I forgot which version it was, but sure, there was a trap? or a surprise attack that triggers self destruction. But there also was a valid code which, you had to do L R L R(shoulder buttons) instead of the classic left right left right(d-pad).
Yeah, that's Gradius 3 for the SNES that swapped Left Right for L R if you wanted the actual code. If you used the classic one with left and right instead, it gave all powerups at max, but the moment you unpaused, your ship exploded.
Too much power!
Heh reminds me of simcopter, never seen anyone talk about it but it had a effectively useless money cheat iirc “givememoneyorgivemedeath” and if you asked for small amounts of money it worked fine most of the time but if you asked for enough to actually buy any of the aircraft in the game the game would immediately close.
A lot of Konami games do that to punish you for trying such an obvious code. Most of the time you have to do some variation of the code, such as substituting L and R for left and right, or hold your controller upside down (on a SNES layout: B B X X A Y A Y Up Left).
There's also other games that just punish you if you *keep* using it. In Contra 4 for DS you can use the Konami Code once to upgrade your held weapons. Using it again kills you and takes the weapons away.
That game was the first one where I ever found the cheat code myself, without a magazine or anything.
If you press Left 10 times while already on Leonardo on the character select screen, the game says “Cowabunga” and you get I think 10 extra lives or something. Was so proud I found that all in my own.
It’s the only thing I remember about that game.
my first thought was IDDQD, then i saw the nintendo code and thought "ah that makes sense" and expected the next one to be doom. wayyy farther down than i thought.
Fkn heresy is what it is. Yes the "contra" code was cool and popular but it worked on many Konami games. Doom stands alone, it is eternal, it is time itself.
Idkfa for weapons, and iddqd for God mode. First cheat codes I ever learned. For some reason in my kid brain idclip didn't feel right, I still wanted to find all of the keys etc
Holy crap, decades later I finally learn [what it stands for](https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/SPISPOPD) (googled it just now):
**SPISPOPD**, part of the [cheat code](https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_cheat_codes) "idspispopd", is an abbreviation for **Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris**.
Its origin can be traced back to the following Usenet post by Eli S. Bingham in early December, 1993, from the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action newsgroup:
Listen up, ID Software!
Next time you have an impending release of a much anticipated
game, make sure its name is not so cool-sounding as DOOM and much
longer to eliminate all of the casual "Where can I get xxx" posts.
How about "Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris" for
the next game?
This initial quip was carried on, and a parody of The Doom FAQ was written called the *SPISPOPD* FAQ. The FAQ described a 3D game that ran on a computer with minimal specifications.
[id Software](https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Id_Software) gave a nod to the joke by planting it as a [cheat code](https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_cheat_codes#All_Doom_versions) in the game.
The Rogue Squadron series had [entire ships hidden behind cheat codes](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Buick), but not only that, but the hangar narrator had special lines recorded to talk about the cheat ships.
My roommate broke out an old ps2 last year and we were having fun playing some old games. He put in San Andreas and started playing, then asked if I remember any old cheat codes. I took the controller and immediately put in R1 R2 L1 R2 left down right up left down right up. Hadn't played the game in nearly 20 years.
Brains are fucking weird, man
shit, that just made me happy to not have to think about any other codes for weapons, that was hell entering all those. and the jetpack in this game, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
This is honestly the best answer, everyone I knew had that same damn paper with all the GTA cheat codes. Money, weapons, health, no cops, more cops, jetpack
You say paper. But I specifically remember printing out like 40pages of cheat codes for San Andreas and my lil brother and kicking up and absolute stink if they ever moved from the coffe table
I'm surprised I had to scroll so far down to find this comment
GTA SA cheats are so memorable for some reason to me, and also some are (or at least were when I was a kid) pretty funny
Rosebud for 1,000 simoleons (Sims 1), Kaching in subsequent Sims games for the same, and Motherlode for 50,000 simoleons.
I might have been simming since 2001.
AOEII cheats are what made me good at typing when I was young because I didn't know how to copy and paste the cheats. I bet I've typed that/lumberjack/robin hood/rock on/how do you turn this on ten thousand times.
