Talk:Easter egg (media)/Archive 1

Title of article: "Hidden/Virtual/Feature"?
I don't think "Hidden" is a good word to disambiguate...traditional easter eggs, the actual eggs that are decorated are also hidden. We should choose a word that emphasizes that these are related to digital media and electronics. --cprompt 22:30, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Does anyone have a better idea than "Easter egg (virtual)" or "Easter egg (electronics)"? --cprompt 16:13, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Perhaps "Easter egg (feature)"? -Darkhorse 00:09, 2004 Mar 28 (UTC)


 * I like that one. &mdash; Jor (Talk) 00:31, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 * Easter egg feature sounds best to me.72.185.138.138 00:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * "Easter egg (virtual)" sounds good enough to me. Anyone up to fix the word? – Kaonashi 20:02, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Agree, Easter egg (virtual) would be best; anyone got time to do the move and check up on the backlinks? - IMSoP 03:01, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * It's already done, and it looks so much better now. Nice job, Gtrmp. – Kaonashi 04:16, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Danke. -Sean 04:41, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Digital/Computer Easter Eggs
I don't think "digital" is a good word to describe easter eggs in software/firmware. ALL of these examples of Easter Eggs are in digital electronics. Better to just call them "software" easter eggs. Wed Apr 28 15:13:09 UTC 2004


 * I changed the title of the entire category to "Computer-related Easter Eggs". That will solve the poblem, since that section also deals with hardware-related eggs. – Kaonashi 23:39, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The picture of the entire development team in ROM? That'd be the RS Colour Computer 3, the "three mugateers" were the guys whose images appeared on a  keypress (a hard reset which erases all of RAM) and are the Microware guys who wrote the 80-column screen upgrade. This particular "easter egg" occupied 6K of the 32Kbyte ROM on what was one of the last eight-bit machines. --Carlb 16:57, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Upper/lower-case [eE]aster [eE]gg?
Is the upper-case usage "Easter egg" the correct one in English for this concept? It seems a little 'heavy' to me. "There is an Easter egg in movie so-and-so" vs "There is an easter egg in movie so-and-so". Just wondering... --Wernher 23:15, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * I believe the use of upper-case on that expression is just optional. There probably isn't a "correct" spelling. If you take a look at the article, you'll see that both forms end up being used, which means that the people who edited it didn't really care about something like this. However, an upper-case letter could be a sign that the expression is referring to a "virtual Easter egg", rather than a chocolate easter egg, for example. I'm not sure.


 * Still, if you're wondering about the title of article, I believe it couldn't be different. I don't think I've ever see an article title that doesn't begin with an upper-case letter. That's just the style of Wikipedia. – Kaonashi 03:01, 1 May 2004 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks for the quick reply; it was along the lines I suspected but it's always a good thing to get an independent view of things, lest one would act on one's hunches all the time, right or wrong. And the title is Wikipedia standard, of course -- I have actually seen articles where a lower-case first letter would be the correct one, but Wikipedia doesn't allow it :-) --Wernher 04:31, 1 May 2004 (UTC)


 * After surfing by the Easter and Easter egg (proper) articles by chance, it dawns on me that Easter with a capital E might be correct because that presumably is the correct form of referral to holidays and holy days etc. Oh well, another day of learning... --Wernher 05:20, 1 May 2004 (UTC)


 * I believe that the term is properly capitalized, so when I fixed the links to the old page I also changed (most of) the links to capital-E Easter. -Sean 10:00, 2 May 2004 (UTC)

This article's Easter Egg
I have noticed someone added an easter egg to the body of the article itself, and I think it's a very funny idea. Don't think it should be taken off (also because it won't interfere with the way the article will look). However, if other people start adding content to that egg, things will get cluttered on the article's code. I do understand that it was made with the best of intentions, but maybe we should let it the way it is. So, I decided to remove that part. &mdash; Kaonashi 21:07, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

I added on to the original. I think the internal easter egg is pretty nifty...a 10-20 bytes doesn't matter that much--even on dialup. I'm going to restore it, but I'm removing my addition to it. If it's kept small, it should be okay. --cprompt 23:26, 27 May 2004 (UTC) ''Edit: Oh, I see...you just removed my comment, not the egg itself. That's okay.'' --cprompt

Yeah, that's what I did. By the way, I wasn't exactly concerned about the amount of data to be transfered through the net, which is indeed very small. It's more like clutter in the article's code. Just thought maybe other people would have the same idea. I still don't know if I did the best thing.

