Hey all.

I was thinking today about my favorite video game cheat or code of all time.

I was surprised that it was hard to pick a favorite. It was a toss up with Contra for NES' Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start and Double Dragon for NES' glitch cheat when you could use a baseball bat on the invisible guy to power up to get the spin kick on the first level.

God, I love being a geek sometimes.

What are some of your favorites?

while not a cheat, the Tomb Raider nude patch was amusing

Also liked the Spy Hunter NES cheat/bug...on the 1st level, if u stuck to the right on the road and came to a 'Y' junction, you could drive off and onto the grass for most of the level. Im proud that I discovered that myself.

I 2nd the nomination for the Contra cheat!

-CM-

I dont remember how to do it but one of the mega man games had a cheat where you could get all the boss's powers before you faced any of them. A fav :-)

IDKFA

X-X!V''Q

isn't A B B A the continue for Ikari Warriors on the NES? Without it the game is impossible

IDKFA

(from the original Doom)

I always loved that million-dollar code for Sim City on SNES.

Contra!

Runners up....

Doom II
&
All star wars games

007-373-5964 (not sure if i got it right, used to know it) for Mike Tyson's Punch Out

And of course Contra.

Definitely Contra.

Contra cheat is a classic.

If it comes down to deliberately programmed cheats, my favorite would be the Contra cheat. It's classic, and one of the first deliberate cheats I ever saw.

If it comes down to "this wasn't meant to be a cheat, but I figured out a way to cheat the game", it would be placing the turtle shell on the on the stairs on the third level in Super Mario Brothers and jumping on it repeatedly to get 100+ lives. At least, I don't think that was deliberate....

idspispopd

http://www.trilobite.org/spispopd/index.html

getting sonic & tails in SSB:M

-Maneesh

Phuzbox - You are close. The mike tyson code for NES is
007-373-5963
You missed the 3 at the end.

In Megaman 2 after you selected a level to go to, if you hold down A and B right away, the stars in the intro turn into chickens.

idclip - DOOM II

I like the disk swap cheat in many of the early role playing games (Bard's Tale, Pool of Radience, Wasteland, etc...).

Try this one: the original Super Mario Bros. cheat where you bang against a turtle on the stairs like a couple hundred times and get near infinite extra lives. In fact after 99 I think the numbers look funny and the game crashed sometimes.

The one in TMNT 2 but I forgot how to do it...where you hit a bunch of arrows when you turn it on and you have like infinite life

In the first run of copies of the original Sonic on the Genesis there was a code where you could turn into any object in the game. For example- remember those huge gold rings that were at the end of each level? Well if you fancied yourself to be one of them, this code would allow you to turn into one. You could also fly through walls, lava, and pick any level to start on.

Sega soon found out and supposedly had it removed from future copies.

Gotta go with Contra. It's been 14 years and I can still remember it like yesterday.

JUSTIN BAILEY