...to enable a cheat or other effects. 🎮
The Konami Code was created by Gradius developers finding the game too difficult to play through during testing.
They created the cheat code, which gives the player a full set of power-ups (normally attained gradually throughout the game). After entering the sequence using the controller when the game was paused the player received all available power-ups. 🚀
...removed prior to publishing, but this was overlooked and only discovered as the game was being prepared for mass production. 😓
The developers decided to leave it there, as removing it could result in new bugs and glitches. The sequence was easy enough to remember for testers and simultaneously sufficiently hard to enter accidentally during the gameplay for unsuspecting users. ☄️
🕹️ Trivia about the game consoles of our childhood
@repeatro
"The developers decided to leave it there, as removing it could result in new bugs and glitches."
This makes me laugh, even though I've seen and worked with code that was as badly tangled as this sounds.
Removing a sequence of button presses that modifies the player abilities shouldn't really be that dangerous. 😅
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