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Pong versions.
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mers, Howard Scott Pac-Man” @ www.clubs.yahoo.
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Easter Eggs into his games.
Auto Racing (Intellivision)
Yars’ Revenge
If you kill the swirl fireball in mid-
air, and then position the Yar so
the spot on its back is in the same
plane as the black streak, you'll get
Warshaw's initials, forwards and
backwards: HSWWSH. This egg is
sometimes referred to as "The
Ghost of Yar."
So why write the initials for-
wards and backwards? "The rea-
son it's like that is to tip off the idea
that Yar is Ray backwards and all
that," Warshaw says. The five race courses were
created as a “globe.” That is, you
Raiders of the Lost Ark can drive off one course and go to
Warshaw's second game has another one, and by driving in the
both his initials and a Yar hidden same direction, you will return to
inside it. "For Raiders, you can get the course on which you originally
an HSW2 at the end, and you can started. There is even a secret
also find a Yar," Warshaw says. drag strip hidden along the way.
"There's one point in the treasure
room where you're dig- Robotron 64
ging for treasure, and if From the main menu choose
you have the right con- “setup” then enter this code for 50
figuration in your in- you look at it real carefully, you'll free lives:
ventory, when you notice that each of the pieces of Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right,
start digging, a Yar will the phone is an H, an S, and a W. Left, Right, C-left, C-right, C-left,
fly up through the They're a little abstract, bent C-right.
room." around a little, but if you look at
them carefully you'll see it," says Yars’ Revenge (GB Color)
How to do it: Once you’ve ob- Howard. Want to start at any level up to
tained the Chai and the parachute, number 240? Enter “O + O O” at
go to the Mesa and fall off. Quickly -Darin Powell the code screen and choose your
release the Chai and a Yar will ap- level.
pear at the top of the screen.
Pong (PSX) Fathom (Atari 2600)
E.T. To open the FIRST level, press If you release the mermaid
pause on the "zone" select screen.
There are all kinds of hidden Then press L1, R1, L1, R1, then seven times, the address for
treasures in Warshaw's third game. unpause the game. Imagic’s headquarters will appear
Along with his initials, there are hid- To open the SECOND level, at the bottom of the screen.
den references to Yars’ Revenge press pause on the "zone" select Or, as Rob Fulop said at “World
and Raiders of the Lost Ark. screen. Then press L2, R2, L2, R2, of Atari 98,” “. . .or you could just
According to Howard Scott War- then unpause the game. look at the back of the
shaw, "When you heal the flower, if To open the THIRD level, press box and get it. It’s
you have the right configuration in pause on the "zone" select screen. there, too.”
the game, on one level, a flower Then press and HOLD L1, R1, L2, CGM
turns into a Yar and flies out of the R2, then unpause the game.
well. On the next level, if you do it This also
again, it turns into Indiana Jones." opens the se- Have an Easter Egg or cheat
cret pow- code you want to share? Send
How to do it: Give seven Reese’s erups in the it on in and we’ll print it here.
Pieces to Elliott then find a pit games as
which contains a flower. Make it well and the E-mail it to:
bloom and watch for the Yar. three classic cav@classicgamer.com
"Also, another thing about E.T., if
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