10 Video Game Easter Eggs Still Undiscovered
There's are video game easter eggs undiscovered!
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00:00Now as an interactive medium, video games are truly like no other art form,
00:04with developers able to reward active players who dig deep and attempt to
00:07experience every last thing that they include in their game. Easter eggs are an absolute joy
00:12in gaming that allow devs to tip the hat to curious and inquisitive players who venture
00:17off the beaten path by showing them something that players just sticking to the critical route
00:21wouldn't ever see. But not all easter eggs are created equal, and in the case of some,
00:26they're still waiting to be fully unveiled. So let's take a look at them, as I'm Jules,
00:29this is WhatCulture.com, and these are 10 Video Game Easter Eggs That Are Still Undiscovered.
00:3510. The Live SEGA Chant – Sonic Mania
00:38Sonic Mania was first announced at SEGA's 25th anniversary event for Sonic during San Diego
00:44Comic Con, and during the show, Sonic Team producer Takashi Iizuka even had the live
00:48crowd record a rendition of the iconic SEGA jingle to be included in the game as an easter egg.
00:55There are two takes from the crowd that were recorded for safety, and yet,
00:58more than six years removed from Sonic Mania's acclaimed release,
01:01the live SEGA chant still hasn't been found.
01:04While players might have expected to hear it in the game's opening screen or perhaps during
01:07the end credits, it's present in neither case. Players have extensively trawled through Sonic
01:12Mania in an attempt to unlock the jingle and even datamined it to no avail, leaving fans to wonder
01:17quite how to trigger it. Others have speculated that the easter egg may have been cut during
01:21development due to the sound quality being too poor, yet to date, there's still no concrete word
01:26from anyone involved with the game on it.
01:289. The 15th Wish – Destiny 2
01:31The Destiny 2 Forsaken expansion included a new raid mission called Last Wish, which contained
01:37a puzzle room where players could enter a sequence of symbols in order to solve a series of wishes.
01:42To date, 14 wishes have been found, but the 15th remains a pure mystery. Fans have racked their
01:48brains for the better part of five years trying to crack this code and get to the bottom of the
01:5215th wish, with even some surmising that the Last Wish raid itself is the 15th wish, given its name
01:58and all. Despite this theory gaining substantial traction in recent years, Bungie still hasn't
02:02confirmed the truth one way or another, perhaps suggesting that it's nothing more than – wait
02:07for it – wishful thinking.
02:108. The 2113 Box – Trials Evolution
02:15Trials Evolution plays host to one of the greatest video game easter eggs,
02:18which while still ultimately unresolved, led players on one hell of a wild goose chase.
02:23Shortly after the game's 2012 release, players discovered that a series of planks throughout
02:27the physics-based platformer spelled out a cipher, which told players to perform a specific move on
02:33the bike, which in turn unlocked a hidden song that contained a secret piece of morse code.
02:38The code took players to a website with a series of image ciphers and an equation,
02:42the answer to which unlocked a set of coordinates located in four cities – Helsinki, Sydney,
02:47Bath, and San Francisco. Fans around the globe teamed up to visit the coordinates,
02:52and in each case, a chest containing a key was found alongside a plaque.
02:57The back of each plaque read,
02:58Midday in the year 2113, the first Saturday in August,
03:02one of the five keys will open the box underneath the Eiffel Tower.
03:06Now to be clear, developer RedLynx has arranged for one of the four keys,
03:09the fifth one being a digital key unlocked in the game Trials Fusion,
03:12underneath the Eiffel Tower 101 years after the game's release.
03:16Incredibly, everyone involved in the easter egg's creation,
03:19and anyone who had discovered one of the keys will surely be long dead by 2113,
03:23ensuring only future generations have any chance at all of learning what's inside that chest.
03:287. Todd Howard's Terminal Secret – Fallout 4
03:32At DICE 2016, shortly after Fallout 4's release, game director Todd Howard revealed that there was
03:37still undiscovered easter eggs hidden in one of the game's many computer terminals.
