There are also parallels ( though no direct connection ) between the easter egg tradition and the celebration of Passover in Judaism, notable because in Christian tradition, Christ was celebrating Passover with his disciples on the evening before Good Friday.

Portal of Praevus also features a secret ( easter egg ) skill level, with respawning monsters.

Zork made a cameo appearance as an easter egg in Activision and Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Icon of St. Mary Magdalene holding a red easter egg with the words Paschal greeting | Christ is Risen.

Pokey has been referenced twice in the Hitman series of video games: in Hitman: Contracts as an obscure, esoteric easter egg, and more directly in Hitman: Blood Money, where an overheard conversation between guards has one inviting the other to look at the comics on a computer.

Chrono Cross addressed this through an easter egg hinting that Radical Dreamers took place in a different dimension.

In the English version of Chrono Cross, this easter egg refers to Gil as " Magil ".

The game has an easter egg related to various holidays.

The popular Minesweeper game under older versions of Microsoft Windows had a cheat mode triggered by entering the comment < tt > xyzzy < tt >, then pressing the key sequence shift and then enter, which turned a single pixel in the top-left corner of the entire screen into a small black or white dot depending on whether or not the mouse pointer is over a mine .< ref > This easter egg was present in all Windows versions through Windows XP Service Pack 2, but under Windows 95, 98 and NT 4. 0 the pixel was visible only if the standard Explorer desktop was not running.

The easter egg does not exist in versions after Windows XP SP3.

Historically a GNOME Easter egg ( media ) | easter egg, the elusive GEGL ( a five-legged goat ) was captured here in this 2002 screenshot ( detail ).

found life as an easter egg in GNOME desktops.

He became quite well known in the early days of the world wide web through an easter egg in the Netscape browser: typing " about: jwz " into the address box would take the user to his home page ( a similar trick worked for other Netscape staffers ).

The OS-9 shell had an easter egg in its command history function, invoked by CTRL-A.

from the collection in fear that the hidden easter egg ending would give the collection an Adults Only rating.

In the earliest versions, games numbered-1 and-2 were included as a kind of easter egg to demonstrate that there were some possible card combinations that clearly could not be won.

Landis's calling card / easter egg, " See You Next Wednesday ", appears on a science-fiction movie poster in the subway station after Lisa storms off the train.

As a sort-of easter egg, a last personal tag, the artists and developers decided to add a 3D model of a chimpanzee.

Each year, the White House chooses a decorated egg from each state to display at easter.

A few people misinterpreted this issue for an easter egg.

The image of Venus was replaced ( albeit still accessible via easter egg ) in Illustrator CS ( 11. 0 ) and CS2 ( 12. 0 ) by a stylized flower to conform to the Creative Suite's nature imagery.

At one point this square also boasted the largest Christmas tree, and the largest easter egg in Europe.

Horii's obsession with Wizardry was manifested as an easter egg in one of his earlier games, The PORTOPIA Serial Murder Case.

This combined copy protection and an easter egg, as the message that appears when it occurs is not hostile (" Plug joystick in port 1, press fire, and no more resetting / experting!

( The easter egg was well concealed — the message did not show up in any disassembly of the interpreter.

An interesting easter egg is if you turn on the subtitles, in the scene where Tonomari's friend is fixing the computer, for a few seconds, keywords will pop up.

If one is to point their ear towards the south in the midst of bad nor ' easter one can hear the immortal words of Blackbeard: " Brace the yards, you cack-handed deck apes!

According to Boston Globe writer Jan Freeman, from 1975 to 1980, journalists used the nor ’ easter spelling only once in five mentions of such storms ; in the past year ( 2003 ), more than 80 percent of northeasters were spelled nor ' easter.

The tradition of hiding easter eggs for children to find is also similar to another Passover tradition, whereby the head of the household hides a piece of matza ( the " afikomen ") during the meal.

The game is filled with easter eggs, special features and players activated by initials or button / joystick combinations.

Also on the DVD is a hidden easter egg clip from the same show, wherein Malkmus talks about how the handcuffs attached to his microphone stand " represent what it's like being in a band all these years.

One notable " easter egg " relating to the film is a large billboard at a school sport stadium which reads " Go Wolverines !!!

Included as an easter egg in the manager's office of the Steel Mill, there is a crib with Scarface painted as the Joker inside.

The Whydah was swept up in a violent Nor ' easter storm off Cape Cod at midnight, and was driven onto the sand bar shoals in 16 feet of water some 500 feet from the coast of what is now Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

As an easter egg, the Dragon Talisman is hidden in the background at some point in every episode.

A nor ' easter ( also northeaster ; see below ) is a type of macro-scale storm along the East Coast of the United States and Atlantic Canada, so named because the storm travels to the northeast from the south and the winds come from the northeast, especially in the coastal areas of New England and Atlantic Canada.

A nor ' easter is formed in a strong extratropical cyclone, usually experiencing bombogenesis.

Surfers wait in anticipation when a nor ' easter is formed.

As noted in a January 2006 editorial by William Sisson, editor of Soundings magazine, use of " nor ' easter " to describe the storm system is common along the U. S. East Coast.

Yet it has been asserted by linguist Mark Liberman ( see below ) that " nor ' easter " as a contraction for " northeaster " has no basis in regional New England dialect and is a " fake " word.

No nor ' easter ever occurs except when there is a high barometer headed off and driven down upon Nova Scotia and Lower Canada.

The annual Trevs Day takes place after exams in easter term and is a focus of much celebration and revelry for students.

It is also the name of an easter egg song in the Zombie map, Kino Der Toten, in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Grues also appear in Call of Duty: Black Ops, as the game ZORK is present as an easter egg.

There is a subtle easter egg in the game that is activated by double clicking on the sheep in Nanny Ogg's back yard.

The PlayStation version of Policenauts could also read the memory card and give some easter egg dialogues if a save file of Konami's dating sim Tokimeki Memorial is present, a technique Kojima would also later use in Metal Gear Solid.