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Bio Break
Personal blog · biobreak.wordpress.comgamesculture
Bio Break is a personal blog at biobreak.wordpress.com about games and culture. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on video game history and easter eggs, such as the hidden messages in early Sierra games. The comments mention Space Quest III and its arcade-game easter egg.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
MMOs, retro gaming, music, and more
What Hacker News says?
My favorite was the one in Space Quest III. Instead of showing you a spreadsheet, it would pop up a dialog making it clear that you've been playing a game, and would state exactly how long you'd been playing it. You'd have to dismiss multiple such dialogs before you could get back to the game. https://biobreak.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bo...
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on “Sorry, I'm in a meeting”Submitted Nostalgia Lane: Jumping from CGA to VGA as a story · 1 points
HN discussionReminds me of Sierra's Space Quest III, where at some point in the adventure, you would encounter an arcade game called "Astro Chicken". Only if you were persistent enough in playing that machine, it would spawn a secret message, hidden in there by the programmers of the Space Quest-series - the secret message was a cry for help, as they were being held captive by ScumSoft, and were forced to write software without…
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on “The first game ‘Easter eggs’ were an act of corporate rebellion”
