The Konami Code (↑, ↑, ↓, ↓, ←, →, ←, →, B, A)

If you are not a child of the 80’s or a big computer games fan then the above probably means nothing to you. So I’ll explain… The Konami Code was first used in the 1985 arcade game Gradius, on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986. Entering the code gave gives the player a full set of power-ups or access to secret levels, which are normally attained gradually throughout the game.

Since then the Konami Code has been written into dozens of games, and more recently Facebook, Digg and the Google Reader, check them out to see some bizarre outcomes. To see it in use on some other sites check out konamicodesites.com

We are currently using it for a client project. We can’t say more than that at this stage but we will let you know more when we can.