Anyway, thanks for the comprehension. – Kaonashi 23:39, 27 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Someone care to point out what it is? -sars


 * User:Calmypal has added a small Easter egg to the article. It's a small line of text hidden there, which can be only seen in the article's code. Take a look at it. – Kaonashi 00:19, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Added a code warning to the top of the source. The article needs to stay as it is and not get cluttered up with humor. Krashlandon (e)  00:29, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've removed it, as the text could clearly be read with screen readers and was kind of confusing. The warning comment took up a lot of room and not having it might encourage others to add there. I didn't see the point of cluttering the code either. Graham 87 10:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Easter Eggs in MS Excel, DVDs
Looking at the article, there are two things that seem a little odd, but I'm not sure whether to just change them in case others disagree:

Firstly, under the computer-related section, it claims that Microsoft Excel has "a well-known car racing game secreted inside" - this strikes me as an odd one to pick, because if it's the one I'm thinking of, it required the IE Excel viewer plugin to work, rather than existing entirely in Excel itself. My immediate thought would be that the Excel 97 flight simulator style egg would be more famous, although maybe some would remember the Excel 95 first-person shooter. For illustration purposes, I guess it doesn't matter which we pick, if we label which version it comes from, but maybe someone will tell me that the mentioned one is from Office XP or something (and label it appropriately)...

Secondly, we currently have a section labelled "Movie Easter eggs"; apart from grating against my British instincts ("movie" vs "film"), this seems to be overly general for what we're actually talking about. "Especially since DVDs became popular"? Can anyone actually think of a movie-related Easter egg that predates DVDs? I guess we could include hidden references in the films themselves (refs to THX 1138 within Star Wars etc) but that's not really the same thing as a DVD egg is it? The current text makes it sound like they occasionally existed on VHS releases, which doesn't really make sense.


 * Didn't they say "One-One-Three-Eight" in the movie? The page says "One-Three-Eight".    I don't own the movie so i cannot verify, so I did not change.  70.13.88.40

In fact, perhaps we should have one section for CDs and DVDs (which have essentially the same kind of egg, but with the latter being more complex because they can have their own interface built in) and one for literary works (mainly films and TV shows, I imagine, but all sorts of things include hidden homages to earlier works). What does anyone think? - IMSoP 10:36, 28 May 2004 (UTC)


 * I don't remember seeing a car racing game egg on any version of Excel, but I did crack both of the FPS game and the flight simulator game eggs. Maybe the racing game egg is not as popular as it should to be to be included on the article, but I'm not sure if this reason is good enough to replace the example with something else.


 * About the DVDs/movies issue, that's a conceptual matter. What are easter eggs, in truth? Most people seem to agree on the fact that cheat codes on videogames are not considered easter eggs (like seen on the article), even though they are hidden... but does that mean hidden references on movies can't be considered eggs as well? You don't need to actually make efforts into "unlocking" those references, like you have to do with other kinds of easter eggs. Also, those references may be things like credits or direct references to people behind the production of the movie in question. As you can see, it's really hard to define what is an easter egg and what is not.


 * I'm not sure if something must be done about this on the article either. Doesn't look that problematic to me. &mdash; Kaonashi 16:48, 28 May 2004 (UTC)


 * I wasn't so much suggesting that such references aren't Easter eggs, but that they don't really count as the same category of egg as those on DVDs - putting a reference inside the action of a film is very different from hiding a trailer somewhere in the interactive menu of one version of the home release of that film. Currently we refer to only one of these types of "egg", and I'm not even sure which - the example implies the DVD kind, but the "especially since" phrase (and the header text) imply that they apply to the films themselves. All I'm suggesting is that we separate out the two types to clarify that a storm-trooper named THX-1138 isn't the same as a trailer that can only be accessed by pressing 5 when you see the second section of the third sub-menu (or whatever, you get the idea). - IMSoP 18:49, 28 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Alright, sounds good enough to me. A category for movies and a category for DVDs. Would you like to make the change yourself? &mdash; Kaonashi 19:12, 28 May 2004 (UTC)


