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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 Gadgets 6 Comments

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