TOP 10 VIDEO GAME SECRETS THAT TOOK YEARS TO FIGURE OUT
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So today we’re talking the top 10 video game secrets that took years to figure out.
You ready to divulge all these super secretive video game secrets?
R 10 Halo 3 - Happy Birthday Lauren
Halo 3 was released in 2007.
Which makes me feel frickin ancient.
But all self-consciousness aside, Halo 3 was awesome.
Millions of people played every day, and even with so many people playing, one easter egg
took 5 years to find, and that required some hints.
In 2012, it was hinted that there was a hidden Easter Egg nobody has found, and programmer
Adrian Perez finally told fans that there was a secret that would appear on the campaign
loading screen on a certain date.
So, people hit the bricks, and quickly found that if you loaded the campaign with the date
set to December 25, a message would pop up from Perez to his wife Lauren.
Awwwww.
K 9 GTA V Peyote Plants but also the aliens
While there’s a very intriguing mystery still unraveling concerning aliens in GTA
V, we’re taking a look at something a little different from the game.
The peyote plants.
It took a few years before players started to discover these plants, 27 in total.
One of which is referred to as the golden peyote, which turns players in a Sasquatch.
And it goes further than that two - deepening on where you’re standing when playing at
the Sasquatch, if you let out your Sasquatch roar in the right spots, you’ll hear howling
from none other than Teen Wolf.
Who you can then fight and upon victory, get a skin for, for the director mode of the game.
R 8 Resident Evil 2 - Wesker’s Desk
Sometimes, Easter eggs are hidden so damn well that only a masochist would find them.
And Wesker’s desk is one of those.
In Resident Evil 2, if you search Wesker’s desk, you’re told nothing is there.
But if you search it again… nothing is there.
But if you search it a total of 25 times… nothing is there.
But on the bright side, you’re halfway there.
That’s right, you need to search the desk 50 freaking times to unlock this Easter Egg.
But hey, you made it, you stuck to it and clicked it 50 times.
You’ve wasted precious time out of your life opening and closing a desk, but it will
all be worth it for the amazing reward: Just kidding, all you get is Rebecca photoshopped
into basketball gear.
Awesome.
K 7 Mike Tyson’s Punch Out - Bald Bull
Sometimes it can be a bit of a pain to take out characters in this game.
Especially Bald Bull, for some of us.
Turns out there’s an easier way to knock him out though, and that’s with a specific
visual cue that pops up in the game.
One of the audience members in the background takes out a camera and it flashes when he
snaps a photo.
That’s when you need to throw the punch to knock him out.
While a similar easter egg was found by a Reddit user for when fighting against Piston
Honda, the one for Bald Bull was brought to our attention when Satoru Iwata at a Nintendo
round table in 2009.
R 6 Arkham City - Calendar Man’s Riddles
Here’s another date-related Easter Egg, which is pretty fitting considering it involves
Calendar Man.
The Arkham games have something of a reputation for Easter Eggs, with one hidden room in Arkham
Asylum taking almost a year to find out.
But this one took even longer, with fans being totally clueless for 3 years.
It turns out that if the date on the console is set for December 12th, the day Rocksteady
was formed, and go to see Calendar Man, you’ll get a special message from him that couldn’t
be heard otherwise.
Pretty sneaky sis.
K 5 Super Smash Bros Melee - Master Hand
Super Smash Bros is filled with a bunch of fun playable characters, but there’s one
that is hidden - and technically wasn’t meant to be playable - that players found
out about seven years after the game’s release.
The Master Hand.
Turns out a glitch in the game is responsible for this one that unlocks a single person
melee mode, and only happens when you erase your friends names from the game.
R 4 The Sassy Announcer from WaveRace: Blue
Storm.
WaveRace was a super popular and well-made game for the Gamecube, and despite its popularity,
one secret was so well-hidden that it went undiscovered for 8 years.
Despite there being an actual secret code option, this one requires a bit more creativity.
It was eventually discovered that if you play with the audio options to make it look like
fog and input a modified version of the famous Konami code, you get a new announcer who’s
just a jerk.
Saying things like “You chose poorly” and “Greaaaaaat” and “Pathetic” and
if you’re really good “Adequate”, it’s really hilarious.
I kinda wish ever game had an announcer like this, it’s awesome.
K 3 Donkey Kong - Programmer’s Initials, Landon
M Dyer An easter egg unearthed for 26 years?
Yep, that’s the case in the Atari 400 Donkey Kong with developer Landon M Dyer’s initials.
Many developers have popped their initials in games in the past, and while most of the
time it’s fairly easy to come by mistakenly or discover, this one had Dyer himself puzzled
years after the fact, when even he couldn’t remember the arbitrary process necessary to
unlocking the main screen that contained his three initials.
Someone eventually went through all the code and discovered the means necessary for unlocking
it, which required setting a specific high score, losing all your lives and death by
falling, among other details.
R 2 Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past - Chris
Houlihan room This one took over 10 years to find, and it
was… maybe worth it?
You see, back in 1990, Nintendo ran a competition to get your name in a NES game, and it was
won by Chris Houlihan.
But the game itself was undisclosed.
It turns out that this game was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
Well, a decade later gamer found his name, on a plaque in a secret room, that when clicked
asks the player to keep Chris’ secret.
There are several ways to access the room, using various glitches.
The room itself is less of an Easter Egg and more of a crash prevention measure, for when
the game can’t determine what room Link’s sent to, but the plaque is a really neat little
egg for fans (and especially for Christ Houlihan).
K 1 Splinter Cell - Double Agent - Seal Rescue
- 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbSXFKefmKw
Oh how I love a good animal themed easter egg.
It’s hilarious, arbitrary, and involves SEALS.
Dope.
So in order to find this gem, you’ve got to shoot a locker in the guard room near the
end of Prison A.
You get a gold piece, which you then need to pop in the vending machine that you passed
earlier in that level.
Then, out of a vent next to the vending machine, a seal pops out!
AND IT’S NAME IS MUFFIN.
It leads you on a quest to go get it some food, which launches a series of other mini
quests to help save it’s seal siblings.
Turns out they’re actually seal aliens.
Who are super greatful for your help.
How cute.
There we have it friends!
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