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11 Creepy Easter Eggs.
I’m
not one for Easter egg hunting in video games. However when it comes to horror
then I become intrigued. You see while horror movies might be a good source for
scaring your bollocks off I find that movies can be a little predictable. I
don’t know what it is though but something about movies just makes every scare
seem forced and expected. It might be because of that faint music in the
background gradually getting louder and eerier or one of those famous scenes
where someone looks in the mirror one time and everything seems normal and then
the second time the monster says hello in a very aggressive fashion. However I
have always felt that games are better for giving you goosebumps mainly due to
the fact that the scares are triggered by you. It is your fault if you get a
heart attack because you are the one that walked down that scary corridor
riddled with scary spiders on the walls while a scary teddy bear holding a
scary knife sits on a scary chair staring at your every move… scarily.
Anyway
back to the main subject I will be providing you my top 10 list of horror
Easter Eggs in games. Please be sure to turn off all the lights in the house
for the full horror experience and so that I can break into your home and kill
you. LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!
#11 Sonic CD – Secret Message
Sonic CD is without doubt one of the best
and most forgetful games in the Sonic franchise. The game wasn’t popular
because it was released on the Sega CD console which didn’t sell to well because
of the crap games on the system. Sonic CD however was one of the great games on
the console but because the console’s lack of popularity, this game was left
unnoticed.
While the game was great, it did scare
the crap out of little kids due to one little Easter egg. This Easter egg was
actually a hidden song that wasn’t used in the Japanese release of the game.
The song was meant for Boss fight encounters but Sonic Team invented a better
song instead. So Sonic Team decided to hide it somewhere in the game as a
hidden bonus. As nice as it sounds, the song received many complaints from
angry parents with frightened little children. The song included creepy
instruments and little children crying. That alone will give someone the creeps
but Sonic Team also decided to paste creepy wallpaper with a hidden Japanese
message. The wallpaper featured duplicated Sonic the Hedgehogs with a face that
appears to be a clown with no eyes which is rather reminiscent to the puppet
animatronic featured in Five Night’s at Freddy’s. All I can say is, why the
hell put a creepy clown face! Nobody likes clowns anyway. They are naturally
scary.
While the wallpaper and song is quite dark.
The Japanese message tells another story. The message looks creepy due to its
gothic font but the message itself is just nonsense and has nothing to with the
song or wallpaper. If you translate the message into English it reads “FUN FROM
SEGA ENTERPRISES”. You put creepy wallpaper with a spooky song and you call
that fun? I know that Japan
On a side note. Sonic CD is now available
on Xbox 360, PS3 and IOS. It’s the same game but Sega have removed the Easter
egg but the song however is still there. You can find the song on any Boss
fight. While the song is still creepy it does some how feel right. So if you
were one of the kids to witness this song in 1993? Then prepare to relive your
nightmare, unless you mute the TV.
#10 Psycho Mantis – Metal Gear Solid
The Psycho Mantis Boss fight is probably
the weirdest and cleverest fight to date. In this fight all you had to do was
kill the freak but it wasn’t that simple. In the fight, Mantis can read your
mind which basically means he can predict your every move which also means that
he will dodge every attack. The only way to defeat him was to disconnect your
Playstation controller from port 1 to port 2. Doing this somehow made you
unreadable which means that you can finally hit the bastard. The fight was
genius and unique but Psycho Mantis had another magic trick up his sleeve. He
can read your memory card.
When finished reading your memory card he
will tell you what games you have played. He can’t tell you every game that you
have on your memory card but he can tell you what Konami games you had stored
in it. However if you had no game saves on your memory card then he will say that
your memory is completely clean. Back then this was genius and still is.
#9 John Romero – Doom 2
Doom 2 is well known for its secrets. It
has hidden areas, guns, a bonus level (Wolfenstein level) and a secret boss
fight. The secret boss fight is actually part of the boss at the end of the
game where you had to shoot rockets into the monster’s brain. Simple enough but
if you thought that you actually completed the game think again. You might have
killed the monster but you haven’t killed John Romero.
Since Doom was so successful and the
technology was so great, John Romero decided to up the ante and managed to put
his face in the actual game. To be able to fight John Romero, you had to input
a cheat code that would allow you to clip through the map. When the no clip is
enabled, you must run into the monsterss face to enter a secret corridor
containing John Romero’s face stuck on a stick. Like with any monster, you have
to kill him to truly finish the game.
Back then this Easter egg was pretty
creepy because the technology was quite new. Another thing that I’d like to
point out is that the monster talks in reverse with John Romero’s voice. When
you play the voice again in reverse the monster will talk normally and you will
hear this "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero”. This is proof
that you must kill John Romero to truly win the game.
#8 Reverse Zombie voice – Half Life 2
I
am not a huge fan of the half life series. I find it rather tedious and the
story and protagonist does not interest me at all but that it is my opinion so
please don’t hate me. Anyway I’m sure that you are aware of the headcrab zombie
things that you encounter during the game. They look decently scary in terms of
appearance especially with the amount of blood spewing out of their scrotozone.
