{"id":88945,"date":"2016-04-12T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T05:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=88945"},"modified":"2016-04-12T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T10:31:18","slug":"29-year-old-punch-out-easter-egg-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/88945-29-year-old-punch-out-easter-egg-discovered","title":{"rendered":"29-year old Punch-out Easter egg discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Reddit user has just discovered a new Easter egg in the now 29-year old NES classic, Punch-out!<\/p>\n<p>User <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/4dybvk\/i_think_i_discovered_a_new_easter_egg_in_mike\/\" target=\"_blank\">midwesternhousewives<\/a> found that when fighting in the second rounds against Piston Honda and Bald Bull, a bearded man would appear in the crowd. The bearded man would then duck down if there was an opportunity to knock your opponent out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Basically, everyone knows you can knock out Piston Honda and Bald Bull in one hit when they attack but there&#8217;s an Easter egg in the background of the game that indicates the exact moment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Easter egg isn&#8217;t the fact that you can knock these guys out with one hit, it&#8217;s the fact that the developers inserted something into the background to let you know when. Pretty cool.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that there have been several documented instances of Easter eggs in the crowd while fighting (a camera flash is another cue), we could see a number of other Easter eggs in the current weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A full video explaining the Easter egg can be found below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fR37cPR_1_4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Gaming News<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Hands on with Battleborn \u2013 This is not an Overwatch Clone\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88789-hands-on-with-battleborn-this-is-not-an-overwatch-clone.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hands on with Battleborn \u2013 This is not an Overwatch Clone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<header><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nvidia announces the world\u2019s first zero latency display\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/88863-nvidia-announces-the-worlds-first-zero-latency-display.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nvidia announces the world\u2019s first zero latency display<\/a><\/strong><\/header>\n<header><\/header>\n<header>\n<article id=\"post-88873\">\n<div>\n<header><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Rust faces gender controversy\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88873-rust-faces-gender-controversy.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rust faces gender controversy<\/a><\/strong><\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reddit user has just discovered a new Easter egg in the now 29-year old NES classic, Punch-out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":88951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6876,5075,5906,73,10820],"class_list":["post-88945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-easter-egg","tag-mike-tyson","tag-nes","tag-nintendo","tag-punch-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89043,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88945\/revisions\/89043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}