And in celebration of the cheat code’s 40th anniversary, Konami has opened a commemorative webpage on the official site for its Project Zircon. The largely user-built world of this Web3 game platform is still under development, but is expected to include the Konami Code somehow as it grows.
Blockchain, NFT, “play to earn”… nope.
Konami’s only redeeming factor today is that they occasionally find people who give some fuck about their IPs and let them handle those.
Like what?
Castlevania DLC in Dead Cells, and if it’s anything like it, the new actual Castlevania game that is coming soon from the same developers. And it’s a new Castlevania game that is not a freaking pachinko machine. It’s been more than ten years since the last one… And that last one was also developed externally, by Mercury Steam.
Konami signed on a lot of crossovers lately (there’s some random Contra ones too). Probably the only things of value bearing their name since forever.
They also made a deal with Vampire Survivors of all things. And of course poncle went all in on it. That DLC is bigger than the base game and it’s such a love letter to the series that I’m not ashamed to say I shed a tear at the ending credits.
Are these web3 things still alive? Unlike Instagram or other things I didn’t catch up to, it seemed like it has no real traction at all.
I pointed it out because the article is nostalgia bait for this “Project Zircon”.
My first exposure to cheat codes, I think.
And man did you need it in Contra
For me I think it was A B A C A B B (Mortal Kombat 1 blood code on Sega Genesis)
Played through the NES Contra unaware of any cheat codes. Felt like got cheated behind my back, after I learned about the code. :D
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over 6 years ago. Died right before Covid hit.
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I remember knowing about this Konami code and always wanted try it out in random games. The first time I tried it in Parodius (SNES) was hilarious.
Also still mad the code didn’t make it into Metal Gear Solid.
I just used this code yesterday in Ori and the Blind Forest to get the rainbow trail for the dash!
A B Right A C A Down A B Right A was cool too on Genesis
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The image in a better resolution: https://zircon.konami.net/assets/img/contents/Gladuis_40th_illust.png
