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Top 5 Epic Easter Eggs of Gaming

Top 5 Epic Easter Eggs of Gaming

There’s nothing better for us gamers than stumbling across the hidden gems developers have sprinkled throughout their titles for our enjoyment. Whether it’s discovering a hidden room, finding the developer’s name etched onto a bathroom wall, or just an awesomely hilarious addition that keeps you chuckling for days, Easter Eggs provide an added dimension that is unique to the gaming platform and offers a direct link between user and creator. Thus, I couldn’t help but capture the pure awesomeness that exists in this unspoken bond of distant friends as reflected through a list of five great video game Easter Eggs.

Hello, Friends!

Hello, Friends!

The Hitman series has been jam packed full of hilariously great Easter Eggs since its inception in 2000. Blood Money is no exception and contains one of Square Enix’s greatest hidden offerings. On the “Till Death Do Us Part” mission, not only can players get Agent 47 to square dance with an attractive partygoer, but they can also cause a scene of hilarious chaos. Shoot a small silver coin located within the very back of the map and a mob of underwear-sporting men, who were previously clothed and engaged in a game of fisticuffs, will sprint over and collectively clap for your achievement.

Perfect Dark with a Side of Cheese

Perfect Dark with a Side of Cheese

This next one truly defines the meaning of video game Easter Egg and can essentially sum up my feelings about developer Rare in its heyday. It’s no secret that one of the greatest development teams of its day loved to flood their titles with Easter Eggs. Perfect Dark and the 17 wedges of cheese, meticulously hidden throughout the game, is an excellent example of this. Not only did each new chapter contain a block of stinky deliciousness, but the locations were nearly impossible to find.

Baby, Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Baby, Can’t We All Just Get Along?

If you were brave enough to work your way through the Legendary difficulty mode in the original Halo: Combat Evolved , you were rewarded with one of the most hilarious cutscene endings in gaming history. While Master Chief pilots his ship off into the distance, a cutscene activates between Sergeant Johnson and a Covenant Elite grappling for a battle rifle. Just as the halo ring starts to explode, Johnson throws down the weapon and says in a sultry voice, “This is it, baby. Hold me.” The two embrace in a hilarious hug as the halo ring explodes off in the distance.

The Thelma and Louise Ending in Grand Theft Auto V

The Thelma and Louise Ending in Grand Theft Auto V

This is one of the few gems I happened to stumble on while playing GTA V , and I didn’t even recognize what I had witnessed until days later. If you’re a total options nerd like myself, then you probably saw this one before it caught fire on the interwebs – let’s hope you knew what it was before getting shamed by a few close friends. Anyway, if you take a helicopter up to the mountains, you’ll be able to watch the reenactment of the famous Thelma and Louise ending, epic explosion and all.

Reptile and the Original Mortal Kombat

Reptile and the Original Mortal Kombat

Our top spot is nabbed by a gaming legend that managed to come true, for once. The rumor about fighting Reptile made its way around the neighborhood when the original Mortal Kombat launched on the Sega Genesis in 1992. No one could ever figure it out and just about every kid had a “friend of a friend” that managed to pull off the feat. One fateful night, I finally witnessed the true greatness of fighting Mortal Kombat ’s greatest Easter Egg. My older brother managed to pull off the difficult double-flawless-fatality while fighting on “The Pit.” Sure enough, the screen darkened, and there was Reptile in all of his green tunic-sporting greatness.

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