All the Things You Can Unlock with Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Start
“When Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a game developer for Konami, was porting his coin-op arcade game Gradius to the NES in 1985, he discovered what gamers had gone broke learning—it was incredibly hard. Unable to finish the game on his own, Hashimoto created a simple code to make his job easier.”
You can read the rest at WIRED including links to the 100 games where the cheat code works plus how it activates an Easter Egg at Google Docs.
You can get it on a t-shirt at $6 Dollar t-shirts for $6 dollars! 🙂
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29 April 2012
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Those were the good old days of video games…
My stepsons used to laugh at me because I couldn’t get that sequence down for the longest time… once I did… I still couldn’t beat them at most of the video games.
that shirt model looks too young to know what 8 bit nes is. hence, the confused look.
A robot appears if you do it at the wired page linked here. use enter as start…funny
It’s a Myth…
It’s a Legend…
It’s the Konami Code!
Love it! 😀
Isn’t that one of the codes to use on the LMQ Alive to get it to third gear? I don’t have one so I don’t know for sure.
Used to tell my kids this cheat and they would reply “That’s not true.”
Finally believed me when their uncle said he used to do it ALL the time on his NES (which he still has…)