The Konami Code was first used in the release of Gradius from 1986 and appears in many Konami video games since then. The player has to press a specific sequence of buttons on the game controller...

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   ...to enable a cheat or other effects. 🎮
   The Konami Code was created by Gradius developers finding the game too difficult to play through during testing.

   They created the cheat code, which gives the player a full set of power-ups (normally attained gradually throughout the game). After entering the sequence using the controller when the game was paused the player received all available power-ups. 🚀

   The code was meant to be...

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