 * It would seem the answer was "no" :/ But I have now. :) - IMSoP 18:20, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I thought you just didn't care anymore. =P


 * It looks good. Nice work. And I don't know why, but I really like this article. I am doomed to geekiness. – Kaonashi 02:01, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I remember once an easter in MS exchange 5.5 server software. There was a huge file about 40MB which could be renamed with a movie file extension. Then it showed a movie driving around in a virtual city in which you could see the developers on billboards etc or at pictures in a virutal park. The fun was in that time it was huge program, and it contained a huge movie almost no one knew about.. (so support could always say ahhh you have a disk space problem wel then you might let me think delete this file as it is only used for setup or something like that) ;)

Easter egg traditions: Where?
Should the line that states that Easter egg hunts are "observed in the U.S. and many parts of Europe" be extended to include other regions? Living in Oceania I can report back that the practise is alive and well in Australia, New Zealand and many Pacific Islands. I'm not certain about other regions. Although still not 100% accurate the line could be re-written to say "observed in many Western nations, and Eastern Europe", since 'West' is a cultural rather than geographic term. User:Heyseuss, 29 July 2024


 * I, for one, think you have a valid point there, and a fully usable remedy. --Wernher 00:06, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

More on Matlab?
Well I got bored and tried out the matlab easter egg to see if it still existed (Matlab 7 R14):

>> why

To get started, select MATLAB Help or Demos from the Help menu.

Pete wanted it that way. >> why I told me to. >> why A young kid told me to. >> why Bill insisted on it. >> why For the love of Jack. >> why The computer did it. >> why Some not very bald very rich system manager wanted it. >> why You told the rich system manager. >> why Some not excessively rich young and smart hamster obeyed some rich and not very good and good and bald kid. >> why Cleve suggested it. >> why To fool the smart and smart programmer. >> why Some young hamster told me to. >> why The young programmer insisted on it. >> why A smart programmer suggested it. >> why Some smart kid suggested it. >> why The engineer told me to. >> why I helped all. >> why Cleve wanted it. >> why Why not? >> why To fool some smart and young mathematician. >> why A smart and very bald and very terrified bald mathematician obeyed a programmer. >> why You helped some mathematician. >> why A good engineer wanted it. >> why Jack told me to. >> why A bald system manager told me to. >> why He told me to. >> why Bill obeyed a bald engineer. >> why I knew it was a good idea. >> why A good and smart and not very rich and rich and young and not very young and bald and not excessively rich and tall and tall and not excessively tall and smart and rich and smart and not excessively terrified and rich and good and not very bald and not very terrified very smart not very rich system manager told me to. >> why The bald and tall and young and good and smart and terrified and not very tall and young and bald and not very good and good and rich and not very bald and bald system manager told me to. >> why Bill suggested it. >> why Pete told me to. >> why Some young smart tall system manager insisted on it. >> why The not very good and terrified and young and smart and smart and young and not excessively good rich hamster suggested it. >> why A smart programmer told me to. >> why The customer is always right. >> why You insisted on it. >> why A system manager obeyed the not very tall mathematician. >> why Pete obeyed a engineer. >> why They threatened a programmer. >> why Joe obeyed a tall mathematician. >> why Because the terrified and terrified and rich and rich and smart and very young and good and tall and bald and rich and bald and bald and rich and not very good and very terrified and very tall hamster wanted it. >> why A bald mathematician told me to. >> why The not very good and smart programmer told me to. >> why A mathematician wanted it that way. >> why In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth... >> why It should be obvious. >> why Because they obeyed a smart mathematician. >> why Some good good engineer obeyed the programmer. >> why For the approval of a young mathematician. >> why The rich programmer wanted it that way. >> why A hamster obeyed a smart tall hamster. >> why Cleve obeyed the young programmer. >> why Because she told me to. >> why Pete insisted on it. >> why A terrified system manager helped a not very smart not excessively young and bald and smart and good and tall and good and not very rich and tall and smart and terrified and good and not excessively young and smart and terrified and bald and not excessively terrified and not excessively smart and smart and tall and tall and smart and bald and very rich and bald and young and not very smart and bald programmer. >> why They obeyed a kid. >> why Damian knew it was a good idea. >> why Loren told me to. >> why The not excessively smart hamster suggested it. >> why Bill helped a tall mathematician. >> why A bald engineer knew it was a good idea. >> why You insisted on it. >> why For the approval of a terrified tall mathematician. >> why Because Pete asked some rich kid. >> why A good and terrified tall programmer wanted it that way. >> why For the love of the very rich mathematician. >> why For the love of Jack. >> why He threatened a good hamster. >> why He threatened the tall system manager. >> why Some programmer threatened some hamster. >> why A programmer obeyed some not excessively rich hamster. >> why Some rich and good system manager obeyed the good programmer. >> why To fool the mathematician.