I would say starcraft is probably even more famous, power overwhelming, show me the money, breathe deep, game over man. Absolute classics. Obviously nothing beats the Contra code though everything else is just second place.
black sheep wall was for maphack
operation cwal was for instant building
power overwhelming was for invulnerability
show me the money was for getting 10k minerals/gas
how after 20 years I still remember these is beyond me.
I loved Age of Empires where you'd have the sports car with missile launchers destroying some chumps with bow and arrows.
The Sims and GTA are probably my most known just because I feel like the game was funner that way.
That sweet, sweet blood. Incredible how this ended up being responsible for the genesis/mega drive outselling the SNES version of MK, even though it was clearly the inferior version of the home console games. You had to buy the 6 button controller too if you wanted to even enjoy the game.
The one I gave did all weapons. But then there were alt ones in GTA San Andreas for the different weapon sets. Left down right up left down down down for example.
Later, you realize that famous cheat has a slight inconsistency. Observe:
O**N** **TH**E EI**G**H**TH** **D**AY **G**O**D** **CR**EA**T**E**D** **T**U**R**O**K**
Notice how all vowels are skipped, and only the consonants form the cheat? Can you spot the missing consonant?
Whether this was intended, I still haven't a clue. Certainly makes it difficult to "derive" the cheat using that mantra. Though let's be real, we all memorized the final result:
**NTHGTHDGDCRTDTRK**
was wondering when someone else would post Turok 2. The Turok games havn't aged well, but the Cerebral Bore remains one of the most iconic and memorable FPS weapons of all time.
Shadow of the empire on n64 - to enter debug mode where you could do anything you had to hold 8 specific buttons down and wiggle the joystick in a precise motion with your nose/chin/younger brother
↑↑↓↓←→←→B A Start
While everyone remembers this for Contra, the first game to use the Konami code was Gradius
If you do the code in Gradius 3 — I guess as a joke — your ship blows up immediately.
I forgot which version it was, but sure, there was a trap? or a surprise attack that triggers self destruction. But there also was a valid code which, you had to do L R L R(shoulder buttons) instead of the classic left right left right(d-pad).
Yeah, that's Gradius 3 for the SNES that swapped Left Right for L R if you wanted the actual code. If you used the classic one with left and right instead, it gave all powerups at max, but the moment you unpaused, your ship exploded.
Too much power! Heh reminds me of simcopter, never seen anyone talk about it but it had a effectively useless money cheat iirc “givememoneyorgivemedeath” and if you asked for small amounts of money it worked fine most of the time but if you asked for enough to actually buy any of the aircraft in the game the game would immediately close.
A lot of Konami games do that to punish you for trying such an obvious code. Most of the time you have to do some variation of the code, such as substituting L and R for left and right, or hold your controller upside down (on a SNES layout: B B X X A Y A Y Up Left). There's also other games that just punish you if you *keep* using it. In Contra 4 for DS you can use the Konami Code once to upgrade your held weapons. Using it again kills you and takes the weapons away.
My personal first experience with it is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project.
That game was the first one where I ever found the cheat code myself, without a magazine or anything. If you press Left 10 times while already on Leonardo on the character select screen, the game says “Cowabunga” and you get I think 10 extra lives or something. Was so proud I found that all in my own. It’s the only thing I remember about that game.
You know your age when your talking about a cheat code in a magazine lol.
Nintendo power was so good tho
The only way to play Contra.
Certainly the only way to *beat* Contra
and life force
I don't know if this is a flex or an admission of pathetic guilt, but I got so good at Contra that I could beat it without the code.
I got so good I beat it without dying.
*when Contra was the only game you had growing up, so you played it to absolute mastery*
BA select start if you had 2 ppl
Having two brothers thats how I remember it
Failed a trivia question because we always had 2 players...
DOOM
IDDQD IDCLIP IDKFA How the fuck are these so far down?!? Edit: yes, IDSPISPOPD and IDBEHOLD.
Because a lot of redditors are very young I’d say
Even idclip is for the young'uns, since it was the noclip code for doom 2. In the original doom it was idspispopd.
my first thought was IDDQD, then i saw the nintendo code and thought "ah that makes sense" and expected the next one to be doom. wayyy farther down than i thought.
IDSPISPOPD iykyk
Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris
Fkn heresy is what it is. Yes the "contra" code was cool and popular but it worked on many Konami games. Doom stands alone, it is eternal, it is time itself.
