The Bard’s Tale has a savage burn hiding on the front of the game’s disc

TAKE a look at this PS2 game and see if you can see the hilarious secret hiding in plain sight. It’s just one example of an Easter Egg.

MYSPACE was only one year old, Green Day’s American Idiot was one of the biggest albums of the year and Janet Jackson’s breast was exposed during the Super Bowl.

Yes, 2004 was clearly a special time in history.

In addition to the aforementioned events, the year also saw the introduction of Facebook and the release of action-adventure game The Bard’s Tale.

Marketed as a humorous spoof of fantasy role-playing video games, The Bard’s Tale received favourable reviews from critics, with praise for endless laugh-out-loud moments.

One of the more impressive features of the game was its ability to insult players before they put the game into the console.

As highlighted by Twitter user @alejansolo, the game’s developers really took advantage of its reflective disc surface.

“This PS2 game just flat out gave me the most devastating burn,” he wrote on Twitter.

This PS2 game just flat out gave me the most devastating burn. pic.twitter.com/exyaOXRzDL

— A$AP BLOCK ME (@alejansolo) February 9, 2018

As expected, people were impressed by the simple and effective joke on the game’s disc.

I just realized it's the Bard's tale and it all makes sense now. That game was so funny. 🤣😂

— ❄️ ⛄Liath Grey ⛄❄️ (@Pariah_Layne) February 10, 2018

Also applies to phone cameras. Flip to the front cam for a devastating image.

— Katastrophe (@KatastropheTV) February 10, 2018

how’d you get roasted from a game that was made 14 years ago JSKDJSJD

— 🎶 harmony (@whataspacedork) February 11, 2018

I was 95% sure it was Bard's Tale because that's so solidly in line with the humor in that game XD

— Benn hanging on (@BennKeezy) February 10, 2018

For those of you who missed our little gag on the Bard's Tale disc. pic.twitter.com/Ms0RGdhl5l

— Brian Fargo (@BrianFargo) July 10, 2017

Bard's Tale was such a delight. Totally shit game but I remember seeing this and laughing my ass right off. https://t.co/6rE4cxkV0E

— Genoaka (@Genoaka) February 11, 2018

I have The Bard's Tale on Xbox. I should get on that sometime.

Yes, the Xbox disc has the same joke on it.

— Savage Bees (@KazuCrash_) February 10, 2018

Then there was those who didn’t care too much for the joke, but showed genuine shock at the immaculate condition of the gaming disc.

never have i ever seen an old disc THIS CLEAN https://t.co/i4ZU8HUzsW

— me (@aubreyauclair) February 11, 2018

Tryna flex the rare scratch-less game

— Dead Baby (@Pastortrell) February 9, 2018

i was expecting a bunch of scratches, a horrifying sight

— 💵 Tsukimi 📝 (@_Tsukimi__) February 10, 2018

It turns out this video game isn’t the only thing to have an Easter Egg hiding in plain sight, with M. Night Shyamalan’s movies Split and Unbreakable also holding a secret.

Not only are the two movies set in the same universe, but they are believed to both be used to set the stage for an upcoming joint sequel called Glass.

One of the biggest pieces of “evidence” that this film is in the works, is the fact both the posters for Split and Unbreakable feature a similar cracking glass design, which almost perfectly connects when the two are placed side-by-side.

These two posters almost connect

Martin Scorsese’s 2006 crime flick The Departed might have been a western remake of the 2002 film Infernal Affairs, but it was also inspired by the original 1932 version of Scarface.

In Scarface, director Howard Hawks used a number of not so subtle X’s in the movie to mark people who were going to die.

The “X” used in the original Scarface.Source:Supplied

Well it turns out Scorsese paid homage to this by including Xs throughout the film for characters that were destined to die.

To prove the theory correct, Mark Wahlberg’s character is the only major role to not be marked with an X and he is also the only one to survive.

Yep, he doesn’t reach the end of the movie.

What’s that on the windows?

Since it was released in 1997, GoldenEye 007 has been captivating the mind of gamers across the globe.

However, it took 15 years for someone to uncover the biggest secret hiding in the video game.

After a keen fan examined the code of the game, he discovered an emulator for the ZX Spectrum computer — an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982.

As GoldenEye’s developer Rare had developed a number of games for the ZX Spectrum, it decided to include 10 of its favourite titles hidden on the game’s cartridge.

According to those who managed to uncover this mystery, Rare were believed to have been working on a ZX Spectrum emulator for the Nintendo 64 during the same period as GoldenEye 007 and had included the code for testing purposes.

Instead of removing the code when the game was released, Rare just disabled the Spectrum emulator.

So while emulator resides in every retail GoldenEye cartridge, it’s not easy to play Jetpac and Gunfright on the Nintendo 64.

In order to access the content, players have to run GoldenEye in a Nintendo 64 emulator, before running a special patch to access ZX Spectrum emulator.

Sure it’s a lot of work, but it’s still a pretty fresh Easter egg.

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Originally published as The Bard’s Tale has a savage burn hiding on the front of the game’s disc