I was the kid with the gameshark. And the code breaker. Oh man, all the cheats back in the day. It was essentially modding. Yeah, consoles had modding and it was all done on gameshark, action replay, and game genie. Oh those were the days.
Now you have to do illegal things which I'd rather not do for fear of being permabanned or going to jail, which is a real life ban if you think about it.
Games, except on PC (Oh my god I wish I had a gaming laptop instead of this 2009 laptop), don't have cheats anymore. Halo Reach lets you make a custom firefight mode where you can have infinite ammo and grenades and health and that's probably the closest you can get. GTA and Saints Row still have programmed cheats too, so that's nice.
But by god did I love cheating. Oh my god I loved it. There's nothing quite like feeling like a god of destruction and chaos. Yes, challenge fans, that's why some of us cheat or play on easy or both. Not online, because fuck those guys. But to me, nothing beats kicking back and playing as godzilla in human form for a while.
I also remember the first footage of an F1 game on the PS3 that blew my mind and a halo 2 preview that blew my mind and a killzone 2 preview that also blew my mind. E3 2006 had some great trailers.
But in all honesty, games are pretty good now, too. Ridge Racer Unbounded has this track editor which lets you make completely biased against the AI races but it still saves career progress from them. And you can build a wall across the track and the game will still be like "Ah fuckin' whatever, it's your shit. I'll even let you save it.". That's a pretty good game.
