The 1977 arcade game Starship 1 may contain the first ever video game Easter egg. The discovery was made by former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft, Ed Fries, while interviewing Atari engineer Ron Milner. In an offhanded comment, Milner mentioned that he had programmed a special 'backdoor' trick that gave you ten free games if executed. “That was the first and only game that I ever programmed and I think it was maybe one of the first games with a backdoor in it," Milner told Fries.