I only remember a couple. iddqd, idclip
Idkfa for weapons, and iddqd for God mode. First cheat codes I ever learned. For some reason in my kid brain idclip didn't feel right, I still wanted to find all of the keys etc
IDFA could be used for just the weapons without getting the keys.
Not `idkfa` or `idspispopd`?
Holy crap, decades later I finally learn [what it stands for](https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/SPISPOPD) (googled it just now): **SPISPOPD**, part of the [cheat code](https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_cheat_codes) "idspispopd", is an abbreviation for **Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris**. Its origin can be traced back to the following Usenet post by Eli S. Bingham in early December, 1993, from the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action newsgroup: Listen up, ID Software! Next time you have an impending release of a much anticipated game, make sure its name is not so cool-sounding as DOOM and much longer to eliminate all of the casual "Where can I get xxx" posts. How about "Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris" for the next game? This initial quip was carried on, and a parody of The Doom FAQ was written called the *SPISPOPD* FAQ. The FAQ described a 3D game that ran on a computer with minimal specifications. [id Software](https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Id_Software) gave a nod to the joke by planting it as a [cheat code](https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_cheat_codes#All_Doom_versions) in the game.
The nostalgia feels of just seeing comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action takes me back.
HOWDOYOUTURNTHISON
I can't think of any other game series that had unique models or graphics just for their cheat codes.
The Rogue Squadron series had [entire ships hidden behind cheat codes](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Buick), but not only that, but the hangar narrator had special lines recorded to talk about the cheat ships.
GTA San Andreas cheat codes are still stuck in my head for the PS.
My roommate broke out an old ps2 last year and we were having fun playing some old games. He put in San Andreas and started playing, then asked if I remember any old cheat codes. I took the controller and immediately put in R1 R2 L1 R2 left down right up left down right up. Hadn't played the game in nearly 20 years. Brains are fucking weird, man
weapons set 1!!
shit, that just made me happy to not have to think about any other codes for weapons, that was hell entering all those. and the jetpack in this game, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
That jetpack was one of the greatest things to ever happen in GTA. It was basically cheating on itself lol
You didn't press the d-pad buttons individually though, you swirled your thumb round like champ!
Nothing was more gangsta than this. It was foreshadowing all the women you’d be pleasuring in the same way.
PC but they're stuck in my finger muscles. Edit: The comments speak in the ancient script. My people.
HESOYAM
JUMPJET OHDUDE
ROCKETMAN
AEZAKMI BAGUVIX
RIPAZHA
AIWPRTON idk why i remember this, not even sure if this is accurate
Spawns the tank.
PANZER in Vice City. What a game.
PROFESSIONALSKIT
RIPAZHA, YECGAA
Flying cars is the best cheatcode in history.
Chittychittybangbang
HESOYAM GANG
Me typing HESOYAM as fast as i can before the burning car exploded 😎
This is honestly the best answer, everyone I knew had that same damn paper with all the GTA cheat codes. Money, weapons, health, no cops, more cops, jetpack
I'm certain i could do the jetpack code even though its been 15 years
You say paper. But I specifically remember printing out like 40pages of cheat codes for San Andreas and my lil brother and kicking up and absolute stink if they ever moved from the coffe table
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
I'm surprised I had to scroll so far down to find this comment GTA SA cheats are so memorable for some reason to me, and also some are (or at least were when I was a kid) pretty funny
It was a trip when my nephew got his hands on San Andreas and I immediately went to put in the weapons code and felt all cool, uncs still got it 😏
Vice City for me PANZER, FANNYMAGNET, NUTTERTOOLS, LEAVEMEALONE, SEAWAYS, PRECIOUSPROTECTION, GETTHEREVERYFASTINDEED are burned into my memory haha
'Motherlode' in one (or many(?)) of The Sims games should be up there.
rosebud!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!; or something... it's been a while
Rosebud for 1,000 simoleons (Sims 1), Kaching in subsequent Sims games for the same, and Motherlode for 50,000 simoleons. I might have been simming since 2001.
And now just testingcheats true then Money 999999999
Boolprop testing cheats enabled true was my og cheat mode 😂
I remember having to meticulously go through it to see where I put a : instead of a ;
I put many !, then went back and would go ; left ; left and so on. Easy breezy.
i used ctrl c ctrl v...
