Where's an Egg?

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A renegade cop with nothing to lose and an egg on his mind.

From Foreign Lands

"In this hard-bolied adventure game, you must help the Boise police force find a missing egg. Not in Mancuso's garage? Try Brodermaker's gymbag. Everyone's a suspect when 'Where's an Egg?' is the game that you are playing. And that's this game!!" -Videlectrix

Where's an Egg? is a game by Videlectrix.

Date: July 16, 2007

Page Title: Where's an Egg?

Instructions

The object of the game is to find the egg that one of the suspects is hiding. The task is a variation on the Knights and Knaves puzzle, where suspects either always lie or always tell the truth. After you think you know who or where the egg is, you go to that location and shoot the suspect, who will give up the egg if you have guessed correctly.

After clicking on the title screen, you are presented with several locations in a city. Clicking on the locations will review a person with an item. When you get a new item, it will appear in the bottom of the screen.

Suspects, locations, and items

Please note that the items, characters, and locations are random for each game. The following lists are in alphabetical order.

Suspects		Locations		Items
	Blonde woman		Aquarium		Beer
	Blue hat man		Arctic		Bomb
	Butcher		Bank		Cat
	Butler		Beach		Gym bag
	John McEnroe		City		Pencil
	Kid Speedy		Desert		Potted plant
	Mechanic		Forest		Slingshot
	Old Woman		Indoor area with pictures		Strawberry
	Red hat man		Pier		Wrench

Endings

Lose screen

If you run out of time or shoot three characters who do not have the egg, the game ends. The character who did have the egg is shown running with it through the area they were in, and the main character is shown in Siberia wearing prison clothes and a ball-and-chain. He quickly turns into a skeleton.

Win screen

If you successfully shoot the character who has the egg, a policeman awards you with a badge in front of Lenin's Mausoleum. The screen pans up to the sky, where fireworks shoot off. If the game was completed with enough time left on the clock, different spaceships fly through the sky:

• 901-940 seconds left — one spaceship
• 941-970 seconds left — two spaceships
• 971 or more seconds left — three spaceships, the last of which is exited by a waving cosmonaut

Fun Facts

Trivia

• This game was released more than two and a half years after its description was featured on the Videlectrix website. The main page message announcing its release read: 'new' videlectrix game!
• The language used in the game is Russian, and is understandable to a native speaker, although there are various grammatical and stylistic errors (see Translation section).

Remarks

Page 13 of the instruction manual

• A page of the manual was also made available at the same time as the game was released.
• The best way to win the game is to ask a suspect if they know where an egg is, and if they give an answer, ask them a question you know the answer to. If the answer they give is correct, then the location of an egg that they give is correct as well.

Inside References

• This is another mention of eggs and alcohol.
• The cop wields a gun.
• All of the characters lack visible arms, except for the main character, who reveals an arm only when he shoots someone, and the policeman in the winning cutscene, who reveals an arm only when he awards a badge to the main character.
• Some Type of Online Auction was previously used to sell a half-eaten breakfast burrito in english paper.
• One of the characters resembles Kid Speedy.
• This is another instance of dying.

Real-World References

• This game looks similar to the point-and-click computer game "Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure", in which a Private Investigator who has seen better days needs to clear his name when he is on the spot for murder.
• Boise is the capital city of the US state Idaho.
• Brodermaker is a reference to video game company Brøderbund, makers of the Carmen Sandiego games.
  • This game is also very similar, in some aspects, to the early Carmen Sandiego games.
• The three spacecraft that fly across the screen in the ending sequence are Sputnik 1, Vostok 1, and Voskhod 2, commemorating three "firsts" of the Russian space program: the first artificial satellite, the first man in space, and the first spacewalk, respectively.
• "Mancuso" is the name of an undercover police officer in the Pulitzer Prize winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces.

Translations

• The title, 'Где – Яицо?’ (gde yaitso?) does indeed mean "Where’s an egg?", although as Russian has no article it is impossible to make a difference between "the egg" and "an egg" and the title could refer to either. The dash in the title is unneccesary and stylistically incorrect; such a dash is only used to separate a predicate from a noun phrase instead of the present tense of the verb "to be", which does not exist in Russian.
• The text that appears on the loading screen, ‘телевизионный электрический’ (televizzionniy elektricheskii) means "televisual electric" and is thus fairly senseless, perhaps as a rough translation of "Videlectrix".
• The text that appears when you shoot the egg-holder or lose the game and see who had the egg, ‘виновник’ (vinovnik) means "criminal" or "guilty person".
• If you win the game, the word ‘поздравление’ (pozdravlenie) meaning "congratulations" appears, and if you lose, the word ‘гулаг’ (gulag) – the name given to the Soviet labour camps, followed by ‘игра законченный’ [sic] (igra zakonchenniy) which means ‘game over’.

External Links

• Play Where's an Egg?
• Play Where's an Egg? (Flash file)
• View the auction for the instructions
• Forum Thread: Re: Where's An Egg?