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(#1) Grand Theft Auto Meets Fallout
From Redditor /u/GRIMMnM
"Not one cheat code, but a series of them in GTA San Andreas. Basically if you put the cheats for chaos mode, abandoned cities, and pedestrians attack you, you got yourself a nice post-apocalyptic, survival game. Set yourself a checkpoint (say the airport from one city to the next) and try to survive."
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(#2) Becoming The Real "Super" Mario
From Redditor /u/razbrerry
"In the original Super Mario Bros. (NES), if you played chicken with Bowser and jumped on both the axe and his head at the same time, you'd "shrink", but stay big, and your states would stay reversed until you died. This meant you could get a fire flower, and get all the perks of being small (fit through one-block gaps) with the perks of being big (breaking blocks, throwing fireballs). It was before the internet, and the Nintendo Power tip line didn't care. I felt like the only one in the world who knew this secret."
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(#3) Turning An Already Ultra Violent Game Up To 11
From Redditor /u/crazylefty
"This is the greatest code (ABACABB)! Media and parents at the time were in a frenzy over Mortal Kombat and how realistic the violence was, forcing midway to pull blood from the console versions. Their big, F U, to the institution was the inclusion of this code. Now they could sell a game to the masses as a bloodless fighting game, and later leak the code to millions of adolescent boys and satisfy their blood lust.
Greatest code ever."
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(#4) In Space, No One Can Hear You Cheat
From Redditor /u/THCabbie
"Gallaga. On the very first screen when the ships swarm in... let them. Then, note the bottom-left-hand blue one. Kill all the other ships but leave the blue one alone. Then wait for about 15-20 minutes, during which time that blue ship will fly through the screen and drop one, two, or no bombs.
It will then go past three times in a row without dropping a bomb. You must kill the little blue ship on the third pass through (without dropping a bomb) and no ship will ever drop anything again for the rest of the game, no matter how many levels you make it through."
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(#5) Tanks Raining From The Sky
From Redditor /u/drunk-on-wine
"Typing bang, bang, bang in Vice City would make a tank fall from the sky. Typing, bang, continuously would then rain down multiple tanks which would fall over, setting themselves on fire and explode, causing multiple deaths and chaos as innocent bystanders and the emergency services were annihilated by unstoppable exploding tanks."
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(#6) Using Your Face To Enter Cheat Codes
From Redditor /u/Yarfunkle
"Shadows of the Empire on N64 had some next-level cheats. _Wampa_Stompa - Use that as your save file name then enter a code to change to an AT-ST, a Wampa, or a Stormtrooper. Debug mode, where you had to hold a lot of buttons and use your chin to move the analog stick halfway to the left, then the right.
You'd hear a tone upon successfully entering the code. Debug mode had a lot of options like changing gravity, god mode, jump distance, etc."
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(#7) Grand Theft Auto On Steroids
From Redditor /u/Kevtavish
"GTA San Andreas health code that replenished your health, fixed your car, and gave you $250k. I never died... NEVER."
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(#8) Becoming, The Very Best There Ever Was, In Seconds
From Redditor /u/daveysaurusrex
"The Missingno cheat in Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue that would give you a sh*t ton of whatever item was in a specific slot in your inventory, like master balls and rare candies. Watch out for the level 160 Ponyta that would randomly show up and you couldn't run from it."
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(#9) Boba Fett Is More Nimble Than He Looks
From Redditor /u/Shingo__
"I was looking for someone to say THPS4 (Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4). I once crashed my GameCube, my actual GameCube, (not an emulator) because I put on the low gravity cheat and used Boba Fett. He had a trick that would boost you into the air with his jet pack. Combine this with low gravity, and you can stay in the air forever. I played for like 3 hours hovering in the air doing that trick, it eventually crashed my GameCube."
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(#10) Laser Shooting Bear Allies
From Redditor /u/Werghat
"O Canada from Age of Mythology, you can spawn in a badass bear that shoots lasers and have cat looking creatures that beat the living sh*t out of your enemies!"
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(#11) Mario Embraces His Inner Michael Jackson
From Redditor /u/waffledoctor87
"AOSUZI for Mario Bros 3 Game Genie... Press B to tear out the block in front of you and throw it like a koopa shell!
Alternatively: NAPKIN in Super Mario Bros. original. It made Mario moonwalk half the time, koopas rained from the sky, and the screen flashed white every time you threw a fireball, which killed everyone on screen and made the timer count backwards."
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(#12) A Stern Bruce Campbell Lecture
From Redditor /u/fingolfin_was_nuts
"Bruce Campbell. Not really a game many people have played, I'm guessing, but Bruce did the voice work for a space flight sim called Tachyon: The Fringe. It's your basic Wing Commander clone but with a story. Anyway, if you use the cheat console, Bruce berates you for it. "So you've decided to cheat, eh?" "Hey why don't you just play the game?" "I guess when your doing this badly it's time to cheat." Pretty funny. His voice-over made it worth playing. Not bad graphics for its day, either."
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(#13) Absolutely Hulking Out
From Redditor /u/Nairbnotsew
"I put in explosive punches, super jump, super speed and invincibility in GTA V and call it Hulk mode and just jump from block to block punching cars and random pedestrians until the invincibility timer runs out and I turn back into puny Banner and have to run like a fugitive from the law. If/when I get away, I make a point to play the slow walking away music from the, The Incredible Hulk TV series as I walk back to town."
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(#14) Homer's Got Serious Road Rage
From Redditor /u/11harry2
"Triangle, triangle, square, square. Simpsons Hit and Run to wreck any car in one hit."
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(#15) Greed Is Not Good
From Redditor /u/Muaddibisme
"Back in NES days my dad and I would use a Game Genie but instead of using the listed codes we would make our own. Methodically going through lists of possible codes to see what we could do. The short answer is all kinds of sh*t.
My favorite was in SmashTV (amazing game btw) where we managed to find a code that made you invincible, made enemy characters flash all sorts of colors, and made enemies explode into cash and prizes. However, if you touched any cash you instantly died. The game became how far could you go without picking up any cash. It was amazing."
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(#16) Taking On The Armies Of Hell With A Stick
From Redditor /u/Grn_blt_primo
"I remember a similar game, I believe called Heretic, that when you tried this code (IDKFA from DOOM) it would take all your weapons away and leave you with only a stick."
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