The Top 10 Secret Levels In Video Games

Discovering a secret level in a video game is like discovering pirate's treasure, only without the monetary gain and cool Captain's curse.

These are the levels that keep gamers talking, the secret spaces that give us a reason to replay a game until we've discovered every pixel of that virtual world.

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WatchMojo put together a nice list of their picks for Top 10 Secret Levels In Video Games to put you in a nostalgiac mood.

From Super Mario World's fabled Star Road to the ridiculous Secret Cow Level in Diablo II, these are levels that "are hidden and must be found by completing certain objectives or searching certain areas of a game", a gamer's ultimate prize for playing.

-Via Geeks Are Sexy


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I felt the same way PlaysWithWolves, Adventure was the secret level that started them all and they could have at least gave it props for being the first game with a secret level. But I think the article was aimed at those who were born well after the Atari console came out (Millennials) because their choices are pretty much all 90s and beyond.
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i know it's demonstrating that you're scrolling through empty space - but it'd help to have some reference markers so you can see how far you've scrolled...
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What's more boggling to me is the "emptiness" between the proton and electron. Is the emptiness truly nothing? I can't seem to wrap my mind around space unoccupied by matter.
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It's not really empty. It's an electron cloud. It's not like that at a given moment the electron hangs there at a determined spot like a little bead.

Quantum physics is impossible to wrap one's mind around, and this kind of demonstration is not helping.

At that level of magnification, all you have is a probability of finding something. The electron will not follow a given path around the nucleus, it jumps around randomly.

The mental image we have of nucleus = planet and electron = moon is very unfitting.
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Yeah, Solo nailed it. The model is misleading and actually incorrect.

Kids are taught the Rutherford atomic model early on, because it's easy to comprehend. A clear analogy to the earth and the moon can be drawn. But it's wrong.

Later, students learn other atomic models such as Bohr's, but they're just models. They can accurately describe what happens to a point, but they're not actually what's happening by a long shot.

What's actually going on is way more mind-boggling than "there's a lot of space in an atom."
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"Perhaps a better model would have the electron zooming around like a crazy moon?"

No

"The mental image we have of nucleus = planet and electron = moon is very unfitting."
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What is the size of a a sub-atomic particle anyway?

At this scale, you can only talk about a particle's wavelength, which is inversely proportional to its
mass. So, the electron should be huge, and the
nucleus small.

Hmm... there's an idea for another model...

Empty space within an atom is irrelevant.
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