[mr_sturd]

My favourite easter eggs are:

I remember playing through the first F.E.A.R. and noticing a coffee machine in an office kitchen. It had an unknown brand name on it so I checked it against the game's credits and it matched up with one of the game's artists.

My favourite, though, was playing through Deus Ex: Human Revolution and finding three sea shells on the wall next to a toilet.

[FirmwareBurner]

There are a lot more well known easter eggs in games of that era, especially in games by id software where staff would put each other's pics in hidden places in the game.

Came from a time when games were a product of passion of a few, and not of a soulless corporation.

But that's still alive in indie games today. Check out the games developed by "New Blood Interactive" for example Dusk, it's full of throwbacks and memes to classic games from the '90's. You can find them on Steam or at https://waste.money/

[sdflhasjd]

> Came from a time when games were a product of passion of a few, and not of a soulless corporation.

Only committee-approved and/or mandated easter eggs permitted. Don't forget to catalogue them all so the social media team have more content.

[whizzter]

It's all fun and games until you leave a literal sex-game(1) in there prompting geriatric lawmakers(2) to get into the action (3).

(And yes, I've worked in games myself so I 100% see the reason why they left it in disabled, iirc there is 2 or 3 levels with geometries but broken scripts included on disc in the largest game I worked on)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Coffee_(minigame)

(2) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/30/house-get...

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Entertainment_Protectio...

[sdflhasjd]

Although in this case, it wasn't even an actual easter egg, just removed content still on the disc.

[JohnFen]

Yep, which makes them features rather than easter eggs. Easter eggs should be subversive and unapproved.

It's a loss for sure, but at least they still appear in some indie games.

[exikyut]

Been trying to load that website for the past 24 hours, it keeps timing out :(

[iwontberude]

Also in fear is that red headed engineer with the giant RTFM belt buckle. Love that.

[TheRoque]

Cyberpunk also has the 3 sea shells reference

[rwmj]

What is the significance of 3 sea shells?

[theginger]

He doesn't know how to use the 3 sea shells hahahahahahaha. I can see how that could be confusing.

[mionhe]

This is the correct response.

[omnibrain]

It's a reference to the 1993 Stallone Movie Demolition Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_(film)

A cop gets "frozen" as a punishment and when he gets reawoken the world has changed. Including the toilets. They now use 3 seashells instead of paper.

[tech2]

It's a meme from the movie Demolition Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnuOa7tDco

[cris-ward]

Cyberpunk also has the red pill / blue pill and deja vu cat from the matrix.

[PawgerZ]

A little fun fact about Cyberpunk for those who haven't played: Every quest in the game is named after an old song.