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Escape from XP

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Escape from XP is a gimmicky little game that was created to advertise the official discontinuation of Windows XP (and by extension, Internet Explorer 6). It was up officially for only a few months, but its source was saved on multiple open-source repositories and can still be accessed here.

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An entire spritesheet for a hacker that would have appeared in the background pressing the Z key. However, he can only be seen by entering the following code in the console:

event = { source: { postMessage: function () {}} };
["hardcoreMode", "originalHacker", "tanksTanksTanks", "IDDQD"].forEach(
  window.ig.game.installServicePack.bind(window.ig.game)
)

(Source: Andreas Madsen)