The History of Video Game Cheats

Not long ago, gamers had to look to the likes ofto enemies, Game Genie allowed gamers to fall
Nintendo Power and GamePro to find codes toback in love with their old favorites.
help them beat games that would otherwise beAs a second coming of the hardware based
impossible. Who can forget the ubiquitous Up, Up,approach to game cheats we were introduced to
Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A,the Game Shark. This second coming is designed
start to dominate with 30 extra lives in Konami'sto not only help you find cheats within your
classic Contra. Then there were other cheats thatgames but also to back-up your games. Best of
took a little more skill and talent such as the 100all there is a Game Shark fro virtually every
extra lives on the Original Super Mario Brothers onsystem old and new.
level 8-3 where clanking the two turtles on theNow in 2008, things have done a full 360 and
final stairway into each other multiple times wouldvideo game cheats are going back to their
result in up to 100 free lives.ancestral roots. Thanks to the widespread
Then came the next wave of cheats that wereproliferation of the web and the willingness of
facilitated by additional hardware such as thegamers to share what they know there exist a
Game Genie. These unique hardware adaptersvariety of dedicated websites that can provide
would change the code base of games onyou with everything from walk-throughs to
systems including NES, Genesis, GameBoy, SNES,classics like Phantasy Star 2 to cheat codes for
Game Gear and could do far more than theSuper Mario Paper. The future might even have
simple manual codes gamers previously relied on.us learning about ways to dominate our favorite
Whether it was facilitating gamer's god complexesapple store apps!
by giving them invincibility or make them invisible