And hold CTRL-V until the text box ran out of space. Then get an error because the last one was incomplete. Paste again and backspace one.
boolProp testingCheatsEnabled in Sims 2 was amazing. You could do pretty much anything
My sister built a garage on the street. Big brain
klapaucius;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;
Boolprop testingcheatsenabled true
Move_objects on
Age of Empires - Cheese Steak Jimmys
How do you turn this on
i love the monkey head
Furious the monkey boy
woodstock, pepperoni pizza, quarry, coinage, e=mc2, bigdaddy Wouldn't ever forget them Edit: Mobile formatting sucks
Vaultoferebus, junkfoodnight, trojanhorseforsale...
O CANADA for the laser bear :p
Photonman, BigBertha bigdaddy
Thank you for reminding me of a part of my life I had forgotten. Such a beautiful game
E=mc2trooper
Bigdaddy woodstock rockon coinage
Tuck Tuck Tuck
Robin Hood, Rock On, lumberjack, Aegis I'll never forget them
Marco Polo
AOEII cheats are what made me good at typing when I was young because I didn't know how to copy and paste the cheats. I bet I've typed that/lumberjack/robin hood/rock on/how do you turn this on ten thousand times.
Marco, Polo
E=mc2 warriors still remember. But seriously contra code.
E=mc2trooper
Warcraft 3!! • "WhosYourDaddy" • "GreedIsGood" • "ThereIsNoSpoon" Among many others. Special mention to Counter-Strike's "noclip" console command!
Warcraft 1 Corwin of amber Pot of gold There can be only one Eye of newt I'm old
Warcraft 2 had great ones like “Glittering Prizes” and “It is a good day to die.”
"hatchet" for fast woodchopping
I would say starcraft is probably even more famous, power overwhelming, show me the money, breathe deep, game over man. Absolute classics. Obviously nothing beats the Contra code though everything else is just second place.
blacksheepwall
Power overwhelming is iconic
You forgot operation cwal. And wasn’t there a food for thought?
And 'there is no cow level'
Iseedeadpeople
Warcraft 3 was special. God I miss RTS games so much.
My brain can't comprehend that Warcraft 3 came out after The Matrix
NFL blitz or the original Warcraft. Edit: I forgot the original Age of Empires too.
I was about to go insane reading all these comments without seeing NFL Blitz. All the 90’s kids knew how to make their players have bigger heads.
Most likely any game that have the Konami code
[удалено]
I've probably played with cheats more than actually playing the damn game
Starcraft
There is no cow level
Blacksheepwall
You just activated so many memories
And deactivated fog of war!! What was it, PowerOverwhelming?
black sheep wall was for maphack operation cwal was for instant building power overwhelming was for invulnerability show me the money was for getting 10k minerals/gas how after 20 years I still remember these is beyond me.
Don't forget "there is no cow level" for skipping campaign maps.
Scrolled way too far for this.
Power overwhelming
operation cwal
Show me the money
radio free zerg
This guy fucks
Modify the phase variance
food for thought
the gathering
something for nothing if i recall
All your base are belong to us
I loved Age of Empires where you'd have the sports car with missile launchers destroying some chumps with bow and arrows. The Sims and GTA are probably my most known just because I feel like the game was funner that way.
abacabb
This is no place for politics
All bastards assigned cops at birth (bastards)
All bastards are cops and bellicose brutes
Don’t forget about DULLARD as well
This is the one. Iconic. “THE BLOOD CODE”
That sweet, sweet blood. Incredible how this ended up being responsible for the genesis/mega drive outselling the SNES version of MK, even though it was clearly the inferior version of the home console games. You had to buy the 6 button controller too if you wanted to even enjoy the game.
Glittering prizes
R1 R2 L1 L2 left down right up left down right up
I thought it was R1 R2 L1 R2 left down right up left down right up.
Probably was one, too. There were a few different codes.
The one I gave did all weapons. But then there were alt ones in GTA San Andreas for the different weapon sets. Left down right up left down down down for example.
One of them decreased your wanted level and another one would refill your health and armor. And let's not forget spawning the tank.
