Atari 400 Easter Egg
The Atari 400 port of Donkey Kong contains one of the longest undiscovered Easter eggs in a video game. Landon Dyer, the programmer assigned to create the port added a secret where his initials would appear if the player died under certain conditions then waited for the game to cycle to the title screen. This secret remained undiscovered for 26 years until Dyer revealed on his blog stating "there’s an easter egg, but it’s totally not worth it, and I don’t remember how to bring it up anyway." After this announcement, the steps required to trigger the Easter egg were discovered by Don Hodges who used an emulator and a debugger to trace through the 25,000 lines of the game's code.
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