Adventure (Atari 2600) Finding the Hidden Easter Egg
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- Relive this epic adventure in Dolby Surround Sound of one giant, square dot and his quest to find the golden chalice.Atari's Adventure, released in 1979, contained one of the first video game "Easter eggs", the name of the programmer (Warren Robinett). Here's a long and roundabout way on where's it hidden and what it does. Hope you can stand all the excitment in this 10 min video of one of the classic, old school videogames. The bat can be a royal pain in the a$$. I tried to lock him in a castle but he was too slick for me.
I got this game in 1980 and spent hundreds of hours on it. The excitement of finding the magic dot and the secret room is was one of the highest points of my gaming career. Was great watching this at age 50.
Same!
And that damn bat....uuuuggggh!
54 now
I followed this guide and got half a trillion dollars and total control of the OASIS. Thanks a lot!
idk idk Absolutely not!
Wait, are you Wade Watts? THE Wade Watts/Parzival???
Darryl Lazakar Ha ha ha, I might be!
Awesome
Robert Downey Jr. So you are going to end avengers infinity war with part 1 and 2
Wow this man is a legend he still is giving hearts even 10 years later
HahhHhh. Lolololo
James Halliday's fortune will be mine!
Sorry master Koon, you must not have read the almanac. Halliday's fortune will be MINE!
I'm sorry but haven't you heard? I already found Hallidays Egg and currently bathing in his money. But a wise man once said: "Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable" - anorak
Lol
R.I.P JAMES
PloKoon09 I was about to say how do you knew about the movie before it came out but then I remembered it was based on a book
Wow, he just pwned that red duck. I swear to god though, it looked like a real dragon out of Skyrim to an 8 year old kid back in 1979
Damn ur right
Ahh dragonborn
so r u still alive?
maybe more of a seahorse to some people
I thought that was a duck when i was little
Ready Player One was so much FUN despite its flaws. The fact the first easter egg was given such prominence in the book and film just warms my heart. I will be a kid forever in my heart, and there ain't nothin' wrong with that.
The new games of today are nowhere near as difficult as all the old school games
cmon they still make some hardcore games today. They were probably all harder back then for the most part but i dont want to lose faith.
Dark/Demon Souls.
Because they don't have to be. Games are so easily accessable now, games were hard back then because you might get 3 games every year or so.
TheMewWoo Nope, i think its because companies prefer that you finish their games in less than a week so you buy more games...... $$$$
You obviously haven't played La-Mulana.
I can still remember the maze patterns.l haven't seen the game since I was a kid, man I loved this game.
I played this as a child in the '70s. I DREAM the maze patterns.
Lol I got an Atari flashback console ut of nostalgia a couple weeks ago and stil, remembered the maze routes I learned what, 40 years ago. Here to finally get that egg. I did find the dot when I was a kid, but that's it.
People came from the book, years ago, but I’m here cause of the movie, last night (March 29th 2018)
Drumf 3D?
Then go read the book it’s 100x better
DejaVoodooDoll not at all....
Drumf this wasn't in the book, he had to recite the script of Monty Python's Holy Grail
wrong, the last challenge Parzival have to do in the book after reciting Monty Python's Holy Grail, is to find a way to start consoles in a room, then to find this easter egg on an Atari 2600.
The only reason I'm here is because of Ready Player One.
Same here.
TlalocGaming yep me too
RelentlessAssault me also
RelentlessAssault Esooooo!! ;D
RelentlessAssault Yeeaaaah ;D
And in 2018 People complain about having 30fps.
When the consumer doesn't get what they expect, they will complain. I don't get mad when I'm served a cheeseburger at mc donalds, but I would if I got the same cheeseburger when ordered from an expensive restaurant.
Yeah man, growing up in the 80s was great. Game design was confined by physical constraints of the medium. Lots of memorization required (muscle memory).
you are a bad gamer and an even worse person.
@@wayzy6868 who you talking to
@@rowboat10 i kinda forgot, after 9 months i don't think i would be able to remember the intention of a reply i made on this one video
Like if you got this from ready player one
Knew about the Easter Egg before, but actually came to see this video after I read Ready Player One.
Greetings from Germany :)
Im an avid reader but that is the ONLY book I ever re-read. Just finished it again, so amazing! :)
Yee
As you may know, game detectives are working on a ready player one arg, so here i am
Yep, me too. Re-read it straight away!
Was able to find the Easter Egg today on an online version of "Adventure". Well worth the time and attempts. Thank you, Warren.
I first found the easter egg before I found the dot. The power cord connector into the rear of the 2600 was bad and if you wiggled it, the game would glitch and cause the line (that you walk through when you have the dot) to move on the screen. If you glitched it just right, the line would be in the middle of the screen where you could simply walk around it. I have not heard yet of anybody else discovering the easter egg this way.
Just got out of the movie! Really cool that they put this one in. Heard legends about this for years.
Still have this game. Me and my wife still play it on my Atari 7800 (plays 2600 games). Its amazing a game almost 40 years old is still fun to play.
