Early Adventure Egg

00:00 Do you know one of the first appearances of an Easter egg in software development?

00:06 I know I checked the Wikipedia before recording this, so that’s how I know apparently, perhaps the first Easter egg in software known to humanity is from the early 1980s from a video game.

00:20 And Atari didn’t want to credit their developers, and they wouldn’t show the names of developers who were working on the game for different reasons. One of them was because they didn’t want other companies to go after their developers.

00:35 And there was one programmer who didn’t like this. He really wanted to be credited. He wanted his work to be acknowledged for his efforts. Of course, he secretly put his name in the game without telling his bosses, so the player would have to do something specific in the game to find that secret room or something where it would display the, the name of the developer.

00:58 And that’s how the concept of Easter egg was created. Initially, the company decided to remove it. They didn’t like it, but, you know, it wasn’t the internet times yet, so they would have to release a new version without the Easter, that Easter egg, but that proved to be too costly, so they decided to keep it.

01:17 And actually, they liked it because, you know, the players also enjoyed looking after those Easter eggs. So that’s how it all started.