Canada hid the Konami Code in its commemorative $10 bill launch Punch it in and you'll get an adorable, patriotic surprise.
From Engadget
Canada's currency is already the world's dorkiest, with its plastic material, transparent windows and holograms everywhere. For a $10 bill celebrating the nation's 150th anniversary, however, the Bank of Canada outdid itself with an Easter egg on its website that rewards visitors with (a dorky version of) the national anthem and a shower of tens down the screen. The best part is that to get it, you punch in the "Konami Code" first made famous in Konami's 1986 Contra NES game.https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/11/canada-hid-the-konami-code-in-its-commemorative-10-bill-launch/"The Bank of Canada's web team thought the Konami code (below) was a fun way to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation," Bank of Canada spokeswoman Josianne Menard told CTV news. (It's not clear exactly what Konami and video games have to do with Canada's sesquicentennial, but as a Canadian, I heartily approve.)
On top of being laden with anti-counterfeiting tech that makes it extremely difficult to copy (holograms, raised ink, color-changing images and polymer materials), the new ten is a who's who and what's what of Canadian history. It features Canada's founding Prime Minister John A. MacDonald, Agnes Macphail, first woman parliamentarian, and Indigenous peoples pioneer James Gladstone, known in his Blackfoot language as Akay-na-muka.
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