query: who created the first video game easter egg

pos: Adventure (Atari 2600) to move even when not displayed on the screen. "Adventure" was conceived as a graphical version of the 1977 text adventure "Colossal Cave Adventure". It took developer Warren Robinett approximately one year to design and code the game, during which time he had to overcome a variety of technical limitations in the Atari 2600 console hardware, as well as difficulties with management within Atari. In this game, he introduced the first widely known video game Easter egg, a secret room containing text crediting himself for the game's creation. Robinett's Easter egg became a tradition for future Atari 2600 titles. "Adventure"

pos: Warren Robinett upon its 1979 release, and eventually sold a million copies. Atari designers at the time were not given credit for their games, because Atari feared having to bargain with well-known designers. In response to this, Robinett placed a hidden object in the game that would allow the player to reach a hidden screen which displayed the words "Created by Warren Robinett," hence creating one of the earliest known Easter eggs in a video game, and the first to which the name "Easter egg" was applied. Robinett then wrote the "BASIC Programming" cartridge, finishing both "BASIC Programming" and "Adventure" in June

pos: Easter egg (media) the 1979 video game "Adventure" for the Atari 2600 game console, programmed by employee Warren Robinett. At the time, Atari did not include programmers' names in the game credits, fearing that competitors would attempt to steal their employees. Robinett, who disagreed with his supervisor over this lack of acknowledgment, secretly inserted the message "Created by Warren Robinett". This message would only appear if a player moved his/her avatar over a specific pixel (the "Gray Dot") during a certain part of the game. When Robinett left Atari, he did not inform the company of the acknowledgment that he included in the

pos: Adventure (Atari 2600) Atari that all future games should include Easter eggs, often limited to being the initials of the game developer. The Easter egg text with Warren Robinett's name was removed from the version on the Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Games standalone gaming unit, replaced with "TEXT?" It has been included in most subsequent reissues of the game, however. "Adventure" received mostly positive reviews in the years immediately after its release and has generally been viewed positively in subsequent decades. Norman Howe reviewed "Adventure" in "The Space Gamer" No. 31. Howe commented that ""Adventure" is a good game, as video games are

neg: Easter egg (media) egg idea has been implemented. The first text adventure game, "Colossal Cave Adventure" (1976), from which "Adventure" was fashioned, included several secret words. One of these was "xyzzy", a command which enabled the player to move between two points in the game world. In 2004, an Easter egg displaying programmer Bradley Reid-Selth's surname was found in "Video Whizball" (1978), a game for the Fairchild Channel F system. According to research by Ed Fries, the first known Easter egg in an arcade game was in "Starship 1" (1977), programmed by Ron Milner. By triggering the cabinet's controls in the right order,

neg: Easter egg (media) Easter egg (media) In computer software and media, an Easter egg is an intentional inside joke, hidden message or image, or secret feature of a work. It is usually found in a computer program, video game, or DVD/Blu-ray Disc menu screen. The name is used to evoke the idea of a traditional Easter egg hunt. The term was coined to describe a hidden message in the Atari video game "Adventure" that encouraged the player to find further hidden messages in later games, leading them on a 'hunt'. The use of the term "Easter egg" to describe secret features originates from

neg: Easter egg (media) means to modify the circuit board to make the airplanes in the game appear as alien UFOs. Fries surmised that this feature may have been intended for a Kee Games release. For this reason, and because it required a hardware modification, Fries questioned whether it met the definition of an Easter egg. Since "Adventure", there has been a long history of video game developers placing Easter eggs in their games. Most Easter eggs are intentional - an attempt to communicate with the player or a way of getting even with management for a slight. Easter eggs in video games have

neg: Egg hunt been created that emit various clicks, beeps, noises, or music. A number of companies have made use of the popularity of Easter and more specifically Easter egg hunts to promote the sales of their candy products. Most notable have been chocolatiers including Cadbury with their annual Easter Egg Trail. In 2015, the British chocolate company Thorntons worked with the geocaching community to hide chocolate eggs across the United Kingdom. Egg hunt An egg hunt is a game during which decorated eggs or Easter eggs are hidden for children to find. Real hard-boiled eggs, which are typically dyed or painted, artificial

neg: Easter egg US States with high Hispanic demographics, are emptied and dried chicken eggs stuffed with confetti and sealed with a piece of tissue paper. The eggs are hidden in a similar tradition to the American Easter egg hunt and when found the children (and adults) break them over each other's heads. In order to enable children to take part in egg hunts despite visual impairment, eggs have been created that emit various clicks, beeps, noises, or music so that visually impaired children can easily hunt for Easter eggs. Egg rolling is also a traditional Easter egg game played with eggs at

neg: Adventure (Atari 2600) combine them to form new items. In both the novel and film versions of "Ready Player One", the Easter egg in "Adventure" is prominently mentioned as the inspiration for a contest to find an Easter egg hidden in the fictional virtual reality game OASIS, and finding the secret room within "Adventure" is a core plot element within both versions. "Adventure" has been ported to or re-released on several platforms: Adventure (Atari 2600) Adventure is a video game for the Atari 2600 video game console, released in late –. In the game, the player controls a square avatar whose quest is

neg: Easter egg (media) Easter eggs. In the LucasArts game "Day of the Tentacle" (1993), the original "Maniac Mansion" (1987) game can be played in its full version by using a home computer in a character's room. Other Easter eggs originated unintentionally. The Konami Code, a type of cheat code, became an intentional Easter egg in most games, but originated from Konami's "Gradius" (1985) for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The programmer, Kazuhisa Hashimoto, created the code as a means to rapidly debug the game by giving the player's avatar additional health and powers to easily traverse the game. These types of codes are normally

neg: Easter egg (media) in voting machines or other computers. Netscape Navigator contributor Jamie Zawinski stated in an interview in 1998 that harmless Easter eggs impose a negligible burden on shipped software, and serve the important purpose of helping productivity by keeping programmers happy. Easter eggs have become more widely known to the general public and are referenced in contemporary artworks. They feature as key plot devices in: Easter egg (media) In computer software and media, an Easter egg is an intentional inside joke, hidden message or image, or secret feature of a work. It is usually found in a computer program, video game,

neg: P.T. (video game) series. "P.T." has also been alluded to in other video games. The antagonist, Lisa, made a cameo in another video game directed by Kojima, "" (2015). The radio monologue from the beginning of P.T. can also be found playing on a radio as an easter egg. Additionally, the first-person survival-horror video game "Allison Road" was heavily inspired by "P.T." "Allison Road" is to take place in a haunted townhouse in the United Kingdom and feature a male protagonist who attempts to unravel the mystery behind his missing family over five nights. In the demo, some wall graffiti directly alludes to

