The third and final challenge involves getting to Planet Doom and beating "Adventure", OASIS co-creator James Halliday's favourite game for the Atari 2600, housed in a castle protected by a forcefield. Other players help Parzival attack the forces protecting it, and Art3mis deactivates the forcefield, but a bomb is triggered by Sorrento, killing all the avatars on the planet. Because Parzival had won a coin earlier, he gets an extra life, plays through the game and finds the easter egg, getting the last key.
He's given a contract to sign for his reward by the avatar of Halliday, but he recognises it's the same one the co-creator of OASIS signed, a decision Halliday had regretted taking. He refuses to sign it, and learns that was the final test - Halliday didn't want him to make the same mistakes. Parzival wins the golden egg, and with it control of OASIS. Sorrento is arrested for the bombing of Wade's stack, and Wade runs OASIS with the other "high five" who helped him win. Innovative Online Industries is forced to stop using indentured servants, and the OASIS will be shut down twice a week, forcing people to spend time in reality.
Plot hole: When Wade and Art3mis are in the dance club he uses Zimecki's cube to turn back time 60 seconds. But the time from when IOI crashes through the roof until Wade uses the cube is 75 seconds. So IOI still would have been there for 15 seconds. Not to mention the fact that it just automatically seems to know that it wants the user and Artemis to also be immune to this silly time reverse effect.
Halliday: Why can't we go backwards... for once? Backwards, really fast. Fast as we can. Heh heh. Really put the pedal to the metal, you know? Bill and Ted did it.(00:25:10)
Trivia: After Wade introduces his own avatar, it shows a line of people waiting by a portal. Just before Tracer shows up to the portal, you can see Sonic the Hedgehog standing towards the back of the line tapping his foot in the famous idle animation from the original game where he would tap his foot impatiently if the player left him standing still for too long.(00:04:55)
Question: Why does Art3mis seem surprised that she can't finish the race past King Kong for the first Easter egg? Isn't it widespread knowledge by then that nobody can get past that point (which is why there's barely anyone trying to complete the hunt anymore)?
Answer:If it's widely known then they wouldn't do the race. They keep on trying and getting to the point with King Kong is all they know, somehow getting past him this time. Artemis, when she saw the jump, thought she could do it this time, but after Parzival saves her and tells her it can't be done she realises he is probably right and she wouldn't have made it.
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Answer: If it's widely known then they wouldn't do the race. They keep on trying and getting to the point with King Kong is all they know, somehow getting past him this time. Artemis, when she saw the jump, thought she could do it this time, but after Parzival saves her and tells her it can't be done she realises he is probably right and she wouldn't have made it.
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