The payment site with a hidden ASCii arcade

By Creative Bloq Staff
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Braintree packs a hidden Easter Egg that will delight users who love vintage arcade games and ASCii art.

Braintree (opens in new tab) is a payment site. It lets businesses take in cash and customers spend it, the latter with just one touch.

So far, everything is as you'd expect.

There is however more to the site than meets the eye. Here's how to find a hidden Easter Egg: some classic arcade games that have been given the ASCii art treamemt.

Here's how to find the games...

Step 1 - Right click on the Braintree site and click View Source. Now cut the the URL and the circular token to your paste buffer (scroll down to reveal more tokens)

Step 1 - Right click on the Braintree site and click View Source. Now cut the the URL and the circular token to your paste buffer (scroll down to reveal more tokens)

Step 2 - Paste your token into a new browser window and hit enter. And there you go - a classic arcade game waiting to be enjoyed!

Step 2 - Paste your token into a new browser window and hit enter. And there you go - a classic arcade game waiting to be enjoyed!

In all, there are four classic games waiting to be discovered - Deployer, Algorithmoids, Incumbator Invanders, and Knocker.

Words: Martin Cooper

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The Creative Bloq team is made up of a group of design fans, and has changed and evolved since Creative Bloq began back in 2012. The current website team consists of six full-time members of staff: Editor Kerrie Hughes, Deputy Editor Rosie Hilder, Deals Editor Beren Neale, Senior News Editor Daniel Piper, Digital Arts and Design Editor Ian Dean, and Staff Writer Amelia Bamsey, as well as a roster of freelancers from around the world. The 3D World and ImagineFX magazine teams also pitch in, ensuring that content from 3D World and ImagineFX is represented on Creative Bloq. 

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