neg: Webdriver Torso Google, the Google logo will look like a Webdriver Torso video. Another Easter egg is that in the Android L developer builds, the Android Version Easter Egg is a reference to Webdriver Torso videos. Webdriver Torso Webdriver Torso is a YouTube automated account, created by Google on 7 March 2013, that frequently posted videos showing simple slides accompanied by beeps in order to test the website's performance. The channel brought public attention in 2014, when it became a source of speculation for viewers who discovered it and noted its unusual nature, as well as three atypical videos featuring jokes. It

neg: Adventure (Atari 2600) "Adventure" is "a work of interpretive brilliance" that "cleverly extracted the basic elements of exploration, combat and treasure hunting from the text games and converted them into icons", but also conceded that it "seems almost unplayably basic these days". Atari's "Adventure" yielded sales of one million copies. As the first action-adventure video game and first console fantasy game, "Adventure" established its namesake genres on video game consoles. In addition to being the first graphical adventure game on the Atari 2600 console, it is the first video game to contain a widely known Easter egg, and the first to allow a

neg: Winter (Fabergé egg) Winter (Fabergé egg) The Winter Egg is a Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-two jewelled Easter eggs created by Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé. It was an Easter 1913 gift for Tsarina Maria Feodorovna from Tsar Nicholas II, who had a standing order of two Easter eggs every year, one for his mother and one for his wife. It was designed by Alma Pihl. The price in 1913 was 24,700 rubles, the most expensive Easter egg ever made. The egg left Russia after the Revolution, and ended up in the collection of Mr. Brian Ledbrooke, Esq. It was

neg: Easter egg Easter. In the United Kingdom, Germany, and other countries children traditionally rolled eggs down hillsides at Easter. This tradition was taken to the New World by European settlers, and continues to this day each Easter with an Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Different nations have different versions of the game. In the North of England, during Eastertide, a traditional game is played where hard boiled "pace eggs" are distributed and each player hits the other player's egg with their own. This is known as "egg tapping", "egg dumping", or "egg jarping". The winner is the holder of

neg: Adventure (Atari 2600) maintain his name on his game, included a hidden message in "Adventure" identifying himself as the creator, inspired by the supposedly hidden messages left on various songs recorded by The Beatles. In discussing the game in 2015, Robinett considered the message as a means of self-promotion, noting that he had been paid only around a year from Atari without any royalties, while Atari would sell a million units of a game at apiece. This secret is one of the earliest known Easter eggs in a video game. Within "Adventure", the Easter egg is accessed by first retrieving the "Gray Dot"

neg: Jesco White the DJ of Rebel Radio in the video game "Grand Theft Auto V". He also makes a cameo in-game as an Easter egg, where you can find a character depiction of Jesco doing his mountain dance. The easter egg is found in the Alamo Sea region of San Andreas, dancing to an Ozark Mountain Daredevils song being played on a small boombox behind him. Motion capture technology was used to help depict Jesco's unique style of dancing. Numerous musicians have made tribute songs for Jesco White and the White family. These include: Jesco has also been sampled or referenced by

neg: Tunak Tunak Tun as in Far-Eastern markets such as Japan. In the 2000s, "Tunak Tunak Tun" found greater international popularity on the internet as a viral video. In response, the video game company Blizzard Entertainment incorporated the "Tunak Tunak Tun" dance as a character animation in their multiplayer role-playing game "World of Warcraft" in 2008. This dance is also included as an easter egg in the video game "". Tunak Tunak Tun "Tunak Tunak Tun" () or simply "Tunak", is a Bhangra/Indi-pop song by Indian Punjabi artist Daler Mehndi, released in 1998. The music video was the first made in India using greenscreen

neg: Winter (Fabergé egg) platinum and gold, while the flowers are made of white quartz and the leaves are made of demantoid. The flowers lie in gold moss. The egg is 102 millimeters high. Winter (Fabergé egg) The Winter Egg is a Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-two jewelled Easter eggs created by Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé. It was an Easter 1913 gift for Tsarina Maria Feodorovna from Tsar Nicholas II, who had a standing order of two Easter eggs every year, one for his mother and one for his wife. It was designed by Alma Pihl. The price in 1913

neg: Swordquest and Konjuro. While the comic for "Airworld" was started, the cancellation of the series left the comic unfinished. The concept of "Swordquest" originated from Atari's previous "Adventure" video game, which is notable for one of the first documented Easter eggs. "Adventure" drew more interest once the Easter egg was found and documented, leading Atari to come up with a type of sequel where "marketing thought it would be a great idea to create a series of games where players would have to find clues both in the game [and in its physical materials]", as described by Atari historian Curt Vendel.

neg: Blink (Doctor Who) the man in the Easter egg, and was asked to relay a message to Sally decades later. Billy subsequently married and started a video production house that was responsible for putting the Easter egg on the DVDs. Before Billy dies he tells Sally the Doctor's message, which instructs her to look at the list. Sally realises that the list is her own DVD collection and that the Easter egg is meant for her. Sally and Larry return to the house with several of the DVDs and a portable DVD player. As Larry starts the playback of one of the DVDs,

neg: Rocaille (Fabergé egg) Rocaille (Fabergé egg) The Rocaille egg is one of the Fabergé eggs created in the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé for the wealthy Russian industrialist Alexander Kelch who presented it to his wife as an Easter gift in 1902. Because it was not a gift from a Russian tsar to his tsarina, it is not considered an "imperial" Fabergé egg but rather, in this instance, is called one of the seven "Kelch" eggs. It is the fifth egg in this series. Like every Easter egg Fabergé produced, this one has a "surprise" within it. In this case, it is a

neg: Pelican (Fabergé egg) Pelican (Fabergé egg) The Dowager (or Imperial Pelican) Fabergé egg, is a jewelled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1898. The egg was made for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented it to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna on Easter 1898. The egg was created by Faberge's workmaster, Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Russian, 1860-1903) with miniatures by Johannes Zehngraf (Danish, 1857-1908) and is made of red gold, diamonds, pearls, gray, pink and opalescent blue enamel and watercolor on ivory. The stand is made of varicolored gold and the egg itself unfolds

