[gta_talk]

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This list has been put together by gta_talk and help of other members of GTAForums.com.

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1. Beach Ball
In one of the houses swimming pool on Starfish island there is a beach ball
run towards it and let it bounce on your head and numbers will appear every time it hits your head.

2. Boom Shine
When you complete Phil's mission 'Boomshine Saigon' you will get 3 barrels of boom shine in your Ocean Beach Apartment.

3. Butcher Chop
Near well stacked pizza co. theres a butcher shop look in the window you'll find a box that says 'human organ' and above it a arm.
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4. Cement Shoes
If you look near Leaf Links in the water of the west side of the island there should be lots of rocks look carefully there should be a guy in the water with cement boots.

5. Cement Shoes 2
Near the mansion across to the first island in the water there is another cement shoes.
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6. Dead Guy
In the opening scene where sonny is talking look behind him theres a dead guy in the freezer.

7. Claude On A Poster
In your Ocean Beach Apartment there is a poster of Claude from GTA 3.

8. Easter Egg
Go to the VCN building which is the next to the bridge going to Prawn Island from Downtown, go to the door and up to the heli pad and jump though this window to get the easter egg.

9. Graves
Near the place were you saw the butcher shop theres Romero's funeral shop go round the back and you will see a grave with a body in it.

10. Gun Booklets
In the mansion when you have completed the game there are gun booklets on the desk.

11. Hidden Package
When you have collected all hidden packages, in your Ocean Beach Apartment there is an opened hidden package on the table.

12. Hockey Mask
When you have completed the mission 'The Job' at your Ocean Beach Apartment the is a hockey mask on the coffee table.

13. Hotel
Between 23:00 to 23:59 the hotel near The Malibu light ups to look like a male part and every 15 seconds a water fountain at the top sprays

14. Magazines
In you Ocean Beach Apartment on the coffee table there are magazines with pictures of Lance Vance and Richardo Diaz on.

15. Malibu Y.M.C.A
In the Malibu there are 5 guys that look like the village people: fireman, builder, biker, army man and a cop

16. Mansion Mess
when you purchase the mansion you will see beer bottles, pizza boxes and more stuff pile up.

17. Mini Wreck
Near the Bridge going to the third island from prawn island there a rusty sunken boat under the water.

18. Money
Look on your bed in your Ocean Beach Apartment there is money.

19. Moon size
The classic shoot the moon with a sniper rifle and the size changes.
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20. Pogo the Monkey
In the Kaufman Cabs building there is two arcade machine degenatron and pogo the monkey, sadly you can't play them and there is more in Well Stacked Pizza Co. in little Haiti.

21. RC Helicopter
In your Mansion there is a box for a RC Helicopter.

22. Rockstar games
There is a game shop in vice city which has pictures of characters from GTA 3.

23. Romero's
Look in the shop window of Romero's shop you'll see a grave stone with a name of one of the designers of the game and a picture next to it a picture of Bela Lugosi with the r* logo on his jacket.
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24. Safe
Look in your mansion office theres a opened safe with money spilling out.

24. Scarface Apartment
In Ocean Beach the is a hotel called apartment 3c which looks like the apartment from scarface.
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26. Scarface Mansion
Your office in your mansion resembles the one from scarface.
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27. Ship Wrecks
There are two ship wrecks in vice city, look on map to find them. Here
Ship #1 2
Ship#2 2

28. Shooter
When have completed the mission 'The Shootist' you will get a trophy on top of your T.V. in your Ocean Beach Apartment.

29. Spand Express
There is a fictional company in vice city called Spand express or Spand Ex which is a spoof of the real life company Fed Ex.

30. Rockstar Swimming pool
At the back of one of the houses on Starfish Island there is a swimming pool in the shape of Rockstars logo.

31. Teddy Bear
On gang burritos there are bears.

32. Trophy's
when you complete all tasks at the Hyman Memorial Stadium trophy's will appear on top of your T.V. in your mansion.

33. Ghost Tower, by Tyla
This was initially designed for the Beta version of the game, the 'Ghost Tower' was designed to be a Clock watch tower for the Airbase, but was later removed before VC was released. The Ghost Tower, however, remains. As you travel to the West Island you can see the tower, and then when the compulsory loading screen appears then disappears, the 'Ghost Tower' vanishes.