Honestly why are their dicks so bloody? Did a headcrab try to attach to it before
realising that is not the right sort of head to be sucking on? Anyway while yes
they do look scary and shuffle around like they have Taco Bell poop in their
pants, they aren’t exactly the scariest enemies you’ll find in games. I’m sure
that belongs to Chica from Five Nights at Freddy’s since that it looks like the
yellow bird in Sesame Street
What
is scary however is their voice. Yes the constant yelling is pretty
intimidating and somewhat annoying but that is no where near as freaky as what
I am about to tell you. So listen up. While the crab head zombie thing is on
fire it will start to moan. A LOT ! And while
it seems like normal screaming there is a hidden alternative scream. A much
darker and creepier scream. If you reverse the screaming sound clip the zombie
head crabby thingy actually begins to speak English. After all they were once
human but from the sounds of it they still are. If you listen carefully you can
start to make out such words like “oh” and “God”. If only those words were “oh”
and “My” then I’m pretty sure we having the makings of a Fifty Shades of Grey
game but I digress because I have heard their human like sounds I can start to
feel for them. Imagine Screaming for help up inside a Headcrab’s ass while your
crotch is on fire. It is an unsettling feeling indeed and I fear for the day
where I’m screaming inside a Headcrabs ass.
#7 Hideo Kojima – Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons
of Liberty
Let’s face it Hideo Kojima is a weird but
very clever man. While Metal Gear has a serious story, the overall theme is
pretty weird. Metal Gear allows you to hide inside boxes and enables you to
hear Johnny’s bowls through walls. In Metal Gear Solid 2 however Hideo Kojima
decides to show his creepy side.
During the mission where you have to take
photos of Metal Gear, you will appear in a room with 2 projector screens. Now
if you take a photo of one of the projector screens you will see the ghost of
Hideo Kojima. What makes this creepy is that you don’t expect this to happen at
all. Once you have taken the photo you can send it to Otacon where you can see
a funny reaction of Otacon being scared. Hideo Kojima has a freaky sense of
humour.
#6 Star Fox: Out of this Dimension
Star
Fox for the SNES was one hell of a game that was praised for its amazing 3D
graphics back in the day. Because of this and its gameplay it became one of the
greatest games ever made and because it was made by Nintendo every kid in the
world wanted it. Kids everywhere loved playing as a fox and everyone wanted to
kill that forever annoying toad known as Slippy. That slippery bastard.
As
some of you may know there are two hidden levels. Both of them are pretty
bizarre but one stands out more than the other. The level I am referring to is
the “Out of this Dimension” level. Before I tell you what the level is all
about I am going to tell you how access it. Isn’t that nice.
After
completing Corneria level 3 you will enter the asteroid level. In this level
you will encounter lots and lots of asteroids (duh). In order to survive this
level you will have to shoot down any asteroid that gets in your way. Just like
Asteroids but less clunkier and more 3D. Any way after getting swarmed by a
swarm of asteroids you will come across a couple of gigantic asteroids. During
normal circumstances you would want to avoid these massive behemoths because
they will deal a large amount of damage if you for some reason decide to crash
into them despite being pretty easy to overtake. However in order to reach the
super secret level you will have to destroy the second big asteroid you come
across. After you do that a freaking big ass bird will try to fly into you.
Even though it is mighty tempting to bust a cap in that space bird’s ass, to
get to the secret level you will have to crash into it. Yep you will have to
commit suicide for this one. Once you have crashed into that sweet innocent
space bird the secret level will be enabled. Here is where things get a little
out of control.
As
soon as the level starts you will notice the background moving in quick fashion
whilst you’re blinded by a cluster of random bright colours. The main objective
is to see how long you can last before getting an epileptic seizure. Seriously
if you have epilepsy do not play this level because you will die. If you don’t
have epilepsy then you may proceed. Further into the level you will come across
enemies however what is different about these enemies is that they seem to be
spiralling out of control for some reason. As it turns out this level really is
out of this dimension. You are actually lost in space and time. What is worse
is that the background seems to have planets with creepy faces and what is even
WORSE is that this level never ends. You are now fated with spending the rest
of your SNES’s remaining life span in that level doing nothing but shooting a
slot machine but I guess you can just hit the reset button and play normally.
HOORAY FOR RESET BUTTONS!!!
#5 Room 302 – Silent Hill 4 & Silent
Hill Downpour
Silent Hill alone is a creepy game so I
don’t even know why I’m mentioning this at all. Well due to my latest bit of
research I have noticed an Easter egg in Room 302 from Silent Hill 4.