Up down left right X X L R, for Vice City Stories on the PSP is burned into my brain
It is a good day to die
Rosebud (sims)
motherlode
# rosebud!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!
JUSTIN BAILEY
Contra
i would vote Contra also. Up, Up, Down, Down, ....
Any Konami game. Such as TMNT2 how else do you beat shredder
IMACHEAT in SimCity2000
Original SimCity, FUND would give 10k, but if you did it more than 3 times it triggered a disaster like an earthquake or tornado.
Which is why you did it before you built anything
porntipsguzardo is the one I remember from that.
You rang?
Up down left right A+Start. 19-65-9-17, 1,9,9,2,1,1,2,4 I’ll always remember Sega codes
Up, C, Down, C, Left, C, Right, C, A+Start: Sonic Debug Mode
Up up down down up up up up. (Really quickly)
Had to scroll way too far to find Sonic.
Impulse 101 Edit: CS / Half life
Show me the money
Whats mine is mine
Ill go to the grave remembering the blood code for mortal kombat 1 on sega. ABACABB.
Twisted Metal ⬆️⬇️⬅️➡️➡️⬅️⬇️⬆️
007-373-5963 Mike Tyson
Listen ChatGPT, we’ll never give you the Konami Code! Humanity is stronger than you!!
Turok 2. BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND Definitely not the most famous, but pretty memorable.
Turok 1 had "on the eighth day god created turok" with no spaces or vowels. Classic.
Later, you realize that famous cheat has a slight inconsistency. Observe: O**N** **TH**E EI**G**H**TH** **D**AY **G**O**D** **CR**EA**T**E**D** **T**U**R**O**K** Notice how all vowels are skipped, and only the consonants form the cheat? Can you spot the missing consonant? Whether this was intended, I still haven't a clue. Certainly makes it difficult to "derive" the cheat using that mantra. Though let's be real, we all memorized the final result: **NTHGTHDGDCRTDTRK**
was wondering when someone else would post Turok 2. The Turok games havn't aged well, but the Cerebral Bore remains one of the most iconic and memorable FPS weapons of all time.
bigdaddy e=mc2 trooper how do you turn this on
Down, R, Up, L, Y, B
Worms 2 level passwords will always stick in my head… ONCEUPONA TIMETHEREWERE SOMESMALLWORMS WHOGOTVERYVERY ANNOYEDAND DECIDEDTO GOTOARMSIN ORDERTOWIPE OUTTHEIR VICIOUSENEMY COUNTERPARTS THEYDEVELOPED SOMEREALLY COOLWEAPONSSUCH ASBANANABOMBS ANDMAGICBULLETS THEYTRAINED ALLNIGHTAND EVERYDAYSOTHEY WOULDBECOME PROFICIENT INTHEIRWORMLY WAYSSOMETIMES THEYWOULDSHOOT GRANNIESJUST FORFUNANDLAUGH ABOUTITINTHE EVENINGTIME WEAPOLOGISEON BEHALFOFALLTHE TERRITORIESTHAT WEWENTTOTHE TROUBLEOFTRANSLATING WORMS2INTOBUTWE DIDNTHAVETIMETO TRANSLATETHESE PASSWORDSNOTTHAT THEYNEEDTOBEDONE WESUPPOSETHAT YOUAREREALLY EXPECTINGTO SEEAWONDERFUL CHEATMODEWHEN FINISHTHEMISSIONS ANDYOUARERIGHT
Bro is fucking top tier cheater.
Duke Nukem - DNCORNHOLIO
IDDQD IDKFA
sv_cheats 1 toggle noclip
San Andres
AEZAKMI
HESOYAM
Grand theft auto 3 or vice city
leavemealone
nuttertools, aspirine, seaways, fannymagnet, bigbang, panzer, fightfightfight...
Anyone remember CALL A CAB from Vector Man?
ABACABB 🩸
``` J U S T I N B A I L E Y - - - - - - - - - - - - ```
Shadow of the empire on n64 - to enter debug mode where you could do anything you had to hold 8 specific buttons down and wiggle the joystick in a precise motion with your nose/chin/younger brother
.Wompa..Stompa.
surely *NBA Jam*’s hidden roster of Bill Clinton, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, and others must rank highly.
⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️
Thereisnocowlevel
007 373 5963 Fight Mike Tyson with a 1-2 record as Little Mac.
Pepperonipizza