The Last of Us has plenty of easter eggs; some of them goofy, some sly. And one of them, a little bit naughty.
Last week a tipster sent in a photo taken from the game depicting two phone numbers on a bulletin board in Pittsburgh, both of which he said were phone-sex hotlines. I called them up and, sure enough, they were real. Ha, right? Good one, Naughty Dog!
“That was an artist’s mistake,” he said. “What happened was, they put some phone numbers in the game and then they thought they could just change the area code to 555, then it’s invalid because it’s what they do in movies. But I guess that doesn’t work when you have a 1-800 in front of it.
“We’re now working to take it out,” Druckmann said. “It was just an honest mistake.”
Aw. Well, we’ll always have Fahey’s recording of the greeting for 1-800-555-2545:
