Remember the recently uncovered 26-year-old Donkey Kong Atari easter egg we pointed you to? The guy who uncovered that, Don Hodges, has now also found one in the Atari port of Super Pac-Man.
This one is just slightly cooler than the Donkey Kong one. Slightly. If you hit the reset button at just the right time between stages, you get the message "4 A GOOD TIME JSR 91BD." Yep. That's it. It's supposed to be a play on the bathroom wall scrawlings you see in the gas station pooper. JSR stands for Jump SubRoutine, says GameSetWatch. The "91BD" part? It means nothing.
Landon Dyer, who ported the game, had this to say about the message:
... I couldn’t think of anything to put in. So all I did was to repurpose some display code I already had around, and stuck that scrolling message in. 91BD was supposed to do something more interesting (I dunno, maybe a shower of pacmen or ghosts or something), but I didn’t finish it up.
Dyer may well be on his way to breaking the record for the worst easter eggs ever. Hit the jump to see a video of the easter egg in action.
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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