1978, Atari, the leader of the home console game market at that time, was just acquired by Warner Communications, and the new boss Raymond Casal took office. Before coming to Atari, this eldest brother was the boss of one of the best textile companies at that time. Maybe he is used to squeezing workers. After he arrived in Atari, he didn't take the game programmer seriously.
After he took office, producers and programmers were regarded as "company assets", all tapes were labeled as "Atari", and the names of producers and others were not allowed to be printed on the packaging or tapes. Not only that, all the people involved in making games have no copyright share, only dead wages, and programmers have a very hard life.
Warren Robinett, the hero of our story, is one of these programmers. He is developing the first action adventure game Adventure. The harder Warren works, the more humble he becomes. Finally, he came up with an idea: didn't you ask us to sign it? Then I will design a hidden level in the game and write "Created by Warren Robinett" (made by Warren Bennett) in the game. Warren was not satisfied with writing his own name, so he added a flashing effect to these two lines in a particularly coquettish way.
In this way, the first game egg in history was born.
After developing this game, Warren quit his job and traveled to Europe, which was quite chic. The competition of Adventure is very fierce. After its launch, it sold more than 654.38 million sets, making it the seventh best-selling game in Atari's game history.
After the hidden level was dug up by the player, Atari found himself powerless. The code can't be modified, these two lines can't be erased at all. Atari is also unwilling to spend as much as $65.438 billion to take back those tapes that have been sold.
Finally, Atari's public relations decision: Wrong! They told those who are interested in the hidden level that our future games will have such a little secret, just like Easter eggs, which will be difficult for you to find!
Eggs are now almost standard in the game. Developers are used to hiding things everywhere, and players can always find them-as long as there are enough players in the game, nothing is impossible. But not many people still care about the history of game eggs, which is normal. For example, in the corner of Lijiang Tower on the map of Watching Pioneer, players will see the exhibition hall of three spacesuits. In the middle of the spacesuit, the words "Hongyu" are written on the chest in Chinese. This egg was added by Blizzard to commemorate Hongyu, a China player who thinks he is brave, and catered to the slogan of Watching Pioneer: The world needs more heroes.
So what other famous eggs do you know in the game? Do you usually spend time looking for eggs when playing games? Welcome to discuss in the comments section.