I'm sorry, but if anyone actually believes this they need to be sterilized immediately.

Erm, why? Nearly all programmable calculators can do much more complicated stuff than this so I don't see why it couldn't be real.

EDIT: on further examination the display type changes when it goes into "pong mode", so I guess you were right. Still it would have been entirely plausible if the creator had used a calc with a matrix display to start with.

Why can't it be real... ok you have pretty much stated it. But this video tries to state that this works on almost any calculator... so, how about we look at 'almost any calculator'... what is the display? A collection of 8 segment displays, in NO WAY capable of displaying a small dot or bars moving around with per pixel accuracy.

And tell me that your standard desktop calculator would waste the memory and logic required to handle pong.

This is just someone seeing if they can make people believe something completely false by the 1leet graphic skills... BAH to them.

Yes, I'm sure there may be some scientific calculators with a matrix display that might have pong included either as an extra app you can install, or maybe, just possibly one or two may have it as a 'special feature', but it would be only on specific models with specific ways to get to said easter egg, not some amazing global decision that this particular key combo will always fire up pong, no matter what hardware you're using.

My goodness there are a lot of gullible people out on the interweb.

*lies I know I can't invoke that, but it makes me feel better for trying...

Invocations (lies) cannot be called by spoco2 because spoco2 is not privileged - sorry.

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Adding video to channels (Lies) - requested by special_ops.

Sterlize anyone who even thinks about getting a calculator and typing in numbers.

We're going to be raising a generation of sterile children =\

Good job spazzing out there spoco. I clearly stated in my edit that I realised the display wasn't the right kind when I watched it again. But quite a few simple devices like calculators *do* contain "easter eggs" normally when their rom chips are bigger than they need to be for whatever reason. If canon uses chips with a fixed capacity to make acquisition easier and they use a standard logic then it is in fact entirely reasonable to assume something like this could happen.

Of course it didn't but thats not the point. There's no need to get so angry just because someone posted a fake vid on the internet. "Oh noes! Think of the children!"

Well I do know of one easter egg that is built into every calculators: 8008 on the calculators display looks mysteriously like the word "boob"....