Where to find Konami Code easter eggs on the web
Old-school gamers remember the Konami Code, a famous sequence of buttons on the original Nintendo controller that unlocked powerups or extra lives in practically every game Konami made. The code seems to have come back into fashion on the web recently, with a lot of sites hiding odd surprises for folks who think to type it in via keyboard. For a while, you could even add some very unsportsmanlike sparkly unicorns to ESPN.com with the code.Now there's a site just for tracking these online Konami Code easter eggs: KonamiCodeSites.com. Go check out their list and test out the ones they've found. If you're ambitious, test the code out on some of your favorite sites, and submit any secrets you find to the KonamiCodeSites list. Some of the biggest sites that have easter eggs include Facebook and Google Reader. Hooray for nostalgic fun!
Oh, one more thing: fittingly enough, you're going to need to know that code to access the list at KonamiCodeSites. For the uninitiated, it's up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, and enter.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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gonintendo said 10:05AM on 5-09-2009
Deja vu, I just read this on joystiq, lol.
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Haplo said 1:40PM on 5-09-2009
Déjà vu 2, I just read this elsewhere yesterday.
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shiva_14339 said 11:53PM on 7-05-2009
google has launched its fancy search
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