I don't know if any mention should be made of this... so I thought I'd let somebody else make the call Fbartho 23:02, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I found this very funny, indeed. Maybe in an especific article about matlab? --Joanberenguer 16:15, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Easter Egg Archive
It says "Easter Egg Archive (http://www.eeggs.com) – Up-to-date lists and discussions of digital Easter eggs" Anyone agree that this should be changed to omit the word "digital"? The Archive not only has digital eggs, it also has those from books, art, and even "real life".


 * I changed that part. See if it's better now. – Kaonashi 00:19, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Other Wikipedia Easter Eggs
See Talk:Steganography for details about a steganographic easter egg I put in. <>< tbc 05:42, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

movies and fiction section
UPDATE: I removed the info in this section, as no one had responded to my initial complaints that the examples used were not "easter eggs" but rather "inside jokes" or "references to pop culture." You can restore the text if you want, but I think it was lacking and I think someone should try and come up with a better entry for this section. You can read below if you want to see my original complaint about this section.

---

I think this section contains a lot of bad information and needs revision/editing.

For something to be an Easter Egg, I think there has to be some level of interactivity to it, so that a viewer has to 'find' it. Here, the author pretty much equates any sort of inside reference to being an Easter Egg. They try to qualifying it by saying it "could be considered a form of Easter Egg," but that doesn't really cut it for me.

In particular, they make a "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" reference as an example which I think is more of an inside refernce/joke than Easter Egg. I'll quote what it says to illustrate my point:

"Often, such references are homages to other writers or directors, but sometimes they are more like in-jokes referring to the previous work or private life of a member of the cast or crew in some way"....." Another example is Spike's references to Buffy's "stupid hair" in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer—Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy, had previously starred in shampoo commercials."

I think this text should be removed/revised, because it's more trivia than anything. If they were talking about an exra scene in a movie that plays after the credits roll, THAT could be considered an Easter Egg. The "Star Wars" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" examples are not really Easter Eggs and should be removed.


 * Hm, I think I see where you're coming from; for reference, here's a diff link showing what was removed. [By the way, possibly one of the reasons nobody responded to your comment is that convention here is to add to the bottom of talk pages, not the top.]
 * I think the sense in which they're "Easter eggs" is that they're messages deliberately hidden by the creators of the work - so, although it's certainly trivial that there are mentions of 1138 in Star Wars, it's not coincidence; they were put there (presumably) in order for fans to spot them and "get the joke". I guess hidden cameo appearances, like Alfred Hitchcock appearing in the background, are also a kind of "easter egg" in this sense - they're there in order to be "hunted out". But can we come up with better examples, or better wording? Perhaps; perhaps we just need to confine ourselves to a briefer mention that these are similar phenomena that could arguably be the same... - IMSoP 00:40, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Literary Easter eggs
Two recent examples come to mind. Hofstadter's GEB and the DaVinci Code's dust jacket. I loaned my copy of these books to people. Would anybody mind adding these? sorry forgot to sign. :) --216.61.135.241 18:55, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Criticism?
What on earth does that section mean? I can't honestly comprehend what the author meant to say; I suggest it either be made meaningful or removed.NorphTehDwarf 03:42, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

