That 15 year old? He grew up to make the game called “The oasis”

"Why couldn't game designers have their name on their game" as a game artist, I FEEL YOU.

who would win? the top leading video game franchise with a lot of tough men and programmers or one sneaky boi

In the summer of 1984, I was really into playing Adventure. I took graph paper and drew out all of the maze screens and indicated how they all connected together. During this process, I found a tiny dot when I realized that in one maze screen, the objects always blinked like when you had two or more items in the same screen. It was funny because I only had the sword on me at the time. While I was drawing out the maze screens, I noticed an area in the screen that you couldn't get to --hence I grabbed the bridge and crossed into that section and bah-dink I had the dot. I couldn't even tell what I had in the maze screen, so I carried it out into one of the main hallways and noticed that when there was something else on the screen the objects blinked. Now, I knew about this "dot" for days before one day I was in that hallway and a dragon came after me. Armed with the dot and no sword I ran from it and to my amazement I accidentally went through that solid line and ended up in that room. I was blown away at what I saw. At first, I didn't even realize it was writing. And then, I couldn't figure out how to read it. I remember it saying something like Created Warren by Robinett. I was like ok, a warren was created by robinett. A warren of what? And what the heck is a Robinett? I spent days trying to figure out if there was more to this room than these words and even more time looking for other hidden rooms. It was many many years later (maybe a decade) until one day I was on an Atari newsgroup (remember those, folks?) and came across a post about this Easter Egg. I was shocked to read about it because I had found that thing in the game about a decade prior.

The meaning of a game isn't to just win, it's to explore, to find new ways to play, and to have fun.

me: *sees game theorist.* me:" BUT HEY THAT'S JUST THEORY. A GAME THEORY."

0:19 it says “1978 -NOT SO ATARI INC,” 😂

Ready Player One!

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.

0:05 I'm surprised I didn't see any A E S T H E T I C comments about this.

Not the first easter egg, the easter egg hunter did a video on the actual first.

This wasn't the first Easter Egg ever, merely the first one discovered. There's at least three others that predate it - Starship 1 (1977), Spitfire (1977), and Video Whizball (1978), all released before Adventure (1980) - but they were all discovered much more recently. Video Whizball's was discovered in 2004, Starship 1's in 2017, and Spitfire's was just discovered a year ago, in August of 2019. Adventure's was discovered in its own time, within a couple of years of the game's release (it was published in the 1982 book How To Master The Home Video Games), so that's why it's often considered the first.

And then there was E.T.

I remember solving this back in the 80s. Forgot all about it until I recently read ready player one and seeing the movie. I still have my 2600 (and adventure). Sometimes, when we visit my senior mother's house, my young kids like to play it in my mom's old tube tv. I may have to resolve adventures Easter egg, for old times sake :). Nicely done Mr Robinett!

some say that 15 year old kid grew up to become the president of a big country

Adventure was the first video game I ever played. I can remember going to the local K-Mart back in the 70's and play the demo they had while my parents shopped.

Nice! If I ever make a game, I'm making a room dedicated to Warren Robinette.

0:19 But hey, that’s just at theory. A *game theory* .

the only dislike on this video was atari

Alexis Ffrench - Elixir Music in the intro of the video. Don't thank me. Thank Shazam.

Cut back to 2011-2012. I'm about 7-8 years old, my parents dug up an old atari. Me playing a game called "Adventure". Good times.

This guy sounds like he just woke up

Haven't seen this one ty for the content xD

Ready Player One anyone???

Knew about this from ready player one

That 15 year old had a lot of time on his hands. It's not easy to find if you don't know what you're doing. From what I remember, you have to go into the black castle with the bridge that lets you go through walls (on one of the high difficulties). Way in the back somewhere you can walk through a wall that contains a single pixel object that's the same color as the floor. You take it all the way back to the beginning area without losing it and put it near the colored barrier on the second screen. You then have to put a few extra objects in this room to make the colored barrier flash, allowing you to walk through it and see the room with the credit in it. Not easy to just figure out. Also, this game is a technical marvel when compared to most other 2600 games at the time that pretty much all took place on a single screen.

And Ready Player One was inspired...

Thank you so very much for making videogames funner and exciting.

Just finished reading "Ready Player One", so I decided to watch this

That was really cool to hear it straight from Warren, thanks.

Fantastic version of this story on NPR.

