8 Video Game Easter Eggs That Will Make You Sweat

8. Metroid's Secret Scene - Metroid Fusion

As any Metroid fan worth their salt will know, shinesparking is a special “secret” technique in the 2D Metroid titles that involves activating Samus Aran’s speed boost ability, and then utilising a series of perfectly timed button presses and jumps to reach secret areas. Frankly, it’s a pain to do.

Hidden deep within Metroid Fusion for the Gameboy Advance is a bonus cutscene that reveals a little more about the shady antagonists of the story. To get to the room that activates this sequence, the player must take Samus through what can only be described as a gauntlet of perfectly performed shinesparking. 

It’s enough to make all but the most seasoned of Metroid players want to boil their Gameboy and eat it.

Perversely, making it to the secret cutscene offers no reward beyond the viewing of the cutscene... Presumably you’re meant to feel some sense of pride or something.