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Here’s How To Play Tetris And Asteroids On Lab Equipment

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Here’s How To Play Tetris And Asteroids On Lab Equipment

Reddit user IAmAHiggsBoson stumbled onto a little easter egg on his oscilloscope: apparently if you press the right series of buttons, you can play Tetris instead of measuring voltages, or doing some other kind of boring “actual work”.

So if you find yourself bored at work, you can follow the instructions in the imgur album he posted:

Here’s How To Play Tetris And Asteroids On Lab Equipment
  1. Press the Print/Utility button
  2. Press the 2nd and 3rd monitor buttons together
  3. Play Tetris

You can even see it in action here:

Following his advice, Redditor That_Baker_Guy found one that plays Asteroids:

Here’s How To Play Tetris And Asteroids On Lab Equipment

And Redditor kryptkpr found a game called BUGS which they described as “basically Centipede with difficult to use controls”:

Here’s How To Play Tetris And Asteroids On Lab Equipment

As an additional bonus, here’s a crazy music video on an oscilloscope:

Tetris Easter Egg [Reddit]

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