The following discussion between two early Konami programmers took place in 2003. It was retrieved from Game Staff List Association Japan, a Japanese website that, among other things, aims to ...

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, rest in peace. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a producer credited with implementing the fabled “Konami Code” that gave players godlike cheats in Contra, Gradius, ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, START. Some of us could ...

Konami announced GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon on Wednesday during Nintendo’s Indie World stream. It’s a surprise revival of a 34-year-old NES-era video game that was only published in Japan, but will ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Cheat codes were initially a tool used by developers to help test video games back in ...

38 years ago, on this very day, one of the most influential NES games ever was released in 1987. The NES obviously debuted four years earlier in 1983, at least in Japan. It didn’t come west until 1985 ...

Trumann started writing for news around 2017-2018, with a specialization in local news and gaming reviews for a local paper. He began writing for GameRant in June 2021 as one of the team's Weekend ...

After all, the first Contra is where a lot of fans got introduced to the series, and has become one of the staples from the NES era, mainly due to its classic “Up Up Down Down” code, as well as its ...

If you fondly remember playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games on the NES, you’re probably not thinking of the first one. Released on May 12, 1989, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES ...

A variant of the iconic Konami code has been found lying dormant in Castlevania: Legacy Of Darkness for all these years. Back when difficulty levels were rare and dying meant restarting a level, or ...