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=== Easter Eggs ===
The game has an [[easter egg (virtual)|easter egg]] related to various holidays. If the system date is set to the dates of the following, the loading screen will be changed:
* Easter
* Cinco de Mayo
* Independence Day
* Halloween
* Christmas
In each case, a character on the loading screen will be wearing a hat or holding an object related to the holiday. In addition, on Christmas, a rock rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is played on the first level.

Another [[easter egg (virtual)|easter egg]] is known as ''Scott's Mystical Head'' - a floating digitized image of the head of Scott Miller, who was the president of Apogee at the time of ROTT's being developed and released. Scott's Mystical Head is in the form of an object that can be picked up like another item such as a health item or a weapon; when it is picked up, the player is rewarded with 2,764,331 points. The reason for 2,764,331 points beings given is because the digits in that number originate from Apogee's past phone number, which was 1-800-276-4331.

[[Dopefish]] makes an appearance in Rise of the Triad as well. If in the command prompt "ROTT DOPEFISH" is typed instead of simply "ROTT," a sample of burping is heard and Scott's Mystical Head is seen spinning in circles on the screen. The names of the levels change to somehow pertain to [[dopefish]] and on one level, "Eight Ways to Hell," there is a secret area where a series of walls spells out "Dopefish Lives!" in the Standard Galactic Alphabet from [[Commander Keen]].

Like [[Wolfenstein 3d]], ROTT used a similar pushwall system, whereby a pushed wall would move until it hit a restricting object (either a stop flag or another wall). One of the multiplayer stages in ROTT, called "This causes an error" has a pushwall set in motion at the start of the level which is purposefully aimed towards an unclosed edge of the map. When this occurs shortly after the level loads, a special screen is displayed along with the error message as the pushwall has literally come free from the map.