Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, rest in peace. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a producer credited with implementing the fabled “Konami Code” that gave players godlike cheats in Contra, Gradius, ...

The Japanese gaming giant, Konami, has just announced that Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the creator of the famous “Konami Code,” has died. Hashimoto, a developer who’s credited on at least nine video game ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Cheat codes were initially a tool used by developers to help test video games back in ...

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For a certain generation there is no series of button commands more iconic than “up,up,down,down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.” Whether it was extra lives, invincibility, or any of a myriad ...

A pop-up store selling exclusive merchandise themed around the Konami Code has opened at the Akihabara Container in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. The Konami Code – a combination of button presses that ...

Infernax is a retro homage to classic NES games Zelda II: The Adventure of Link and Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest. We’ve had an opportunity to play it before its release on Monday and can ...

Ever wonder what sort of jobs hardcore NES players get in adulthood? We’ve seen the Konami code show up on a variety of websites and games to unlock everything from secret pages to unicorn mode on ...

There are few bits of gaming history as transcendent against the test of time as the Konami Code. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A is the sequence that has gifted players through ...

According to a former colleague of Programmer Kazuhisa Hashimoto, the Konami Code creator passed away yesterday. Hashimoto’s lengthy tenure at Konami during the 1980s and 1990s, wherein he worked on ...