15 Dumb Cheats That Almost Broke Video Games
Who came up with these stupid codes?
Published 3 years ago in Facepalm
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Spawn: Not Quite Invincible If you’re actually playing this Spawn game, you’re probably already having a bad day. But this code might make it worse. After putting in this code, you’ll discover that some bullets won’t kill you whereas others will. The end result is that you're forced to dodge bullets anyway, rendering the code completely meaningless.
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Contra: Can’t Move Your Legs The infamous difficulty of Contra meant most of us had to pop the Konami code in to get extra lives. But while extra lives are really useful, this code makes it where your legs don’t move while your characters move. Unless this scares Red Falcon away, we’re filing it under useless.
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Kirby’s Adventure: See-Through ModeKirby’s Adventure was a really innovative game. But this code isn’t too innovative. All it does is render Kirby and his foes as see-through. It makes the game harder to play, and we can only imagine looking inside a guy who eats everyone who encounters is a really bad idea.
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Ninja Gaiden Trilogy: Almost Infinite Power We play video games to feel powerful, and we use Game Genie codes to feel even more powerful. And that’s what makes this code so funny. It gives you almost (but not quite) infinite power for your special attacks. We wouldn’t want you to get an inflated ego if you had unlimited power.
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The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World: Die More Easily The NES Simpsons games already have a reputation for being very difficult. But this code makes things worse by making it easier for you to lose lives. I don’t know who thought of this as a cheat, but it sounds like a great way to make a bad game even worse.
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Robocop 2: No men in windowsRobocop 2 on the Game Boy graces us with one of the world’s most specific Game Genie codes. The code in question gets rid of the pesky enemies that appear in windows. And that’s it! This would be like a Mario code that only lets you get rid of one of Bowser’s weirdo Koopalings but not the rest.
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Super Mario Bros.: Blackface Mario This code is sometimes referred to the “black Mario” code, and it wouldn’t be bad at all if that’s how it worked. But Mario’s sprite looks more like a man in blackface rather than a black man. Maybe the real story is that Mario got canceled in the real world for his racist antics before escaping to the Mushroom Kingdom?
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Float On The TMNT game on NES is already famous for being difficult. This code just makes things worse by making your turtles float to the ceiling when you’re not moving. It won’t be long before you’re channeling your Raphael and throwing the cartridge in frustration.