Easter 2014 Video Game Themed Easter Eggs

Easter 2014

After last years great Pokemon hunt my wife and I decided to keep it low key this year. Keeping in that spirit I decided not to write an article about some awesome Video Game Easter Eggs, plus it has been done. In fact, you can see a really good article about 100 great Easter Eggs HERE.

So I present you pictures of video game themed Easter Eggs. I stole these from the Internet, they are not mine but they are pretty cool.

Smash Bros

Pokemon

Super Meat Boy

Portal

Mario Brothers

Happy Easter 2014 - If you care about such things.

~Johnny~

I Had To Catch'em All - 151 Pokemon caught including Mew. April Fools by Google

Gotta Catch'em All!

I like to think of April 1st as internet avoidence day. Most April Fools gags are telegraphed and not funny, but occasionally you find a bit of WIN. Think Geek usually does pretty well as does Google. April 1st 2014 was won by Google this year, hands down as 150 + 1 hidden Pokemon invaded Google Maps. While Pokemon is normally my wifes domain I decided to go on a hunt this year and catch'em all. I caught'em all. (Note Mew - cannot be found until you have the first 150 Pokemon)

Wild NERD appeared!

The video below gives you all the details. I am not sure how much longer you will be able to hunt, but if you hit the search bar in your Google Maps App and scroll down to the bottom you will find the Pokedex and The Pokemon Lab. 

Happy Hunting

~Johnny~

My Top 50 Favorite Games, err I mean 60 (Nintendo, Sega, Xbox, Playstation, PC)

So here it is the list, and a third post in under 14 days.


A Minor Preamble:
This list is divided by generations, beginning with Nintendo (NES) and ending with current gen systems like Xbox 360 and the PS3. All games are listed alphabetically in their generation. The idea of trying to rank these individually even by generation makes me want to run screaming from the room. This list was hard to write. To begin I started listing games I thought were really good and when I looked up I had over 100, after double checking my collection and some online lists I was over 150. After scratching many games from the list I was at 100 but that is still too many, I was determined to reduce that number by half. Getting the number to 50 proved impossible so I settled at 60.

My Favorite Games:

8 Bit	16 Bit	32/64 Bit	Last Gen	Current Gen
Castlevania 2: SImon's Quest	Castle of Illusion	Baldurs Gate 2	City of Heroes / Villians	Arkham City
Crystalis	ChronoTrigger	Castlevania: Symphony of the Night	Eternal Darkness	Bioshock
Dragon Warrior 3	Crusader of Centy	ChronoCross	Kingdom Hearts	BioShock: Infinite
Dragon Warrior 4	Final Fantasy 2 /4	Final Fantasy 7	Knights of the Old Republic	Castlevania: Mirror of Fate
Faxanadu	Final Fantasy 3 / 6	Shining Force 3	Metroid Prime	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Final Fantasy	Secret of Mana	Wave Race	Ninja Gaiden Black	Last of Us
Goonies 2	Shining Force 1	Zelda: Ocarina of Time	Onimusha	Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4
Legend of Zelda	Shining Force 2		Pyschonauts	Mass Effect 2
Little Samson	Super Empire Stikes Back		Resident Evil 4	Portal
Metroid	Super Mario World		Shadow of the Colussus	Portal 2
Rygar	Super Metroid		Super Smash Bros	Shadow Complex
Shadowgate	Zelda Link to the Past			Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Brothers				Tomb Raider (2013)
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link				Uncharted
				Uncharted 2
				Zelda Twilight Princess

Somethings you might notice about my list.

I use to play a lot of RPG's, but as I get older I have less time for games that take 100 hours. I love sequels and series. I like adventure games. You don't see many Shmups, but that doesn't mean I don't like any, same goes for FPS. I am not a fan of RTS games. Not many PC games are on the list but that is because I didn't have a PC until I was an adult. I didn't play many games in the 64 bit era because I was in college and the military, also I was in my early 20's and girls were far more interesting. Portable games didn't really make the cut, I didn't get my first Game Boy until after my first Xbox. I play modern games and while I love the classics, I love new games too. Zelda has 5 int he top 60, Castlevania has 4, and Final Fantasy has 4.5, counting Kingdom Hearts.

Somethings you wouldn't notice by reading this list.
I dislike most current JRPGs. Most of the expensive games I own are not on this list. I am a sucker for Star Wars games. I own all the games on this list CIB. Ocarina of Time is not my favorite Zelda and Final Fantasy 7 is not my favorite Final Fantasy. Out of the 60 games on this list I own multiple versions of 40 of them. I think games from the 32/64 bit era hold up the worst. If my wife made this list it would be made up of Pokemon, Pikmin, and Mario games. The least known game on this list is probably Crusader of Centy for the Sega Genesis. The game most people are probably questioning is Lego Harry Potter, but I love Lego and Harry Potter so this is a big win for me. I have a perfect gamer score on Bioshock and beat Ninja Gaiden Black on hard.