Facebook Adds Contra Code Easter Egg

-Easter Egg Icon- Remember the Nintendo game Contra from years ago? Facebook has decided to use the Contra secret code as a special easter egg for users. When you visit the site and enter the code up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter, you will be presented with a screen flare that pops up on the page. I’ve embedded a video demo below which shows me entering the code and achieving the desired result.

The code needs to be entered on any page that you’d like the effect to take place but it appears to work anywhere on the site. Earlier this week, ESPN.com used the same code to randomly display unicorns any time a person clicked on the page. It was a pretty funny trick but it disappeared after a few hours. Facebook is known for their numerous easter eggs and this appears to be the most recent addition.

It’s a funny trick but one has to wonder what other easter eggs are lying around the site. For those unaware of the concept of Easter eggs, they are small code modifications on a site left by a developer meant to entertain those users (or the developers) who are exploring random locations of that site.

I previously wrote about other Easter Eggs on Facebook’s site. Most recently I posted about a few tricks found in Facebook photos. Interestingly enough those Easter Eggs still exist and there continues to be more found every once in a while.

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21 Comments »

ESPN.com did this same thing 2 weeks ago. Come on Facebook, at least be original.

Comment by Patrick — May 8, 2009 @ 5:23 am

That is great! I loved that game.

Comment by Brad Ball — May 8, 2009 @ 6:07 am

You should check http://konamicodesites.com

Comment by Joffrey — May 8, 2009 @ 3:54 pm

IE only. Doesn't appear to work in FireFox.

Comment by Mike — May 8, 2009 @ 6:47 pm

I did the code and was able to advance to the final level..

Comment by Joe Dawson — May 9, 2009 @ 3:27 am

what a load of rubbish.. this is the nost retarded thing ive come across

Comment by wayne kerr — May 10, 2009 @ 9:12 am

@Mike, it does indeed work with firefox, just did it with no problems (you do have to manipulate the screen though, scroll, type anything like that)

Comment by Munkee — May 12, 2009 @ 9:46 am

HOW DO YOU GET RID OF IT!!!!!!

Comment by Sunjay — May 22, 2009 @ 6:28 pm

Balls. Tried it in IE 8. Tried it in Firefox 3.5 and I can’t get it to appear at all. Is this a hoax, with random ppl claiming it works when it doesnt?

Comment by Vader101 — August 2, 2009 @ 9:36 am

how do we get rid of it??

Comment by vyg — September 23, 2009 @ 7:56 am

OK, so this easter egg DOES work, at least in IE8. For those who haven’t tried it, it’s really not as cool as you think and it gets old fast. Redoing the code will not get rid of it, I had to log out and then log back in to finally make it STOP.

Comment by Tad — October 22, 2009 @ 8:31 pm

To get rid of it – simply refresh the page. =)

Comment by Dustin — November 1, 2009 @ 9:30 am

It worked for me, using Google Chrome on my eeePC

Not a fake, you're either doing it wrong or have an incompatible browser.

Comment by Nick — November 3, 2009 @ 8:40 pm

wayne kerr – Seriously? All the trash on the internet and THIS is the single lamest thing you have stumbled across? Impressive.

Comment by Josh — November 18, 2009 @ 5:28 pm

Well, it turned off, but now my computer actually SAYS everything I do. How do you get that to stop??

Comment by Nancy — November 18, 2009 @ 6:02 pm

ummm ya i thought it was funny that this thing happened so ya if you guys dont shut the fuck up about how you think this is gay then im going to go to your house and kill your father and rape your mother and eat your babys in front of you then ill tie you up to a tree and light it on fire