Our favorite Aussie Lama Shane Miller recently shared a fun little video publicizing a Zwift Ride Easter egg:
Video Summary
The Zwift Ride smart frame has an Easter egg printed on the sticker near its bottom bracket:
If you look closely at the bottom, you’ll see the Konami code printed… something anyone who ever played Contra will still remember by heart. (I still remember keying it in at the start of every Contra session back in the late 80’s: up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-Select-Start.)
Once you’re riding in game with the Zwift Ride’s controllers or Zwift Play controllers paired, just enter this sequence (which ends with a Z to make it Zwifty) on the controllers, and everyone’s heads will become huge.
Enter it again and heads return to normal size.
It’s worth noting that this “big heads view” is on your screen only, as your Konami code entry only affects your view of the game. It also doesn’t affect in-game physics. Starting a new Zwift activity will also return heads to normal size.
What Else?
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen big heads on Zwift. It first showed up in Zwift on April Fool’s Day 2017, and they brought it back in 2022.
Since this Easter egg is in the game itself, Zwift’s developers could, in theory, change it to do anything they’d like. Perhaps they’ll change it to put us in dino suits, send us to 1989, or let us enter Paperboy mode…?
Your Ideas
What could the Zwift Konami code do that hasn’t already been done in game? Comment with your ideas!
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