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PapaSKooT
12-26-2004, 12:51 PM
http://halo.bungie.org/oldnews.html?item=11753


December 26, 2004

Zanzibar Beach Egg discovered
Interesting. An easter egg based on the Xbox's internal clock has been discovered - brings me back to the days of Dark Castle. Skitelz posted over on the High Impact Halo forums that the Shark Warning signs on the Zanzibar beach were different on Christmas... that got folks changing their clocks, and 4 unique signs were discovered: January 1, July 7 (Bungie Day), October 31, and December 25. You can see all 4 in this image (http://nikon.bungie.org/images/zanzibar_beach_signs.jpg) (41k). Clearly, SOME people had found these earlier - the Shark Petting sign is the opening shot of FTC's Episode 16, released last week. Nice job, all! (Louis Wu 16:18:43 UTC)

SnoochyBoochy
12-26-2004, 01:23 PM
Oh man that's kinda cool...

lax_defense
12-26-2004, 01:48 PM
Wow...they put too much effort into these kinda things...

JJaX
12-26-2004, 02:19 PM
Wow...they put too much effort into these kinda things...

Not really, its probably just a line of code that checks the date.

lax_defense
12-26-2004, 02:32 PM
O...ok...Soooooooooooorryyyyyyyyy.

Kyle Static
12-26-2004, 03:11 PM
*smacks lax* How dare you question the mighty wisdom of Jjax! You broke my heart Lax, you broke my heart! :p

well..thats kinda nifty

Ghost
12-26-2004, 03:41 PM
lol that was interesting.

ll Mista GT ll
12-26-2004, 04:25 PM
Wow?.... zzz.zz.z........

ramprider0
12-26-2004, 06:52 PM
My clock was set wrong and it still did the christmas sign yesterday? Maybe it was because I was online and it got the date from there?

Reclaimer
12-27-2004, 08:57 AM
It's interesting that Bungie did that.. it's even more so that people noticed that and figured that it was a time sensative trick.
Makes me wonder what other wierd ass thing they have programmed in the game.

Snowblind
12-27-2004, 02:48 PM
Halo 2 isn't the only game to do something like that. Check out every XSN game. There are plenty of others, too.

Variation-XBA
12-27-2004, 07:26 PM
Like Id even notice that :P

Whisper
12-27-2004, 10:51 PM
i heard if you put 9/11/01 it is a pic of Osama with a target on his face.. but haven't tried it.. someone?

mattgame
12-28-2004, 06:48 PM
Oh wow! Ummm yeah. It's cool though really, it's cool.

BunnyRabbit
12-29-2004, 06:54 PM
Sweet find... :cheers:

ShaDovV RyDer
12-29-2004, 08:04 PM
Thats pretty sweet...I wish they did have that Osama thing on the sign on 9/11 that would be kinda like a birthday present from Bungie to me :)