34. Sunken vehicles, by MC_320
Next to the bridge in Little Haiti is four sunken vehicles in the water.
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This post has been edited by gta_talk on Saturday, Jan 14 2012, 12:05

[gta_talk]

Secrets and Easters Eggs put together by members of GTAForums.com

Easter Egg / Secret	By User	Link
Titanic reference	.AshRemains	Click Here, additional info. here
George A. Romero	Brenteus Maximus	Click Here
Fudge Packaging	Cold Fusion 33	Click Here
Vinyl Countdown	derty	Click Here
Multiple Secrets / Eggs	flicko	Click Here
Frankensteins Lady	flicko	Click Here
Man On Box	flicko	Click Here
Secrets	flicko	Click Here
Robert Falcon Scott reference	flicko	Click Here, Image
LCFD / Glitch	flicko	Click Here
Loot	flicko	Click Here
Checkpoint Charlie packages	Flesh-n-Bone	Click Here
Mean Streets and More	glenster	Click Here
Wayland Surfboards	glenster	Click Here
Allan Robertson reference	glenster	Click Here
Love Juice	glenster	Click Here
Cabbie Boost	glenster	Click Here
Take a vacation in Liberty City re-creation	glenster	Click Here
Gethsemanee Starhawk Moonmaker statement	glenster	Click Here
Roxor - Rockstar reference	GTArv	Click Here
Pogo The Monkey	gtasagansta	Click Here
Kaufman Cabs font (Kaufmann)	Heihachi_73	Click Here
Rumpo sex reference	Heihachi_73	Click Here
GTA3 Billboardsat Escobar int. airport	Heihachi_73	Click Here
Ships On The Horizon	Konstantinos	Click Here
Rony And Gorby	Konstantinos	Click Here
Iron Maiden	Konstantinos	Click Here
Colonel's Boat	Konstantinos	Click Here
Radio Egg	Konstantinos	Click Here
Scarface Mansion	Konstantinos	Click Here
Godfather II	Konstaninos	Click Here
Carlito's Way	Konstaninos	Click Here
Secret Vehicles	Lukaso	Click Here
Rockstar games shop	Mciaster	Click Here
Scarface references	MLVD	Click Here
Mutltple Secrets and EE	Pyramid head	Click Here
Mitch Baker	RidingHigh	Click Here
Guy's Head	RockJocetti	Click Here
Tracksuit costume & other pop-culture references	Spis	Click Here
Man On Box 2	VCHolmes	Click Here
Moon Landing conspiracy	Vercetti27	Click Here (Thread overview)
White cop cars?	Ultraussie	Click Here

This post has been edited by gta_talk on Saturday, Jan 14 2012, 12:02

[gta_talk]

Teaser Websites





Phone Numbers

Please note that I do not know if any of these cost money so call at your own risk. There are many phone numbers on the radio and some of them work.The phone numbers that are proven to work are the following.

1-866-9-Save-Me: Pastor Richards
1-866-9-Bury-Me: Funeral Home
1-866-Pillage: Thor
1-866-434-SELF: Not Sure
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This post has been edited by gta_talk on Saturday, Jan 14 2012, 12:02

[gta_talk]

Reserved....

This post has been edited by gta_talk on Saturday, May 31 2008, 10:13

[mecaman56]

we need tons of hidden stuff in gta IV

[Bartleby]

QUOTE (mecaman56 @ Mar 24 2007, 20:23)

we need tons of hidden stuff in gta IV

Maybe, but doesn't that talk belong in the GTA4 forum? Check the wishlist topic in particular.

QUOTE (gta_talk @ Mar 18 2007, 13:39)

Dead Guy In the opening scene where sonny is talking look behind him theres a dead guy in the freezer.

Hah, I just now got that. After owning Vice City for nearly four years, I always thought that was a bodyguard watching the door or something. Teehee.

[Konstantinos]

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Romero's Look in the shop window of Romero's shop you'll see a grave stone with a name of one of the designers of the game and a picture next to it it of a weird man with the r* logo on his jacket.

That 'weird man' is Bela Lugosi as Dracula (1931), vandalised with a felt-tip.



Nice topic btw.

[gta_talk]

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QUOTE Romero's Look in the shop window of Romero's shop you'll see a grave stone with a name of one of the designers of the game and a picture next to it it of a weird man with the r* logo on his jacket. That 'weird man' is Bela Lugosi as Dracula (1931), vandalised with a felt-tip. Nice topic btw.

Im gonna add that.

great find have some

[Claude94]

Nice Job!

