Elon Musk got Cuphead to work on a Tesla

Apparently, Elon Musk has got Cuphead to play on one of his cars in-dash screens. File this under "Don't stop thinking if they should" for now, but it's possible.

According to a podcast with IGN's Ryan McCaffrey, released today (thanks The Verge). Musk told McCaffrey that the Unity engine is operating on the Tesla platform – which is the engine that runs ultra-hard run-and-gun games from 2017. Musk confirmed that Cuphead is "a cool game, it's angry hard" .

Because of why this is possible or a good idea, Musk last year pointed out that Atari video game ports were included as Easter eggs in a Tesla software update, that the games can only be played when the car is parked . Tesla cars have been involved in two fatal accidents involving their assisted driving autopilot functions. So the ability can be completely separate from driving, and the car may have other facilities dedicated to a park-and-chill-out experience, but surely someone is going to connect these two and make stinks about it.

McCaffrey followed up with a developer at Studio MDHR, who confirmed that Tesla had reached out to them to port the game. Cuphead on the Tesla operating system requires a USB controller (no touch screen controls) and only the Inkwell Isle One part can be played due to storage restrictions. But the game will come to Tesla owners later this summer.

The storage problem, Musk said, may require users to rotate their game selections by deleting old ones to accommodate newer downloads. Tesla owners for now have to find for themselves where the Atari games are hidden, but they can play them with the touch screen and steering wheel controls. Musk told McCaffrey that it was "a beach buggy driving game" that was also tested, in Unity, on the car as well.