8 Video Game Easter Eggs Made Out Of Spite

6. Give Me A Bonus Arrgh! - Pachicom

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While the Famicom might have come along and quite literally changed the game, saving the entire video game market in the process, it wasn't all gold and glory for the devs working on titles for the system as anyone who found the "give me a bonus" rant in Pachicom could tell you.

While it's unknown which developer left the message, one thing is for certain, and that is that they weren't happy in the slightest. In the mammoth-sized text file, which took up nearly 5% of the game's entire storage space, the developer rages about their employers and how they changed things at a moment's notice and how they also wanted completely different audio for the game.

They conclude this tirade, which also includes some rather blue-colored masturbation jokes, with a call for a pay bump before screaming to themselves and now those lucky enough to have found this message via a hex editor.

It's pretty clear that the dev never wanted these messages to be found originally, but hilariously enough when the game MSX version was released, another, albeit shorter message was also included in the game's files!

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