Easter Egg. The term was born of Atari by Steve Wright, as part of video games. The first known case of Easter egg in a video game is Adventure, 1979 (the first adventure game / action chart), where they appear the hidden initials Warren Robinett. It all began with a security system and the dissatisfaction of employees. The engineers who dedicated themselves to the development had a poor opinion of Ray Kassar (the then president of Atari). What I did not know is how even recent Kassar not he liked. Kassar did not trust its employees. Shortly after he took office in 1978 he decided to install a quite extensive security system, base employees must always carry with them the identifying magnetic cards to enter the buildings and in protected areas. Many employees of Atari thought the choice of Kassar as another step towards the destruction of culture "relaxed" company, established by Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari historian, recently laid off because of a discussion rather on with Manny Gerard. In addition to the security policy Kassar showed no gratitude to the programmers of those games whose sales were the source of the company's earnings, their salaries were therefore at the level of the other employees. She did not recognize them any "production bonus" or any kind of recognition on the games they produced. The also he prevented to enter their name in the finished game. The games were, in short, made by Atari, not by Atari programmers. Fortunately, as recalled by Alan Miller, an engineer at the time, the security problem was soon solved, almost by accident, by Warren Robinett, another engineer, who, finding himself stuck on the lower floors of the building because he had left his electronic paper in the offices on the upper floors, he managed to enter literally breaking through a door noting, among other things, that the alarm system was not tripped, because the security system only recorded the income and expenses of authorized employees. This episode gave Robinett an opportunity to solve the second far more serious problem on the lack of recognition for developers. Adventure (1979) Atari, Inc. Publisher: Atari Inc. Designer: Warren Robinett. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. LICENSED BY ATARI.