So let’s talk about that Easter Egg – Atari®
The story of the Adventure secret room has been told and re-told many times, and the handwritten letter from fifteen-year-old Adam Clayton is a part of gaming historyThat secret room, which held game creator Warren Robinett’s signature, is credited with being the first Easter Egg ever released in a console video game.
Game History 07.05.2022 So let’s talk about that Easter Egg The story of the Adventure secret room has been told and re-told many times, and the handwritten letter from fifteen-year-old Adam Clayton is a part of gaming history That secret room, which held game creator Warren Robinett’s signature, is credited with being the first Easter Egg ever released in a console video game. The term Easter Egg didn’t even exist when Robinett decided to hide his name in the game because Atari policy was to not publicly credit developers for their work . Adam Clayton shared his discovery with Atari in a hand
Explore this link on the map →related reading
- Warren Robinett Interview: Adventure Programmer, Atari 2600, Grundle, Rhindle, and Yorgleweb.archive.org
- Early history of video games - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
- "Inventing on Principle" by Bret Victor speech transcriptjamesclear.com
- The Tinkerings of Robert Noyceweb.stanford.edu
- Douglas Engelbart - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- The Holy Grail of Hacks Returns | MIT Admissionsmitadmissions.org
- SPACEWAR - by Stewart Brand - Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums.wheels.org
- The Mother of All Demos - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- rezmason.net - Projectsrezmason.net
- Steve Blank Secret Historysteveblank.com
- howard rheingold's | tools for thoughtrheingold.com