Pinball Easter Egg

We haven’t had an Windows Easter Egg for quite a while, probably because Bill Gates (or rather the US Government – major buyers of Microsoft products) banned them. Anyway, for those of you who are new to this malarkey, Easter Eggs are hidden features inside programs, usually put there by mischievous or bored programmers. Some of them like this one in the Windows game 3D Pinball is probably a programming ‘tool’ that was forgotten or left behind when the game was released.

So here’s how it works, launch the game by going to Start > Programs > Games then straight away type ‘hidden test’ (minus the quotes). Now you will be able to drag the ball around the table and interact with all of the game’s features, notching up as many points as you want. There’s more, press the ‘H’ key and you can enter you name and a score up to 1,000,000,000 points. That should impress the neighbours…