neg: Egg tapping Greeks call the practice "tsougrisma" (τσούγκρισμα), meaning to clink together. In Jewish culture hard-boiled eggs are part of the Passover Seder celebration. Toward the end of the traditional readings, hard-boiled eggs are distributed among guests, who may then play the egg-tapping game. Egg tapping Egg tapping, or also known as egg fight, egg knocking, egg pacqueing, egg boxing, egg picking, egg chucking, or egg jarping is a traditional Easter game. In English folk traditions, the game has variously been known as "shackling", "jarping" or "dumping". The rule of the game is simple. One holds a hard-boiled egg and taps the

neg: Rocaille (Fabergé egg) their collection. In 2013 it was exhibited in Houston, Texas as part of a Fabergé Symposium. Rocaille (Fabergé egg) The Rocaille egg is one of the Fabergé eggs created in the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé for the wealthy Russian industrialist Alexander Kelch who presented it to his wife as an Easter gift in 1902. Because it was not a gift from a Russian tsar to his tsarina, it is not considered an "imperial" Fabergé egg but rather, in this instance, is called one of the seven "Kelch" eggs. It is the fifth egg in this series. Like every Easter

neg: Konami Code Konami Code The Konami Code (, "Konami komando", "Konami command") is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games, and some non-Konami games. The player can press the following sequence of buttons on the game controller to enable a cheat or other effects: The code has also found a place in popular culture as a reference to the third generation of video game consoles, and is present as an Easter egg in a number of websites. The code was first used in the 1986 release of "Gradius" for the NES and was popularized among North American players in

neg: Konami Code Konami Code The Konami Code (, "Konami komando", "Konami command") is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games, and some non-Konami games. The player can press the following sequence of buttons on the game controller to enable a cheat or other effects: The code has also found a place in popular culture as a reference to the third generation of video game consoles, and is present as an Easter egg in a number of websites. The code was first used in the 1986 release of "Gradius" for the NES and was popularized among North American players in

neg: Egg tapping editorial column to discussing street cries, ritual, techniques for the game. Clarkson cites the Baltimore Evening Sun for 29 March 1933 (editorial page), and in the Sunday Sun for 17 April 1949 (brown section). In the 21st century egg cracking is still practiced every Easter by the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York at the annual Pass Easter Ball. In England, the game is played between pairs of competitors who repeatedly knock the pointed ends of their eggs together until one of the eggs cracks; the overall winner is the one whose egg succeeds in breaking the

neg: Easter Yeggs him. (The Easter Bunny characterization is taken from Mel Blanc's "Happy Postman" radio character, including the ironic catch phrase "Keep Smiling!") The first house the "joyous bunny" visits bears a name by the door: Dead End Kid, and the mean little red-haired kid who lives inside throws the egg at Bugs' face, bites him in the leg and beats Bugs up before body-slamming him on the floor - all the while demanding, "I wanna Easter egg! I wanna Easter egg! I wanna Easter egg!" Bugs loses his cool and grabs the kid's arm. Unfortunately, Dead End Kid screams that Bugs

neg: Star Fox Miyamoto said that he felt disappointed that sales of the "Star Fox" series in Japan had decreased during the preceding period. Because of the popularity of the series, Google introduced an easter egg in which, if one types "do a barrel roll" or "Z or R twice" into the search bar, and has a system compatible with HTML 5 or higher, the screen rotates 360°. Star Fox Star Fox is a science fiction video game series created by Nintendo. The games follow an independent mercenary unit of anthropomorphic animals called Star Fox, led by chief protagonist Fox McCloud, and their

neg: Fabergé egg Fabergé egg A Fabergé egg (, "yaytsa faberzhe") is a jeweled egg (possibly numbering as many as 69, of which 57 survive today) created by the House of Fabergé, in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia. Virtually all were manufactured under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé between 1885 and 1917, the most famous being the 50 "Imperial" eggs, 43 of which survive, made for the Russian Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II as Easter gifts for their wives and mothers. The first Fabergé egg was crafted for Tsar Alexander III, who had decided to give his wife, the Empress Maria Feodorovna,

neg: Easter egg might be a pre-Christian survival. There are good grounds for the association between hares (later termed Easter bunnies) and bird eggs, through folklore confusion between hares' forms (where they raise their young) and plovers' nests. In Judaism, a hard-boiled egg is an element of the Passover Seder, representing festival sacrifice. The children's game of hunting for the afikomen (a half-piece of matzo) has similarities to the Easter egg hunt tradition, by which the child who finds the hidden bread will be awarded a prize. In other homes, the children hide the afikoman and a parent must look for it; when

neg: Egg tossing Egg tossing Egg tossing, egg toss, or egg throwing is a game associated with Easter. The egg was a symbol of the rebirth of the earth in Pagan celebrations of spring and was adopted by early Christians as a symbol of the rebirth of man at Easter. In one version of the game the idea is to toss an egg so it falls on the ground without breaking. This is possible on, for example, grassy meadows. In Germany, children invented a way to spin the egg during the toss so that it lands on its tip still spinning. In medieval

neg: Golf (1984 video game) Golf (1984 video game) Years after the game's release it appeared in many ports for different Nintendo consoles. It also appeared as an easter egg in the Nintendo Switch firmware as a tribute to Satoru Iwata. The main player wears a white shirt and shoes with blue pants and uses a white ball, while the second player wears a red shirt and shoes with black pants and uses a red ball. The user must first decide whether to play single stroke play or the two player selections of doubles stroke play or match play. The user is then placed at

neg: Felicity Smoak 2017 game "Injustice 2", Felicity is referenced in an easter egg. When facing each other in combat, if the Flash manages to take out the first bar of Green Arrow's health, he states; "That's for breaking Felicity's heart". Felicity Smoak Felicity Smoak is a fictional character appearing in comics published by DC Comics. Her first appearance was in "The Fury of Firestorm" #23 (May 1984), created by writer Gerry Conway and artist Rafael Kayanan. She was originally the manager of a computer software firm who opposed the superhero Firestorm because of his recklessness, eventually becoming the second wife of Edward

neg: Easter egg (media) the player could get the message "Hi Ron!" to appear on the screen. Fries described it as "the earliest arcade game yet known that clearly meets the definition of an Easter egg". The existence of this Easter egg wasn't published until 2017, leading Fries to suggest that, as more than one hundred arcade games predate "Starship 1", earlier Easter eggs may still be undiscovered. Fries noted that some Atari arcade cabinets were resold under the Kee Games label and included changes to the hardware that would make the game appear different from the Atari version. "Anti-Aircraft II" (1975) included a

