How many cans could a can depalletizer depalletize, if a can depalletizer could depalletize cans? Can a can depalletizer depalletize cans? Well, this can depalletizer… can. And it does it in the coolest of ways: by referencing Street Fighter II via its user interface.
For the, what, two (?) people among you that don’t know what a can depalletizer is, I’ll give you the skinny. Also, get with the program, you squares. Basically, in the brewing industry, so multitudinous are the numbers of aluminium cans being produced to store whatever dollar-store swill they’re destined for that companies will often store them in pallets. I’m talking floor-to-ceiling storage here, the kind that would make any rookie forklift driver tremble with fright and clutch their job contract that much tighter. It’s the function of this specific machine to, well, un-store them so they can be filled with booze, pop and so on. Got it? Good. Utterly crucial information there.
Street Fighter input commands
Back to the story. As NintendoLife reports, a poster on Reddit has found that if you input a particular series of commands into the Ska Fab Nimbus (isn’t that the thing Harry Potter rides around on, or am I an idiot?) depalletizer, it’ll reward you with a screengrab from the classic arcade fighter on its readout. I can only assume that said Reddit user was very, very, very bored. Take a look:
As for why this image is built into such an incredibly specific spot, on the software of a machine most folks will never be interested enough to tinker around with… erm, I got nothing. And neither does the report. I guess it’s a safe assumption whoever programmed it is a bit of a gamer; or, given the context, had a few too many before sitting down to code. It happens to the best of us.
Before you know it, someone will find the game over screen from Donkey Kong Country built into a Smirnoff machine. And won’t that just be a fine how-do-ya-do.
Do you find this Street Fighter easter egg amusing? Have you ever encountered a depalletizer before? Let us know!
Via, NintendoLife.
