Easter egg (media)
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easter-egg-media-189-3118575
title:
Easter egg (media)
text:
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
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Message, image or feature hidden within a work
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)
date created:
2003-06-04T04:28:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T03:53:56Z
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13
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