neg: Donkey Kong (video game) screen. This remained undiscovered for 26 years until Dyer revealed it on his blog, stating "there's an easter egg, but it's totally not worth it, and I don't remember how to bring it up anyway." The steps required to trigger it were later discovered by Don Hodges, who used an emulator and a debugger to trace through game's code. The first star player of Donkey Kong was Billy Mitchell, holding the world record for several decades. The 2007 motion picture documentary "" explores the world of competitive classic arcade gaming and tells the story of Steve Wiebe's quest to break

neg: Steel Military (Fabergé egg) Steel Military (Fabergé egg) The Steel Military egg is one of a series of approximately 50 Russian jewelled Easter eggs created under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé. This particular egg was delivered to Alexandra Fyodorovna, the Russian Tsarina, on Easter Eve of 1916 on behalf of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II by Fabergé's son Eugène while Nicholas II was away at the Russian front of World War I; Carl Fabergé was himself busy delivering the other Easter egg for 1916, the Order of St. George Egg, to Nicholas's mother, the Dowager Empress Maria. It

neg: Daler Mehndi his maiden Record Label 'DRecords' in the year 2000. The record label has several artists under its banner including Hussain Baksh and Safri Boys. Daler Mehndi's "Tunak Tunak Tun" has found popularity on the internet as a viral video. The video game company Blizzard Entertainment incorporated the Tunak Tunak Tun dance as a character animation in their multiplayer role playing game World of Warcraft. This dance is also included as an easter egg in the video game Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead. Daler Mehndi is elder brother of famous singer Mika Singh. Daler Mehndi is married to Taranpreet Kaur.

neg: Dungeons (video game) standalone addon called "Dungeons - The Dark Lord" was released in September 2011. A sequel "Dungeons 2" was announced as an easter egg in DARK in July 2013. It was released on April 24, 2015 for Microsoft Windows, OS X and SteamOS. "Dungeons 3" is the sequel to "Dungeons 2". It was released on October 13, 2017. Dungeons (video game) Dungeons is a strategy/simulation video game developed by Realmforge Studios and published by Kalypso Media. It was announced August 12, 2010 and was released on January 27, 2011 in Germany and February 10, 2011 in North America. "Dungeons" differs from

neg: Gumball (video game) Electronics Show. In 2016, an Apple II software cracker team found an Easter egg hidden by the game's creator 33 years prior. Cook had hidden a secret congratulations screen in the game for players who entered a specific keyboard key combination at a specific time and solved the resulting series of substitution ciphered clues. Cook congratulated the cracker team on Twitter. The crackers found the secret while working to preserve the game for the Internet Archive by removing its digital copyright protections. One of the crackers said that while most 1980s games could be cracked by automation, "Gumball" protections, coded

neg: Jazz Jackrabbit March 28, 1997. The application contains a description for goods and services which says "entertainment in the nature of animated TV series". In December 2010, Epic Games released development kits for the Unreal Engine for iOS. One of the tutorials for these devkits features Jazz Jackrabbit as a top down twin-stick shooter game. A Jazz Jackrabbit easter egg has appeared in Fortnite, a game released in 2017 by Epic Games. Jazz Jackrabbit Jazz Jackrabbit is a video game trilogy featuring the eponymous character of Jazz Jackrabbit, a green anthropomorphic hare, who fights with his turtle nemesis, Devan Shell, in a

neg: Egg rolling other traditions such as egg tapping and egg decorating. Egg rolling Egg rolling, or an Easter egg roll is a traditional game played with eggs at Easter. Different nations have different versions of the game, usually played with hard-boiled, decorated eggs. Starting in 1835, Jacob Grimm and other writers proposed that the pre-Christian Saxons had a spring goddess, Eostre, whose feast was held on the Vernal Equinox, around 21 March. Grimm also suggested that her symbolic animal was "probably" the spring hare, and that the egg symbolized the rebirth of the land in spring. Some claim that Pope Gregory the

neg: Golden Easter Egg week. The first and second placegetters from the four semi final events fill the places in the final. The Golden Easter Egg now provides prize money of around $1,000,000 ($250,000 to the winner) making it one the richest greyhound carnivals in Australia. Golden Easter Egg Winners since inaugural 1990 race are: Golden Easter Egg The Golden Easter Egg is an Australian Group 1 greyhound race held annually at Sydney's Wentworth Park racetrack in Glebe. In 2012 it was listed as the richest greyhound race in the world. The first Golden Easter Egg was held at Wentworth Park, Sydney in 1990.

neg: Easter egg (media) action game similar to "Doom" (1993) called "The Hall of Tortured Souls". The Google search engine famously contains many Easter eggs, given to the user in response to certain search queries. For example, Google Maps once responded to a request for directions from New York City to Tokyo by telling the user to kayak across the Pacific Ocean. Steve Jobs banned Easter eggs from Apple products upon his return to the company. The first Easter egg to appear after his death was in a 2012 update to the Mac App Store for OS X Mountain Lion, in which downloaded apps

neg: Egg dance Egg dance An egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them damaging as few as possible. The egg was a symbol of the rebirth of the earth in Pagan celebrations of spring and was adopted by early Christians as a symbol of the rebirth of man at Easter. Another form of egg dancing was a springtime game depicted in the painting of Pieter Aertsen. The goal was to roll an egg out of a bowl while keeping within a circle drawn by chalk

neg: Third Imperial (Fabergé egg) by prospective buyers ... the new buyer thought they enhanced the piece because they are part of its history". Third Imperial (Fabergé egg) The Third Imperial egg is an Easter Fabergé egg created in the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian tsar Alexander III and presented to his wife, Maria Feodorovna, on Orthodox Easter of 1887. The egg was created in Louis XVI style and it consists of a solid 18K gold reeded case resting on a gold "annulus" (ring) with waveform decorations held up by three sets of corbel-like legs which end in lion's paws. Joining these

neg: Third Imperial (Fabergé egg) Third Imperial (Fabergé egg) The Third Imperial egg is an Easter Fabergé egg created in the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian tsar Alexander III and presented to his wife, Maria Feodorovna, on Orthodox Easter of 1887. The egg was created in Louis XVI style and it consists of a solid 18K gold reeded case resting on a gold "annulus" (ring) with waveform decorations held up by three sets of corbel-like legs which end in lion's paws. Joining these legs are festoons of roses and leaves made in a variety of colored gold alloys and joined in the

