I stuck an easter egg into one of my game cartridges. The egg was underwhelming (just my initials), but I wanted to prove that it was me who wrote the title. Th

I stuck an easter egg into one of my game cartridges. The egg was underwhelming (just my initials), but I wanted to prove that it was me who wrote the title. The hand on the cave wall, you know? "I was here" for future generations. Almost literally true, because it took like 25 years for someone to find it. For another cartridge, Atari gave me permission to do an easter egg, and somehow it just wasn't very much fun and I didn't do it -- I guess part of the thrill was breaking the rules. The first egg was really hard to find because official company policy (probably never enforced, but hey) that it was a firing offense. Once Marketing got involved it just wasn't fun anymore. The Apple Newton has some well-documented easter eggs. My favorite is the one involving an anagram of our absolutely bonkers GM, Gaston Bastiaens: If you wrote and selected the text "Neat Bong" and then hit the "Assist" button, it put up a list of some of the group's malcontents. Hiding that one in the source code control system was fun. There are others, it was a relatively big ROM for the day :-)