It's silly, but it's a holiday weekend, and thus it's an interesting way to spend a few minutes while waiting for the next barbecue. Google engineers have added a Konami Code Easter Egg to Google Docs.
What is an Easter Egg?
It's silly, but it's a holiday weekend, and thus it's an interesting way to spend a few minutes while waiting for the next barbecue. Google engineers have added a Konami Code Easter Egg to Google Docs.
First, for those who might not know, an Easter Egg is an hidden feature in software (including video games), whether it be a message, unlocking a hidden function or even a mini-game, or just a message. Usually it involves some sort of combination of key presses or mouse or controller movements.
Meanwhile, the Konami code is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games. Cheat codes in video games allow unlocking of levels, or even things like a "God mode" where lives are increased or the player becomes invulnerable. Perhaps most famously, for the 1988 NES version of "Contra," many turned to the use of the Konami Code to increase their lives in order to finish the game due to the game's difficulty.
Easter Eggs have also used for unlocking very useful functionality before, rather than just "fun stuff." For one, it unlocked the developer mode on Palm webOS devices. Recently, the app Camera+ was booted out of the iTunes App Store for using an Easter Egg to allow banned functionality.
In this case, you go to Google Docs, open a word processing document, and type the Konami code: left (arrow), left, right, right, up, down, up, down, B, A, then press Enter. The page will flip as though you turned the web page on a vertical axis.
Obviously, this is not a game-changing feature, just a little bit of fun. Watch a video here.
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