I can understand scrolling around in a menu until something with no text near it lights up, but what about those things where you have to, say, enter 1-5-8-9-4, then hit PLAY and STOP simultaneously? Do people sit around all day, trying every possible key combination? Is there software you can run that hunts these things down?
Increasingly, Easter Eggs on DVDs are being seen as a marketing tool. A really cool egg will generate a lot of buzz. Although I’m sure there’s probably software out there that will let you reverse engineer the disc and hunt for eggs, I would bet in a lot of cases that the secrets are leaked by the studios themselves in strategic places on the net.
I may be wrong about this but the you don’t have to enter the number combinations to reach the egg through the menu system. You can also sit down and go through each and every title screen and that should eventually bring it up. Right?
Correct. To get the Star Wars out takes you can either manueuver the menu or simply play the movie and move to title “3.” I’m sure “leaking” eggs is also a main way of getting these out. People know and people talk.
Go to http://www.eeggs.com
Here’s another one. DVD eggs
Mostly, but not always. Check out “Egg 2” for Terminator 2, for example. It unlocks a full, different cut of the film, but you have to key in a certain series of numbers on a certain screen.
Nope, read it carefully
I hate Easter Eggs! If I wanted a freaking video game I would’ve bought a Playstation. I like the content but just make them accessible using, y’know, menus.
Ah, you are correct. My bad. 