The SECURITY problems and HISTORY of Easter Eggs is downplayed in this Wiki entry. They are used in various extortion situations too.. The DISGRUNTLED employee creating a BACKDOOR to activate a software Easter Egg is a KNOWN security problem.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aeb1barfo (talk • contribs)


 * I think s/he was attempting to refer to something like Hot Coffee mod?66.229.182.113 16:36, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Possible merge
The Chip art article has much of the same content as this section. I'm not sure whether these should be merged or not. 66.229.182.113 16:36, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Sonic on chip?
Hey, does anyone know anything more about that Sonic's-face-on-a-chip thingy? I'm very curious... 66.167.48.13 15:41, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, me too... Any more information on this? -- Daniel15 ( Talk/Contribs ) 12:56, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

As explained, you would have to shave the black package off the chip,

put a strong light through it, and look at it through a microscope (of some great power)

Its there, but not for the home user to see !

Cows?
"Cows are used are used as Easter eggs in many pinball games."

Hmmmm... Do we have a source on that? It seems strange to me. O.o -- Daniel15 ( Talk/Contribs ) 12:53, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Very Long: Too many examples
Once, there were a few DVD and software Easter egg examples, now this is increasing all the time. I don't think there is a need to have all these - there is no possible way all these could be captured in an encyclopoedic article like this, and besides, there are plenty of web sites out there that list these any way. Could some of these be removed? By all means, leave some for examples, but I think this article could stand to lose several entries.StephenBuxton 20:59, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree... It is geting long. I think we should incorperate the easter eggs into its own page and create one if one does not exist. Not only will it eliminate the bulk, it will give the easter egg room to expand. - Hamster2.0 21:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Origin of the term
The argument "Return of the Living Dead was not released until 1985, and Atari's Adventure, released in 1978, contained what is thought to be the first video game Easter egg" may be irrelevant. If it's verified that prior to 1985 people used the term Easter egg, then that supports the film not being inspiration. The second statement (Atari's Adventure released in 1978) probably has no bearing on the etymology of the term. Finding the first use in a consumer computing mag might be useful. Rodiger 03:24, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

The firsts...
Does anyone know what the first DVD to have an Easter Egg was? That's actually what I came here looking for. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.3.104.138 (talk) 15:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

Help finding Easter egg
Could anyone help me find the dancing yoda thingy. And who got that image? Sheenfanficker 00:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Just put "revenge of the sith" "easter egg" into Google:      -- AnonMoos 03:07, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

History
This article needs a history section, documenting with references the earliest actual uses of the term "easter egg" (rather than phenomena that we would today call an "easter egg"). --Santaduck 23:37, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

DVD
Section has become bloated and random, with insignificant eggs simply listed. There probably should be a seperate section devoted to DVD Easter eggs to begin with. I added the Incident at Loch Ness section because I found it significant, but have cut out the following eggs and will allow other to debate their merits for inclusion:

Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate features several hidden trailers for the film.

The 2-disc version of The Incredibles has many easter eggs, most of which can be accessed on different screens by clicking the omnidroid that appears (after a little while) in the upper right hand corner.

In the movie Dumb and Dumber, an Easter egg in the form of an actor's commentary on a scene is accessed in the special features menu, and moving the cursor to an invisible icon that looks like an Easter egg when highlighted.

On the Jeopardy! DVD, viewers will find 2 Easter eggs, each in the form of the show's Daily Double. One features the intro to the first of the 3 Final games of the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions, where Alex walks onto stage without his trousers on and hoping that the 3 finalists Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and Jerome Vered have done the same as him; the other features announcer Johnny Gilbert mistaking Alex Trebek for contestant coordinator Glenn Kagan in the intro of a Season 16 episode.

The deluxe editions of The Lord of the Rings feature the following Easter eggs:
 * Jack Black's parody of the "Council of Elrond" scene
 * Gollum's "award acceptance" speech
 * A comic interview with Elijah Wood
 * A trailer for ''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
 * A comic interview with director Peter Jackson

The two-disc Collector's edition of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest offers 4 Easter Eggs in the second disc. These are small snippets of behind-the-scenes documentaries.

The film "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" has an easter egg that includes several "alternate" scenes and an otherwise unavailable director's commentary by Rawson Marshall Thurber, these are all accessed by pressing the enter button on the DVD remote control every time the character "White Goodman" played by Ben Stiller snaps his fingers.

