Secret bonuses in games
I was surprised to find out about the 30000 point bonus in Gyruss for matching the level number in the chance stages... after the contest was over. I should have read up on this game.
There's also the 5000 point bonus for jump kicking the 12th hugger in Kung Fu.
Any other examples?
There's also the 5000 point bonus for jump kicking the 12th hugger in Kung Fu.
Any other examples?
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Commando - 100,000 for finding all hidden prisoners in a stage.
Gradius - 10,000 for collecting a pod when your meter is full and your score has a 5 in the thousands digit (ex: 135,000).
I recently read about a Bigfoot/Teen Wolf easter egg in GTA V. Most of the time when I read about these lately, there's some crazy complicated order of operations to unlock the secrets. I think Super Mario 64 has a few too. I see articles trending on Facebook almost every month with new discoveries, sometimes in older games. I wouldn't have the patience or skill to do most of them tbh. lol
There's another cool one where you happen upon Jesco White mountain dancing if you drive down a certain back road.
I recently read about a Bigfoot/Teen Wolf easter egg in GTA V. Most of the time when I read about these lately, there's some crazy complicated order of operations to unlock the secrets. I think Super Mario 64 has a few too. I see articles trending on Facebook almost every month with new discoveries, sometimes in older games. I wouldn't have the patience or skill to do most of them tbh. lol
There's another cool one where you happen upon Jesco White mountain dancing if you drive down a certain back road.
lol I never heard about that one yet but that's awesome.
Here is a pretty interesting one for Battlefield 4:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-12-22-battlefield-4s-most-cryptic-easter-egg-discovered
I was surprised to find out about the 30000 point bonus in Gyruss for matching the level number in the chance stages... after the contest was over. I should have read up on this game.
There's also the 5000 point bonus for jump kicking the 12th hugger in Kung Fu.
Any other examples?
I didn't know about that trick in Gyruss either,but then again I don't consult youtube or gamefaqs so I would have had to just stumble upon it. That would have helped me in the weekly contest but I only had that one playthrough so oh well.
"If the player picks up Edi E.'s gum while they have full life, they'll be awarded 42910 points. This is a numerical representation of designer Akira Nishitani's birthday, September 10th of Showa 42. The year Showa 42 is equivalent to 1967 in the Gregorian calendar commonly used throughout the world."
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Bomberman/How_to_play
And the whole sequence to get the "super duper" secret bonus in the Zombies Missile Luanch level was amazing.
Gradius - 10,000 for collecting a pod when your meter is full and your score has a certain digit in a certain place. (Forget exact details)
x2.
Bomberman has some crazy bonuses:
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Bomb...
I think of bomberman when I think of bonuses, but it's more of the TG-16 one that springs to mind. I know one of their bonuses is a huge amount of points if the exit is found on the last block you bomb.
Goonies (not goonies II) also has a bunch. Steven Spielberg, Konamiman, twinbee, and vic viper are all hidden in it
What about Adventure Island II using the skateboard until the end of the level?
Speaking of Adventure Island II, I've beaten some tough NES games, and I can't get the knack for AI2 at all. I've tried and I haven't even made it past the second world.
EDIT: For anybody happening to read this, I'm not as bad at this game anymore. I've made it past the second world.
(That is: the secret 10000 point bonus for not shooting any enemies in Galaga '88/'90)
Mendel Palace - On levels where the enemies draw on the floors, if every tile on the screen is locked (either from their drawings or from you sliding them too much), the level ends with a short "sad" song. Not so sad for you however, because you just scored 70,000 points!
Palamedes - Shoot all of the dice in a stage without pressing the down arrow on the d-pad to eliminate lines. 50,000 points.
Star Soldier - Every stage ends with a structure that looks like a pair of eyes. Destroy them at the exact same moment for a bonus of 80,000. Also, there is a mini-boss with four pieces that join together to form a head. Quickly destroy it before it fully joins for 80,000 (hard to do without turbo).
Track and Field - Several bonuses here: Throw a javelin at 80 degrees to knock out a light in the stadium (3,000). Clear the High Jump on all three attempts to make a rocket man appear (3,000). And the big one: Shoot all skeets without missing to make a spaceship appear, shoot it with your SECOND cross hair (3,000) to make a bird appear. Shoot the bird as much as you can for 5,000 per hit. Most hits I've seen is four.