03:41Bethesda's VP of Publishing, Pete Hines, eventually tweeted in 2018 that he knew some
03:45players had stumbled across the secret on social media, yet hadn't put two and two together,
03:49and realised that it was THE easter egg. In the years that followed, players continued
03:53trying to make sense of it, even activating noclip and literally teleporting inside each terminal
03:58to see if anything was cheekily hidden in there. But alas, nada.
04:01In 2020, popular YouTuber Juicehead claimed that the secret would reveal that the player
04:06was actually a synth all along, yet despite their passionate delivery,
04:10this was still just a theory without any cold, hard evidence. Almost eight years
04:14removed from Fallout 4's release, with Bethesda's latest AAA behemoth, Starfield,
04:18now out in the wild, we're seemingly no closer to figuring out what that damn terminal secret was.
04:226. The Aloha Ice Jam Shortcut – SSX Tricky
04:26Back in 2014, a Redditor by the name of UserTBTSynchro claimed to have worked on the
04:32hit 2001 snowboarding game SSX Tricky as a level designer, and revealed that the Aloha
04:38Ice Jam track had a secret shortcut which hadn't yet been discovered. The designer couldn't
04:42specifically remember how to trigger the shortcut, but knew that it involved grinding an invisible
04:46wall. This, in turn, energised SSX enthusiasts to hammer the track in search of the hidden trigger.
04:52But after eight years of searching and even a comprehensive datamine, it still hasn't been found.
04:57Those spearheading the datamining efforts considered their attempts exhausted,
05:01leading them to speculate that the shortcut could have been removed from the game during
05:04development. The designers themselves entertained the idea that it had actually been cut,
05:07though wasn't completely convinced either. All the same, without another person who worked on the
05:11game piping up and putting everyone out of their misery, this easter egg seems destined to remain
05:16unsolved forevermore.
05:175. The Startup Easter Egg – The Original Xbox
05:21In 2021, an anonymous developer who worked on the original Xbox console revealed an easter
05:26egg that was hidden in the Xbox's own dashboard. By ripping a music CD to the console and renaming
05:31the CD's title to Timmy with a lot of Ys, players would unlock a secret credit screen for the
05:36members of the Xbox dashboard team. This was initially assumed to be the last of several
05:41secrets discovered on the Xbox over the years, but the console's designer, Seamus Blackley,
05:45subsequently tweeted that another undiscovered easter egg was still waiting to be found.
05:49Blackley wouldn't give much away about the secret, though did reveal that it related
05:52to the console's boot animation, but curiously didn't require the player to perform any controller
05:57inputs whatsoever. Though Blackley is clearly relishing how thoroughly his responses have
06:01dumbfounded inquisitive players, this at least feels like one secret which might actually get
06:06solved one day, especially given how active Blackley is on social media. Here's hoping, at least.
06:104. The Endless Mode Mystery – Mega Man 9
06:14Shortly after Mega Man 9's release in 2008, Capcom's then-community manager, Seth Killian,
06:19posted on the company's forums that the game contained a secret which hadn't yet been found.
06:24This prompted the series' passionate fans to tear the game apart looking for this elusive secret,
06:28and though they did find a number of them, none were the specific one that Killian was
06:32cryptically referring to. Capcom later gave fans a hint by revealing that the easter egg could be
06:37found in Mega Man 9's endless attack mode, with comments from Capcom employees suggesting that
06:42it involved getting far enough in this mode to trigger, well, something. Yet, in the years that
06:46followed, the trail ran cold, and with data mining also bringing up no fruitful leads,
06:50some fans accused Killian of fabricating a mystery to simply keep people talking about the game.
06:55In an interview shortly before Killian left Capcom, though, he insisted that the secret was
06:59real and would be confirmed if any player ever discovered it. Almost 15 years later,
07:04with no promising leads, though, most fans seem to have basically given up.
