OpenOffice.org: Play StarWars Galaxy (Easter Egg)

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If you’re running the recent version of OpenOffice and feel like taking a break and playing then you’re in luck. There’s an Easter Egg that let’s you play a simple version of Space Invaders, titled StarWars Galaxy.


1. Run OpenOffice and start the Spreadsheet application.

2. In a blank cell, input the following:
=GAME("StarWars")

3. Press Return on your keyboard.

4. A splash screen for the game will appear:

5. Select your “Hero” and the game will start.

 

9 Comments -


  1. nick said on October 27, 2008

    This is really cool. How do you find out? Thanks

  2. Matt said on November 7, 2008

    Close the game, then type it again and it says “oh no, not again!”

  3. Grant Brady said on November 7, 2008

    This works in StarOffice 8 (the commercial version of OO.o 2.4)

  4. Who Cares said on November 8, 2008

    StarOffice is the same thing as Open Office, THE GPL lets Star Office sell Open Office. So it is still Open Office, just with there garbage name tacked on.

  5. Grant Brady said on December 21, 2008

    I know this, I just mentioning that Sun Microsystems does not remove this bit of code when they package up OO.o. because they do change things, for instance: they use a different spell checker.

    Also its the other way around: GPL doesn’t allow sun to sell star office, the GPL allows thee public into the Star office code base which is released for free as Open Office.

  6. Mike said on February 21, 2009

    Why wont it let me play it again? It just keeps saying “Oh no not again”

  7. Ben said on March 1, 2009

    In order to play it again you have to close Open Office including the the quickstarter and open it again.

  8. theknight said on March 3, 2009

    WAW, I didnt expect that, nice tip

  9. Nannu said on February 16, 2010

    :D! funny! hehe… :P

 

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