10 Secret Video Game Easter Eggs Left By Developers
2. Discworld’s F-Bomb
Discworld’s hidden gem of an Easter egg went undiscovered for 20 years for numerous reasons; it’s only on the PlayStation release, it takes getting to Act 4 of the game to hear and it takes some pixel perfect point and click accuracy. When the villagers fill the town square, the player must click rather precisely on the pupils of two specific townsfolk and then drag the cursor over the bosom of a particularly, uhm, ’top heavy’ lady.
Rincewind the wizard, as played by Eric Idle, will then rather suddenly blurt out the line “I want to be the first person in a game to say f***”.
What makes this all the more astounding is that gamers had to work backwards to find this Easter egg. In the sequel Rincewind proclaims the same line, albeit censored, and is told that he in fact has already done this and that no players wrote in to call it out so it must’ve been too well hidden.
Considering that Discworld comes from the mind of the surreal and irony-laden works of Terry Pratchett, most assumed this was just a weird gag. However, when home technology caught up, dedicated fans worked through the code to find this historical Easter egg.