Your first cheat?

Korvanica

Inspired by another thread in this forum...

Back in the day console game cheats were everywhere... ones you use loads you remember...

So what was the first cheat you ever learned off?

Mine was for the Original Sonic The Hedgehog

Up, down, left, right, A + Start together...

Must have used that cheat a thousand times....

Captain Average

Korvanica wrote: »

Inspired by another thread in this forum...

Back in the day console game cheats were everywhere... ones you use loads you remember...

So what was the first cheat you ever learned off?

Mine was for the Original Sonic The Hedgehog

Up, down, left, right, A + Start together...

That's exactly the same cheat as me. Gave you the ability to select any level you wished for. Awesome :pac:

actuallylike

Lion King on the Snes, B,A,R,R,Y lets you skip levels. Always wondered was there a Barry on the team and now thanks to the power of the Interweb, I see that there was in fact a Barry Grren on the programming team.

Kxiii

The ones i remember are from Mortal Kombat on the MegaDrive

mk1 was D,U,L,L,A,R,D

MK2 was l,d,l,r,d,r,l,l,r,r (i think)

Penn

Captain Average wrote: »

That's exactly the same cheat as me. Gave you the ability to select any level you wished for. Awesome :pac:

That was probably mine too. Either that or the cheat to get infinite shurikens in Shinobi. Think you set your shuriken amount to 00 and held start until it changed to an infinity symbol. Brilliant

Fnz

I recall good times ensuing thanks to this little ditty for Road Rash 2 on the Mega Drive:

Hold Up + A + C at the title screen until "Press Start"
appears. While still holding those buttons, press Start. The "Wild Thing
2000" bike with 200 mph top speed and unlimited nitro will be available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRqMoAB948A

That bike was awesome! The code in the footage above seems incorrect; "left + B + C" was the alternate input.

Fajitas!

Console

'god'


:rolleyes:

Captain Average

paddyirishman85 wrote: »

That was probably mine too. Either that or the cheat to get infinite shurikens in Shinobi. Think you set your shuriken amount to 00 and held start until it changed to an infinity symbol. Brilliant

Ah yes, I remember that one too.
How did word of cheats spread back then, if there was no internet

I downloaded a megadrive emulator for my laptop last year, just so I could play that Shinobi game again. Good times.

monkeyfudge

For CJ's Elephant Antics on the C64 the cheat code was 'Itchy Arseholes' wasn't it?

Nevyn

Readers contributions/letters to gaming/console magazines.

kensutz

monkeyfudge wrote: »

For CJ's Elephant Antics on the C64 the cheat code was 'Itchy Arseholes' wasn't it?

Hairy Assholes. That was my earliest memories of cheats. Didn't it have to be typed in backwards too?

Pimp Ninja

iddqd
idkfa
Nuff said I think.

KylieWyley

Channel 4 teletext used to post up cheats on their gaming section.


Those were the days!

mikemac

Super Mario Kart

Left, Right, Left, Left,Right, Right, A

God knows how I remember that useless information even now

Before the internet we got our cheats from Aertel

Mr E

Probably a C64 cheat. Anyone remember warm resetting the C64 with a bent paperclip? You connected the 1st and 3rd strips on the expansion port. The machine would reset back to the C64 BASIC screen, and you do a POKE to change a value in the game, and a SYS command to get back into the game.

Man that's a long time ago now. I'm old.

dreamers75

Down R Up L Y B X A (be diddledit!!!)


Game and console ????


Winner gets a prize.

kensutz

Street Fighter 2 on the SNES

DARK-KNIGHT

i was 14 and her name was sarah. OH WAIT WRONG SECTION LOL

Jazzy

down R Up L Y B X A on sf2 the world warrior. possibly some nes ones.. Icarus Fights Medusa Angels in kid icarus i think, was a weird one though

BopNiblets

COINAGE
PEPPERONI PIZZA
QUARRY
WOODSTOCK

and of course:
PHOTON MAN
BIG DADDY

tman

"idspispopd" is one that will always stick in my head:p

BARRAL from Donkey Kong Country was a handy one as well

Can't remember my very first one though, it was possibly in one of the Commander Keen games...

d'Oracle

Korvanica wrote: »

Inspired by another thread in this forum...

Back in the day console game cheats were everywhere... ones you use loads you remember...

So what was the first cheat you ever learned off?

Mine was for the Original Sonic The Hedgehog

Up, down, left, right, A + Start together...

Must have used that cheat a thousand times....

Me too.


That or \Prince Megahit
but that doesn't count surely.

ironictoaster

MK1, megadrive. Just remember the word DULLARD.

The revenge of shinobi had a cheat which I can't remember now, 100 points if anyone can remind me!

I fondly remember using bastárd and hangthedj as cheats in GTA.

TomJoe Wallace

up down up down left right left right A B..

