Happy 40th birthday, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A!
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You don’t look a day over 30 lives.
On this very day in 1986, a piece of code was accidentally left in the Famicom (NES) version of Konami’s Gradius that allowed anyone to completely juice up their spaceship by pressing up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, then A on the controller. And so began the legendary “Konami Code”, which really caught on in the West as a way to get 30 lives in Contra.
And in celebration of the cheat code’s 40th anniversary, Konami has opened a commemorative
On this very day in 1986, a piece of code was accidentally left in the Famicom (NES) version of Konami’s Gradius that allowed anyone to completely juice up their spaceship by pressing up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, then A on the controller. And so began the legendary “Konami Code”, which really caught on in the West as a way to get 30 lives in Contra.
And in celebration of the cheat code’s 40th anniversary, Konami has opened a commemorative
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