14 DAY TRIAL // September 13 has become the international 8-Bit Day, mostly thanks to Nintendo and its ultra-famous Super Mario game, but Microsoft obviously wanted to be part of the celebration and created its very own Easter egg for fans of old and addictive pixelated titles.
Redmond hid a secret keyboard combination in its website that unveils a number of old 8-bit titles, such as Pacman and Frogger. You can’t actually play the games, but clicking on it gets you to Bing, where you can find more information about each of them and actually get links to play them online.
To access this Easter Egg, go to Microsoft’s US website and press the following keys:
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right on the arrow keys, B and A keys It’s not yet clear how much time Microsoft plans to leave this Easter Egg there, but it’s always a good thing to see the company joining such efforts that actually show us it cares about little things that matter, such as the 8-Bit Day.
Microsoft is struggling to become a company that’s working together with its customers on basically every single product, so this kind of efforts are really important for the overall success of its efforts, especially because it wants to show everyone that it’s trying to get involved into things that matter most for people.