neg: Apple Blossom (Fabergé egg) Apple Blossom (Fabergé egg) The Apple Blossom egg, also known as the Jade Chest egg, is a Fabergé egg created in the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé for the wealthy Russian industrialist Alexander Kelch who presented it to his wife as an Easter gift in 1901. Because it was not a gift from a Russian tsar to his tsarina, it is not considered an "imperial" Fabergé egg but rather, in this instance, is called one of the "Kelch" eggs. It is one of the largest such eggs ever created in Fabergé's workshop. It is also one of the very few

neg: Frostbite (video game) Easter egg to the game. The game manual included a chance to become an "Arctic Architect", by scoring 40,000 points or more. If you took a photo of the TV screen showing the score and sent it to Activision, you would receive an Arctic Architects emblem. Frostbite (video game) Frostbite is a 1983 action game designed by Steve Cartwright for the Atari 2600, and published by Activision in 1983. The game combines elements of "Frogger" and "Q*bert" in an arctic setting. The object of "Frostbite" is to help Frostbite Bailey build igloos by jumping on floating blocks of ice, while

neg: Controversies surrounding Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 when Infinity Ward released a video titled "Fight Against Grenade Spam". Some video game journalists chastised the video's use of profanity, and that the video's title forms the acronym F.A.G.S., a pejorative for gay people. In response, Infinity Ward removed the video from YouTube. An easter egg referencing the United States policy "don't ask, don't tell" was also seen as homophobic, though most journalists belittled these allegations. The Windows version of the game was also met with criticism from players, when it was revealed that the game would not support dedicated servers among a litany of other changes. Windows players

neg: Production babies have noted that "production babies" credits indicate the creativity of film people in giving some unusual names to their children. An early, isolated instance in video games occurred with an easter egg message embedded in the ROM for the 1988 game "Spiker! Super Pro Volleyball" for Mattel Intellivision. The modern custom spread to video game credits in the 2005 game "Call of Duty 2", and the 2009 game "", which also listed the other parents. The title of the list was changed to "Development Babies" in "". A number of other games have since done the same. Production babies Production

neg: Illbleed become quite the rarity. Another easter egg is a hidden mini game, where up to four players just avoid screws falling down the screen until no one's left standing. An enhanced Xbox release was planned, but it was cancelled for unknown reasons. The game received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. Illbleed Illbleed is a survival horror video game developed by Crazy Games (formerly known as Climax Graphics) and published by Crazy Games in Japan and AIA in the US for the Sega Dreamcast. It was released in Japan on March 29, 2001 and later in North

neg: Easter egg (media) Excel and a pinball game in Microsoft Word. Since 2002, Microsoft does not allow any hidden or undocumented code as part of its trustworthy computing initiative. The Debian operating system's package tool apt-get has an Easter egg involving an ASCII cow when variants on are typed into the shell. An Easter egg is found on all Microsoft Windows operating systems before XP. In the 3D Text screen saver, entering the text "volcano" would display the names of all the volcanoes in the United States. Microsoft removed this Easter egg in XP but added others. Microsoft Excel 95 contained a hidden

neg: Ready Player One (film) media. The film was noted to have significant differences from the book; some critics said the film's plot was an improvement over the source material. In 2045, people seek regular escape from life through the virtual reality entertainment universe OASIS, co-created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow of Gregarious Games. After Halliday's death, a pre-recorded message left by his avatar Anorak announces a game, granting ownership of OASIS to the first to find the Golden Easter egg within it, which is locked behind a gate requiring three keys. The contest has lured a number of ‘gunters’, or egg hunters, and

neg: Adventure (Atari 2600) Easter egg concept pioneered by the game has transcended video games and entered popular culture. In "Adventure", the player's goal is to recover the Enchanted Chalice that an evil magician has stolen and hidden in the kingdom and return it to the Golden Castle. The kingdom includes two other castles (White and Black) and various obstacles and mazes within them. Furthermore, the kingdom is guarded by three dragons: Yorgle (yellow dragon), Grundle (green dragon), and Rhindle (red dragon who moves much faster than the other two), that protect various items in the game and will try to chase and eat

neg: Golf (1984 video game) NES and Game Boy versions were released on the Virtual Console. The game was hidden as an easter egg and tribute to Satoru Iwata in the firmware of the Nintendo Switch, prior to the system's 4.0 update. Iwata was the sole programmer of "Golf" (as one of his first projects for Nintendo) and later became Nintendo's CEO. It could only be accessed if the system clock was set to July 11 (the anniversary of Iwata's death) and then performing the "Direct" action that Iwata popularized during his Nintendo Direct appearances while holding both Joy-Con controllers on the Switch home menu.

neg: Eye of the Beholder (video game) 129,234 copies of "Eye of the Beholder". By mid 1991 over 150,000 copies had been sold worldwide. From February till October 1991, SSI started up a contest "Beholder Bonus", which required players to find a bonus feature (easter egg) in each level of the game, indicated by an onscreen message. The first 50 PC players and 50 Amiga players to discover all 12 features would win $100 worth prizes. There were two sequels: "" used a modified version of the first game's engine, added outdoor areas and greatly increased the amount of interaction the player had with their environment, along

neg: Egg rolling Egg rolling Egg rolling, or an Easter egg roll is a traditional game played with eggs at Easter. Different nations have different versions of the game, usually played with hard-boiled, decorated eggs. Starting in 1835, Jacob Grimm and other writers proposed that the pre-Christian Saxons had a spring goddess, Eostre, whose feast was held on the Vernal Equinox, around 21 March. Grimm also suggested that her symbolic animal was "probably" the spring hare, and that the egg symbolized the rebirth of the land in spring. Some claim that Pope Gregory the Great had ordered his missionaries to use old religious

neg: Egg tapping Egg tapping Egg tapping, or also known as egg fight, egg knocking, egg pacqueing, egg boxing, egg picking, egg chucking, or egg jarping is a traditional Easter game. In English folk traditions, the game has variously been known as "shackling", "jarping" or "dumping". The rule of the game is simple. One holds a hard-boiled egg and taps the egg of another participant with one's own egg intending to break the other's, without breaking one's own. As with any other game, it has been a subject of cheating; eggs with cement, alabaster, and even marble cores have been reported. The egg

neg: Portugal. The Man and was directed by Ian Schwartz. It also features around 30 "hidden Easter eggs." Clicking on specific items at specific times in the video provides viewers with links to web pages described as "tools for resistance." For example, one shot shows a couple engaging in sex. By clicking that Easter egg, viewers are taken to the Planned Parenthood site. Other Easter egg links include a video describing a protestor's legal rights, a direct phone call to the White House, and links for buying custom-designed protest posters and graffiti stencil kits. Throughout the band's history, it has engaged in political activism

