10 Utterly Bizarre Video Game Easter Eggs You Probably Missed

9. Donkey Kong: All That Effort

The grand old dame of video games included its own early Easter egg, and set a precedent in the process, of being the most bizarrely unworthy of all Easter eggs every released since.

When Landon Dyer was charged with porting the game to the Atari 400, he decided to leave his own mark on the game by setting up a huge list of required actions to unlock the measliest of all rewards - his initials on the title screen.

Unfortunately for Dyer's quest for notoriety, it took 26 years for anyone to discover how to unlock the egg (through a convoluted and wholly unjustified series of requirements) after the porter himself admitted in a 2008 blog post that he'd forgotten how to unlock it himself. Nice work. If you want to try it yourself, do this: First off, set a high score of between 33,000 and 33,900), then die as many times as you need to get down to one life. Then kill yourself by falling for the last time, set the game's difficult to 4 and wait for the title screen.

It's surely the single most impossible Easter Egg to unlock in the history of gaming, and for that you'd think you'd be rewarded with the keys to a Chocolate Factory or something. Instead, you get to see Dyer's initials, as if the real easter egg was enticing your players to go WAY over the top to discover something completely unworthy of note.

Rage quit.