BTW, at the movie studio, around the back, there is a set of the Times Square look-alike from GTA 3. Also, during the day, take a boat and go far out into the ocean, as far as you can go before the game turns you around, take out a sniper rifle, and zoom in to the ocean. There will be sailboats and battleships crossing the waters.

Claude94

[gta_talk]

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at the movie studio, around the back, there is a set of the Times Square look-alike from GTA 3

oh yer i must have forgot to put it in, i get on to that later.

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Also, during the day, take a boat and go far out into the ocean, as far as you can go before the game turns you around, take out a sniper rifle, and zoom in to the ocean. There will be sailboats and battleships crossing the waters.

i didnt know that can you send a pic or something please.


also have some

[Konstantinos]

Question: this is the new official Secrets topic, and so it's ok to repost stuff from the old one, right? Because I've got a sh*tload of quality easter egg screenshots just collecting dust on my drive, and I'd welcome the opportunity to post them here. Of course all of them have been found before. Even that Bela Lugosi photo, I really thought I was the 1st one to notice it but then I found an older post by glenster.

QUOTE (gta_talk)

QUOTE (Claude94) Also, during the day, take a boat and go far out into the ocean, as far as you can go before the game turns you around, take out a sniper rifle, and zoom in to the ocean. There will be sailboats and battleships crossing the waters. i didnt know that can you send a pic or something please.

I didn't know that one, either. But it's true. They are actually just faint, jagged silhouettes of ships:

[gta_talk]

sure post all your easter eggs and secrets thats are not on here

[Konstantinos]

@gta_talk - 2 technical notes:
1/ The images on this page are over 10 MB. Modem users must be freaking out. I'd really suggest to replace them with links or thumbnails.
2/ I've got a complete guide to the things that appear at your hideouts during the game (hockey mask, boomshine etc.) in the Pinned Guides and Walkthroughs topic of the VC Gameplay forum. There isn't much point having them here too. Of course that's up to you to decide.

Okay, on to the eggs:

Rony & Gorby

This picture is hidden behind the northern wall of downtown Ammu-Nation. To see it, use either a trainer with jetpack feature, or the "Rocket launcher through wall" trick.
Here is an enlargement of the texture.
(In case somene uneducated is reading this: The guy next to Reagan is Mikhail Gorbachev, his soviet counterpart back then.)

Iron Maiden

There are several references to Iron Maiden in the game. No wonder, as it takes place in the golden years of classic heavy metal.

1/ The text on Lovefist billboard is in a font based on the IM logo.

2/ The ad in the record shop in North Point mall advertizes a Love Fist album called "Number of the breast". This is a spoof of the IM album "Number of the beast" (1982), a joke as old as the album itself.

3/ Poster in the display window of the downtown record shop (called Rock city, where you meet the Psycho killer). It's a spoof of this IM poster. "Jock star" is a spoof of Rockstar, obviously.

This post has been edited by Konstantinos on Sunday, May 6 2007, 23:04

[Adrena1in]

I love Easter Eggs, especially in games, ESPEcially when I've played the game for ages and never noticed some of them, then go back to see.

The swimming pool in the shape of the Rockstar Logo was mentioned, but what about the pool in the shape of a woman's torso, with red tiles depicting the bikini, and the diving board aiming right at the crotch?! That made me laugh out loud when I first saw it. (Sorry, don't have a screenshot, but can get one if necessary?)

[Konstantinos]

Here are screenshots of both the R* and woman shaped pool...


Colonel's boat

In the upstairs office area in Malibu club, there's a model of Colonel Cortez' yacht:


Radio egg

When changing stations, you can hear bits of GTA3 radio among the noise. You can quite distinctly make out the words "strap in your arms and-". It's from the Dormitron commercial:
"Using a new technology called biorhythmic subconscious gymnastics, The Dormitron exercises you while you sleep. Just strap in your arms and legs, put on The Dormitron headset, then wrap yourself in the special high-voltage electric blanket. Turn it on to 11 and burn those pounds away while you're having a relaxing night's sleep!"

Also:

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Scarface Mansion Your office in your mansion resembles the one from scarface.

If you look at the security monitors in Tommy's office, it shows pictures taken directly from Scarface. Including the "The world is yours" statue and the pool in which Toni ends up laying dead after the final shootout.


