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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Umm, excuse me, but I believe you're missing a "start" and/or "select." pushes glasses up nose

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is how you know they didn't have friends. Select & Start was the end combo for two player cheat.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically they weren't part of the cheat, just needed to start the game. A lot of games at the time also copied the Konami sequence but handled the ending differently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh. Well then, I stand corrected.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It was first used in '86 with Gradius, but wasn't popularized until the 90's. Most notably with Contra on the NES, which released only a year after Gradius.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It was well-known to me in the 80s, at least. The fact that both those games are NES games makes it firmly 80s, in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also, to be fair here, even if you recognize stuff from the 80's, and you're still around now, then you definitely lived through the 90's. lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but by that logic, I could say I remember the moon landing and it proves I lived through the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean the whole logic of the thread is that if you know one word you can make people think you lived in the 90's. Like, you think some 10 year old born in 2013 couldn't just find some 90's media and say a popular catch phrase?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course, but I expect a thread about the 90s to have stuff from the 90s, not earlier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fully agree there. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Select Start*

Wasn't it "...B A B A Select Start", too?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Select Start for two players. Just Start for solo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, it's just one B A. Maybe somewhere down the line there's a variant or two but in its true and unaltered form the Konami Code is UUDDLRLRBA

Source: Gradius, Contra, etc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

What 30+ years does to recollection, ya know? πŸ˜