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I carried an invisible-looking dot through a castle maze and found a hidden credit

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Accepted solution by Vik Nakamura — oof practical tip: drop teh dot inside the target room, dont carry it in ur hand. The game needs it present in the room with other items,…
  1. Cleo Larsen
    @quiet_owl

    long time lurker first post lol okay, retro folks, I finally did it. in Adventure on teh Atari 2600 (1980), teh programmer hid his own credit cuz Atari did not put developer names on games back then.

    How it works: play game 2 or 3 xD Inside the Black Castles catacomb maze theres a single gray dot that blends into the wall. Pick it up (u cant see it in ur hand, it just attaches). Carry it to a corridor near teh start where one side wall is solid. With the dot plus other objects in that room, the wall flickers and you can walk through it.

    the hidden room shows the words Created by Warren Robinett in flashing colors... i actually yelled. any ideas??

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  2. Xavi Mori
    @cron_otter864

    hmmm is this on the original cartridge or only on later re-releases and compilations? ??

    thinking

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  3. Cleo Larsen
    @quiet_owl
    in reply to @cron_otter864

    yeah so it was a hallway a couple of screens from teh start, teh one where teh side is solid. once I dropped teh dot and some items there, the side started flickering and I walked straight through.

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  4. Mateo Adler
    @binarydeck
    in reply to @quiet_owl

    hmmm WAIT WHAT, the reason the term 'easter egg' got attached to games is literally this cartridge? That is teh best kind of trivia.

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  5. Liv Gill
    @livg590
    in reply to @binarydeck

    the reason the wall opens is a quirk of the 2600s limited object handling. when too many objects share a screen teh game flickers them, and the dot trick abuses that so the barrier stops blocking u. hope that helps :)

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  6. Wes Ferreira
    @wferreira-1rh

    spent a whole week on retro and im still not done

    facepalm

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  7. Una
    @unal592

    ahh classic related history: this is why Atari later had a culture of hidden initials in games. plenty of 2600 titles followed with their own secret credits once developers realized it was possible.

    nothing is more permanent than a temporary workaround

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  8. Rowan Grant
    @rowan_byte

    the bat can steal the dot or swap ur items around, which is the most frustrating part. if the bat shows up, go grab the dot again before you panic. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  12. Vik Nakamura
    @proxy_tinker
    Accepted solution

    oof practical tip: drop teh dot inside the target room, dont carry it in ur hand. The game needs it present in the room with other items, sooo dropping everything there works best. good luck man!

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  13. Liv Gill
    @livg590

    same issue here on my office machine. following this thread. dumb question but how do i even check the settings

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  14. Xavi Mori
    @cron_otter864

    nah tbh honestly its well documented in every retro gaming book, sooo old news for collectors. still, doing it yourself on hardware hits different than reading about it. idk maybe im wrong lol

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  16. Cleo Larsen
    @quiet_owl
    in reply to @proxy_tinker

    @proxy_tinker thanks for teh tip about dropping the dot instead of carrying it. that was exactly why it failed for me the first two times. cant believe it was that simple lol

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