What the Heck Happened the Video Game Cheat Codes?
generations’ games; cheat codes. What in the heck happened the video game cheats? If you’ve been a gamer for any extended amount of time, you can finish the rest of this pattern, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right… fill in the blank. The Konami code is quite possibly the most popular cheat code in the history of gaming cheats and although it applies to quite a few games, it’s most known as the game cheat for Contra that unlocked 30 lives. The Konami code made Contra somewhat beatable and cheat codes like the A, B, A, C, A, B, B cheat that unlocked blood in Mortal Kombat served to enhance the experience of video games – so why have they disappeared. Back in the retro [and even somewhat modern] days of gaming, cheat codes meant everything – and could even make or break a game. Cheats were plastered all throughout gaming magazines, cheat cartridges like Game Genie, Action Replay, and GameShark were top sellers, and lots of gamers only visited the web for the sole purpose of fi
