10 Secret Video Game Easter Eggs Left By Developers
6. Grand Theft Auto V’s Black Cellphones
GTA V will probably go down in history as one of the most successful games of all time, still making sales numbers today even nine years and two console generations on from it's debut. It’s stuffed with plenty of content to keep players coming back for more and, like many of the other games in the series, is loaded with fun nods and secrets in its sprawling open world sandbox.
One such secret took three years for players to find and presumably they did so by pure chance as it requires bashing what appears to be a seemingly nonsense series of numbers into their phone. 1-999-367-3767 is the magic number and calling it causes the player's in-game phone to essentially change from day mode to night mode, swapping the background to black.
Oh, and also it triggers a random explosion above the player’s head for some reason?!
To this day it's not clear what the point of this is; with some players theorising it was an unfinished cheat code, part of a cut mission or something even more sinister as some claim that dialling the number whilst standing on Rebel radio tower causes an eerie Morse code to play.
Some believe that 1-999-367-3767 is code for "1-999-EMP-DROP" or, the definitely spookier sounding, "1-999-EMPEROR".