7:32 u mad?
then afther the trolling bat, player won't move for some seconds, probably cursing while breaking stuff
when I was a kid I found the dot but I never figured out what to do with it. Of course there was no internet back then and one of my friends ever even found the dot. Crazy!
This game burned an imprint on my brain. Still there almost 30 years later. I can close my eyes and still do the dark mazes.
I found a blob there in a game that had no first key. I didnt know about going thru a wall. I still play this on atari anthology for x box.
Congrats, you have control of the OASIS now.
This is in the gray area between "feature" of the game and "easter egg". Easter eggs would typically be extremely difficult for someone to figure out on their own (like in Gaplus parsec 1, waiting for all enemies to come out, then only shooting the enemy in the bottom row, 2nd from the left, then purposely dying by crashing into the mother ship, then taking the flag that appeared, THAT is definitely an easter egg). But in Adventure for the 2600, by simply exploring, I found that dot and eventually figured out I could cross that line. I knew the dot had to so something.
I wonder how my brother knew about this easter egg back in 1980 without internet or video game magazines even. Pretty crazy
Just came out of watching Ready Player One. I plan on buying the book super soon lol
challenges in the book are different. I enjoyed both but favored the book a bit more. Easy read
Still remember doing this as a kid. 👌👌
Loved that. Played this game for hours over 35 years ago and never found out about the egg until Ready Player One. That Bat used to drive me crazy, leaving objects in needed stuck in walls... 7:34 sums it up! Thanks for posting, fond memories...
This is the 4th videogame easter egg:
RT-55J noted that Halo 2600 writer Ed Fries had previously found an Easter Egg in Atari's Starship 1, which would have been accessible on 13th August, 1977, but after some research suggested that Spitfire was released later on 31st December, 1977, a newspaper ad for the game as part of the Channel F's package was unearthed, and which seems to conclusively reveal that it existed on 15th April, 1977, seemingly making Spitfire home to the first ever video game Easter Egg.
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.
Wanna see the easter egg? Okay then! 8:21
No
Yeh, I want to see it, but I also want to see how to get to it.
Thank you for this video and thank you Warren Robinett for giving us the very first easter egg.
Although twas the hidden secret that resulted in “Easter Egg” being coined, and deserves to be recognized for that reason, it wasn’t the first Easter Egg. Earlier Eggs were found in games for the Channel F, a console that predates the Atari 2600. The first Easter Egg in an arcade game called Starship 1 from 1977, and the first Easter Egg in a computer game goes way back to 1973 in a game called Moonlander! Very little information exists about Moonlander, but I have a video on my channel all about it and the other pre-Adventure Easter Eggs on my channel if you want to know more.
I soooooo loved this game as a kid!! hours of fun too me. I did find the easter egg and it put chills down my spine.
a big thank you for my grandmother for buying this as a gift for all of us.
I am actually ld enough that I can remember actually DOING this when I was 8 years old with my best friend. We played the hell out of this game so much and just explored every single area in it. I remember finding that little dot for the first time and laughing when we heard the sound of picking something up and said "there is something there? oh wait a minute hahahaha its a tiny little dot. That must be nothing. We probably had the game for 2 years before we wound up accidentally finding the secret place. Of course we were just little kids and so to us it was nothing more than "oooo cool a little secret room with a pretty glowing colors name in it." I NEVER thought I would ever see this again until the movie REady Player One. When I saw them playing this game in the movie I knew "oomg... this is what they are going to use.... this is the first easter egg ever in a game!!!! OMG I actually did this!"
me too :)
I played this game to DEATH back in the day, I knew it inside & out. Then I didn't touch it for 30+ years, and one day I got that Atari controller that has a bunch of games in it that you can hook up straight to the TV, & one of the games was Adventure. As soon as I started playing it, it all came back to me like I'd just finished it the day before. All the mazes & everything were still in my head.
ready player one
mariano12233 yea
Moises Fox the book
The Book
Whatafack ready player one is do 2018 and old 5 years ?
I definately like the music of this game. Brilliant.
Ready player one?
Hi
I laughed my ass off each time the bat stole the bridge. It's funny because I remember that happening to me.
I'm 46 and I played this to death also. Ready Player One is an awesome book.
I'm glad the description says the long way because I could do this in under 5 minutes.
Congrats on winning the 3rd key, Parzival. Well played.
Thanks for the tip, now I have lots of money and I own an entire mmo game
ready player one’s last scene. Perfect end of this game.
There is an Atari controller plug in for your tv, you can play adventure on it.
"Ready player one"bring me here.
I got here after reading extract from Ready Player One!
This Atari game has an interesting concept even with such simplicity!
Who agree that Adventure need a graphical remake?
Ready Player One!
Ready player one brought me here!
I found the dot back in the day but didn't know what to do with it.
ok im a little confused what is happening in the video but from what i am understanding you found an invisable item and used it to enter the room
also its amazing how i never knew about this easter egg despite playing the game for years now
98% of the comments: Ready player Juan
2%: who's still playing in *_insert current year here_*
I use to capture the bat to drag the dead dragons back to the castle. And mount the keys on their noses. Id pull in everything as a token of my Glory.
