Word: konami
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...Konami code, named after the Japanese company behind classics like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and the Nintendo Contra classics, is one of video-gaming's most storied cheats. During development of the 1985 Konami arcade game Gradius, a programmer found the game to be too difficult and programmed in a key sequence - up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A - that, if entered, gave the player a set of the game's power-ups. As word of the shortcut spread, other programmers aped his cheat, working the same sequence into their own games. The Konami code...
...Facebook isn't the only site that makes use of the Konami code. There's even a dedicated website - Konami Code Sites - chronicling what the code does on sites around the Web. (Naturally, you have to type the code to access the site.) Some other big names make the list: on the social news site Digg it expands all the comments in a given thread, and on MLB.tv, it lets you watch highlights in slow motion. The folks behind Konami Code Sites encourage you to try other sites too, in case some developer with an acute sense of video-gaming...
Update: It appears Facebook has been infected with the Konami Code as well. No unicorns this time, but...sunspots...
According to various online articles, web game site Kotaku.com was the first to reveal that inputting the Konami code—up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter—would unleash a drove of the one-horned creatures onto the screen...
...Konami code is a famous cheat code from the Nintendo Entertainment System. Inputting the sequence into a host of games could enable special powers or features—such as 30 extra lives in Contra...