What is one video game cheat code that will you will always remember?

DOOM: IDDQD - god mode, IDKFA - all weapons / items

SimCopter - I'M THE CEO OF MCDONNELL DOUGLAS unlocks all helicopters

Rosebud for money in the Sims

Konami code, natch

"up up down down left right left right B A B Start"

Contra - NES

IDKFA, and many others

The konami code

iddqd

rosebud

⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🅱️🅰️Select Start

Gives you 30 extra lives in Contra on the NES

aegis for Age of Empires II. Instant building, gathering, research, etc. And of course marco for revealing map and polo to remove fog of war. cheese steak jimmy's for extra food and lumberjack for extra wood. I always struggled to manage those two resources. But even more importantly, how do you turn this on, for that cool siege sports car.

Man, I played a lot of AoE as a child and teenager.

motherlode

Impulse101 for Half-Life to get everything from the very beginning and create havok for the scientists.

And of course the Konami Code

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start

IDKFA Power overwhelming

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start
IDKFA
IDDQD
black sheep wall
power overwhelming

My username. If you enter urata as your name when you play Castlevania III for NES you start with the mage character (Sypha Belnades) available from the start.

Also iddqd for god mode and idkfa for all weapons in DOOM because that game was way too hard when I was a kid.

ROSEBUD

idkfa

Starcraft

Cheat: power overwhelming

Effect: invencible units

The Protoss would chant the words in such a cool tone and way.

Imagine beating an entire Zerg wave with one unit.

Up, Down, Left, Right, A, Start - Sonic The Hedgehog.

howdoyouturnthison - Age Of Empires 2.

howdoyouturnthison

IDDQD

idspispopd

doom 1 no clipping

PEPPERONI PIZZA BIG DADDY

ABACABB

The PANZER code in GTA Vice City to invoque a tank. I typed that shit like crazy when I was a child playing in the good ol' cyber cafés

hesoyam and impulse 101

And the most powerful one: bind w kill

Put an N64 controller in my hands, and I've still got the muscle memory for all the fatalities in Mortal Kombat 3 Ultimate Edition. As well as Shang Tsung's entire move set.

Oh and HALIFAX? !YNGWIE! to unlock the Naboo starfighter in N64's Rogue Squadron.

B-A-R-R-A-L as the name of a new save in Donkey Kong Country to start with 50 lives. Also the Konami code obvi

007-373-5963 Strait to Mike Tyson

GABBA GABBA HEY

“idclip” for Doom

“pot of gold” for Warcraft 1

Oh and of course, how could I forget “how do you turn this on” (x20 usually) for Age of Empires II

TGRTVN

Final level in Bubsy.

WC3:

WhosYourDaddy - invincible units, buildings, and one shot the enemy

GreedIsGood X - gives X gold and lumber

GTA:SA

HESOYAM - cash, hp, vehicle repair (on top of my head)

AEZAKMI - locks wanted level

UZUMYMW - a pack of weapon, IIRC no. 3 of 3

BAGUVIX - unlimited health

FULLCLIP - unlimited ammo

DULLARD for cheat mode on SNES and I think Genesis Mortal Kombat.

ABBAABBA. Skip level code for Aladdin on the Sega Genesis.

Edit: and the Zelda name cheat for NES!

DNCASHMAN to make it rain money in Duke Nukem 3D

Black sheep wall - StarCraft map reveal

ROBINWOOD (I think) in AoE II

God mode in Duke Nukem 3D, "dncornholio". Come get some...

Up, down, left, right, A & start at the same time. I still sing the jingle when sonic 1 starts

poweroverwhelming

foodforthought

thereisnocowlevel

Descent. Gabba Gabba Hey

Racecar

How do you turn this thing on

How do you turn this on (Age of)

Fly and ghost (Unreal 1 : to observe every minute details of the map))

Mk3 for super Nintendo

Kool stuff - Up up down down left right a b a

Kooler stuff - Select b a right left down down up up

Scott's stuff - X b a y up left down right down

Starcraft (original): black sheep wall

Reveals the whole map by removing fog of war.

Original Mortal Kombat blood code:

ABACABB

Surprised nobody mentioned "motherlode".

Something like 50k simoleons in The Sims 2. Absolutely essential to any save file.

JUSTINBAILEY

Play without the power suit in OG Metroid

genie jafar aladdin abu

Fuck that lava level.

FROTZ

furious the monkey boy

Porkcharsui in the original pc version of Grand Theft Auto. If you named your character this, you had an overlay with coordinates so you could find your way easier, you'd get all the guns and the possibility to toggle a kind of sped up mode.

Oh and howdoiturnthison in Age of Empires 2 to get an AC Cobra with machine guns

The one from the sims I it was “katching” one and the other was “motherlode” maybe the spelling is not correct but I will never forget those codes.

Call Cousin Vinnie

It gave you a boatload of money in SC3K

Down up left left A right down to get the cheat menu on Mortal Kombat on the Sega Megadrive.

