Gaming's best kept secrets.

[MistaSmegheneghan]

I'd say one of the best kept secrets was unlocking the Mew Glitch(catching mew in pokemon red/blue without use of external help). Pokemon was released in 1996 and the secret wasn't cracked until 2003. For one of the worlds biggest games the fact that it took 7 years to find that out is pretty amazing. Given it is super complicated and I can only imagine the first person to do it stumbled across it. Our government can't even keep secrets for 7 years. Go GameFreak.

Whoa, that's a while.
How does it work?

Secure a way to teleport to a pokémon centre, leave one trainer on the road to Bill's House and another who challenges you the moment he appears on-screen un-battled, and have a ton of pokéballs at the ready with a sufficiently trained Pikachu/Butterfree. That's roughly when it becomes a cluster****.

There's also evolving pokémon that only evolve with stones without using an evolution stone. I showed that to a friend, and it blew his mind.

Also, for the terminally unlucky, Shiny Pokémon.

 

[Salnax]

The tenth class in Team Fortress 2.

 

[Miles Tormani]

Oh and...this

The debate rages on as to whether that says "L is Real 3409" with some extra gibberish or "An Eternal Star for Happiness." I'm more willing to believe the latter, though I can clearly see the former. After all, I just picked those numbers out by looking closely at the lettering.

The fact that that same sign was used every so often in Ocarina of Time (particularly the Dodongo cave) mystifies gamers further.

 

[Klepa]

I know this isn't a game but as seeing we are talking about software I would like to say this:

Windows XP/vista has Starwars: a new hope added into the operating system....although it's just text(ASCII).

Actually, it connects to a server, and is accessible through other OSs.

what are you peopel talking about i searched star wars a new hope on my pc's start button and nothing happened ps i ahave a vista

it connects to a server via telnet. If your OS has a telnet client installed, which by default it doesn't, you can type the command and the address, and the server will start sending you data via telnet, which pretty much amounts to an ASCII Star Wars: A New Hope.

There is no movie on your computer, this is not a proper easter egg, although still quite funny.

I think it was Excel '97 that had pinball. Can't remember the command though.