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Gamer Finds 26-Year-Old Easter Egg

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A gamer notorious for his diligent retro gaming skills has found a 26-year-old easter egg in the depths of Donkey Kong for the Atari 400 and Atari 800. Don Hodges has posted the easter egg guide up on his website for all of you to fiddle about on. The game was originally ported to the Amiga 400/800 by Landon Dyer who claimed that there was an easter egg, 'but it's totally not worth it'.
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MGOelite - 178 days 5 hours ago
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note to anyone, the story is about 10 pages long

edit: click "but its totally not worth it"
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Snake Raiser - 178 days 4 hours ago
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Ya, that is really not worth it, except to the person who made the game. The man probably just put his initials in there to show off to friends. So if they don't believe he made it he can just say "oh ya? Well what is this?!?!?" *makes cool hand gesture and the screen shows his initials*
@below
It is kind of sad.
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a_squirrel - 178 days 4 hours ago
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as soon as I read the title I was thinking, "That's sad..."

But also funny, in a good way
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Ziriux - 178 days 5 hours ago
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You wish it was lol. It's a quick read, the guide may be bigger.
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Bloodshedder - 178 days 4 hours ago
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your avatar sucks
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Final_Rpg - 178 days 2 hours ago
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Leave him, Ziriux knows his stuff when it comes to programming. He's got my respect, regardless of his avatar.
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sidar - 178 days 2 hours ago
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He knows programming? What kind of?
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Soda Popinsky - 178 days 1 hour ago
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2.4 - @sidar
He's a Dreamweaver guru ;)
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y0haN - 177 days 18 hours ago
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Dreamweaver isn't a programming language it's an IDE.
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sidar - 177 days 17 hours ago
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y0han,
Not sure why someone disagreed...DreamWeaver is indeed an IDE(integrated development environment) and HTML/PHP/XML are most likely Scripting languages.
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neogeo - 177 days 17 hours ago
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I dont care if the guy is God in the flesh, that still does not change the fact that he has the worst avatar ever!
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Honky Kong - 177 days 17 hours ago
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CHANGE IT!!!!!!!
or dont iam sure the girl is popular on n4g
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cjflora - 177 days 12 hours ago
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2.9 - Hyper Text Markup Language
Oh weird! If you expand out the acronym of HTML it tells you it's a markup language! Why don't you all quit being retards, this is clearly why you don't have anything better to do than trash on somebody's avatar. Wow...
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A HiFi - 178 days 5 hours ago
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The news story isn't ten pages long, but the links are...retro gamers often have a lot to say. Has anyone else noticed that?

Still, quite an amazing find.
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TheDarkCynic - 178 days 5 hours ago
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It's as if they've been waiting all these years, writing the whole time, up until now to unleash their findings on the world. Gotta admire their tenacity.
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HQLocated111 - 178 days 4 hours ago
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Whats the easter egg?
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spunnups - 178 days 4 hours ago
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Anyone care to post a quick answer? I'm really don't have the energy to find out for myself...= /
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Nuri - 178 days 4 hours ago
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"Mr. Dyer, in between pulling his hair out while working on this game, included what is known as an "Easter Egg" in the game's code. If a certain sequence of moves or scores were done correctly, the designer's initials would appear somewhere on the screen"

26 years later, I am pleased to announce that I have discovered the way to trigger this long lost Easter egg. Here is how to do it:

1. Play a game and get a score of 33,000 through 33,900. This score must become the new high score. [Some other scores will work as well, see below.]

2. Kill off all of your remaining lives. However, your last life must be killed off by falling too far - by walking or jumping off a girder that is too high to land safely. If the last life is killed any other way, the egg will not appear.

3. Set the game difficulty to 4 by pressing the Option button 3 times. The icon for this difficulty is a firefox.

4. Wait a few minutes, and the demo screen where Kong jumps across the screen will appear.

5. The title screen will then appear, and Landon Dyer's initials [LMD] will be at the bottom center of the screen:

In short just his initials.
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Time Traveler - 178 days 4 hours ago
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I called it...
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RivenX3i - 178 days 3 hours ago
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6.1 - Dude c'mon..
Everyone knew this egg was comin...
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GiantEnemyCrab - 178 days 4 hours ago
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7 - Gamer Finds 26-Year-Old Easter Egg
phew! That must be one rotten stinky egg! The Easter Bunny is going to be very upset.

(drinks more beer)
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riksweeney - 178 days 1 hour ago
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"The game was originally ported to the Amiga 400/800".

Nice one, you can't even copy down a summary correctly. I guess you mean the Atari rather than the Amiga, since there wasn't a 400 or 800 model.
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DIRTYHAIRYJOYSTICK - 178 days 1 hour ago
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9 - Nothing but a glitch / fluke
I bet he couldn't do it again :)
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sak500 - 177 days 22 hours ago
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wow can't wait to go and play this. On another note how about finding Easter eggs for Pong and ET while you're at it.
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CSM-101e - 177 days 20 hours ago
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That's Rain Man on mescaline stuff right there.

(Confessions Of a Lazy Dude; episode 219: If I can't find the remote in less than a minute of stuffin my hands between the cushion and arm rests of the recliner, I watch whatever's on. Infomercials people, infomercials.)
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BigSwede - 177 days 19 hours ago
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The USA sucks. Sweden rulez. This article is proof.
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PS360WiiRocks - 177 days 16 hours ago
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wtf? his initials? How stupid is that. Plus what is this crap about how to get it? That's just dumb.
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ApocalyPS3 - 177 days 14 hours ago
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intelligent and crafty programmers would often hide things according to algorithms in their code.

he's lucky that he only had to tear through a 64k RAM pool, it would be near impossible to solve an algorithm based easter egg in any of today's games :O just think of the variables involved with how big the games are today!
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superaktieboy - 177 days 9 hours ago
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its rather sad that you would even care about this random easter egg after 26 years.. i donno, either the dude just didnt have anything the do these past few (hundred?) days, or he's just well, the saddest person alive!
i guess, i should applaud him for his patience with this egg, job well done..

but still really sad!
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cseru1 - 177 days 9 hours ago
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If you actually read the article, you would see that the programmer put it in the game 26 years ago, but only last year revealed that it existed.

So I guess the applause goes to you.. you know, for your ignorance.
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superaktieboy - 176 days 16 hours ago
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fair enough lol meh.. didn't quite read the article, just flicked through it lol.. owell..
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