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2:50Now PlayingAtari and the Easter egg, explained
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2:50Now PlayingIf you’ve seen Ready Player One, or read the book, you know “Easter eggs” play a big role. But here are the facts on where the term comes from.
In the all-out geek fest Ready Player One, the Bigfoot monster truck and Back to the Future DeLorean speed through Manhattan with a Jurassic Park T. rex and King Kong in hot pursuit.
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Still reading? If so, then you might just be able to navigate the multitude of pop-culture references and video-game action of director Steven Spielberg’s bold fantasy adventure. A loving ode to a few decades that Spielberg made his own, Ready Player One’s an entertaining nostalgia trip that wears its influences proudly but throws them at such dizzying force that sometimes you feel like you’re buried under Chuck E. Cheese tokens.
Author Ernest Cline co-wrote the adaptation that envisions Ohio circa 2045 as a dystopian place where the trailer parks are vertical stacks of low-rent tenements. Orphaned teen Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) and pretty much everybody else escapes from this squalor by embracing all things 1980s and hooking into a virtual-reality game called the OASIS. There, you can shoot stuff on Planet Doom, climb Mount Everest with Batman or, if you’re Wade and his pals, use computer avatars to hunt for a literal Easter egg giving the winner control of this online world plus half a trillion bucks.
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