9 Video Game Easter Eggs That took Years to Find

[Diamond Cross]

Video game Easter eggs are fun extras for the fans and are usually even easier to find than the real thing--they might demand 10,000 coins, but you never need to stand up. But some of these little secrets, cheats or glitches are so well-hidden they stay out of sight for years, even with millions of gamers exploring every nook and cranny of the game world. For instance...

9 Video Game Easter Eggs That Took Years to Find | Cracked.com

Some of these are things you've just got to ask things like "what the heck were these guys thinking?". I also don't know what's worse, that these things were put in the games, or that somebody took time out to find them.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I have never understood the minds that search these things out...but I'm sure the Cenobites do!

(Clive Barker, are you listening?)

 

[Jhaelen]

Some of these are things you've just got to ask things like "what the heck were these guys thinking?". I also don't know what's worse, that these things were put in the games, or that somebody took time out to find them.

I think easter eggs are often found accidentally when you're scanning the program code for other things:
- looking for ways to circumvent software protection
- looking for cheat codes
- trying to understand the program to create your own cheats, or at least get better playing it, or simply to find out how it was done

I know I've spent a lot of time staring at the hexdumps of Diablo files to figure out how to modify monster attributes and at Diablo 2 trying to understand how treasure classes work.
Looking over resource files you may find graphics or text that doesn't seem to get used in the game, etc.

I guess it's a bit like disassembling an engine, or a clock, or whatever to figure out how it works.

If you're into that kind of thing it can be more fun than actually playing the game.