The Konami Code.. It's in MANY games.

natsuko

not really a gamer, so first cheat i remember using was the jellycar in colin macrae for ps, more of an easter egg than a cheat i guess, and a lot later on than ye'r ones.

jonnybadd

First one I remember using often was BARRAL in DKC, would definitely have used some before that but none come to mind.

Grimebox

iddqd

Fanny Cradock

Prepare for the Gamesmaster Data Burst



I remember on many occasions frantically trying find a blank video to record cheats for games that I would never own.

Burning Eclipse

Oh wow the memories...

A prize to whoever get's this... NXRD. (don't google it, that ruins the fun) Really showing my age with this one.

No prize for guessing this one - Jafar/Jasmine/Aladdin/Jafar.

Down, R, Up, L, Y, B (I never input the X, A and it still worked for me)

Knightmare92

For me first cheat was MACSrPOO for Destruction-Derby 2 back on PS1, found it the day after my Dad bought the system for my Brother's birthday,

Roen

POKE 35136,0
Didn't make that game any easier though.

carbsy

I remember making my own cheat for Renegade on the Amstrad CPC 464 using a Multiface 2 interface plugged into the parallel port.A quick push of one of the buttons and I had the Renegade code in front of me.Finally, after weeks of trying I managed to increase my lives. God that was sweet.

Retr0gamer

One of the creatures games on the C64 had a cheat that would activate when on a certain part of the title screen you licked your finger and ran it along controller port 2.

SeantheMan

The Sonic , same as OP would have been mine.

Some memorable ones that I constantly used were

- IGOTPINK8CIDBOOTSON for Alient Trilogy :P
- operation cwal and show me the money for Starcraft

Also had a Game Genie for the Megadrive,

I've not used cheats since the PS2...except for GTA games, I cheat on every single GTA game without fail...health/weapons/armor all the way

TomJoe Wallace

Is that Gremlins Burning? I think it is ! Not 100% ! :O

Burning Eclipse

TomJoe Wallace wrote: »

Is that Gremlins Burning? I think it is ! Not 100% ! :O

Yes, Gremlins 2 on the NES... 1990. I've been 'cheating' in games for 20 years now.

Wossack

A,B,A,C,A,B,B for blood in Mk1 on the megadrive

madrab

Cant remember my first cheat but some of the first that i remember
Mario 1 - finding the level warp
New Zealand story - finding wormholes by shooting your bow everywhere
Mario 3 - finding the severt way to finishe the 3rd(?) level and then finding the magic flute ( )
NES - owning a game genie!
Doom - idkfa et al


good times!

eddhorse

Midnight Resistance on the C64, you had to push all the buttons on the keyboard at once for unlimited lives.
Handier using a book to squash them all !:D

Shiminay

I can't remember any of the old C64 cheats, but I would've got them from magazines or sometimes they came printed on the manual. On a slightly related note, who else wants one of these?

I can remember 3shreddedwheat as the cheat for (I think) the super squad of players in Sensible Soccer on the Amiga.

Also, Impule9 for all weapons in Quake

allanb49

UDLR ABC Start on sonic one

TomJoe Wallace

I stopped cheating after the release of MGS1 ;D

Jazzy

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

Prepare for the Gamesmaster Data Burst

pretty sure it was only Bad Influence that had the data burst

Kxiii

Jazzy wrote: »

pretty sure it was only Bad Influence that had the data burst

I was trying to think of the name of that show the other night. All I could remember was the blonde spikey haired woman off it and the data burst.

http://www.bad-influence.co.uk/index.htm

Monotype

Xenon 2. Invulnerability. F7 at startup. Then 'I' in-game. Very difficult game without it.

Kiith

Probably 'console - god' for me.

dr gonzo

BopNiblets wrote: »

COINAGE
PEPPERONI PIZZA
QUARRY
WOODSTOCK

and of course:
PHOTON MAN
BIG DADDY

Haha, those were the days, Age of Empires ftw.

No clipping in Doom used to be a good laugh. As for consoles i think its actually Sonic again.

Stercus Accidit

Not the first but one I remember to this day.

nthgthdgdcrtdtrk

Off by heart, entered many times.

Praetorian

Wasn't it "goobers" for wolfenstein 3d?

idkfa iddqd definitely burnt into my brain. Damn u carmack!!!!

r3nu4l

Mr E wrote: »

Probably a C64 cheat. Anyone remember warm resetting the C64 with a bent paperclip? You connected the 1st and 3rd strips on the expansion port. The machine would reset back to the C64 BASIC screen, and you do a POKE to change a value in the game, and a SYS command to get back into the game.

Man that's a long time ago now. I'm old.

Oh yeah, old school I managed to get an Action Replay cartridge from a friend in England and had hours of fun inputting all the POKE codes into my favourite games

Kharn wrote: »

On a slightly related note, who else wants one of these?

Awesome

mayordenis

First one I can remember is from Warcraft 2 it was "Glittering Prizes" **** load of currency.