Used to play this game all the time when I was a kid. I loved it when I found the easter egg!
Loved playing this game as a child. I also remember being terrified of the dragon.
I remember when word got out about the Easter egg, damn! That was 40 years ago!
hey awesome! brings back so many great memories! Thx for this.
It walked so games could run.
The 1st time I found the hidden text, I bumped the power cord and glitched the console. The glitch caused the narrow vertical lines to move and I could simply go around them. It was much later when I discovered the dot, and stumbled upon the fact that more items allowed you to pass through the lines. That was 30 or so years ago. ADVENTURE was my favorite game.
ASK YOURSELVES, ARE YOU WILLING TO FIGHT!?
Here from "ready player one" movie
Remember playing this game when I was 4. It was the Dark Souls for its time. GIT GUD, SON.
He was so proud of what he made thank u warren for creating a gaming mainstay
Ready Player One brought me here!!!
loved the video, this just brought me back in time.
Absolutely, wade watts watch this video in 2045
I played this game for hours, hours, and hours, and stumbled upon the Easter egg by accident. Would have been cool to have been the kid who wrote Atari and tipped them off.
Never understood why Atari didnt make another adventure game, and or expand on the first one.
Ready Player One best film ever for the pop culture boys and not only
Was I the only person who pushed the game reset button when the "victory music" started playing?
Not me. I loved that music. It was funny.
This game was so complicated when I was little...I could never keep track of where everything was....Plus half the time I was running away from the dragon...
RDY PLYR 1!!!!!
Ready Player One brought me here
I want to say I found out about the dot in Dynamite Magazine.
the box cover is great
Greetings from the future!
"Ready Player One" is best book
*Van Halen's Jump plays*
Yep, I came here because of ready player one and a few memories of this game. In those years I never realized this had the first Easter egg until I was 14. God I wish I would've discovered that easter egg :(
Back then you could collect world record pretty easy, just couldn't post them anywhere
What's this Ready Player One thing others are talking about? I just like classic Atari games and wanted to remember this one.
I still have my original 2600 hooked up at my senior mom's house (with adventure). Yes, she still has an old tube TV. My young kids actually like to play it when we visit. I forgot that I actually solved the "easter egg" back in the 80s, until reading ready player one (and recently watching the movie). The book was better and different but very much enjoyed the movie too. I think someone first solved the hidden easter egg months after the game was released. At the time, us teenagers eventually figured it out, once word go out on how to do it. I will have to see if I can solve it again, next time I visit her.
Who are you Parzival
I'm here because of Ready Player One. Though I did play this game a bit before reading the book. But I've always wanted to see the easter egg here. :)
It was my favorite game as a kid
My favorite game growing up. You younger people will never know the struggle.
AHHHH HA HA HA!!!!! This totally made my night! Thank you! Oh My God, we used to play this game so much as kids. That damn bat! He was always stealing our stuff...and yes, we would lock him in the castle. We found the egg too, I just don't remember if we knew what to do with it once we found it, but I loved all those Atari 2600 games. I am totally cracking up! :)
Ready player one made this and many other 80's games sound amazing, what an amazing anticlimax! i haven't got a clue what's going on and the graphics are baffling at times.
mario is an 80s game
Ready Player One:
95% 2010-2018 games
5% 2009 and older
Though the 5% was siiick, the 95% was.. alright.
Sergeant Detergent well for the movie yeah but the book is much different
Did anybody else hit the reset lever right after winning? It made what would now be called dubstep.
Who is coming for "ready player one?"
Just you. No one else has read the book or seen the movie.
Now i just have to buy a Futuristic Vr Set
Anyone else who searched for "first easter egg ever" after watching the Five Facts on Batman: Arkham City?
I always imagine the Zelda Dungeon theme whenever playing this game
My Godness! I remember when i play at this game (think 1982-1983 when i was 5 yo) What a memories
Ready player one
I remember the black dot! I found that and the message when I was a kid. Great game!
I remember someone telling me about this back in the day. It was fun when it was mentioned again in the book "ready player one"
This could make a great horror game
so true! so true!!!!!!!!
Yeah unfortunately I believe the secret room was removed, or it may still be there but it no longer says "created by Warren Robinette"
Ah, now that I've just watched the rebooted version, I understand. Geez, credit to all those old school original gamers.
From iraq here because of ready player one
Isis gone yet ?
dang
That movie came out 2 years ago?
Oh the book lol
U can trap the dragons alive in the yellow castle and put them in the corner so they don't eat you, while alive. Put Atari on intermediate mode, then take the sword and bring it to the yellow castle and put it on the opened door.. it then goes in the castle... then go in the castle and push the sword left or right into the wall.. then lead dragons into the yellow castle and they get trapped in the corner, as they try to go left or right but get stuck in the corner.
Ok, someone else ended up being as bored or curious as myself.
The emulator crashed when I was inside the room with the dot. Great!!!
Ready player one "Parzival" ¡WIN!