As you may know the front door of the
room is chained up tight and you cannot escape. But what you can do though is
look through the peephole. When you look through the peephole you will see
people investigating the door to room 302. The people you see during the Easter
egg varies depending on how far you have progressed in the game. At some point
though you will see a dark image of the main protagonist at the other end of
the door.
The famous door however hasn’t stopped
haunting yet because it makes a return in the recent Silent Hill Downpour game.
At some point in the game you will come across a street called Pearl Creek.
There you will see a retractable ladder. Hook it and climb and then BAM! You’re
in the building. The room looks identical to the original Room 302 but there is
a slight difference because all the photos from the original Room are
gone. Not sure what this suggests but
knowing Silent Hill anything could’ve happened.
#4 The Ghost of the Thermal Bath Hotel –
Hitman Contracts
In Hitman Contracts you will come across
the level “Traditions of the Trade” where the level is based around a hotel. In
this Hotel you will find many floors but there is a particular floor where you
will find a ghost. You will encounter the ghost multiple times in different
rooms.
What makes this creepy is that this is a
serious game so you wouldn’t expect to find a ghost in this game. This ghost is
a traditional ghost though meaning that you will see it behind you through a
mirror. That’s the sign of a traditional ghost. Also if you follow this ghost
you will receive a shotgun from the location of the ghost’s corpse.
#3 Luigi Hanged – Luigi’s Mansion
If you have played Luigi’s Mansion you
will notice that it kinda plays like the original Resident Evil. The game was
fun, funny and even perhaps creepy. To kids, this was a pretty scary game
because the ghosts would pop out of nowhere and the mansion was awfully dark.
While the game was pretty friendly it did
get one or two complaints about a certain scene that went horribly wrong. There
was a particular scene where you are in the loft and you have to interact with
one of the 3 phones. However if you wait in the room for a thunder strike you
will see a shadow of what seems to be Luigi hanging from the ceiling.
You’re probably thinking that this is one
of those urban legends made up to scare you but surprisingly it is true. You do
see Luigi hanged from the ceiling. People have been saying though that this was
a glitch of some kind or that Nintendo wanted the game to be dark and sadistic
but if that is the case then what the hell were they thinking. This is a kid’s
game not a Resident Evil / Silent Hill game. However this hasn’t been properly
confirmed so we will never know. Still creepy though.
#2 Fetus Battle
I have always wanted to play EarthBound
because I hear so much about it but after some research about the game I found
something truly disturbing. Because of this I am avoiding it because this
discovery just put me off.
In the game you will have to stop an evil
alien called Giygas who wants to destroy the world. As cheesy as this guy
sounds the actual enemy is quite sadistic. You play as 4 kids and you have to
stop him but you can’t because he is too powerful. During an encounter with
Giygas, he tears out the little children’s souls out of their bodies and puts
them into robots. That is already a bit sick but it doesn’t end there. At the
last part of the game you will have to defeat Giygas at his weakest form and in
order to do that the children had to travel in time.
You eventually approach Giygas’s lair
(The Devil Machine), which to be frank looks eerily like a woman’s cervix if
you look at the middle of the picture. Then you will encounter Giygas’s weakest
form, which so happens to be a fetus.
My question is, why? Why would the developers do this to an innocent game? Well apparently the creator of the game had a bad experience when he was a child. He was one day going to a cinema to watch a kid’s film. Unfortunately he went into the wrong room and instead saw a rape scene from a Japanese film. After that unfortunate incident he became traumatized with sadistic thoughts in his head.
As tragic as it sounds, why the hell
would the creator share his sadistic thoughts? Well according to an interview
the creator thought that by putting this image in the game would sort of
relieve the horror that he has been through. Well at least it’s difficult to
spot the fetus in the image because a lot of kids would’ve of been inspired to
kill unborn babies because they thought it was Giygas.
#1 Vandalized faces – Gameboy Camera
You probably saw this coming but this is
definitely the creepiest Easter egg ever found in a game. Back in 1998, the
original Gameboy console had an accessory called the Gameboy Camera. The camera
had a built-in software where you can take a picture of yourself and edit it.
While a nice addition, it was rather useless because the Gameboy’s screen was
very small and the screen resolution was grainy and did not support colour. It
did not sell very well and had many complaints from users who have pressed the
“Run” button.
The “Run” button was meant for a mini
game but it wasn’t the type of mini game that you would’ve expected. Pressing
this button would make the game freeze and show you a number of vandalized
faces.
These faces scared the crap out of many
kids. It scared them because the faces are disturbing. In fact the faces were
so scary; Adults were also frightened by these disturbing faces. It gets worse
too because the images featured a scream, much like the scream from the scary
maze game. (DON’T PLAY IT!) And to top it off. The images also had a caption on
the top of the screen saying “Who are you running from”. The Easter egg is
basically based around a scary kid snatcher.
I thought that the Fetus in Earthbound
was bad but this is even worse. This is why I have chosen this as my number 1
creepiest Easter egg. Congratulations Nintendo! You are one sick Bastard.