Can’t believe I read all of ready player one without realizing this was the game I grew up on. Have been trying to find the name forever

This actually isn’t the first video game Easter egg. The first Easter egg was in a 1977 game called ‘Starship 1’. The game in this video was produced in 1978, which you can see on the box at 2:01

0:05 MACINTOSH 420 V A P O R W A V E

I like how during the pixelated intro the Cessna logo is still the same

This became well known even at the time of the release. I remember finding it on my Atari.

who comes here from READY PLAYER ONE MOVIE

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It’s not the first Easter Egg anymore, Spitfire for the Channel F had the name of the creator through the use of a long string of button compilations. The game released in 1977. The Easter egg was discovered in 2019

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.

My first easter egg i found was on the first simcity on the SNES..u had to plug a controller in the 2nd port only n all this crazy stuff but it was worth it since it gave u a creator menu

What if there’s a more hidden easter egg in an older game that we haven’t found yet.

My friend had a glitchy 2600 that if you jiggled the Power switch opened that room. I knew about the room within days of release because of that. It would not be until 20yrs later when I started collecting games that I learned about the dot method to get you to the room despite playing the game for days on end. I always thought I needed to glitch the 2600 to see it.

Me see game theory Me:But hey thats a theory,a half-baked theory

I already knew this from Ready Player One, great read.

Ready Player One reference anyone? It's not about winning the game, it's about finding that Easter Egg.

Thanks. I followed this guide and took the control of OASIS.

I remember watching my Dad find that Easter egg. I've done it countless times myself. I can't imagine how anyone would find it without knowing it's there!

this definitely is the first fetch quest easter egg. way more complex than a button sequence, which is basically a back door hack.

Ever heard of the “hi bob” Easter egg? Now that was the first Easter egg.

Your videos are so cool. The narration, animation are so great. 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 I hope you get more subscribers!!!

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Warren Robinett is a literal god to the gaming community.

0:33 rip atari 2600 cart of warren robinet. we will remember him.

Wait wait wait wait. HE IS FROM READY PLAYER ONE

The film, ready player one, included this in Halliday competition

He did the ultimate sneak move.

Me : Did i just see game theory . Matpat : Did someone say , Theory

Ready Player One movie puted that game in the scene -U didnt have to win, u just need to play to see the easter egg (it means to see the creator's name in that game)

The easter egg trend for devs have evolved into talking zombies,pony guns,gigantic donuts,even a hidden ending

He’s like the real-life James Halliday

NOT-SO-ATARI (0:20 bottom right corner of cartridge)

I remember stumbling onto this when I was about 9 or 10 years old. I thought it was a game glitch and sadly didn't recognize it as legible wording until I showed it to one of my friends.

never disrespect your employees. they could all just quit and you’d be left in ashes.

«there must be a hidden room in Adventure». Parzival, Ready Player One.

0:06 who else saw that and hope they made an episode with vektroid and how he made his music

David and Goliath of the game world, Nice one Dave.

Ready Player One Brought me here! Covid quarantine 2020

That TV looks cool

So if anyone has ever played this, those duck lookin things are actually dragons and they have names. I used to play it with my cousin on my grandmas atari flashback, good times

I like how all the custom cartridges all have "game program...kind of"

Ron milner who worked for Atari inserted an Easter egg in the arcade game“ starship 1 “ where if a person followed a sequence of controls the screen would flash the message “ hi Ron “ and the player would be awarded 10 free games and this was before the game adventure

So this is where it all started!!

0:32 *throws game port out of Atari gaming console* *me:* ok.

Player one :🦟. Player two :🌻

and it happens to be Easter weekend right now as I watch this!

It's kind of funny that I'm watching this on the day before Easter

Are you *ready, player one?*

Actuay atari treating their emploes baddy was one of the reasons why companny collapsed. So the justice truy is poetic.

Looks like they decided they can have their names on it because my river Raid cartridge says conceived and designed by carol Shaw

No wonder Atari went broke, they treated their employees like crap

This guy is amazing! He basically created the things I personally love most about video games! Very cool! 🎉

0:07 *Holy hell... The cartridges move?!*

Getting some Ready Player One vibes!

That room was in Anorak's Castle. James Halliday Hid the easter egg there. And Parzival got it ^-^ . Ready Player One !

Lol, i learned this in ready player one

There was a episode in clarence when he played this game

Thank you Warren

0:31 You threw away the cartridge that was named after you.

I got a Genesis ad before vid

Thank you Warren for inspiring Ready Player One

Comments 75% RPO. 10% aesthetics 5% game theory 10% other

Anybody else notice the activison sign on the back of the game at 2:11

this was actually donkey Kong. In the code it had the coders initials.

He pulled sneaky on us

I'm assuming this was referenced in the ready player one movie.

This one was in player one movie in the Easter ending

R.I.P. Atari, you will not be missed.

2:11 You're using that joystick upside down, bro.

I remember playing that game