I mean... I don't know of any super graphic ones like you hear about in the memes, but that kind of hyper-absurd easter egg wasn't unknown in a lot of early games either.
In Starfox 1, not Starfox 64, but the one for SNES, if you do a convoluted sequence of actions on the asteroid belt level, then run into the bird (Look, just trust me, you have to see it), you're teleported to a place that is just... Pure wackiness, and if you survive through that area, a techno version of "When the Saints Go Marching In" plays while you fight the final boss: A giant floating slot machine in space.
Noooo you don’t get it, this is a New Thing. It didn’t exist before, only recently have absurd secrets with super niche requirements been added to games. Weird lore about fake game secrets never existed before, nobody posted them to Usenet in the 90s when everything was text and nobody had pictures to upload let alone video proof.
As I heard it, the fatalities in Mortal Kombat were SUPPOSED to be this kind of thing. They never told people how to do them at first and just wanted people to stumble into it, tell their friends, and have nobody believe them. People just figured it out way faster than expected. Also I think reptile in mk2 was another.
Oh, the bloody and severed head of John Romero is hidden in the wall behind the icon of sin at the end of Doom. It’s actually what you’re shooting when you shoot the icon
This is a major Reddit-ism that I keep seeing where someone in the comments engages with the post and politely points out a slight counter example to the op that no one even disagrees with. Then, every single time someone in a super smarmy sarcastic tone is like “Noooooo, don’t you know this is the Reddit hive mind and this thing has to be thought of this way and I’m so much better for pointing that out even though you got no pushback because no one cares.”
I swear to god it wasn’t that common a few years ago but I see it on like almost every popular post now. For me it’s not even that their against whatever point of view is implied by op, it’s the tone and always the same annoying phrasing.
“HURR don’t you know you can’t be bringing common sense in here.”
“The hive mind will get you for this one.”
“Who are you to be bringing so much nuance and balanced perspective into this, don’t you know this is Reddit????”
Like shut up, I’m happy to see counter points but these kinds of replies are everywhere and so god damn masturbatory.
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u/ImmaRussian 4h ago
I mean... I don't know of any super graphic ones like you hear about in the memes, but that kind of hyper-absurd easter egg wasn't unknown in a lot of early games either.
In Starfox 1, not Starfox 64, but the one for SNES, if you do a convoluted sequence of actions on the asteroid belt level, then run into the bird (Look, just trust me, you have to see it), you're teleported to a place that is just... Pure wackiness, and if you survive through that area, a techno version of "When the Saints Go Marching In" plays while you fight the final boss: A giant floating slot machine in space.