neg: Golf (1984 video game) Exclusive to this version is the ability to use motion control. The nine holes of the golf game in "Wii Sports" are 3-dimensional versions of the holes in "Golf". This is also true of the "Classic" courses for the golf and Frisbee golf games in "Wii Sports Resort". The game can also be seen in "Animal Crossing" as a fully playable collectible. Golf (1984 video game) Years after the game's release it appeared in many ports for different Nintendo consoles. It also appeared as an easter egg in the Nintendo Switch firmware as a tribute to Satoru Iwata. The main

neg: Snake (video game genre) as part of the second "Microsoft Entertainment Pack". It adds enemy snakes to the familiar apple-eating gameplay. "Slither.io" (2016) is a massively multiplayer version of "Snake." In 2017, Google released their version of the game as an easter egg, whenever the phrases "snake","play snake", "snake game" and "snake video game" are typed. Nokia is known for putting "Snake" on the majority of their phones. Versions include: On November 29, 2012, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City announced that the Nokia port of Snake was one of 40 games that the curators wished to add to the museum's

neg: Red Cross with Triptych (Fabergé egg) Red Cross with Triptych (Fabergé egg) The Red Cross with Triptych egg, also known as Red Cross Triptych Egg or Red Cross Egg with Resurrection Triptych, is an enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé in 1915, for Nicholas II of Russia. Nicholas II presented it to his wife Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna on Easter 1915. The egg was created by Fabergé's workmaster, Henrik Wigström (Finnish, 1860–1923) is made of silver, gold, opalescent white and translucent red enamel, watercolor on gold and glass. The white enamel on this gold-mounted egg is decorated with a

neg: The First Easter Rabbit Lily. In order to stop him, Stuffy must become the Easter Bunny, retrieve the Golden Lily, and save Easter. "The First Easter Rabbit" was first released on VHS by ABC Video Enterprises and Golden Book Video in 1986. The second release, by Warner Home Video, to VHS occurred in 1993, and a remastered "Deluxe Edition" was issued on DVD in 2010. The First Easter Rabbit The First Easter Rabbit is an animated Easter television special that premiered April 9, 1976 on NBC and later aired on CBS. Created by Rankin/Bass, it tells the story of the Easter Bunny's origin. The

neg: Ready Player One staged video gaming tests, similar to the plot of the novel. Cline also revealed that the competition's grand prize would be a DeLorean. The Easter egg was a URL hidden in the book for anoraksalmanac.com. This was the first stage of the contest where the 2011 Atari 2600 game The Stacks by developers Mike Mika & Kevin Wilson was featured. The game "Ultimate Collector: Garage Sale" by Austin-based developer Portalarium was featured in the second stage of the contest. The final stage of the contest was announced on August 1, 2012, and was to set a world record on one

neg: Egg hunt go to hunt for Jesus in the tomb. And when we find them it’s that joy that the women had when they reached the tomb first and found that Jesus was no longer there." Traditionally the game is associated with Easter and Easter eggs, but it has also been popular with spring time birthday parties. Egg hunts are a subject of the "Guinness Book of World Records"; Homer, Georgia, United States was listed in 1985 with 80,000 eggs to hunt in a town of 950 people. To enable children to take part in egg hunts despite visual impairment, eggs have

neg: Easter egg that the winner eats the eggs of the losers in each round. In the Greek Orthodox tradition, red eggs are also cracked together when people exchange Easter greetings. Egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them without damaging any eggs which originated in Germany. In the UK the dance is called the hop-egg. The Pace Egg plays are traditional village plays, with a rebirth theme. The drama takes the form of a combat between the hero and villain, in which the hero is

neg: Easter egg egg does not break is believed to be in for good luck in the future. In Germany, eggs decorate trees and bushes as Easter egg trees, and in several areas public wells as Osterbrunnen. There used to be a custom in Ukraine, during Easter celebrations to have "krashanky" on a table in a bowl with wheatgrass. The number of the "krashanky" equalled the number of departed family members. An egg hunt is a game in which decorated eggs, which may be hard-boiled chicken eggs, chocolate eggs, or artificial eggs containing candies, are hidden for children to find. The eggs often

neg: Controversies surrounding Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 tutorial level. If the player remains idle for a brief period of time, they are able to hear one soldier ask another soldier about his sexuality, and then remark "don't ask, don't tell". This easter egg references the United States policy "Don't ask, don't tell", which prevented openly gay people from serving in the United States Armed Forces. Unlike the "Fight Against Grenade Spam" video, few journalists commented on the easter egg. Jim Sterling of "Destructoid" felt that the easter egg was "too silly/stupid" for him to be angry at, while James Sherwood of "The Register" commented that people were

neg: Red Cross with Imperial Portraits (Fabergé egg) death in 1947. The "Imperial Red Cross Easter Egg" is currently on view as part of the European Decorative Art Collection. Red Cross with Imperial Portraits (Fabergé egg) The Red Cross with Imperial portraits egg (or the Imperial Red Cross Easter Egg) is a jewelled and enameled Easter egg made by Henrik Wigström (1862–1923) under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1915, for Nicholas II of Russia, who presented the egg to his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, in the same year. The "Imperial Red Cross Easter Egg" is made of silver, with the shell

neg: Golden Easter Egg Golden Easter Egg The Golden Easter Egg is an Australian Group 1 greyhound race held annually at Sydney's Wentworth Park racetrack in Glebe. In 2012 it was listed as the richest greyhound race in the world. The first Golden Easter Egg was held at Wentworth Park, Sydney in 1990. Held annually on Easter Saturday it carries Group 1 status from AGRA, the code's racing regulator. The Golden Easter Egg carnival is in fact held over three weekends, commencing with heat events (8 in total), then followed by Semi Finals week (4 in total) and the Final Event in the third

neg: King of Kings (1988 video game) the other kind of units are basically a potpurri of units that combine the strengths and weaknesses of the other three kinds of units. There is a campaign mode where the player does battle against a computer team led by Lucifer across four maps. There is a multiplayer mode where up to four teams can battle on eight additional maps. A bonus map based on Japan's greatest swordsmith Masamune is present as an easter egg in this video game. The players king's unit is the axis of the game while the opponent's king can easily defeat the player's chance for

neg: Marvel vs. Capcom name. Capcom then created their first Marvel-licensed fighting game, "X-Men: Children of the Atom", in 1994. "Marvel Super Heroes" soon followed in 1995. Many of the gameplay mechanics used in the "Marvel vs. Capcom" series were first developed and refined in these two fighting games, serving as precursors to the series. In 2011, then-current Capcom USA Strategic Marketing Director of Online and Community Seth Killian stated that many fighting game aficionados, including himself, consider them to have laid the foundation for the series. The idea for implementing tag teams was allegedly inspired by an easter egg from Capcom's own 1995

