If you've played through the Mass Effect series, you can get some fan service, too - try asking Alexa, "Does this unit have a soul?"įor something a little more classic, try telling Alexa to do a barrel roll - or try using the Konami code on her (that's Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start in case you've never cheated your way through Contra).
In addition to downloadable Alexa skills that can remind you of crafting recipes in Minecraft or tell you what armor is up for sale this week in Destiny, Alexa will recognize several classic gaming references.įor instance, if you're a fan of the Portal series you could try asking Alexa if the cake is a lie, or if she knows GladOS (yet another evil-AI with whom Alexa has an unsettling degree of familiarity).
Or you could cut right to the chase and tell her that her mother was a hamster.Īlexa is gamer-friendly, too. You can, for instance, ask her for the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow, and follow up by asking how she knows so much about swallows. Some of my favorites are Alexa's Monty Python references.