YouTube Easter Egg: Snake Game


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    YouTube Easter Egg: Snake Game


    Softpedia said:
    First it was Google, with their playable Pac Man logo. Now YouTube has come up with their own way to help you kill those boring moments at work, with a hidden game of Snake.
    To find it, you need to go to a video in the gaming category, click inside the area of the video, and then hold down the left arrow key. Soon a trail of white dots will start scrolling across the video, with a single blinking white dot that you need to steer your snake across. This is pretty tough on a busy background, but chances are somebody will post a plain black video to make it easier.
    Snake goes back to the earliest days of gaming, but nobody seems to be sure how long YouTube has included this hidden Easter egg. It doesn't seem to work with embedded videos and even on the site making it work is a bit hit-and-miss, but once you start playing it becomes a bit like eating M&Ms, hard to stop.
    An estimate claims that the Google Pac Man game killed 4.8 million working hours back in May, I wonder if YouTube's Snake will have a similar result?
    Easter-Egg Allows You to Play Snake™ in Any YouTube Video - YouTube is at it again - Softpedia
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    Win7User512 said:
    Softpedia said:
    First it was Google, with their playable Pac Man logo. Now YouTube has come up with their own way to help you kill those boring moments at work, with a hidden game of Snake.
    To find it, you need to go to a video in the gaming category, click inside the area of the video, and then hold down the left arrow key. Soon a trail of white dots will start scrolling across the video, with a single blinking white dot that you need to steer your snake across. This is pretty tough on a busy background, but chances are somebody will post a plain black video to make it easier.
    Snake goes back to the earliest days of gaming, but nobody seems to be sure how long YouTube has included this hidden Easter egg. It doesn't seem to work with embedded videos and even on the site making it work is a bit hit-and-miss, but once you start playing it becomes a bit like eating M&Ms, hard to stop.
    An estimate claims that the Google Pac Man game killed 4.8 million working hours back in May, I wonder if YouTube's Snake will have a similar result?
    Easter-Egg Allows You to Play Snake™ in Any YouTube Video - YouTube is at it again - Softpedia
    I saw that yesterday, but couldn't find a vid it worked on, and wasn't interested enough to keep trying :)

    A Guy
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       #3

    Google pacman


    Did you know
    http://www.google.com/pacman

    You can still play it!

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    Kcmartz

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    A Guy said:
    Win7User512 said:
    Softpedia said:
    First it was Google, with their playable Pac Man logo. Now YouTube has come up with their own way to help you kill those boring moments at work, with a hidden game of Snake.
    To find it, you need to go to a video in the gaming category, click inside the area of the video, and then hold down the left arrow key. Soon a trail of white dots will start scrolling across the video, with a single blinking white dot that you need to steer your snake across. This is pretty tough on a busy background, but chances are somebody will post a plain black video to make it easier.
    Snake goes back to the earliest days of gaming, but nobody seems to be sure how long YouTube has included this hidden Easter egg. It doesn't seem to work with embedded videos and even on the site making it work is a bit hit-and-miss, but once you start playing it becomes a bit like eating M&Ms, hard to stop.
    An estimate claims that the Google Pac Man game killed 4.8 million working hours back in May, I wonder if YouTube's Snake will have a similar result?
    Easter-Egg Allows You to Play Snake™ in Any YouTube Video - YouTube is at it again - Softpedia
    I saw that yesterday, but couldn't find a vid it worked on, and wasn't interested enough to keep trying :)

    A Guy
    You are supposed to be able to play on any video uploaded since April.
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    Win7User512 said:

    You are supposed to be able to play on any video uploaded since April.
    Ahhh, link I saw said game related vids. I tried it on the vid I was watching, wasn't sure it wasn't a joke

    A Guy
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    A Guy said:
    Win7User512 said:

    You are supposed to be able to play on any video uploaded since April.
    Ahhh, link I saw said game related vids. I tried it on the vid I was watching, wasn't sure it wasn't a joke

    A Guy
    It was tough finding a good link. Either they said certain types of videos or they had the instructions wrong.
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