neg: Rose Trellis (Fabergé egg) Rose Trellis (Fabergé egg) The Rose Trellis Fabergé egg is a jewelled enameled imperial Easter egg made in Saint Petersburg, Russia under the supervision of the jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé in 1907, for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. It was presented by Tsar Nicholas II to his wife, the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, on Easter (April 22) 1907. It is now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. The egg was created by Faberge's workmaster, Henrik Wigström (Russian, 1862-1923) and is crafted of gold, green and pink enamel in various shades, portrait diamonds, rose-cut diamonds and satin lining. This egg

neg: Lunar Lander (1979 video game) the player's previous spaceships had crashed; it was cut as the new hardware could not draw enough lines fast enough to handle the detail. He also wanted to add in a McDonald's location easter egg, as was present in "Moonlander". Over a year after development started, "Lunar Lander" was released in August 1979, just after the tenth anniversary of the first manned Moon landing, though Atari did not link this connection in its marketing of the game. "Lunar Lander" proved moderately commercially successful, selling 4,830 cabinets. "Cash Box" noted in September 1979 that the machines were very popular with customers.

neg: Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf (also known as just Tiger Woods 99) is a sports video game developed by EA Sports and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation in 1998. The first 100,000 pressings of "Tiger Woods 99" for the PS1 contained a PC-only easter egg. If you were to load up the disc into your computer, directories for files of the game would appear along with a QuickTime file titled ZZDUMMY.DAT. When played, it is a VHS recording of Jesus vs. Santa by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, commonly

neg: Egg tossing Britain there was an egg throwing festival held in the churches at Easter. The priest would give out one hard-boiled egg which was tossed around the nave of the church and the choirboy who was holding the egg when the clock struck twelve would get to keep it. Dutch children play a game called "egg sales" in which one child sells an egg to another. The new owner then throws the egg in the grass and if it does not break it must be returned to the seller. Egg tossing is also known as a team competition with basically the

neg: Elexis Sinclaire in ActionTrip's list of top "video game chicks". In 2008, GameDaily ranked the "SiN Episodes" version of Elexis as the 21st top "hottest game babe", while German magazine "PC Games Hardware" included her among the 112 most important female characters of PC games twice (separately for her appearances in the original "SiN" and in "Episodes"). In 2010, UGO listed her as one of the 50 "hottest" women games in video games, stating: "Elexis Sinclaire is charming, brilliant, and an absolute fox with nigh-impossible proportions." That same year, UGO's K. Thor Jensen included the hot tub Easter egg on the list

neg: Polycount with game studios such as Vigil Games, Riot Games, Valve Corporation, and Torn Banner Studios to host contests for creating video game art assets and concept art for well known games, including Darksiders II, League of Legends, , and Dota 2. Polycount is also home to Greentooth, an easter egg that has been found in games such as "Battlefield 3", "Sunset Overdrive", "The Sims 4", "", "Overwatch", "Satellite Reign", "XCOM 2" and "". Polycount Polycount is a website and community of professional & hobbyist artists that specialize in creating 3D art for video games. Founded on April 1, 1998 by

neg: Egg-Stamp (Fabergé egg) in Petrograd, a grain bargainer and taken to Finland by its owner during the Rissian Revolution of 1917. The family possessed the subject until 1989. It was at the auction by the Bukovskys (Helsinki) in 1981 (not sold), in 1989 the stamp was estimated by the expert of the Auction House "Christie" Mr. A. de Tiesenhausen, who confirmed the identity of the object and its affiliation to Faberge company. Egg-Stamp (Fabergé egg) Egg-Stamp – a jewelry Easter egg created by Mikhail Perkhin under auspices of Carl Faberge in 1895, for Vasily Denisov. Egg-Stamp, made of red gold, surrounding the upper

neg: Spring Flowers (Fabergé egg) Spring Flowers (Fabergé egg) The Spring Flowers egg, sometimes referred to as the Imperial Spring Flowers egg, has been considered one of the Imperial Easter eggs attributed to Peter Carl Fabergé (and therefore one of the Fabergé eggs). If it is an authentic Imperial egg, then the Spring Flowers egg would have been the first in the series of "flower eggs" and would have been created between 1885 and 1890. It consists of a case made of white maple covered in leather with steel hinges and clasps containing a smaller egg (the official "Fabergé" egg) decorated in red enamel and

neg: Cradle with Garlands (Fabergé egg) Cradle with Garlands (Fabergé egg) The Cradle with Garlands egg (also known as the Love Trophies egg) is an Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-four jewelled enameled Easter eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family. It was an Easter 1907 gift for Tsarina Maria Feodorovna from her son Tsar Nicholas II, who had a standing order of two Easter eggs every year, one for his mother and one for his wife. Its Easter 1907 counterpart, presented to the Tsar's wife, is the Rose Trellis egg. It is designed by Henrik

neg: IPod game IPod game An iPod click wheel game or iPod game is a video game playable on the various versions of the Apple portable media player, the iPod. The original iPod had the game "Brick" (originally invented by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak) included as an easter egg hidden feature; later firmware versions added it as a menu option. Later revisions of the iPod added three more games in addition to "Brick": "Parachute", "Solitaire", and "Music Quiz". These games should not be confused with games for the iPod Touch, which require iOS and are only available on Apple's App Store on iTunes.

