Friday, March 09, 2007

What has been happening...Nothing



It is not like I haven't thought of writing something...but some how I never end up typing anything. But today I came across something so nostalgic I just had to post it (even if it might end up as just a picture post...)

The picture on the left or above ( courtesy http://www.duelinganalogs.com/) is a salute to one of the oldest cheat codes in the gaming industry - associated with one of the most popular console games ever, Contra (developed by the Japanese game developer Konami).

For those not aware, the sequence as depicted in the cartoon is the famous up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A-Start sequence that resulted in you starting the game with 30 spare lives.

The code proved so popular that developers incorporated it into more than 100 video games, each providing a unique cheat. Ah the good old console days...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ah the Konami code...good old 8 bit games!!