07:073. The Super Secret Easter Egg – Amplitude
07:11The reboot of legendary rhythm action game Amplitude was released in 2016,
07:15but more than three years later in August 2019, the game's official Twitter account
07:19asked a player who platinumed it whether they'd found the super secret easter egg yet. When the
07:24player responded in the negative and asked if Amplitude players had reported finding said
07:28easter egg, the account replied that it was still undiscovered. Harmonix did give players
07:32a message of encouragement in 2020, though, claiming that they seemed to be on the right
07:36track to finding it, yet refused to elaborate for fear of fully spoiling the solution.
07:40In the three years since, a small but dedicated collection of fans have continued to comb their
07:44way through Amplitude in a desperate pursuit of this easter egg, yet it remains unknown to this
07:49very day. With the game's Twitter account having gone entirely radio silent in recent years,
07:53it sadly doesn't seem terribly likely that this mystery will ever be sewn up.
07:572. FF06-B5 – Cyberpunk 2077
08:02Unlike the vast majority of the easter eggs on this list, Cyberpunk 2077's big undiscovered
08:07secret even has its own damn subreddit, which is a testament to how pervasively it has provoked,
08:12fascinated, and tortured the game's avid fanbase. On Union Street in the Corpo Plaza,
08:17players might notice a string of letters and numbers displayed on a robotic statue,
08:21FF06-B5, which is being worshipped at all times by a group of monks. Even after data mining the
08:27game and scanning through every single piece of text that players can interact with, the sequence
08:31seemingly related to nothing. The game's quest designer, Paweł Sasko, later commented that
08:36players were indeed on the trail of a secret, though refrained from elaborating on it for fear
08:40of giving it away. Players have creatively attempted to link the sequence to basically
08:44everything imaginable, from in-game coordinates to classical music, but to date have only come
08:48up empty-handed. Though the recent next-gen update for The Witcher 3 did include a new secret which
08:53had some connections to FF06-B5, it seemingly hasn't gotten fans any closer to figuring out
08:58what it actually means. 1. The Mount Chiliad Mystery – Grand Theft Auto 5
09:04And finally we come to what is surely the most agonizing unsolved mystery in the history of
09:08video games, Grand Theft Auto 5's Mount Chiliad. And much like Cyberpunk's easter egg, Mount
09:13Chiliad even has its own very active subreddit. And as for the mystery itself, well players who
09:17reach the cable car station atop the mountain will find a bizarre distinctive mural on the wall,
09:22a map of Mount Chiliad filled with strange symbols of a UFO, a cracked egg, and a man
09:27wearing a jetpack, while a large eye-like object is mounted at the very top of the mountain.
09:31Ever since the mural was discovered shortly after the game's 2013 release, fans have agonized over
09:36its true meaning and what figuring it out could possibly reveal. Some have rather optimistically
09:41theorized that it might unlock a demo for Grand Theft Auto 6 one day, while others simply believe
09:45it outlines the conditions for achieving 100% completion. Doing so will cause UFOs to appear
09:50over Mount Chiliad. And yet, the theories are myriad enough that there's no real consensus
09:54on what the mural relates to. It's absolutely worth considering that Rockstar might have
09:58included the easter egg simply to troll players, and it may be nothing more than a piece of weird
10:02art, or it may even relate to cut content from the final game. Needless to say, it'll be interesting
10:07to see whether or not GTA 6 can rustle up a mystery this singularly compelling when it
10:11eventually releases, which will be someday. And there we go my friends, those were 10 video game
10:16easter eggs that are still undiscovered. Hope you enjoyed that, and let me know what you thought
10:19about it down in the comments section below. As always I've been Jules, you can go follow me over
10:23on the social medias where it's at RetroJ, but the O is a 0 for most things, and I hope that you go
10:27over to the Future Games Show or FGS to go check out my other daily gaming content. Hope to see you
10:32over there. But before I go, I just want to say one thing. Hope you're treating yourself well my
10:36friend, with love and respect, because you deserve the bloody best things in life alright? And do not
10:40let anything or anyone else tell you otherwise. You are a massive ledge, and I will speak to you soon.