Open Office is a great office suite for anyone who loves to work. If you’re looking for an Easter egg to help you get started, then this Open Office Easter egg is for you! To find the Easter egg, open Open Office and click on the File menu. Then select “Options.” Under “General,” click on the “OpenOffice.org” tab and select “Calc.” This will open up a new window with Calc as your default spreadsheet program. If you want to play Space Invaders in Calc, then just type in the following command: openoffice.org/calc/spaceinvaders
Open up a new Calc Spreadsheet and enter =GAME(“StarWars”) into any of the cells and hit enter. Make sure and type in the capital letters as shown to get it to work. The easiest would be to copy the text above and paste it into a cell.
This opens up the Star-Wars Galaxy game which is a Space Invaders clone.
The instructions are in German but you don’t need to know a single word to be able to start playing. Just use the arrow keys to move and the Spacebar to shoot.
This is not the greatest Space Invaders clone but still fun knowing you can take a break from data entry and get your retro gaming fix.
For more about Easter eggs in other software and web services check out our Wiki Page on Easter Eggs. It is a lot of fun and if you have some you would like to share with us just leave a comment.
