Programmers have been hiding things in video games since 1978 when programmer Warren Robinett decided that he deserved some credit for programming the game ‘Adventure’. He hid the words “Created By Warren Robinett” in a special room that you could only find by following a series of ridiculous steps. Since then, lots of programmers have gotten in on the Easter egg fun.
Well, the following places just might convince you that there are programmers in real life, playing with the Earth’s coding and leaving satisfying little Easter eggs for us to find, too. Some of these things are spooky, some hilarious, some rather awe-inspiring—and all seem to exist solely to reward the “player” for looking in just the right spot with something way out of the ordinary.
1A fairy village in the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo
2A little crossover action
3A printed phone on the sidewalk
4Secret sloth on this drink bottle
5Sword in a stone in Somerset, England
6A Tiny Lego House
7Tiny warning for wizards and witches in Sydney Airport
8Apparently, there are crocodiles in the NYC subway
9Army man standing watch on an exit sign
10Brisbane's Tiny Door
11Butterfly with the number 88 on its wings
12Thx2 Allgamers
By moving the control stick down on a Nintendo Switch Pro controller you can see a message which says 'thx2 allgamefans!'
13The cast of Pixar's 'Cars' on Google Maps
14Darth Vader gargoyle on the National Cathedral, Washington D.C.
15Delorean on a city map
16Another DeLorean found on a Dinosaur museum’s wall mural.
17Don't Slap Pandas
18On the bottom of the pack
19Wall fixed with Lego bricks in Arnsberg, Germany
20Found behind some shelves in a store
21Found in a school library
22Gandalf on the ceiling of a New Zealand airport
23Guillotine on the roof of a building in NYC
24Hidden Mario in Las Vegas
25Hidden message on the PCB of a Boomerang III guitar pedal
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