For the Avid Apple Fan Club

• Friday, 9 July 2010
• By Zoe Bruce
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This blog post is dedicated to all of the Mac fans out there who just can't seem to get enough. Mashable has provided ten fun facts about the mega company that is Apple. To read the article and brush up on the facts, head to the website, or you can continue reading on below... I have posted my favourite fact!

Fascinating Fact, Number 8

8. The First iPod Had A Secret Easter Egg

"Apple’s first iPod came with a little secret — an Easter egg — in the form of a game that could be accessed if you knew the right combination of buttons to press.

How to find the game is described in Nick Triano’s early 2002 Geek.com review of the iPod (memorable quote: “I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that it will change the way you listen to music”). “Go to the ‘About’ menu, hold down the center button for about three seconds, and you’ll get a Breakout (Pong) game to play while you listen.”

Breakout, the hidden game itself, is notable in Apple’s history as it was a product that both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak worked on together at Atari, where legend has it Jobs cheated Wozniak out of thousands of dollars of bonus money."