Adventure he wanted people to know who was behind that’s why he created the first digital Easter Egg ever put in a video game the creator’s name
Robinett had every reason to be proud. Adventure is still regarded as the first video game to run on a simple type of software yet have multiple levels and areas (I'm not articulating that exactly the way I've read it, but something along those lines). I'm in my 40's. I chuckle at the primitive graphics, but I can't stand when young gamers sneer and say Atari 2600 was crap. Like anything else, gaming evolves. I liked many Atari games, but Adventure was my favorite.
It's not that he was proud of it, it's that atari wouldn't let anyone take credit for their work. They paid him like 25000 dollars for the whole year, making this game and others, while they sold a million copies of this game for 30 dollars each, and wouldn't let programmers have a credit page. So sneaking it in there was a middle finger to them. It wasn't about him being proud of it. It was about giving them the finger and being able to prove he did it if he wanted to put "I made Adventure" on his resume.
@@medexamtoolsdotcom I had read an interview about how Atari refused to credit programmers, and how Robinett sneaked in his name. That was the primary reason, but he still had reason to be proud. I've watched the Easter egg walkthrough and that tiny dot needed to accomplish it is a wonder. I never saw it when I was a kid, none of my friends were gaming fiends, and if I had seen it, I would have assumed it was a glitch in my particular cartridge.
Ready Player One was on FXX or FX last night so I was like is that just the movie or for real so I looked it up then this came up. Now I wanna play and get the Easter egg.
"I was one of those kids, and finding Robinett's Easter egg for the first time was one of the coolest videogame experiences of my life." I think not. How the times have changed.
pity that at the time almost no one discovered this Easter egg, and even if they did, would not have much impact as have today because at that time there was no internet
No, you just have to get the cup into the yellow castle. Sometimes it's actually even possible to win the game but not possible to kill the dragons at all, for instance if the game starts with the sword and the white key inside the white castle, and the cup in the black castle and the yellow key also somewhere accessible. The only artifacts you absolutely need to win are the yellow key and the cup. Not even 2 girls, just the cup.
I found the dot way back in the early 80s... but I didn't know what to do with it. I also tried and tried to cross the rainbow wall, but it didn't work since I tried the west wall instead of the east wall. My mistake was thinking they were interchangeable.
Hi, how are you! I paid tribute to Warren Robinett is a re-reading made in voxel art, called "Vox-venture" and can be played on this link etrealjunior.itch.io/
I hear you, all the degenerate comments are the same crap over and over, and they all think they're so fucking clever and learned for having watched a stupid movie.
Not trying to be rude but why is this the most important? Also, must have sucked only having these games as a kid lol. It was the late 70's though, I'm sure they had plenty of "party favours" that could make watching paint dry seem like the funniest thing ever lol
since youre so much more used to high-end graphics of the 2000's, then you wont be used to the "barely" developed/crude graphics of the late 1900s in video games. Personally idgaf and if i had the patience for old games id play them but they just aren't my style. (Yes I realize this comment is 4 years old)
Because Atari never gave credit to programmers, this was a revolution for programmers and the gaming industry. Something no one knew of besides the creator was hidden, "an Easter egg" the first of its kind. Quite honestly, it didn't suck at all during 1978, imagination and patience was key. Adventure has so many different ways to complete it and game variations.
If you didn't live during those times you would never understand...... You could actually control something on the TV!!!! It was groundbreaking and awesome!! We couldn't get enough.... Now look where it brought us....