On Revenge of Shinobi set the number of shurikens on the Options screen to 0 and wait 20 seconds. The zero turned into an infinity symbol, giving you unlimited shurikens.

xyzzy

cheesesteakjimmy

I remember the cheat but not the exact game lol. Definitely Sega Mega Drive though.

ABRACADABRA (R for d-pad right, D for d-pad down).

Going by a Google search it could've been Vectorman or Ecco 2. Or both because I played both a lot back then.

I had San Andreas on PS2 as a kid, only played it on PC a little bit as an adult; but, the fact that you type the cheat codes on a keyboard means they kinda make words, so i forgot the PS2 ones and i remember some PC ones.

AIWPRTON

HESOYAM

HESOYAM

GTA:SA extra health and money.

OBOYOBOYY for hyper speed in guitar hero 2 and 3

San Andreas Max Health + $250k. Saved me in the warehouse mission in Las Venturas lol. I hope I'm getting this right:

R1, R2, L1, X, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP

prince.exe megahit

GZELVXSE

Game Genie code for invincibility in Super Mario Bros 2.

Flying car cheat in San Andreas. I don’t know what the buttons are, by my muscle memory is so ingrained that if I start it I can usually get it after 1/2 attempts. Even if I haven’t touched the games in years.

Power overwhelming ... Glittering treasures.

Warcraft 2

007 373 5963

Mike Tyson's Punch Out

Ratchet and clank 3, the cheat code is told to you in a cutscene:

"Aren't you going to unlock his secret costumes? Here, I'll put in a cheat code. Up up down down left right circle square square... Haha! Look! He's in a tutu!"

Warcraft III: iseedeadpeople to remove fog of war.

A B A C A B B

"Get over here!"

Contra on NES.

Triangle triangle square circle X L1 L1 down up

Spawns the Hydra in GTA SA

Up up down down A B A B Start

&

A B A B A C C

I’m old.

klapaucius - money cheat for Sims 1

Doom had IDKFA that just basically gave you all the weapons and keys. I was a pretty young kid when that game was popular and all I wanted was all the guns.

It’s not a code, per se, but the method to get unlimited money on SimCity for SNES is forever in my brain. (I didn’t always use it but sometimes, I just wanted to make a cool city and not do the tax and budget stuff.)

Minecraft: Open to LAN -> allow cheats
I really thought I discovered a massive bug with that one when I was little lmao

DNNOCLIP

bb.moveobjects

I wasn't particularly wowed by the gameplay of the sims 4, but I really enjoyed the building mode, especially with the freedom to put stuff exactly where I wanted, collision and autosnapping be damned.

As others have already mentioned, IDKFA for Doom and didn't it work in Doom 2 as well?

I only ask because when ID Software released Heretic, a swords and sorcery style Doom game, I remember typing in IDKFA, expecting the same results. It was the Doom engine after all. Except typing in the classic code kills you instantly!

Another isn't strictly a cheat code. On the old 8bit computers the UK, you could enter some programming code to change the memory before loading in a game. (This is over simplified.)

Because of the altered memory, it would effect the game in some way. E.g. infinity health or lives.

I found a listing in a magazine which you could type in to help with the ZX Spectrum version of Batman: The Movie.

In this platform game, with the cheat, when a bad guy tried to climb a ladder, they would freeze.

This was very helpful and worked wonderfully all the way through the game. That was until you reached the very end whereupon the Joker was on a rope ladder attached to a helicopter.

The code interfered with the end of game boss in a way it wasn't expecting and the game would crash.

Thanks.

Skitchin

At the warning screen, B A Down A Start Start (Spells BADASS)

Activates cheat mode, and then you can use the password screen to input cheats. But the only one I used is MONEY which starts you with 10,000 dollars or something.

JUGGYDANCESQUAD - Blood Rayne

If ya know, ya know

and in the sequel "HAVETHISDARKREALITYTAINTQUEEF"

Simply because.... well that statement is funny

YOUCANSEEANICEICEKEYWHICHYOUCANHAVEFORFREE - Because that damn key tortured me as a kid

and finally

BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND because I was too dumb to play Turok 2 fairly

32167 (Heroes of Might and Magic 2)

BARACUDA for level select in Sonic 3D Blast.

Alternatively, CALLACAB for Vector Man.

WE5T1

the first 'cheat code' that came to mind here isn't for a game:

Select • Play • Select • 30 • Select

Up down left right right left down up

DNCORNHOLIO
DNSTUFF
god mode and all guns, items, money in Duke Nukem 3D

Name your character Totoro for invincibility in all Fromsoft games.

Poweroverwhelming

Radiofreezerg

DULLARD 😅

Also a bonus code I won't forget:

ADE-NAI-WRA-LKA

You can all guess what games they are from.

tuck tuck tuck and arrrrwalktheplank are two of my favourites. The first summons a monster truck in AoE3, and the second has a large pirate ship jump into the battle in Free Space 2.