neg: Rose Trellis (Fabergé egg) Maryland and has been on permanent exhibition since 1952. Rose Trellis (Fabergé egg) The Rose Trellis Fabergé egg is a jewelled enameled imperial Easter egg made in Saint Petersburg, Russia under the supervision of the jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé in 1907, for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. It was presented by Tsar Nicholas II to his wife, the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, on Easter (April 22) 1907. It is now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. The egg was created by Faberge's workmaster, Henrik Wigström (Russian, 1862-1923) and is crafted of gold, green and pink enamel in various shades,

neg: Easter egg (media) taken a variety of forms, from purely ornamental screens to aesthetic enhancements that change some element of the game during play. The Easter egg included in the original "Age of Empires" (1997) is an example of the latter; catapult projectiles are changed from stones to cows. More elaborate Easter eggs include secret levels and developers' rooms - fully functional, hidden areas of the game. Developers' rooms often include inside jokes from the fandom or development team and differ from a debug room in that they are specifically intended for the player to find. Some games even include hidden minigames as

neg: Pine Cone (Fabergé egg) presale estimate was $3.5 to 4.5 million. Pine Cone (Fabergé egg) The Pine Cone egg is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1900. The egg was made for Alexander Kelch, who presented it to his wife, Barbara (Varvara) Kelch-Bazanova. The egg was created by workmaster Mikhail Perkhin (Russian, 1860–1903) and is crafted of gold, silver, rose-cut diamonds, brilliant diamonds and translucent royal blue enamel. The miniature elephant is made of silver, gold, ivory, rose-cut diamonds and red and green enamel. One end of the pine cone, a symbol of

neg: Pine Cone (Fabergé egg) Pine Cone (Fabergé egg) The Pine Cone egg is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1900. The egg was made for Alexander Kelch, who presented it to his wife, Barbara (Varvara) Kelch-Bazanova. The egg was created by workmaster Mikhail Perkhin (Russian, 1860–1903) and is crafted of gold, silver, rose-cut diamonds, brilliant diamonds and translucent royal blue enamel. The miniature elephant is made of silver, gold, ivory, rose-cut diamonds and red and green enamel. One end of the pine cone, a symbol of resurrection, is set with four petal-shaped portrait

neg: Twelve Panel (Fabergé egg) Feodorovna. 3. Mosaic, Gift of Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Twelve Panel (Fabergé egg) The Twelve Panel is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1899. The egg was made for Alexander Kelch, who presented it to his wife, Barbara (Varvara) Kelch-Bazanova. The egg was created by Peter Carl Faberge's workmaster, Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Russian, 1860-1903) and is crafted of yellow gold, rose-cut diamonds, portrait diamonds, translucent pink en green enamel and opaque white enamel. The upper and lower sections of the Egg are each divided into six panels

neg: Twelve Panel (Fabergé egg) Twelve Panel (Fabergé egg) The Twelve Panel is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1899. The egg was made for Alexander Kelch, who presented it to his wife, Barbara (Varvara) Kelch-Bazanova. The egg was created by Peter Carl Faberge's workmaster, Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Russian, 1860-1903) and is crafted of yellow gold, rose-cut diamonds, portrait diamonds, translucent pink en green enamel and opaque white enamel. The upper and lower sections of the Egg are each divided into six panels by bands of matt-finished gold, overlaid with rows of pink enamel

neg: Knuckles the Echidna him in a sidequest to take down some of Eggman's robots, during which he makes a number of references to the rap songs about him in the "Sonic Adventure" games. Knuckles also makes a cameo as an easter egg in "" on the box of a video game entitled "Knuckles the Echidna in Knuckles & Knuckles & Knuckles". In "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate", Knuckles appears as an assist trophy that attacks players when summoned, he also appears as a spirit. In "Sonic the Comic", Knuckles plays a similar role to that of the games. When the Death Egg crashes on

neg: Bonbonnière (Fabergé egg) Bonbonnière (Fabergé egg) The Bonbonnière egg is one of the Fabergé eggs created in the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé for the wealthy Russian industrialist Alexander Kelch who presented it to his wife as an Easter gift in 1903. Because it was not a gift from a Russian tsar to his tsarina, it is not considered an "imperial" Fabergé egg but rather, in this instance, is called one of the seven "Kelch" eggs. It is the sixth egg in this series. A "bonbonnière" is a candy box (lit. a bearer of bonbons) in French. It is made of gold, diamonds,

neg: Pisanica (Croatian) On Easter day, a traditional game is played in which at least two people choose eggs and hold them vertically while one person lightly taps the end of the other egg with their end, to see whose will crack. Anyone whose egg cracks must choose another and then tap the other person's egg, and they continue until all the eggs have been used and cracked but the last one. Whoever holds the strongest egg in the end which has not been cracked, wins. Pisanica (Croatian) Pisanica (pl. "pisanice") is a decorated Croatian Easter egg that comes from an old Slavic

neg: Catherine the Great (Fabergé egg) Merriweather, modelled after that of the 1898 Pelican egg. Catherine the Great (Fabergé egg) Catherine the Great Egg also known as Grisaille Egg and Pink Cameo Egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-four jewelled enameled Easter eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family. It was an Easter 1914 gift for Tsarina Maria Feodorovna from her son Tsar Nicholas II, who had a standing order of two Easter eggs every year, one for his mother and one for his wife. The egg was made by Henrik Wigström, "Fabergé's last

neg: Catherine the Great (Fabergé egg) Catherine the Great (Fabergé egg) Catherine the Great Egg also known as Grisaille Egg and Pink Cameo Egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-four jewelled enameled Easter eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family. It was an Easter 1914 gift for Tsarina Maria Feodorovna from her son Tsar Nicholas II, who had a standing order of two Easter eggs every year, one for his mother and one for his wife. The egg was made by Henrik Wigström, "Fabergé's last head workmaster". The egg in gold and diamonds on

neg: Steel Military (Fabergé egg) been paid for neither and his workshop having been completely nationalized by the bolsheviks. The Steel Military Egg appears in "The Strangelove Gambit", a Nikolai Dante novel by David Bishop. http://www.wintraecken.nl/mieks/faberge/eggs/1916-Steel-Military-Egg.htm Steel Military (Fabergé egg) The Steel Military egg is one of a series of approximately 50 Russian jewelled Easter eggs created under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé. This particular egg was delivered to Alexandra Fyodorovna, the Russian Tsarina, on Easter Eve of 1916 on behalf of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II by Fabergé's son Eugène while Nicholas II was away at the Russian

neg: Easter egg (media) game. Shortly after his departure, the Gray Dot and his message were exposed by a player who told Atari about his discovery. Atari's management initially wanted to remove the message and release the game again, but this was deemed too costly an effort. Instead, Steve Wright, the Director of Software Development in the Atari Consumer Division, suggested that they keep the message and, in fact, encourage the inclusion of such messages in future games, describing them as Easter eggs for consumers to find. In addition to Robinett's name appearing in "Adventure" (1979), there are many other instances where the Easter

neg: Motu Nui It measures 3.9 hectares in land area and is the largest of the five satellite islets of Easter island. The ritual of the "Bird Man" cult was a competition to collect the first egg of the manutara. This took place starting from Motu Nui where the Hopu (representatives from each clan) waited for the sooty terns to lay their first eggs of the season. The Hopu who seized the first egg raced to swim back to Easter Island, climbed the cliffs to Orongo and presented the egg to their sponsor in front of the judges at Orongo. This gave their