The Konami Code

What do Gradius, Tetris and Ninja Turtles have in common with Facebook and Digg?
1. They’ve collectively kept a generation of potential athetes indoors glued to tiny pixelated screens.
2. They all react when you tap in the Konami code:

The Konami Code was first used in the 1985 arcade game Gradius, on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986. Entering the code gave gives the player a full set of power-ups, which are normally attained gradually throughout the game.

Since then the Konami Code has been written into dozens of games, and more recently Facebook, Digg and the Google Reader, check them out and see the bizarre outcomes.

I also highly recommend putting in the code at robotacid.com – seems like they’re a big fan of a certain social media agency.

for more uses, check out konamicodesites.com

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posted: May 11th, 2009 | by: Tom | perma: link | tags: code, digg, facebook, gradius, konami | 1 Comment »

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