Konami Code & Cats

I’ve given a few lightning talks on this subject and figured I’d share it here.

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You may be asking yourself, “What do cats have to do with Konami code?” The answer is: absolutely nothing. Enjoy!

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Game developer Kazuhisa Hasimoto was a Konami employee working on the development of the Gradius arcade game in 1986. He didn’t want to test every level every time something changed in a higher level, so he created a cheat code for himself for testing purposes only. But he forgot to remove the code before the game went to production.

Almost like this cat, Konami code hides in the background.

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You can find an example of konami code in this repo.