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Easter egg (media)
Summary
File:Carl Oswald Rostosky - Zwei Kaninchen und ein Igel 1861.jpg|250px|thumb|right|An image that reveals an Easter egg when the hedgehog is clicked or tapped. Another Easter egg can be found in a [[tooltip]] when a [[mouse pointer]] is hovered over the hedgehog."Zwei Kaninchen und ein Igel" ("[[commons:File:Carl Oswald Rostosky - Zwei Kaninchen und ein Igel 1861.jpg|Two rabbits and a hedgehog]]") by [[commons:Category:Carl Oswald Rostosky|Carl Oswald Rostosky]].
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An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another — usually electronic — medium. The term used in this manner was coined around 1979 by Steve Wright, the then-Director of Software Development in the Atari Consumer Division, to describe a hidden message in the Atari video game Adventure, in reference to an Easter egg hunt. The earliest known video game Easter egg is in the 1973 video game Moonlander, in which the player tries to land a Lunar module on the moon; if the player opts to fly the module horizontally through several of the game's screens, they encounter a McDonald's restaurant, and if they land next to it the astronaut will visit it instead of standing next to the ship. The earliest known Easter egg in software in general is one placed in the "make" command for PDP-6/PDP-10 computers sometime in October 1967–October 1968, wherein if the user attempts to create a file named "love" by typing "make love", the program responds "not war?" before proceeding.
Adventure (1980 video game)#Easter egg
The use of the term "Easter egg" to describe secret features in video games originates from the 1980 video game Adventure for the Atari 2600 game console, programmed by employee Warren Robinett. At the time, Atari did not include programmers' names in the game credits, both to prevent competitors from poaching its developers as well as to deny developers a means to bargain with the management of the new owners, Warner Communications.
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