Roman Mars, when I say Konami code, does this mean anything to you?

Ben Brock Johnson, it means zero to me, actually.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

I mean, when you say code, maybe I think of a cheat code.

That's about it.

That's all I got.

You're getting warm. You're getting warm.

You're getting warm.

We were, you know, we were mentioning all these kind of Easter eggs and cheat codes at the end of our first episode about NBA jam.

And this is maybe the most famous, I would say, at least in some circles, so-called cheat code of all time.

And it originated in a game called Gradius in

1986.

So Gradius Roman is this spaceship shooter game, which I think both you and I enjoy.

Totally.

It was made by the Japanese entertainment company Konami.

And Gradius, it had this code in it.

The code would give you power-ups in the game, so like bigger guns, more shields, things like

that to help you fight the bad guys.

To access this cheat code, there's a series of buttons and movements.

And this code became a

signature of Gradius and it was so popular, it was copied into other games. So, for example,

Roman, you might know this as the Contra code. Yes. That sounds more familiar. Yeah. That's a

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