I Hear the Secrets That You Keep

There was that secret room in Max Payne 2, had a tribute to one of the guys on the team that died. There was also a mini tribute to GTA too if you looked at one of the tvs as well.

without cheating i got out to jock in the helicopter in deus ex, at the part where you exit the subway and there are a million guards and your cyborg teammate waiting for you, and youre supposed to either give up or get 'killed' and wake up in prison.

when you get away from them and get to the helicopter nothing fucking happens at all. i was hoping for shit to blow up and maybe some sort of different story arc but nothing happens at all. it took me about fifty fucking times to manage to finally get out of there just for a helicopter that you cant even fly around the place under your control or even a cyborg dog army or naked pictures of your mum or sister. you know what im talking about.

Nanananana, I hear the secrets that you keep,
nananananana, talkin' in your sleep, na na na
nanananana, I hear the secrets that you keep,
nananananana, talkin' in your sleep, na na na
When I close my eyes....

Nevermind...

No mention of the Dope Fish yet in the comments?

Tons of segacd games had text files relating to the plot or special audio messages for those of us brave to check them out in the cd player.

There was some kind of Easter Egg/secret in System Shock 2 involving a basketball and basketball goal, wasn't there? And some monkeys, I think. Something like if you shoot the ball in the basket the monkeys say something.

And Doom2 had those Wolfenstein levels in it.

One of the Jedi Knight games had Sam from Sam and Max in a secret room.

Anyone ever managed to get all those Halo Easter Eggs? AKA Skulls

I remember playing Outlaws and finding a secret room with some stuff in it. I don't remember too much about it, but I think to get there, you load up the first or second level and look for an out house. Then I think what I did it threw a stick of dynamite or something in there, and then a hole opens up where you can crawl through and find a secret room or something.

I think there was like a spaceship of some sort, and I think there was Max in there at some point, but I can't remember now...

Now that I think of it, I wasn't even looking for an easter egg, I was just bored. :)

When you're talking in your sleep!

To date myself, I'll harken back to a few Sierra adventure games easter eggs:
I can recall looking into a hole of a rock in King's Quest II and you got to see a trailer for Space Quest I.
Then King's Quest III if you looked behind a tapestry you would see a KQIV promo.

My favourite one of all was King's Quest IV where at a certain point near the end of the game if you typed beam me up or something like that you would go to a secret room with all of the game programmers who would talk to you.

Actually you could probably do this endlessly with the sierra games, all of the sierra games were very self-referential. I remember that wandering through the QG2 desert you would bump into King Arthur from Conquest of Camelot, etc. etc. etc. These are things that you can't do quite as blatantly anymore since the industry has matured and become more sophisticated. It is a lot of fun but a little unprofessional too. Swiss cheese and books in the corner of rooms is one thing, programming yourself as a talking character into a room is another.

The game: Jet Set Willy
The system: Sinclair ZX Spextrum

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr13/yr13_41.htm

That was my favorite "Easter Egg". Because it wasn't.

There was one map in DukeNukem 3d that had a shrinkray blasting you from a cliff face across the map as part of a puzzle you couldn't reach without cheating and giving yourself a rocket backpack.It led into a tunnel with a message:"You're not supposed to be here. Levelord"

http://www.levelord.com/ Yes,that one :D