What is that one video game cheat code you’ll never forget about?
I’ll start us off with the classic “Explode All Cars” cheat from the classic 2004 game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, as that is one that I remember using a lot for no rhyme or reason:
R2, L2, R1, L1, L2, R2, SQUARE, TRIANGLE, CIRCLE, TRIANGLE, L2, L1
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Impulse 101
Down up left left A right down to get the cheat menu on Mortal Kombat on the Sega Megadrive.
On Revenge of Shinobi set the number of shurikens on the Options screen to 0 and wait 20 seconds. The zero turned into an infinity symbol, giving you unlimited shurikens.
Call Cousin Vinnie
It gave you a boatload of money in SC3K
HESOYAM
GTA:SA extra health and money.
ROSEBUD
Let’s see if anyone knows these:
- Up down left right a+start
- up c down c left c right c a+start
- up up down down up up up up up a+start
- covertops
- iddt
I remember the cheat but not the exact game lol. Definitely Sega Mega Drive though.
ABRACADABRA (R for d-pad right, D for d-pad down).
Going by a Google search it could’ve been Vectorman or Ecco 2. Or both because I played both a lot back then.
Ratchet and clank 3, the cheat code is told to you in a cutscene:
“Aren’t you going to unlock his secret costumes? Here, I’ll put in a cheat code. Up up down down left right circle square square… Haha! Look! He’s in a tutu!”
ROBINWOOD (I think) in AoE II
“up up down down left right left right B A B Start”
Contra - NES
Actually it works in a whole bunch of Konami games, and of course some modern games have thrown it in as an homage.
DNNOCLIP
Porkcharsui in the original pc version of Grand Theft Auto. If you named your character this, you had an overlay with coordinates so you could find your way easier, you’d get all the guns and the possibility to toggle a kind of sped up mode.
Oh and howdoiturnthison in Age of Empires 2 to get an AC Cobra with machine guns
IDKFA, and many others
IDDQD
IDSPISPOPD … and I even remember what it abbreviates… why?
PEPPERONI PIZZA BIG DADDY
POWPOWPOW
JACKBENIMBLE
E=MC2 TROOPER
God mode in Duke Nukem 3D, “dncornholio”. Come get some…
