Alexa may be a more recent technology, but old school gamers are sure to get a kick out of using this classic secret command ...

The Konami Code was used in other "Gradius" and "Contra" games, as well as in "Castlevania," "Metal Gear" and "Dance Dance Revolution" games "to deliver anything from hidden songs and higher ...

Hashimoto created the code—Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A—as an employee of Konami in the 1980s, when he was creating the Nintendo Entertainment System version of the ...

Today is the 31st birthday of the Konami Code. The memorable cheat first appeared in 1986's Gradius and has been a fixture of games ever since. Here are ten great uses of this legendary code ...

Konami has also released a song on Spotify and Apple Music called "↑↑ ↓↓ ← → ← → BA." For those unfamiliar with the Konami Code, those are the inputs required to use it in a game.

The code was created by Hashimoto in 1985, when he was trying to adapt the fiendishly difficult Konami game Gradius for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Through the years it has been used as an ...

The Konami Code, as this sequence came to be known, is one of the most recognizable artifacts of an earlier era of gaming. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, its creator, has used up the last of his 30 lives.

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a Japanese video game producer whose “Konami Code” allowed players to cheat their way to superhuman strength, additional firepower and extra lives, has died. He was 61.

“The Konami Code” extended well beyond video games: Tech companies like Google and social media giants like Facebook have both tied easter eggs to the legendary cheat code, and even the Bank ...

Kazhusia Hashimoto, a programmer and producer for Konami in the 1980s and 1990s, died Feb. 25, 2020. Hashimoto was famous for creating the “Konami Code,” a cheat code that bestowed extra lives ...