Konami Code

Konami Code
The Konami Code

The Konami Code, known in Japan as the Konami Command (コナミコマンド Konami Komando?), is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games,[1] although the code also appears in some non-Konami games.[2] The code was first used in the 1986 release of Gradius for the Nintendo Entertainment System[3] but was popularized among North American players in the NES version of Contra, for which it was also dubbed both the "Contra Code" and "30 Lives Code". During the title screen before the game demo begins, the player could press the following sequence of buttons on the game controller:

B A

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The original version of the cheat code was designed for the NES controller. The exact sequence varies from game to game, and has been adapted to fit the button layouts of different video game consoles; mostly the A and B buttons. For example: any PlayStation controller, which uses shapes instead of letters, would be "X, Circle", appearing even in Konami's Dance Dance Revolution series, being input on the dance pad. In mobile phone games by Konami, they are substituted with 5 7 3 on the numerical pad, which is the goroawase pronunciation for "konami."

History

The result of entering the Konami code on Facebook within Mozilla Firefox in November 2009.
One-time result of entering the Konami code on Marvel's website, a squirrel version of Deadpool.

The Konami Code was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who was developing the home port of the 1985 arcade game Gradius, a scrolling shooter released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986. Finding the game too difficult to play through during testing, he created a cheat code to give the player a full set of power-ups (normally attained gradually throughout the game).[2] The code was present in the released Gradius after Kazuhisa forgot to remove the code. Players discovered and shared the code. It has been included in the other sequels and spin-offs, including the SNES version of Gradius III, which actually destroys the player's ship upon entering the original code (however, substituting and with the L and R triggers of the SNES controller powers up the ship), all the way through the most recent iteration of the series, Gradius Rebirth on the Wii, where the Wii Remote's 1 and 2 buttons fill in for A and B, respectively.

The code has been subsequently re-used in a large number of other games, and has found a place in popular culture[4] as a reference to the third generation of video game consoles. For example, entering the code is one of two standard ways to put a Palm webOS device (such as the Palm Pre or Palm Pixi) into "developer mode", and the code is also present as an Easter egg on a number of websites.[5][6][7][8] The code is also used in a variation where Start is replaced with Up, Up, Up, Up for the command a PS3 user must use to reset their Netflix account on the Netflix application.

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