10 Most Important Video Game Easter Eggs Of ALL TIME

9. DOOM (2016) - Retro Replay

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Last decade's (yeah, it's been that long already) soft reboot of DOOM is filled to the brim with blood, sweat, and love. So much love that id Software decided to essentially pack two games onto one disc as a love letter to fans of the franchise. Granted, one of these took up roughly 2.3MB of disc space, but we all know size isn't everything. That measly space requirement materialised in the form of the original DOOM: its entire suite of stages available as hidden Easter eggs throughout Doomguy's 2016 adventure.

Accessing each retro demon-killing gauntlet required locating otherwise ordinary levers and giving them a good yank. Doing so would swing open the door to a nostalgic trip down memory lane, complete with environments untouched since the '90s. To spice things up a touch, id replaced the original enemies with their modern counterparts, allowing next-gen Doomguy to relive his golden years, one pixelated corridor at a time.

To this day, it's hard not to wonder what younger generations, unaware of DOOM's heritage, made of the bonus stages. Was it a fever dream? A bizarre bug causing the game to crap itself? No. This is DOOM, baby.

 
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