Easter Eggs in games

[someone else]

Games like Fallout 2 have many easter eggs and jokes but my favourite easter egg is in Ultima 7: The Black Gate.

The inhabitants of the town Serpent Hold are based on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

We have:

Captain Jean-Luc Picard as Lord John Paul, ruler of Serpent's Hold.

Riker is Sir Richter, the armourer and second-in-command of Serpent's Hold. He is in a relationship with Lady Tory.

Counselor Troi is Lady Tory, a druid with psychic empathy.

Worf is Sir Horffe Captain of the guard in Serpent's Hold. Worf is a Klingon raised by humans, Horffe is a Gargoyle raised by human.

Dr Beverly Crusher is Lady Leigh, the healer.

Geordi is Sir Jordan the tinker who is blind and runs the local branch of Iolo's Bow.

Data is Sir Denton the tavernkeeper. He likes wearing armour and has difficulty with emotions, social interactions and talks like an android.
The tavern is called The Hallowed Dock, a reference to the Holodeck.

The other big reference is Electronic Arts(EA); The founders of The Fellowship are Elizabeth & Abraham (EA), the three Guardian generators (a cube, sphere, and tetrahedron) reference EA's old logo.
You can read more about it here:
https://casualaggro.wordpress.com/2...reference-to-how-terrible-electronic-arts-is/

The Fellowship & Scientology. Batlin even looks like Hubbard.
http://www.oocities.org/hoki_dragon/u7-scientology.html

What other easter eggs impressed you?

 

[mbv123]

 

[Astral Rag]

OJ

Stephen Fry

Roshambo

OJ again

Caleb and Doomguy make gruesome discoveries

Dungeon Keeper's Avatar

 

[Zenith]

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Ooh, this is a fun topic. Easter Eggs were a big thing in computer games of the 1990s (and most games released by Sierra On-Line) so that's where most people go look for them.

Instead of naming all of them (yeah, right!) I'm just gonna name a couple of favorites of mine.

Like the Dopefish.

The Dopefish started life as a big enemy in Commander Keen 5: Goodbye Galaxy!, as can be seen here:

Described as "the Universe's second-dumbest animal" his thought pattern pretty much boils down to "Swim, swim, hungry". Somehow Dopefish managed to survive his game and branch out into other games as an insider joke, much like how Sam & Max snuck into almost every LucasArts game during the 1990s (which is another Easter Egg all of its own). Dopefish (or at least a reference to him) can be found in games such as Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Wacky Wheels, Daikatana and even Jazz Jackrabbit.

He even has his own homepage where you can read all about him.

So yeah - Dopefish lives.

One of the biggest reasons some of us older gamers still cling on to Civilization 2 is because of the Advisors - five people that each represents an aspect of your empire. One of the advisors (the 'People's Advisor', if you will) is actually Elvis Presley... or an actor making a decent Elvis impersonation. This gets more and more noticable as the game approaches modern times.

The free SHMUP Tyrian has a ton of well-hidden Easter Eggs, like secret ships (fancy flying a carrot?) secret levels and even hidden game modes that have little to do with the game itself.

But the one Easter Egg that always makes me smile can be found in a Fan Mission for Thief, the running serf. You can see him (along with a few others) in the video below, at around the 0:30 mark.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

"To win the game you must kill me, John Romero."

I know the topic specifies games, but this is a blast from the past for you Excel 95ers:

 

[agentorange]

"Oh no. You're one of those mercenaries. I was in the army once, full of dope-puffing socialists. You probably heard of me, Calvin Barkmore, broke every record they keep track of."

 

[Dreed]

The characters from Call of Chtulhu: Shadow of the Comet are taken from various actors, like Vincent Price, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, etc.

 

[Astral Rag]

Watched Beetlejuice the other day and was reminded of Shadow of the Comet

Spoiler

 

[Dreed]

Watched Beetlejuice the other day and was reminded of Shadow of the Comet

I always thought that was supposed to be Paul Sorvino.

 

[kintake]

"Sex" By Madonna, the book Nystul keeps well under lock and key in his quarters in Ultima Underworld 2.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Mario Land level in FPS, ST Elite Force 2

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Phantasmagoria 2 had many easter eggs, and you even had score meter for them.

 

[taxalot]

In an old Call of Duty game, you could find a computer with Zork installed and you could play the entire game.

 

[Astral Rag]

Reminds me of how you could play Maniac Mansion on a computer in Day of the Tentacle.

 

[CryptRat]

 

[Falksi]

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

"Oh no. You're one of those mercenaries. I was in the army once, full of dope-puffing socialists. You probably heard of me, Calvin Barkmore, broke every record they keep track of."

 

[someone else]

Cleve is one of the better easter eggs.
So many easter eggs are from games from the last century.

 

[HoboForEternity]

So easter eggs are from games from the last century.

the trendy thing now is licensed paid microtransactions

 

[Jacob]

That's one doomed space marine...

Also dawcio's avatar is obviously sailor moon

 

[deuxhero]

In Second Sight there's a length, fully voiced, conversation if you backtrack in the first level with the guards in tow, run back to your cell, lure them in and shut them in. Found it by accident while trying to beat the first level without killing anyone (as the main character comments when he kills someone)

 

[unfairlight]

Vice City had a room behind a invisible wall that had a literal easter egg in it.

There was also a room with a reference to Scarface.


In GTA IV you could climb inside the Statue of Happiness, inside it is a beating heart.

 

[octavius]

The NWC headquarters in MM6 (hard to find) and MM7 (easy to find).

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

So many easter eggs are from games from the last century.

Don't worry, dopefish still lives.