This is a true gamer test if you were playing video games since at least 1988.
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I'm pretty sure that's a cheat code for GTA III, probably weapons. I also remember that changing L1 to another shoulder button are also cheat codes, I think for armor and life and maybe something else.elvor0 said:
I have one for you all:
"HELP ME"
I think Silent Hill 3 and/or Silent Hill: Origins (made by Konami) use it as well on the PS2. The B and A buttons are replaced of course.LaoJim said:
Batista gets a new title run?Msanchez said:
But seriously, this isn't even an age test. It's a meme to the point of cliché.
There were variants in several Konami games. I couldn't tell you specifically which one this is from, but I've got what I think are all of the variants hardwired into my brain from years of playing. I'm 99% sure this (with the inverted left right at the end) is accurate for at least one game.Creator002 said:
No, "true gamer"status should be lost to anyone born after 1982. There is totally a reason for that specific number and I am not arbitrarily picking it for a joke because it was the year my brother was born.Olas said:
Not sure about that one, but ABBA was used to keep playing Ikari Warriors on the NES. Think it worked on the sequel too, can't remember for sure.Signa said:
No, it's not. Up up down down left right left right B A Select Start is the correct code for two players. You flipped the second iteration of left and right and added a B and A button press for some reason. Worked for Contra and Life Force on the NES, and having used the code countless times for both games, even when I got to the point I didn't need to, I know it's correct.Msanchez said:
Well OP, considering that's not the Konami code, and I feel as though that was your intention, it means to me that you may have ironically failed your own test. 
Joking aside, here are a few for people to guess:
*SPUNKJOCKEY
*ANENERGYBARTOGETYOUFAR
*FARMBOY
*RSJABBER
*BADBUDDY
*SHOWMETHEMONEY
Game and code effect. Good luck.
Joking aside, here are a few for people to guess:
*SPUNKJOCKEY
*ANENERGYBARTOGETYOUFAR
*FARMBOY
*RSJABBER
*BADBUDDY
*SHOWMETHEMONEY
Game and code effect. Good luck.
I'm not entirely sure on this one, but I think that's the one to skip levels in the PC version of the original Tomb Raider. Or possibly make Lara explode. I think they reversed the spin in the second Tomb Raider or something to keep you on your toes.SteveTR said:
I'm sure I read somewhere that it was because of the Americans that it got renamed (after the controversy over the Iran-Contra Affair), although one would have thought that would have got it renamed in America rather than Europe...LaoJim said:
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That's where it's at.
I still remember that. It was the game genie code that let you use items as many times as you wanted in Super Mario 3.
Can't remember Konami code being a thing for us. I guess we didn't know about it as kids.
I only heard about it later.
That's where it's at.
I still remember that. It was the game genie code that let you use items as many times as you wanted in Super Mario 3.
Can't remember Konami code being a thing for us. I guess we didn't know about it as kids.
I only heard about it later.
Wasn't SHOWMETHEMONEY used in StarCraft for a quick boost to resources? That or a gold boost in Warcraft II, I can't remember which now.Vigormortis said:Well OP, considering that's not the Konami code, and I feel as though that was your intention, it means to me that you may have ironically failed your own test.
Joking aside, here are a few for people to guess:
*SPUNKJOCKEY
*ANENERGYBARTOGETYOUFAR
*FARMBOY
*RSJABBER
*BADBUDDY
*SHOWMETHEMONEY
Game and code effect. Good luck.
Oh, I always wondered why that last bit was left off. I still have the cartridge with the password written in sharpy on the back of it by my child-aged hands.cloroxbb said:and if playing 2 player, add SELECT, START to itJohnny Novgorod said:The REAL Konami Code is this:
Press these and then press ENTER on any page of The Escapist and something funny will happen.
Yep, it was Starcraft. Added 1,000 minerals and 1,000 gas to your pool.COMaestro said:Wasn't SHOWMETHEMONEY used in StarCraft for a quick boost to resources? That or a gold boost in Warcraft II, I can't remember which now.Vigormortis said:Well OP, considering that's not the Konami code, and I feel as though that was your intention, it means to me that you may have ironically failed your own test.
Joking aside, here are a few for people to guess:
*SPUNKJOCKEY
*ANENERGYBARTOGETYOUFAR
*FARMBOY
*RSJABBER
*BADBUDDY
*SHOWMETHEMONEY
Game and code effect. Good luck.
It is idspispopd and it stands for Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris. It came from a usenet community meme that got started when Doom was in development in 1992, though the causes of the meme are inconsistent. John Romero claims it came about as a joke due to the wild speculation going on among the users as to what Id's game would be about with someone claiming "Maybe it's about smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris!" The Doom wiki though says it got started out of frustration with people logging into the community's BBS and asking where they could get Doom even though it wasn't out yet. Someone said Id should call their next game Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris to deter people logging into the BBS at all hours asking where they could get the game.SmallHatLogan said:
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