The animated television series "Invader Zim", pictures of an easter egg named Bloody GIR are hidden in frames through the last 14 episodes.

Even such serious films as Doctor Zhivago, Dances With Wolves and Tombstone can have Easter eggs.

The second Bionicle movie Bionicle 2: Legends of metru nui features a scene where one of the heroes, Matau, flies and smack into a giant banner. If you look closely you can see the 2004 LEGO logo "Play well" Written in bionicle letters.

Perhaps the best solution would be to simply start a ''List of DVD easter eggs]] article. RoyBatty42 02:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree that it is getting too long. I have added the Example Farm tag, as I think it is still too long.  I disagree about creating a separate list though, as it would be unending.  Besides, there are a number of websites out there that were created for the collecting of easter eggs - external links to these sites should be sufficient. StephenBuxton 07:22, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Original Easter Eggs
Not for nothing, but didn't the phrase originate in reference to the Rocky Horror Picture Show? The crew, or somebody, had held an Easter Egg hunt on the set, and apparently not all were found, because several of them are visible in the final cut of the film, one under Frankenfurter's throne, another is in a light fixture in the main room, and a third is visible as the characters go into an elevator into the lab. Just throwing it out there.69.50.54.74 00:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

eeggs.com
Should the Easter Egg Archive (www.eeggs.com) have its own article? I know this should be about changes to the easter egg article but I don't know where else to ask this question.

Wikiman232 18:40, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I've heard of this as well. In addition the film it self has several metaphorical Easter eggs.

Mac OS X "Liberty Bell March" egg
I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.10 and /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/test/ contains an audio file which clips the Spanish Inquisition Monty Python sketch, not the liberty bell march. The artcile should say which OS X version the march easter egg is on. --67.77.126.82 00:01, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I tried to prank someone with this and they gave the same result. --Raijinili 03:57, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Wrong easter egg
Several models of S3 Trio 64v+ graphics cards have the Beatles lyrics printed faintly along the edge of the card.

This is wrong. S3 did not have lyrics printed on their graphiccards; it was the company Number Nine. They also named their cards after songs from The Beatles.

From: http://accelenation.com/?ac.id.123.3

If you were wondering why the chip was called “Ticket to Ride”, this was because most of the products from Number Nine were named in relation to the Beatles. So we got names like Revolution, Imagine, and before that, Pepper, Rita and Tina. There were even secret references hidden within the board BIOS and circuit layout. NitroX infinity 22:21, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

easter egg in halo 3 beta
did you know the beta version of halo 3 had a little something in it? for a long time, the game developer Bungie has kept the face of the protagonist, the Master Chief, universally hidden for many reasons. but in this version, there is a face actually located within the helmet visor of the character This face can be seen by entering a vehicle, or utilizing an object that changes the camera angle from first-person to third-person. when another avatar is directly intercepting the camera at the right point, there will appear to be a dark recess in the character's helmet visor. by shifting the camera angle, multiple face-resembling forms and shadows are visible. if the character is wielding an object that creates a substantial light, such as a charged plasma pistol, the face if fully lit and there is no denying that the face is real. this has been featured several times on Youtube, and one of the comments for such a video read that the face was an easter egg--the face actually being that of one of the workers at Bungie--and can be seen also in the E.V.A. armour. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dennisjiewenliu (talk • contribs) 22:08, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Change easter egg to Spring egg
I moved the article because the virtual "easter" eggs have no religious connotation. The term "Spring egg" and "Spring egg hunt" is becoming popular in the US to replace "easter" and it should also be the case here. &mdash; John Stattic (talk) 21:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * That's pointless!  Doktor  Wilhelm   22:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Elan/Flan enterprise
The Enterprise 64 was a PC manufactured in the 70s (I think) - apparently if you typed in "what is the meaning of life?" on startup it returned the answer 42. Anyone have a source for this? Springnuts (talk) 22:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

gramophone record eggs?
Is there any mention on wikipedia about easter eggs imprinted on the lead out groove of many vinyl LP records? If so I would like to link to it in the see also section. J. D. Pfaff (talk)