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Great Gaming Easter Eggs
Gamespot is running a piece detailing some of the most well known Easter Eggs in gaming history. The list starts with the first egg in a game, the Warren Robinett room in Adventure. From the article: "In the depths of the black castle in Games 2 and 3, which required special tools, direction, and a certain amount of know-how, players could maneuver to a room by the catacombs that had a single-pixel gray dot, the same color as the game's background. The dot would allow players access through a wall to a superfluous area with the text "Created by Warren Robinett" running down the middle. Robinett was partially motivated by the fact that, at the time, designers weren't given credit for their games."
Isn't the source for Doom open? It would be amusing to hack Open Office to include it as an Easter egg. Heh, OO rox because it has an FPS! Take that, Excel!
The article mentions that you can poke people to say funny things in Warcraft. I first experienced this in the demo version of the game. If you kept poking people, they'd say "Okay, that's enough. It's time for you to go buy the game. Go buy game now!"
"Derp de derp."