Actually there is a set of missions in FS2 that can only be reached by cheating to become invincible during an event you were supposed to die I think.

I find it neat when companies put in assets and extra content most players wont find without trying to break things a bit.

Black sheep wall

LEAVEMEALONE (GTA VC) HESOYAM (GTA SA)

NOPOLICEPLEASE (GTA3)

Sega Mega drive from when I was 3-4 years old.

Sonic the hedgehog - unlock all levels cheat: Up down left right A Start (twice)

Warcraft 3 - whosyourdaddy (makes your units invincible and one-hit every enemy)

Star Wars Battlefront II PS2 invincibility:

Pause

Hold L2/R2

Up, up, up, left, down, down, down, left, up, up, up, left, right

Crack a candle
One step forward
One step backwards
Turn around three times
Jump forward

ABYXABYXBABAYXXABYX - infinite thermal detonators in one of the Star Wars SNES games

Everylittlethingshedoes - unlock all magic in Warcraft 2

BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND - something in Turok 2. I think all weapons?

ちよた にけら はとほ らすて のはて きらと なりは してと
復活の呪文

noclip

RRTANGENTABACUS-Episode 1 Podracer hahaha

MARKSTEAM in the name box would unlock all tech and give a bunch of money in Syndicate on the Amiga.

Tenchu stealth assassins ps1: in pause menu left left down down square square triangle square - restore health

Star wars galactic battlegrounds: console -thereisnospoon - win the mission

All the gta ones

TENPINTS on Shadow Of The Beast 2. Turned off damage so that your only blocker to reaching the end of the game was boredom.

ultimate mortal Kombat 3, Sega Saturn

c r a z y c y r a x

Also from San Andreas (or maybe Vice City) R1 R2 L1 R2 left down right up left down right up. It was used for different weapon sets and I think you could change the dpad combo at the end for different sets (eg left down right up left down down down)

DIPSTICK to enable chests in rise of the trial. SEEYA for god mode where the protagonist just walks around with his hand of God yawning at how boring it is when there's no challenge. CUJO for dog mode.

Also, LONDON and NODNOL to enable/disable fog.

DraculasTeabags

Agoodblasteratyourside Mostimpressive

Star wars battlefront 2 2005 unlimited ammo and health on pc

Have to hover your mouse over a little box that blends into the background image on the instant action page and type the codes in. I still believe that game is better than all battlefronts afterwards too

klapaucius

I was going to use that exact cheat! The other one I used was to explode cars if you even barely tapped one

B A B A ‌‌↑ ↓ B A ← → B A Start

EREIAMJH to fly in Jedi Knight. I always thought it's just the name of some obscure Star Wars creature. But it's actually a reference to the movie Brazil.

xaxbcc was my password for years when I was in school

ABACABB - MK blood code

Down up left left A Right Down (DULLARD) - MK cheat menu

Up C Down C Left C Right C Hold A+Start - Sonic 2 debug mode

NTHG THDG DCRT DTRK

Oh and IDKFA

Wampa Stompa

PORNTIPSGUZZARDO All acievements and $500,000 in Sim City 2000. You could do it over and over for unlimited money.

Let's see if anyone knows these:

• Up down left right a+start
• up c down c left c right c a+start
• up up down down up up up up up a+start
• covertops
• iddt

Fanny magnet in vice city.

L33T SUPA H4X0R

Glittering prizes

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

To get the hidden multiplayer mini-game screen (if you have a second controller you can play with a friend): at the map screen, hold Select and press X X Y B A.

XMNFB - The unlock all code for Turok Evolution on Xbox.

ILM

SLXPLOVS

Nothing rolls off the tongue quite like Genie - Jafar - Aladdin - Abu... gets you to the last level of the SNES Aladdin game

Works for Sonic 3D Blast on Genesis and probably the other games as well, but BARRACUDA (b a right right a c up d a) for certain things. I'd like to think it's debug mode, but I don't fully remember since it's been more than a few months since I last played and tried on either 3D Blast, 1, or 2.

Up down left right Y B X A ..

I'm not even sure that that's right, and I'm not even sure what game it's for.

SNES definitely. Maybe Street Fighter II Turbo? Done at the CAPCOM logo it'd make a sound, then- you could play as the bosses? Maybe?

Or it's the movements for Zangief's spinning piledriver, heh. (It's not)

Donkey Kong Country

B A R R A L - 50 lives

jessica16

Crusader: no regnet/ noch remorse

YO BRO GO ROB BOB

guitar hero 3 unlock all songs

Play the four colors that do not match each character in the phrase

R2 R2 L1 R2 Left Down Right Up Left Down Right Up.

thisisunsafe

Aspirin. I learned how to type in GTA as I couldn't figure out how to pause the game and type it so had to be quick.

HeyGabbaGabba for Descent. Tried it in Decent 2 and it knocked me down to 1hp :D

pow