Happy 40th birthday, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A!

https://soranews24.com/2026/04/24/happy-40th-birthday-up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a/

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MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip · 52 pts · 111d (6 replies)

And in celebration of the cheat code’s 40th anniversary, Konami has opened a commemorative webpage on the official site for its Project Zircon. The largely user-built world of this Web3 game platform is still under development, but is expected to include the Konami Code somehow as it grows.

Blockchain, NFT, "play to earn"... nope.

brsrklf@jlai.lu · 26 pts · 111d (3 replies)

Konami's only redeeming factor today is that they occasionally find people who give some fuck about their IPs and let them handle those.

Prathas@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 111d (2 replies)

Like what?

brsrklf@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 110d (1 reply)

Castlevania DLC in Dead Cells, and if it's anything like it, the new actual Castlevania game that is coming soon from the same developers. And it's a new Castlevania game that is not a freaking pachinko machine. It's been more than ten years since the last one... And that last one was also developed externally, by Mercury Steam.

Konami signed on a lot of crossovers lately (there's some random Contra ones too). Probably the only things of value bearing their name since forever.

Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 110d

They also made a deal with Vampire Survivors of all things. And of course poncle went all in on it. That DLC is bigger than the base game and it's such a love letter to the series that I'm not ashamed to say I shed a tear at the ending credits.

altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 111d (1 reply)

Are these web3 things still alive? Unlike Instagram or other things I didn't catch up to, it seemed like it has no real traction at all.

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 111d

I pointed it out because the article is nostalgia bait for this "Project Zircon".

ripcord@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 111d (3 replies)

My first exposure to cheat codes, I think.

And man did you need it in Contra

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 111d

For me I think it was A B A C A B B (Mortal Kombat 1 blood code on Sega Genesis)

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 111d (1 reply)

Played through the NES Contra unaware of any cheat codes. Felt like got cheated behind my back, after I learned about the code. :D

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 111d

It worked on way more games than just Contra. It was the Konami Code.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 111d (7 replies)

Where's the Select, Start?

schema@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 111d (1 reply)

It's not part of the actual code, technically. Select just switches to 2 player mode on the contra title screen, and start starts the game. If you played single player, ypu wouldn't press select at all.

And in gradius i think you enter it on the pause screen iirc, so start would resume the game there.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 110d

Thanks! TIL!

HeHoXa@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 111d (4 replies)

Woah look at Mr Popular over here who had friends to be player 2

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 110d (3 replies)

Younger brother

HeHoXa@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 110d (2 replies)

Those are some good memories.

We were always fighting over whether him dying meant we had to start over 😂

Sometimes he'd just want to see me beat it

*Edit: Oh yeah, he could steal lives! Sometimes we'd agree on how many he should leave me and very often he'd steal more anyway 🤣