This post has been edited by Konstantinos on Friday, May 4 2007, 23:41

[elias2k2]

Nice

[glenster]

Robert De Niro starred as John "Johnny Boy" Civello in "Mean Streets," 1973,
and as Travis ("You talkin' to me?") Bickle (as Robert DeNiro) in "Taxi Driver,"
1976, earlier than "Goodfellas," 1990, for director Martin Scorsese. "GTA III"
has Mean Streets Taxis, which is advertised on benches in "Vice City"--you can
see one of the benches during the intro. In Little Havana, there's a "Mean
Street Taxis" building; the window of the "Pizza Face" place beside it says
"DINERO WITHOUT LIMITE," which is Spanish for "money without limits."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqLyTdcMLhc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Streets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver

Ryton Aide in Little Haiti in "Vice City" advertises Martin's Sciateze Back
Tablets.
http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/9837/00gt...reenvc46ri0.jpg

In "Scarface," 1983, Tony Montana fails to impress Elvira Hancock (Michelle
Pfeiffer) with a pale yellow Cadillac with fins and a zebra skin interior. The
rewards for dropping off 100 fares with a cab in "Vice City" include the Zebra
Cab, which is a combined Al Pacino and Robert De Niro reference, but I wouldn't
try to impress Michelle Pfeiffer with it.

Thanks to reader Jeff Sims who sent me his theory that the Zebra Cab is a ref-
erence to a taxi company called Tiger Cabs, a front for a drug running (and oth-
er criminal business) outfit in Miami, in the book "American Tabloid" by James
Ellroy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Tabloid

(The other GTA reference to "Zebra" is the Zebra Bar, a reference to inter-
racial sex, in "San Andeas." So it may be a sex pun-related way to come up with
an alternative name for Tiger Cabs.)

Fort Baxter may be named after the Fort Baxter in the 1950's TV comedy
"Sgt. Bilko" that starred Phil Silvers. Rockstar North is based in Scotland,
and "Sgt. Bilko" is as popular on TV in Great Britain as "The Honeymooners" is
here in the United States. I don't know why "Sgt. Bilko" isn't more popular
here--I thought it was pretty good in the reruns I saw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phil_Silvers_Show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Silvers

PS: thanks to Konstantinos for a few Iron Maiden tips. I'll just add that the skeleton
playing guitar is the Iron Maiden mascot "Eddie the Head" used for most of the Iron
Maiden album covers and which Couzin Ed and Lazlow talk about on VROCK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Head

This post has been edited by glenster on Sunday, May 13 2007, 09:53

[Konstantinos]

QUOTE (glenster @ May 13 2007, 09:33)

PS: thanks to Konstantinos for a few Iron Maiden tips.  I'll just add that the skeleton playing guitar is the Iron Maiden mascot "Eddie the Head" used for most of the Iron Maiden album covers and which Couzin Ed and Lazlow talk about on VROCK.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_the_Head

"It's a puppy!"

Good research work as always, glenster.

Adding to the subject of movie references:

Godfather II

"Hyman memorial stadium" may be named after the character of Hyman Roth, the Florida-based jewish gangster from Godfather II. Roth himself was based on the real life famous gangster, Meyer Lansky.

Carlito's Way

Ken Rosenberg is clearly based on David Kleinfeld from Carlito's way, played by Sean Penn:

Apart from the obvious similarities in appearance, they are both jewish lawyers working for gangsters, addicted to cocaine. Even Rosenberg's office is modelled after Kleinfeld's.
Interestingly enough, the cast of Carlito's way includes Luis Guzman, who voices Ricardo Diaz in VC.

This post has been edited by Konstantinos on Tuesday, May 22 2007, 10:32

[Brenteus Maximus]

This is one I found and discussed on here long before even SA was released so it's probably lost on these forums by now. There is a connection between Romero's funeral home and the famous zombie film master George Romero, who wrote the Living Dead films, Night, Dawn, Day and Land of the Dead. In these films, zombies eat human flesh and if you look around Romero's funeral home, there is a Romero butcher shop right next door that serves human organs, the food of choice for a growing zombie. We can guess that these organs come from the funeral home next door, also owner by Mr. Romero.

[Justin]

QUOTE (Brenteus Maximus @ May 24 2007, 08:23)

This is one I found and discussed on here long before even SA was released so it's probably lost on these forums by now. There is a connection between Romero's funeral home and the famous zombie film master George Romero, who wrote the Living Dead films, Night, Dawn, Day and Land of the Dead. In these films, zombies eat human flesh and if you look around Romero's funeral home, there is a Romero butcher shop right next door that serves human organs, the food of choice for a growing zombie. We can guess that these organs come from the funeral home next door, also owner by Mr. Romero.

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