Saturday, January 24, 2009

:: Up, up, down, down, left, right, A, B, A, B, Start ::

Remember the codes back in the old school video games like Kid Icarus, Super Contra and Bubble Bobble? The kind of codes that would leave you with unlimited lives or all the guns in the game in exchange for a lifetime of carpal tunnel problems?

Well, apparently - even with all the technological advancements in video games since the original Nintendo - some things never change.

We found this out last night, trying to unlock all the songs on Sean's Rockband 2.

As Sean punched buttons on the controller madly...
Chris: That's still how you do codes?
Sean: Uh, yeah, how did you think I'd do it?
Chris: I don't know. I just thought by now you'd just download some program, transfer it to the XBox, run it, and we'd get all the songs.

The only difference, I guess, is that we Googled the codes, rather than searching through pages of some old Nintendo Power magazine.

Because that's so 1990.

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